Summary
The overarching goal of the Project is to reduce income poverty and quality-of-life poverty in urban areas. Its main objectives are: (i) to improve the access of low-income urban families to land tenure and affordable shelter and, in support of this, to provide or upgrade basic municipal infrastructure and services; and (ii) to decentralize shelter sector activities through LGUs and, in parallel to this, to strengthen the role and capacity of participating communities. The proposed Project consists of three parts. In Part A, the LBP will re-lend the loan to qualified LGUs for site development. About 30,000 households will gain access to land tenure with basic infrastructure and services. In Part B, the LBP will establish shelter financing and microcredit facilities for the potential beneficiaries, to support financing for (a) serviced plots and house improvements, (b) new housing loans, and (c) microenterprise credit facilities.
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| Project Name |
Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector |
| Project Number |
32499-013 |
| Country |
Philippines |
| Project Status |
Closed |
| Project Type / Modality of Assistance |
Loan
|
| Source of Funding / Amount |
| Loan 2063-PHI: Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector |
|---|
| Ordinary capital resources |
US$ 30.50
million
|
| Loan: Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector |
|---|
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Finland) |
US$ 5.00
million
|
| Cities Alliance (World Bank) |
US$ 900,000.00 |
| Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Tech. Zusammenarbeit |
US$ 400,000.00 |
|
| Strategic Agendas |
Inclusive economic growth
|
| Drivers of Change |
Governance and capacity development
|
| Sector / Subsector |
Water and other urban infrastructure and services
- Urban policy, institutional and capacity development |
| Gender Equity and Mainstreaming |
Effective gender mainstreaming |
| Description |
The overarching goal of the Project is to reduce income poverty and quality-of-life poverty in urban areas. Its main objectives are: (i) to improve the access of low-income urban families to land tenure and affordable shelter and, in support of this, to provide or upgrade basic municipal infrastructure and services; and (ii) to decentralize shelter sector activities through LGUs and, in parallel to this, to strengthen the role and capacity of participating communities. The proposed Project consists of three parts. In Part A, the LBP will re-lend the loan to qualified LGUs for site development. About 30,000 households will gain access to land tenure with basic infrastructure and services. In Part B, the LBP will establish shelter financing and microcredit facilities for the potential beneficiaries, to support financing for (a) serviced plots and house improvements, (b) new housing loans, and (c) microenterprise credit facilities. In Part C, the NHA will undertake capacity building and project implementation support programs for communities and LGUs to strengthen the decentralized shelter delivery mechanism. |
| Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy |
The Philippines continues to urbanize rapidly. Over half of the population is in the urban areas, and this proportion is expected to reach 60 percent by 2010 if current trends continue. Affordable shelter and land markets have not kept pace with rapid urban growth: more than 40 percent of urban families have to live in makeshift dwellings in informal settlements. While official data indicate that only about 20 percent of the 7.5 million urban households fall below the poverty income line (P13,915 per capita per year as of 2001), the poverty income line alone does not capture the dire situation of informal settlers. Many of the urban poor living in informal settlements suffer from lack of access to basic services and infrastructure, poor-quality housing, insecure tenure, and high risks to public health. Complicated legal processes for obtaining legal title and the scarcity of urban land further prevent poor urban dwellers from using the necessary capital to rise from poverty, and financial services for the urban poor are virtually nonexistent in the formal sector. The housing finance system benefits only formal sector employees above the fifth income decile, and few Government housing programs are effectively targeted to the urban poor communities. With the large number of informal urban dwellers and the continuing high levels of income poverty and quality-of-life poverty in urban areas, a sectorwide intervention to combat poverty is urgently required. |
| Impact |
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Project Outcome
| Description of Outcome |
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| Progress Toward Outcome |
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| Implementation Progress |
|---|
| Description of Project Outputs |
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| Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues) |
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| Geographical Location |
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Safeguard Categories
| Environment |
B |
| Involuntary Resettlement |
|
| Indigenous Peoples |
|
Summary of Environmental and Social Aspects
| Environmental Aspects |
|
| Involuntary Resettlement |
|
| Indigenous Peoples |
|
| Stakeholder Communication, Participation, and Consultation |
|---|
| During Project Design |
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| During Project Implementation |
|
Business Opportunities
| Consulting Services |
Consultants will be selected and engaged in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants and arrangements satisfactory to ADB for the engagement of domestic consultants. A team of international and domestic project management consultants will help the Project Management Office implement, manage, and monitor Project activities. The consultants will assist with the review of community action plans and contract documents, and provide training for the LGUs in Project implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, financial aspects, and community participation approaches. For the detailed engineering design and supervision in Part A, LGU counterpart funds will finance the services of domestic consultants, who will be recruited by the Project Implementation Unit for the LGU concerned, following procedures acceptable to ADB. |
| Procurement |
Goods and services financed by the ADB loan will be procured according to ADB's Guidelines for Procurement applicable to loans to development finance institutions for re-lending to sub-borrowers. |
Responsible Staff
| Responsible ADB Officer |
Steinberg, Florian |
| Responsible ADB Department |
Southeast Asia Department |
| Responsible ADB Division |
Urban Development and Water Division, SERD |
| Executing Agencies |
Development Bank of the Philippines
Mr. Brillo Reynes
[email protected]
Development Bank of the Philippines
Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council
Celia Alba
Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC)
|
Timetable
| Concept Clearance |
08 Mar 2003 |
| Fact Finding |
18 Jun 2001
to 17 Jul 2001 |
| MRM |
10 Jun 2002 |
| Approval |
18 Dec 2003 |
| Last Review Mission |
-
|
| PDS Creation Date |
01 Dec 2006 |
| Last PDS Update |
02 Jul 2010 |
Loan 2063-PHI
| Milestones |
|---|
| Approval |
Signing Date |
Effectivity Date |
Closing |
| Original |
Revised |
Actual |
| 18 Dec 2003 |
22 Dec 2003 |
21 Apr 2004 |
20 Apr 2010 |
-
|
10 Jun 2010 |
| Financing Plan |
Loan Utilization
|
|
Total (Amount in US$ million) |
Date |
ADB |
Others |
Net Percentage |
| Project Cost |
58.30 |
Cumulative Contract Awards |
| ADB |
30.50 |
18 Dec 2003 |
0.00 |
0.00
|
0% |
| Counterpart |
21.50 |
Cumulative Disbursements |
| Cofinancing |
6.30 |
18 Dec 2003 |
17.79 |
0.00
|
100% |
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