The Millennium Development Goals

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The Millennium Development Goals
Localization Initiatives of Butuan City
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Land area 81,728 hectares Barangays 86
barangays Population 290,873 (Y2005
Estimates) Average Annual Growth Rate 1.70
Butuan City is the Regional Capital of the Caraga
Administrative Region (Region XIII)
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Local Inter-Governmental Actions for Integrated
and Innovative Solutions Towards Attaining the
Millennium Development Goals
LOCAL GAINS for the MDGs
Butuan City
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Background

• Invitation to attend a meeting in the Science
  City of Muñoz on February 2005, where the MDGs
  and their localization were introduced
• This was followed by a visit by the
  representative of UN Habitat to Butuan City in
  March 2005 where a formal introduction of the
  MDGs and initiatives for their localization were
  made to the Chief Executive and the City
  Officials of Butuan City
• MDG was then a foreign terminology to us
• After the briefing, we found out that it was
  nothing new after all

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Background

• That these were areas of concern of the LGUs
  concerns that we have been actually trying to
  address
• Mayor Democrito Plazas reaction to this was we
  are actually working on addressing the
  goalsknowing that these are the primary concerns
  of our people in Butuan
• And that these are the mandated tasks of the
  Local Government Units as provided for by the
  Local Government Code
• The bottomline is that these will all be for the
  benefit of our people, our constituents who we
  have all committed to serve, most especially
  those who are poverty-stricken and in dire need
  of assistance.

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What has been done?
The City of Butuan has implemented and is
currently implementing various programs and
projects that would lead to the attainment of the
MDGs These include not just programs and
projects, but also executive and legislative
actions supportive of the MDGs.
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Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• Self-Employment Assistance (SEA)
• Development Action of Inter-sectoral Synergy for
  Poverty Reduction
• Waterworks and spring development
• Establishment, Rehabilitation and Concreting of
  various farm-to-market roads and bridges
• Provision of farm equipment and inputs
• Establishment of Pre- and Post Harvest
  facilities (includes warehouse, rice,
  corn and cassava mills)

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Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education

• Employment of teachers through the Local School
  Board
• Construction of new classrooms/buildings through
  the Local School Board
• Continuing acquisition of computers and other
  equipment through the Local School Board
• Maintenance and operation of Day Care Centers
• Continued operation of the Tuloy
  Aral Walang Sagabal (TAWAG)
  Center for the
  differently-abled
  children
• Continued operation of the Mobile
  School for Street Children

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Goal 3 Promote gender equality and women
empowerment

• Self-employment assistance
• Operationalized the Local Gender and Development
  Coordinating Council
• Established the Womens Center (in partnership
  with the Forward Filipina)
• Livelihood programs (includes handicraft-making,
  food processing, integrated fishery
  livelihood projects)
• Organization of the Inter-Agency
  Committee on Anti-Violence
  Against Women and Children
• Lingap Center

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Goal 4 Reduce child mortality

• Maternal Health Care (Pre and Post Natal Care)
• Expanded Program on Immunization
• Garantisadong Pambata Program (Micronutrient
  provision and promotion of breastfeeding)
• Nutrition Program
• Control of Acute Respiratory Infection
  and Gastro-Intestinal Diseases
• Assessment of childhood illnesses
• Luwas Pag-Atod Program

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Goal 5 Improve Maternal Health

• Maternal and Child Health Care (Pre and Post
  Natal Care)
• Family Planning and Responsible Parenthood
  Program
• Parent Effectiveness Service
• Advocacy Programs on RTIs, HIV/AIDS
• Adolescent Health and Youth
  Development Program
• Capability Building for Health
  Workers

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Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other
infectious diseases

• Health education on communicable diseases
• Procurement of drugs and other support for
  STI/HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB and other diseases
  through the Global Fund for Social Mobilization
  (World Vision) and the Global Fund for Malaria
  Eradication of the PRRM
• Strengthening and expansion
  of the TB Network in all
  rural and urban
  barangays

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Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability

• Balangayan Butuan Program (LGU-Habitat-CFC)
• Resettlement Projects
• Watershed management program
• Linis Estero Project
• Operationalization of the Butuan Waterways
  Coordinating Council
• Ecological Solid Waste Management
  Program
• Urban Greening
• Butuan City Urban Redesign

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What will be done.

• Formulation of the MDG-responsive
  Executive-Legislative Agenda addressing the MDGs
• Formulation of the MDG-responsive Barangay
  Development Plans and Investment Programs
• Rights-Based Approach to planning and monitoring
• Gender mainstreaming
• Development of the Butuan City MDG Park (a
  one-stop shop park for MDG related services)

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What will be done.

• Development of the Butuan City MDG Park (a
  one-stop shop park for MDG related services)

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Thank You!!!