PURSUING MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS THROUGH CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN THE ASIA PACIFIC

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PURSUING MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
THROUGHCITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIESIN THE ASIA
PACIFIC
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• Experience in localising the Millennium
  Development Goals (MDGs)
• City Development Strategies (CDSs) -playing a
  role in strategic development at the local level
• The Experience of CDSs globally
• How can a city (or town) do a CDS ?
• Monitoring and Evaluation to meet MDGs

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localising MDGs

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality

• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDs, malaria and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development

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localising MDGs12 PILOT CITIES IN THE
PHILIPPINES

• Naga
• Iligan
• Samal
• Mandaue
• Calbayong
• Sorsogon

• Science City of Munoz
• Antipolo
• Tagayatay
• San Jose Del Monte
• Marikina
• Pasay

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localising MDGsTHE LOCALISATION PROCESS

• City Consultation and setting MDG Targets
• Aligning MDG Targets with City Plans and Budgets
• City resolution to adopt targets
• Public launch of targets
• Updating city poverty baseline
• Institutional development
• Developing monitoring and evaluation (ME)

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localising MDGsSOME LESSONS

• Participation-actively involve stakeholders
• Capacity building-strengthen management and
  service delivery, reform governance
• Investment- increase basic public investment
• Composite impact-channel investment to where it
  is needed most
• Benchmark and network

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City Development Strategies (CDS)

• City Development Strategies (CDS) city based
  strategic planning
• Approach promoted and funded internationally by
  the Cities Alliance and its member organizations
  (including UCLG)
• Since the late 1990s over 100 cities in
  developing countries worldwide have undertaken a
  CDS

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City Development Strategies (CDS)

• CDS - promotes stronger local economies and
  poverty reduction, through
• strategies for growth
• better local governance
• better financial strategies

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City Development Strategies (CDS)

• A consultative process- involving all
  stakeholders
• A comparative process- making progress by setting
  targets to improve on the past and to compare
  with similar cities
• A comprehensive process- covering all aspects of
  the citys development

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The Experience of CDSs globally

• Reviewed 2004-2005
• Review of the previous analyses of CDSs
• Discussions with international organizations
• Looked at CDS in eleven countries
• Detailed reviews and visits to Philippines,
  Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and South Africa
  (plus Australia)

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The Experience of CDSs globally
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How can a city (or town) do a CDS ?

• BASIC PRINCIPLES OF A CDS
• CDS is a process -the precise way in which the
  strategy is developed determined by each City
• City is about outcomes-the specific objectives
  are determined by each City

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How can a city (or town) do a CDS ?

• HOWEVER, ALL CDSs
• Use a common set of building blocks
• Have common recurrent themes including poverty
  reduction.

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CDS Building Blocks






Process Design



Deciding on the phases
and framework for CDS

preparation, including

discussions wit
h key

stakeholders.



Initial or Updated
Institutionali
sation



Assessments

Putting the CDS into

Identifying key issues,
the day
-
to
-
day

trends and
management of the

opportunities plus gaps
city and into its cycles
Monitoring

in information to be
for planning and
Evaluation


filled.

budgeting.

Analysing and

discussing the process
and results achieved.

Consultation and
Action Plans and
Making adjustments.


Participation

Implementation


Gathering all
Translating the vision,

stakeholders views on
goals and priorities

what needs to be
into achievable

programs and projects.

done.


Vision, Goals and
Objectives

Developing a clear,
shared vision plus
agreed goals and
pri
orities for action.


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CDS Themes
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ME for CDS and to Meet MDGs

• MONITORING AND EVALUATION
• ALLOWS CITIES TO
• verify the impact of CDS on poverty and
  development (MDGs)
• Assess more generally whether they are achieving
  what they have planned to do

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ME for CDS and to Meet MDGs

• PRODUCT OF THE REVIEW - AN ME FRAMEWORK
• Develop a clear statement of CDS goals and
  objectives
• Collecting and assessing the quality of existing
  information - the baseline situation
• Develop coherent strategies to make CDS
  activities more successful
• Set realistic targets for improvements and
• Establish a coherent framework for monitoring the
  success of CDS initiatives.

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ME for CDS and to Meet MDGs

• PRINCIPLES IN THE ME FRAMEWORK
• AUDIENCE- Be clear on who are the audience/users
  for the ME system and design it to meet their
  needs
• PRACTICAL REALISTIC Resources are limited
  data availability and quality present
  limitations.
• FLEXIBLE No one size fits all. Need to
  accommodate each citys unique circumstances /
  challenges

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ME for CDS and to Meet MDGs

• PRINCIPLES IN THE ME FRAMEWORK
• BUILT ON WHAT CITIES HAVE based on assessment
  of existing information systems and ME capacity.
  
• RELEVANT FOCUSSED on providing the essential
  information that will inform decision-making and
  enhance stakeholder dialogue
• SIMPLE TO THE RIGHT SCALE starting with a
  core set of indicators that can be refined and
  expanded over time.

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ME for CDS and to Meet MDGs

• PRINCIPLES IN THE ME FRAMEWORK
• APPROPRIATE MEANINGFUL quantitative and
  qualitative measures -.
• BALANCED process and outcomes aspects.
• PROVIDE BENCHMARKS for benchmarking with other
  cities.

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