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“BUILDING CAPACITIES OF
COMMUNITIES TO COPE
WITH GLOBALIZATION”
A Philippine Capacity 2015
Proposal
• Sustainable Development: The
Contemporary Development Paradigm
• The contemporary view of development does
not only want to see economic growth happen.
More than economic development, we would
want to see sustainable development. Both
developments should mutually occur, because
SD does not want economic stagnation. In
essence, SD wants economic development and
improved standard of living while maintaining
environmental quality.
• This concept takes environment and
development as interdependent and integrated.
They have to occur simultaneously and that
economic development should not be allowed to
happen at the expense of environmental quality.
Hence, a development activity that would result
to depletion of the country’s natural wealth is
not within the context of the new development
paradigm.
• Development is more than growth or quantitative
change, but primarily a change in quality. It is
concerned with improving the well-being of the
people, which include: (Guzman & Guzman,
2000)
• Raising living standards and improving
education, health and equality of opportunity;
• Ensuring political and civil rights; and
• Widening the choices from which people can
make decisions as far as their basic needs are
concerned.
• C.2 The Concept of Sustainable Development
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The concept of SD is an evolving one. There is no quick and
fast rule towards SD because of its multi-dimensional and complex
nature. The SD concept is therefore dynamic and adjusts to the
changing conditions and needs of the time. However, whatever
practices are made, these should be within the environment friendly SD perspective.
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The Philippine Agenda 21 stipulates a vision for a better
quality of life for all, through the development of a just, moral,
creative, spiritual, economically vibrant, caring, diverse yet cohesive
society characterized by appropriate productivity, participatory and
democratic processes, and living in harmony within the limits of the
carrying capacity of nature and the integrity of creation. (PA 21,
Section 1.4, p.12)
• C.4 Working Definitions for Sustainable
Development
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The most recent initiative for promoting SD was the
World Summit on Sustainable Development held at
Johannesburg, South Africa from 2-4 September 2002.
The challenges that were brought forward at the
conference were overwhelming. These include poverty
eradication, changing consumption and production
patterns, and protecting and managing the natural
resource base for economic and social development.
These are requisites for SD. Some of the important
political commitments made for SD to happen during that
conference include:
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The strong determination to ensure that our rich biodiversity will be used for
a constructive partnership for change and for the achievement of the
common goals of SD.
For building human solidarity, every nation will promote dialogue and
cooperation among the world’s civilizations and peoples, irrespective of
race, disabilities, religion, language, culture and tradition.
To speedily increase access to basic requirements such as clean water,
sanitation, adequate shelter, energy, health care, food security and the
protection of biodiversity. To do these, the world will work together to assist
one another to have access to financial resources, benefit from the opening
of markets, ensure capacity building, use modern technology to bring about
development, and make sure that there is technology transfer, human
resource development, education and training to resolve
underdevelopment.
Ensure that women’s empowerment and emancipation, and gender equality
are integrated in all activities encompassed within Agenda 21, Millenium
Development Goals and Johannesburg Plan of
• Among the above concerns, the Philippine
government made its commitment to
pursue SD on the areas of Water, Energy,
Health, Agriculture and Biodiversity
(WEHAB).
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Millenium Development Goals
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
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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)
Achieved universal access to primary
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Achieve universal access to primary education by
2015
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Promote gender equity and empower women
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Reduce child mortality
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eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary
education preferably by 2005 and in all levels of
education no latrer than 2015
reduce children under-five mortality rate oby twothirds by 2015
Improve maternal health
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reduce maternal mortality rate by three quarters by
2015 (half by 2000, half by 2015)
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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
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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
– 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 2004
Sulo Hotel, Quezon City
BACKGROUND
• According to the recent UN Common
Country Assessment:
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* The poverty situation continues to be serious.
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* The country’s environment & natural
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w/c 2/3 of the population depend, continue to be
degraded.
* Globalization is providing both opportunities &
risks.
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* Globalization has ushered a new context
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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:
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a.) limited access to credit.
b.) underdeveloped sources of raw
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c.) limited access to modernizing
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d.) lack or low level of market information.
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SMEs’ unsustainable practices not only
undermine their productivity, but also
result in
damage to the environment & adverse
social
impacts.
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* The optimal functioning of SMEs is
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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
THE PROPOSAL
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Strengthen key factors that catalyze the
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sustainable development of communities e.g.
partnerships among and capacities of the key
actors at the local level-SMEs,LGUs & the
Academe.
WHY SMEs
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* 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.
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* Negative environmental impacts are more
immediately felt & corrected at local levels.
* Facilitating investment flows to local areas
moderate the centrifugal flow of
natural,financial
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& human resources to centers.
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* With ICT, technical &market information are
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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.
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PA to generate criteria to
determine
candidate sites & their rapid assessment in terms of
conditions,governance structures & inter-actions.
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PA to catalyze mechanism
building&
strengthening of linkages among
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* PA to result in development of a
Project Document (ProDoc).
Proposed PA Activities
• Activity 1: Project scope determination &
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formulation of site selection
criteria.
• Activity 2: Data gathering site selection.
• Activity 3: Needs assessment for capacity
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building of critical
stakeholders.
• Activity 4: Mechanism building/
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strengthening
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Activity 5: Develop Project Document
Activity 6: Foster
partnerships/networks.
Proposed Duration
• Nine (9) months from start of PA