The participants were asked to list down in a meta card 5 key words/phrases that best described their ngo’s vision, values and practices that matches with their desired vision for Quezon City

Minutes
PHILSSA QC Cluster: Visioning & Missioning Our Urban Agenda from the City to the Barangay Level

April 18, 2008, 1-5pm

PHILSSA Conference Room

Participants:

Jing Karaos (JJCICSI)

Sarah at Ninin (Alterplan) 

Lita (FDA)

Ana (FDUP)

Luz (CO-M)

Jessica (UPA)

Atty Junie (Saligan)

Ger (TAO Pilipinas)

Inez (Arugaan)

Lucy (Healthdev)

Vicky (Miriam Peace)

Lolit (INSA-Miriam)

Facilitators: Annie

Dick
Documentor: Junefe

The original schedule contained three parts: 1. Visioning Our City, 2. Defining our Role Contribution in QC and 3. Translating and Piloting our Urban/QC Agenda. The group was only able to do the first two parts while the last part was set for another date.

For the first part, the participants were asked to list down in a meta card 5 key words/phrases that best described their NGO’s vision, values and practices that matches with their desired vision for Quezon City. These were then posted on the white board. Table 1 shows the breakdown of the key words by NGO:

Table 1. Key Words to Describe City Vision

NGOs	Vision/Key Words and Phrases
PHILSSA	- inclusive - gender-sensitive - transformative - sustainable - preferential bias for the poor
FDA	- integral human development - society of hope freely justly responsibly
FDUP	- security of tenure for 50% of informal settlers
ALTERPLAN	- peaceful - gender-sensitive - equitable distribution - environment friendly - people-centered
TAO	- sustainable - inclusive - environment friendly - people-centered - equitable distribution and access to resources
SALIGAN	- liberating - democratic - gender-sensitive - self-reliant - inclusive
HEALTHDEV	- marginalized sectors - equitable - innovative - holistic
ARUGAAN	- mother and baby-friendly - safe shelters/homes - healthy lifestyles - people participation
PASCRES	- sustainable - democratization - abot-kayang pabahay - empowerment - equality
CO-Multiversity	- empowered communities - enhancing capacity of CO and leaders - nurturing COs and leaders - produce and develop a cream of the crop community leaders
INSA	- people’s participation - empowered communities - quality early childhood education
ICSI	- inclusive - well-planned

These various ideas were later grouped together according to the five aspects of their vision for Quezon City: physical, social, political, economic, environment. Of course, visions remain abstract if no concrete and measurable goals are made to correspond to them. So the group also came up with indicators as shown in the last column of Table 2 .

Table 2.

Aspect	Vision	Indicators
Physical	Well planned	Concrete Plan (i.e. City Shelter Plan or City Land Use Plan)
	Safe shelters are available	The above Plan or Plans must include provisions on safety standards and must offer innovations
	Innovative
	Secure	Security of Tenure** **it was noted that the issue of security of tenure also has Social as well as Political dimensions. But for convenience, it is considered Social in this table.
Social	Inclusive (with regards to marginalized sectors)
	Gender-sensitive
	People-centered
	With basic services (that are children- and mother-friendly, especially those that promote health and education	Improvement in Access to and Quality of services (using the MBN/survey as baseline) especially health and education
	Peaceful
	Holistic/Humane human development
Political	Empowerment	Functional representative mechanisms/institutions (LHBs, LSBs) as well as Actual participation/representation of not just the urban poor groups but the subsectors as well (e.g. women, children etc.) Formation of PO bodies with adequate capacities
	Participation
	Liberation/liberating
	Political equality
	Democratization
Economic	Economic equality
	Self-reliant	Increased income and Stable income through enterprise development and employment
	Equitable distribution of resources
Environmental	Sustainable
	Environment - friendly	Systematic Management of Solid Waste (basically implementation of RA 9003) Reduce waste Segregation by both the garbage throwers and the collectors/implementers (because in some instances, the collectors mix the garbage together at the end of the day). This refers to implementers at the barangay and city levels.

Specific targets for the next five years to gauge the accomplishment of some of the indicators were also set. These were further divided into four levels : targets at the household, community, barangay and city levels as shown in Table 3.

