The document summarizes the status, bottlenecks, and next steps of 3 urban poor sector agendas in 2016: 1) Institutionalization of a People's Plan Fund nationwide faced delays due to changes in administration but remained a priority. 2) Creation of a technical working group on Presidential land proclamations was reformed to include other land disposition modes. 3) Ensuring no evictions without relocation faced challenges in elevating interventions beyond pre-demolition conferences and requiring a study of legal remedies for urban poor communities.

1. Office of the President of the Philippines
NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY COMMISSION
PROGRESS OF THE URBAN POOR SECTOR AGENDA
Year 2016
Sectoral Agenda Agency Concerned
Status, Bottlenecks and Next Steps
First Quarter Second Quarter Third Quarter
Fourth
Quarter
Urban Poor
Agenda 1:
Institutionalization
of “People’s Plan
Fund Nationwide”
[P150B ISF Fund
Nationwide or
P50B Fund each for
Luzon, Visayas and
Mindanao over five
Years for Informal
Settler Families
(ISFs) living in
Waterways and
Danger Areas]
Office of the President
DILG
ULAP
STATUS:
Activity proposal for the conduct of “National Inter-
Agency Roundtable Discussions (RTDs) and
Conference on the “Status, Challenges and Proposals
on Housing Demands and Institutionalization of
People’s Plan and Special Housing Fund for the ISFs
Living in Waterways and Danger Zones Nationwide”,
submitted to DILG as officially endorsed by Secretary
Joel Rocamora and officially received by the DILG on
September 17, 2015;
NUPSCResolution No. 2015-01
(approved, July 13-15, 2015 Meeting)
NUPSCResolution No. 2015-02
(approved, July 13-15, 2015 Meeting)
NUPSCResolution No. 2015-12
(December 12-13, 2015 Meeting)
STATUS:
Follow-up communication with
Atty. Angie Umbac of DILG ISF-PMO
discussed the idea of possibility of
the final approval and execution of
the proposed activity thru fund
support of DILG may transpire after
consultation with the DILG officials
in the next administration.
BOTTLENECKS:
The advancement of the agenda,
based on the requirement of a
demand driven program for ISFs
nationwide, shall largely depend on
the conduct of the proposed
activity. The required funding may
possibly be considered if the ISF-
PMO office will continue as an
office in the next administration
Maintained as priority
agenda as
“Institutionalization of
“People’s Plan Fund
Nationwide”
(but the NUPSC in its 3rd
Quarter Meeting on
September 20-22, 2016
decided that socialized
housing fund should
review the priority agenda
1 to cover the advocacy for
localized/ LGUs funding
nationwide)
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2. Office of the President of the Philippines
NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY COMMISSION
PROGRESS OF THE URBAN POOR SECTOR AGENDA
Year 2016
Sectoral Agenda Agency Concerned
Status, Bottlenecks and Next Steps
First Quarter Second Quarter Third Quarter
Fourth
Quarter
• Endorsement Letter dated 15 September 2015
signed by Sec Joel Rocamora and duly received
by the Office of the President on 9-22-15;
• OES Paquito Ochoa sent Memo to NAPC dated
March 02, 2016 returning the request for
complete staff work in accordance with MC No.
68 s. 2004;
• Endorsement Letter dated 15 September 2015
signed by Sec Joel Rocamora and duly received
by HUDCC on Sep 22, 2015 and by PCUP on 9-
23-15;
• DILG Usec. Austere Panadero endorsed to the
DILG ISF-PMO the finalization of the NUPSC
Activity Proposal on the RTD during the
December 04, 2016 meeting with NAPC Vice
Chair Ruperto B. Aleroza;
Bottlenecks:
• The OES request for complete staff work shall
largely depend on the actual conduct of
Roundtable Discussion (RTDs) after approval of
Activity Proposal submitted to DILG;
Next Steps:
Dialogue/ Meeting with the DILG ISF-PMO and
Technical meeting on April 5, 2016 through the
facilitation of the Office of Usec. Austere Panadero;
and with enough fund commitment
of support to NAPC basic sectors;
NEXT STEPS:
To invite the DILG in the 2nd
quarter
NUPSC Meeting on June 27-29, for
stakeholdership commitment
setting. To engage the next HUDCC
chair for a dialogue on the issue of
facilitation of crafting a program for
ISFs nationwide.
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3. Office of the President of the Philippines
NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY COMMISSION
PROGRESS OF THE URBAN POOR SECTOR AGENDA
Year 2016
Sectoral Agenda Agency Concerned
Status, Bottlenecks and Next Steps
First Quarter Second Quarter Third Quarter
Fourth
Quarter
Agenda 2:
Creation of
National Technical
Working Group on
Presidential
Proclamation of
Government Lands
(NTWG-PP)
[To study and
recommend
options to the
President in
mainstreaming the
Presidential
Proclamation of
Government Lands
as a major
socialized housing
program for asset
reform]
HUDCC,
PCUP,
DENR,
Joint NEDA-HDPR
Cabinet Cluster,
Joint Housing Summit
Committee of the
House of
Representatives and
Senate
STATUS:
NAPC presented in the inter-agency meeting held on
October 2, 2015 at the PCUP Conference Room the
salient features of the Draft Policy Briefer concept
notes for the proposed creation of the National
Technical Working Group on Presidential
Proclamation of Government Lands (NTWG-PP).
NUPSC selected 13 priority PP sites; NUPSC
partnered with the PCUP in the conduct of
preliminary social preparations and orientations with
the concerned People’s Organizations living in the
said 13 priority sites. The NUPSC outputs and
experience in the 13 priority sites shall become basis
for recommending policy reforms in both the pre
and post proclamation guidelines.
