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Action Plan On Urban Poverty
Action Plan On Urban Poverty
Action Plan On Urban Poverty
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face the nation.
We shall also implement sustainable solutions through institutionalized
policies to combat poverty and provide basic needs, including housing, Email Address:
health, education and jobs for the poor, rather than the “stop gap” measures
and empty political gestures of the past and present.
We will end illegal forced evictions. We will not allow any public or
private authority to evict families and leave them homeless in the street.
The government must provide decent relocation, near-city or in-city, if
possible, quality housing, adequate basic services and jobs.
We will not tolerate a situation where wage earners have to stay in the
city to work while the other members of the family stay in distant
relocation centers. This separation weakens and often fractures family
life. We will not institutionalize such situations by building sites in the city
where they will live apart from their families. As the work force in the
cities, the poor, up to the extent possible, should be given the
opportunity to stay in the cities.
We will shift the emphasis in our housing program to area upgrading and
in-city resettlement through the Community Mortgage Program (CMP).
We will accelerate CMP and promote its localization (LCMP).
Over the six years of our term, we will significantly increase the health
and education allocations in our national budget. This will bring us
closer to the level of spending of our neighboring countries. We will
extend health insurance coverage to all urban poor people, put an end
to shifting in public schools and provide full set of quality textbooks for
our public school children.
We will work with the private sector, utility cooperatives and the donor
community to provide access to water and electricity for all urban poor
communities. We will encourage or public utilities and governmentowned
and controlled corporations to incorporate these goals as an integral
part of their corporate social responsibility.
4. Housing budget.
We will also work with the Local Government Units and the private
sector, especially those in the financial sector, in coming up with new,
innovative and sustainable housing and financial products that will
provide access to housing to the marginalized and poor of our country.
5. Jobs.
Recognizing that the primary and most important resource of our country
is its people, we will emphasize the creation of jobs that empower the
work force, jobs that build capacity and create opportunities for the poor
and marginalized. This requires advance training and preparation for
appropriate skills needed for modern economy. This also presumes
sound elementary and high school education. We promise to focus on
generating jobs that will encourage entrepreneurship including-pro poor
tourism. We will create an environment that is conducive to growth,
competitiveness and full-employment.
We will work with Local Government Units for the full implementation of
the provisions of the UDHA and to empower them to address the
housing needs of their constituents through existing provisions in the
UDHA such as the provision of land for socialized housing and the
inventory of informal settlers within their respective jurisdictions.
7. Peace.
We recognize that most people living in risk prone areas are forced by
circumstances to live in these areas because government has failed to
give them viable alternatives. This is the basic premise of the
Post-Ondoy Rehabilitation Program.
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All these goals with the urban poor will be part of our development agenda
and platform to build an inclusive urban society.