Table 3. Specific Targets for the Next Five Years vis-a-vis Indicators

Aspect	Indicators	Specific Targets/Goals
Physical		Household	Community	Barangay	City
	Security of Tenure	a.) A certain number (unspecified for the moment) of families with security of tenure of various kinds : Titles, MOA and other forms of security that go beyond the familiar CMP.	a) Sewerage b) Legal Electricity c) Safe Water (at least level 2 – communal) d) Toilets and sanitation facilities e)roads and access pathways Note: it was asked why this is placed under the Physical aspect when it should be under the Social aspect since these are basic services. It was explained that they are Physical in the sense that they must be included in the City Shelter Plan.	Should have data relevant to addressing the community needs Should have a Brgy Dev’t Plan Should have approved budget adopted to address the needs in terms of security of tenure and basic services Should implement the BDP With regards to roads and pathways, the barangay should aggressively enforce the Road Right of Way city ordinances (case of Pasacola	The city should have Road Right of Way regulations in the plans and implement them
		b.) There are already identified relocation sites for the identified number of families residing within the 3-meter easement of major rivers in QC. The relocation site must conform to the minimum standard of relocation under the UP-All Agenda.		a) Affected barangays will adopt int heir BDP the C.O. 1774 (on the 3-meter easement) b) BDPs should include data on the number of families affected and plans that include proposed resettlement plans/sites (note: the barangay merely proposes not implement because such matters will really have to go up the city level)	The city should have a City Shelter Plan with appropriate budget for relocation)
		c) Identify the number of families and communities affected by local and national projects Priorities: 1.Communities where PHILSSA-QC is currently engaged 2.UP-All Communities Note: Depending on the NGO takers (“champions”), the activity may go beyond mere monitoring)
Social
	Improvement in Access to and Quality of services (using the MBN/survey as baseline) especially on education of children	Access to quality barangay day care center in partnership with the Social Services Department (SSD) of the LGU particularly in communities where the PHILSSA-QC NGOs are present. As a start it must be noted that Miriam College trained the day care workers of QC and they have volunteer teachers who are willing to train day care workers in communities.
			At the community level, we must institute day care for babies Our communities/NGOs must be able to integrate children-friendly programs in their community designs/plans/programs and services
	Improvement in Access to and Quality of services (using the MBN/survey as baseline) especially on health		Community mechanism and programs on reproductive health. Indicators for good reproductive health would be: child mortality mortality of women in child-bearing and birth-giving	BHW are trained on alternative and preventive health care, nutrition and reproductive health (Champions for this are Arugaan and Healthdev)
			Reduce incidence of couples with unmet need for family planning services	BHW are trained on responsible parenting (Champions for this are Arugaan and Healthdev)
	Improved juvenile and adult education		a) Incorporate development of skills/trade training for out-of-school youth (OSY) because sometimes these are better than the academic diplomas. Examples would be skills training given by TESDA related to Housing Construction Skills. Such construction skills can be used not only for employment but also for their sweat equity. b) access to adult education of Miriam College (HS and vocational which are TESDA accredited) For instance, such programs are ongoing in Batasan Hills and this can be replicated in the other barangays by having them integrated in the BDP.
Political	Functional representative mechanisms/institutions (LHBs, LSBs) as well as				Functional LHBs/LSBs Sectoral reps to sit in the City Sanggunian
	Actual participation/ representation of not just the urban poor groups but the subsectors as well (e.g. women, children etc.)		Community leaders are members of the LSBs of the city (Local School Boards, Local Housing Boards etc.)	Community leaders are members of the BDCs. The BDCs seem to be a more effective venue for engagement compared to the CDC since the CDC seems to have merely recommendatory powers as of now. At the BDC level however, one can truly make concrete contributions and the political struggle there is easier than at the CDC.	Since there are four PHILSSA members in the CDC, it can be a potentially effective mechanism to push the PHILSSA development agenda. However, it remains to be seen if the CDC is really an effective venue since it could just be a mere “stamp pad.” So the goal for 2008-2010 is too see if the CDC is indeed a viable venue. If it is then in 2011, the group can work on ensuring that a substantial number of PHILSSA NGOs and POs become part of the CDC
					Consolidation and strengthening of UP-ALL-QC with respective Barangay Alliances in priority barangays so that UP-All can become a significant player in the LHBs.
Economic
	Increased income and Stable income through enterprise development and employment	Households in our communities should have access to credit/livelihood and skills training (see discussion on Juvenile and adult education under the Social aspect.)		The BDPs will include a clear strategy and mechanism for possible partnership with business establishments. It can therefore make a “skills inventory” and function as a placement office.
Environmental	Systematic Management of Solid Waste Basically genuine implementation of RA 9003	Basically genuine implementation of RA 9003 in all levels
	Environment-friendly (Liquid waste and Air pollution)	For PHILSSA-QC and POs to study and eventually adopt a water treatment design that can be integrated in community planning. The champion for this would be HEALTHDEV since they have already tried implementing a communal treatment of waste from the septic tanks of 100 households in Antipolo. Some important factors to be considered are: is it feasible in the urban setting? how much will it cost? who will shoulder the cost?
		For the households to be able to practice safe/environment friendly liquid waste management i.e. septic tanks or similar safe alternatives that are all-concrete and ideally two-chambered.
			To advocate among tricycle drivers in the communities for preventive maintenance of tricycles and for the barangay to include this in the BDP.

It can be noticed that while other targets have champions, the others do not. So the questions remain: Who will take on the other targets? Which targets are for the NGOs and which ones call for our supporting role?

The meeting adjourned at around 4:30 and it was decided that the group will meet again on May 5, at the same time and place to do part 3.