OPUS FOUNDATION GRANT

INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING OF THE PHILIPPINE ALLIANCE

I. Over-all development objective:
Pursue HPFP, PACSII and their Alliances institutional development and strengthening in implementing and advocating for community-led approaches to city
level slum upgrading, relocation, and risk management for secure tenure, decent affordable shelter and basic services, through the building of appropriate
capacities, setting up of responsive strategies, structures and systems, and nurturing a participatory community-driven culture.

II. Specific Objectives:

1. Enhance HPFP and PACSII financial, legal and technical capacities for community-led secure tenure, slum upgrading, housing, and risk management in
city scale- levels;
2. Build on and establish appropriate institutional / organizational strategies, structures, systems, staffing, and culture to address scaled-up
undertakings for community-led secure tenure, upgrading, risk management and response;
3. Maximize learning on community-led approaches to secure tenure, housing, upgrading, relocations and risk management, translate them into policy
proposals / reform measures, and advocate for their adoption and implementation in the city or national arena.
4. Identify and implement the necessary measures for establishing a national level, community-managed institution / facility that provides the appropriate
administrative, financial, technical and legal support to enable communities to implement, manage and propose enabling policies for community-driven
upgrading, housing and risk management at city scale;

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III. Proposed Road Map of Activities:

Major Interventions

Planned Activity

Implementers

Timeframe

Objectives
sought to be
Addressed

I. HPFP
A. Institutional Diagnosis and Planning
a.1. Institutional review / lookback (review and
analysis), drafting of objectives and survey
questions, setting up regional and city wide
documentation teams

a.2. organizational diagnosis and strategic

planning (Tools: VMG, SOR, ENVI scan, SWOT,
IOM, collaboration matrix, log framing) for
institutional development / strengthening (to
establish appropriate, responsive strategies,
structures, and systems for enhanced capacities
for scaled up upgrading, secure tenure,
relocation, housing, risk response and
mitigation)

HPFP core
group,
identified
community
volunteers,
PACSII
documenters

Feb March 2008

1,2,4

Conduct of regional meetings to discuss concept of institutional

lookback, objectives, survey questions and setting up documentation
teams with tasks

HPFP regional core

group, identified HPFP/
PACSII documenters

Feb April 2008

1,2,4

Survey and documentation of the organizational look back per region

and consolidation thereof in prep for the HPFP organizational planning

HPFP regional core

group, identified HPFP/
PACSII documenters

March April 2008

1,2,4

Conduct of HPFP organizational scanning, assessment and strategic

planning

HPFP Regional and

National Core Groups,
regional coordinators
identified
PACSII
personnel
(Documenters,
legal,
technical),
Change
or
OD
consultant (optional)

March May 2008

1,2,3,4

Regional core groups,

coordinators,
PACSII
documenters

2nd 4th Qtr 2009

1,2,3,4

Review and consolidation of pertinent documentation on HPFP

Background materials:
SDI evaluation, Swilling paper, Misereor evaluation (Andrea), Feb 2024, 2007 documentation of proceedings

* Proposal to conduct this during the National Core Group this April
(we could adjust the skeds)

Conduct of periodic monitoring and evaluation of the organization and

intervention plans

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Major Interventions

Planned Activity

Implementers

Timeframe

Objectives
sought to be
Addressed

B. Establishing human resource development program (successor generation) for community leaders
Formulation and implementation of human
resource (successor generation leader / 2- 3 rd
liners) program1

Discussion session to formulate HR program

Regional
core
volunteers, coordinators,
PACSII documenters

2nd 3rd Qtr 2008

2,4

*3 stages
o
o

Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of the program

Regional
core
volunteers, coordinators,
PACSII documenters

2nd Qtr to 2009

2,4

Nurturing
Developing
Expanding

Proposal: this can also be dovetailed with the

National Core group meeting this April
C. Capacity Building
b.1. Knowledge and skills trainings with
deepening through actual hands-on sessions
and exchanges in ongoing regional activities
(eg. Disaster response in Bikol, upgrading and
participation in governance Iloilo, major
relocation and LIAC participation in NCR, policy
reform (advocacy) in NCR and Davao)

Trainings with practical application / hands-on work in ongoing or

planned undertakings on the following:
Technical
(construction, development, disasters / geohazard mitigation, city
shelter and development planning)
Finance
(funds flow, loans handling and projection, )
Legal
(land / housing, finance, building, upgrading, disaster-geohazard
mitigation, financing and developing regulations)
Policy Reform
(policy research, formulation, lobby work, advocacy)
Documentation

