CITY-WIDE SLUM UPGRADING THROUGH

THEACCA PROGRAMPhilippine Experience

The Philippine Alliance: a Profile

Philippine Action for Slum

Upgrading Facility Inc. (PASUFI)

Communities

The Philippine Alliance

HPFPI Social movement for

community-led secure tenure, housing, risk management initiatives;

National federation of urban poor community organizations (formation: 1998, registration:2001);

Membership approximately 85,000 savers in 225 community associations

Seeded and active in 20 cities and 16 municipalities Philippines wide

With City, Regional and National governing and management structures

IMPLEMENTING ARM

PACSII Intermediary support

institution to the HPFPI Organized and registered

on July 2002 as a non-profit NGO

Provides “network” approach to supporting the HPFP

At present, legal holder of projects

BOT and EXECOM composed of technical, finance, admin, legal institutions and the HPFPI

EXECUTING ARM

PEOPLE’S ORG NGO

FEDERATION FOCUSES ON DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES :

• COMMUNITY SAVINGS MOBILISATION• CITY WIDE ENUMERATION SURVEY•CITY WIDE NETWORK FORMATION• CITY-WIDE UPGRADING• PARTNERSHIP WITH ACADEME, NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, LOCAL AUTHORITIES and TECHNICAL PROFESSIONALS• INCREMENTAL HOUSING

COMMUNITY SAVINGS MOBILIZATION Hands-on Training

Communities manage their own savings as tool to organize themselves and build social structure among their ranks

Community savings mobilization strengthens the network in putting up the city funds to finance more upgrading projects for more communities

ENUMERATION SURVEY/ MAPPING HPFPI conducts city wide

enumeration survey focusing on communities in danger zone areas. The data will help local governments and communities to prioritize in their plans housing for poor and to target vulnerable groups that need immediate response in the cities

NETWORK FORMATION (External/Internal)

Urban poor communities undertaking citywide upgrading build networks to encourage participation of other communities within the city

CITY-WIDE UPGRADINGCommunity management of city funds revolved from upgrading loans develop capacities of community members in the areas of accounting, recording, documentation and financial management

CITY-WIDE UPGRADINGIt gives space for the community to work with young

professionals (YPS) and technical professionals in facilitating the design of the community projects

It gives the space to the community to argue to decide, to commit mistakes in the implementations but in the end they strengthen their governance structure in the community

PARTNERSHIP Community-driven upgrading engenders meaningful and strong partnerships with other stakeholders in society such as the local government

Participation in governance structures in the local government gives ACCA implementers opportunity to influence policies affecting the poor

PARTNERSHIP

City-wide upgrading develops the abilities of young professional (YPS) and the technical professionals in dealing with the communities in terms of the design, procurement planning and implementation process

INCREMENTAL HOUSING

Community-led housing construction reduce the cost of the houses, by exploring alternative technology that is suitable for the communityLoans for housing is based on the affordability level of the community. This is also a challenge to the technical professionals to help the community design houses in consideration of a limited budget

HOUSES MADE UP OF Php. 70, 000.00 -100,00 (US$ 1,627.91-2,325.58) worth of materials loan

INCREMENTAL HOUSING

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We can build our own communities. All we need is land.

- HPFPI

Nothing about our settlements without us.-HPFPI

THANK YOU!