PCUP convened an inter-agency discussion on
October 2, 2015 at PCUP Office. PCUP accepted the
task to lead in convening the agencies in the
discussion of issues and recommendations.
NUPSC Resolution No. 2015-11
(November 04-06, 2015 Meeting)
NEXT STEPS:
STATUS:
The PCUP has not yet convened for
the follow-up inter-agency meeting.
The NUPSC engaged the sector
leaders in the discussion of the
priority agenda through the NUPO
island-wide activities held in Luzon
and Mindanao.
BOTTLENECKS:
The advancement of the agenda is
whether the upcoming
administration will consider the
Presidential Proclamation as one
among the major asset reform
program for Informal Settler
Families (ISFs) nationwide;
NEXT STEPS:
NUPSC to prepare and negotiate a
bilateral meeting with the new
HUDCC Chair upon assumption of
The NUPSC, in its 3rd
Quarter Meeting on
September 20-22, 2016
reformulated the priority
agenda 2 into
“Presidential
Proclamation, CMP and
Other Modes of Land
Disposition”
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4. Office of the President of the Philippines
NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY COMMISSION
PROGRESS OF THE URBAN POOR SECTOR AGENDA
Year 2016
Sectoral Agenda Agency Concerned
Status, Bottlenecks and Next Steps
First Quarter Second Quarter Third Quarter
Fourth
Quarter
To convene by around second quarter of 2016 the
second inter-agency meeting and discuss the 1st
draft
concept paper presented by NAPC.
office by the next administration;
Agenda 3:
No to Eviction and
Demolition
without adequate
Relocation
[Ensure people’s
participation in the
conduct of Pre-
Demolition
Conference (PDC),
the strict
observance of
requirements
before issuance of
Certificate of
Compliance per EO
152 as amended by
EO 708 and per
DILG MC 2008-143
DOJ
OP
OMBUDSMAN
Court Administrator
STATUS:
• The NUPSC engaged the PCUP in the
participation of UPOs for the conduct and
monitoring of Pre- Demolition Conference
(PDC);
NUPSCResolution No. 2015-05
(approved, July 13-15, 2015 Meeting)
NUPSCResolution No. 2015-06
(approved, July 13-15, 2015 Meeting)
NEXT STEPS:
• There is a need to study the role of national
government in ensuring the socialized housing
policy reform issuance and program funding
nationwide, including: the strict implementation
of the 20% Balanced-Housing provision, the role
of LGUs and the Local Housing Boars (LHBs) in
crafting the City Shelter Plan (CSP);
STATUS:
The NUPSC has yet to review the
progress status of agenda
intervention in its 2nd
Quarter
Meeting.
There is a need for NUPSC to define
on how to elevate the agenda
beyond the process of Pre-
demolition Conference (PDC);
BOTTLENECKS:
There is a need to study the legal
remedy or capacitation of the
sector in order to fully ensure that
the legal rights of ISFs are properly
executed in every eviction and
demolition case. There is also a
need for a comprehensive study on
how to integrate the different
housing solutions in order to
eliminate the forced eviction issues;
The NUPSC, in its 3rd
Quarter Meeting on
September 20-22, 2016
reformulated the priority
agenda 3 into “Demolition
and Eviction, Fake Titles,
and Squatting Syndicates”
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5. Office of the President of the Philippines
NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY COMMISSION
PROGRESS OF THE URBAN POOR SECTOR AGENDA
Year 2016
Sectoral Agenda Agency Concerned
Status, Bottlenecks and Next Steps
First Quarter Second Quarter Third Quarter
Fourth
Quarter
on creation of
Local Housing
Board (LHB), and
compliance on full
implementation of
basic requirements
of law before any
Eviction and
Demolition
(Section 28, RA
7279; DILG MC
2010-134) and the
right to adequate
housing and
humane treatment
of ISFs (DILG MC
2011-182; CHR
Advisory CHRIV-
A2011-003)]
• Study the possibility of the major role of DOJ and
Ombudsman in filing appropriate cases
regarding violation of laws on eviction and
demolition and ensuring that court judges will
be oriented of the rights of ISFs under the
existing laws and to include such rights in the
dispositive portion of any court rulings on
eviction of demolition of ISFs;
NEXT STEPS:
To draw in the 2nd
quarter meeting
the possibilities in engaging the
housing agencies through the
facilitation of PCUP as lead partner
agency.
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6. Office of the President of the Philippines
NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY COMMISSION
PROGRESS OF THE URBAN POOR SECTOR AGENDA
Year 2016
Sectoral Agenda Agency Concerned
Status, Bottlenecks and Next Steps
First Quarter Second Quarter Third Quarter
Fourth
Quarter
on creation of
Local Housing
Board (LHB), and
compliance on full
implementation of
basic requirements
of law before any
Eviction and
Demolition
(Section 28, RA
7279; DILG MC
2010-134) and the
right to adequate
housing and
humane treatment
of ISFs (DILG MC
2011-182; CHR
Advisory CHRIV-
A2011-003)]
• Study the possibility of the major role of DOJ and
Ombudsman in filing appropriate cases
regarding violation of laws on eviction and
demolition and ensuring that court judges will
be oriented of the rights of ISFs under the
existing laws and to include such rights in the
dispositive portion of any court rulings on
eviction of demolition of ISFs;
NEXT STEPS:
To draw in the 2nd
quarter meeting
the possibilities in engaging the
housing agencies through the
facilitation of PCUP as lead partner
agency.
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