MillenniumDevelopment

Goals

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty between 1990 and

2015

• halve the proportion of population below level of dietary energy

consumption and halve the proportion of underweight children (under 2 years old)

2. Achieve universal access to primary

education

• Achieve universal access to primary education by 2015

3. Promote gender equity and empower women

• eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary

education preferably by 2005 and in all levels of education no

later than 2015

4. Reduce child mortality

• reduce children under-five mortality rate by two-thirds

by 2015

5. Improve maternal health

• reduce maternal mortality rate by three quarters by 2015 (half by

2000, half by 2015)

6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

• increase access to reproductive health services to 60 percent by 2005, 80 per cent by 2010 and

100 percent by 2015.• Halt and reverse the spread of

HIV/AIDS by 2015.• Have halved by 2015, and

began to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability

• Implement national strategies for sustainable development by 2005, to reverse loss of

environmental resources by 2015• By 2020. to have achieved a significant

improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

• Halve the proportion of people with no access to safe drinking water or those who cannot

afford it by 2015.• Halve the proportion of people with no access

to safe drinking water or those who cannot afford it by 2015

8. Develop a global partnership for development

•Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable non-

discriminatory trading and financial system, include a

commitment to good governance, development and

poverty reduction-both nationally and internationally.

“BUILDING CAPACITIES OF COMMUNITIES TO COPE WITH

GLOBALIZATION”

A Philippine Capacity 2015 Proposal

9 August 2004Sulo Hotel, Quezon City

BACKGROUND

According to the recent UN Common Country Assessment:

* The poverty situation continues to be serious.

* The country’s environment & natural resources on w/c 2/3 of the population

depend, continue to be degraded.

* Globalization is providing both opportunities & risks.

Background con’t…

* Globalization has ushered a new context & connectivity among actors & activities.

* SMEs,comprising 99% of enterprises &providing 76% of labor force has been

recognized as a “potent force in the war against poverty”.

* However, they only currently contribute 33% to total economic output because of:

a.) limited access to credit.b.) underdeveloped sources of raw materials.c.) limited access to modernizing technology.

d.) lack or low level of market information.

* SMEs’ unsustainable practices not onlyundermine their productivity, but also result in damage to the environment & adverse social

impacts.

Background con’t…

Background con’t…

* The optimal functioning of SMEs is dependent

on a conducive policy environment, proper provision of delivery of basic services &

presence of critical infrastructure.* LGUs, through good governance, facilitate

the provision of the above.

* As a capacity building agent and repository of

technical information & knowledge, the Academe provides the manpower &

technical assistance direly needed by SMEs.

THE PROPOSAL

Objective:Strengthen key factors that catalyze the sustainable development of communities

e.g. partnerships among and capacities of

the key actors at the local level-SMEs,LGUs & the

Academe.

WHY SMEs

* Free enterprises are the drivers of economic growth.

* Wealth creation by local SMEs simultaneously address wealth & disparity issues.

* SMEs empower local people through control & ownership of & benefits from productive dev’t., as well as, facilitate a high degree of participatory

dev’t.

* SMEs w/c are locally initiated & managed are more

likely to be socially acceptable & culturally valid.

* Negative environmental impacts are more

immediately felt & corrected at local levels.

* Facilitating investment flows to local areas

moderate the centrifugal flow of natural, financial & human resources to centers.

* With ICT, technical &market information are easier to provide to local SMEs.

The Proposed Methodology

Preparatory Assistance (PA) to undertake extensive consultations among stakeholders, experts and

other interested parties to determine the elements, scope and

methodology for the full blown project.

* PA to generate criteria to determine candidate sites & their rapid assess-

ment in terms of conditions,gover- nance structures & inter-actions.

* PA to catalyze mechanism building& strengthening of linkages among

prospective partners.

PA to result in development of a

Project Document (ProDoc)

Proposed PA Activities

Activity 1: Project scope determination &

formulation of site selection criteria.

Activity 2: Data gathering site selection.

Activity 3: Needs assessment for capacity

building of critical stakeholders.

Activity 4: Mechanism building/

strengthening

Activity 5: Develop Project Document

Activity 6: Foster partnerships/networks.

Proposed Duration

Nine (9) months from start of PA