HPFP
identified
community
representatives,
core
group

2nd 4th Qtr 2008

1,2,3,4

Issue-based learning exchanges (community-led construction,

upgrading, participation in governance, lobby, disaster, savings)

2nd 4th Qtr 2008

1,2, 3,4

From the HR program draft of Tomas Maulawin made in 2006

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Major Interventions

Planned Activity

Implementers

Timeframe

Objectives
sought to be
Addressed
2,3,4

Major Assemblies (2 x a year)

HPFP
community
representatives

Organizational scan and strat planning

PACSII staff and BOT

Starting
May
2008 (after HPFP
national
core
group mtg) 3rd
qtr 2008

2,3,4

Establishing appropriate organizational structure and systems and

meetings by the structure

PACSII staff and BOT

3rd 4th qtr 2008

throughout 2009

2,3,4

PACSII staff and BOT

3rd -4th qtr 2008

2,3,4

3rd qtr 2008

2nd qtr 2009
4th qtr 2009

II. PACSII
A. Institutional Diagnosis and Planning
a.1. Conduct of capacity assessment through
organizational scan so as to measure PACSIIs
quality and development, and to identify
organizational form and culture (design internal
work processes to improve cooperation among
the NGO support group; change organizational
culture through the
increase of social
entrepreneurship by accepting the challenge for
decisiveness, daring to take risks, and a
thinking out-of-the-box) 2
* said organizational scan to also address the
need to unpack the various roles of Fr.
Norberto

Proposed national level management structure:

Executive Director
HPFP Luzon Coordinator
HPFP Visayas Coordinator
HPFP Mindanao Coordinator
Finance Personnel
Internal Auditor
Technical
Legal
Formulate staffing policy (criteria, job descriptions) in response to
HPFP needs

From the objectives Fr. Norberto gave as an introduction to the Feb 20-21, 2007 PACSII-HPFP meeting in Iloilo
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Major Interventions

Planned Activity

Implementers

Timeframe

Objectives
sought to be
Addressed

B. Capacity Building and Deepening of PACSII (staff and BOT) understanding of HPFP
Attend HPFP meetings and activities

PACSII staff and BOT

Starting 2nd qtr 2008

2,3,4

Area / community visits

PACSII staff and BOT

Starting 2nd qtr 2008

2,3,4

Trainings with practical application / hands-on work in ongoing or

planned undertakings on the following:
Technical
(construction, development, disasters / geohazard mitigation, city
shelter and development planning)
Finance
(funds flow, loans handling and projection, )
Legal
(land / housing, finance, building, upgrading, disaster-geohazard
mitigation, financing and developing regulations)
Policy Reform
(policy research, formulation, lobby work, advocacy)
Documentation

PACSII staff and BOT

who wish to participate

Starting 2nd qtr 2008

2,3,4

III. HPFP - PACSII Alliance (Philippine Alliance)

A. Strengthening Partnership Bond
Periodic visits of PACSII (personnel and BOT) to HPFP regions and
attendance / participation in meetings and area consultations

HPFP-PACSII

2nd 4th qtr 2008

2,3,4

Joint meetings (HPFP-PACSII) to integrate / consolidate efforts

HPFP-PACSII

4th qtr 2008

2,3,4

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Major Interventions

Planned Activity

Implementers

Timeframe

Objectives
sought to be
Addressed

B. Conceptualizing, Strategizing and Programming the Establishment of a National level Facility to address needs for scaled up community-led secure tenure, housing, resettlement,
upgrading, and risk reduction/ mitigation and management
Conceptualize , identify steps to establish
national-level, community-managed Facility /
Instrument for scaled up secure tenure, housing,
resettlement, upgrading, and risk reduction/
mitigation and management

Exposure visits to CLIFF 1 and 2 (AMT, NIRMAN set up)

HPFP-PACSII

3rd 4th Qtr 2008

2, 4

Meetings with identified agencies (DBP, HGC, PAG-IBIG, BSP,

HLURB, NHA, HUDCC, NDCC, planners MGB), Finance institutions,
NGOs, Developers

HPFP-PACSII

3rd 4th Qtr 2008

2, 4

Workshop, conceptualization, strategizing, planning and programming

for the national level facility / instrument / institution

HPFP core
group,
PACSII BOT and staff,
CLIFF 3 advisory group,
other identified resource
persons
(finance,
developers, corporate
lawyers)

4th Qtr 2008

2, 4

Conduct of Policy Research

HPFP-PACSII

2nd quarter 2008

3, 4

Workshop on identifying and formulating policy reform agenda and

advocacy plan

HPFP-PACSII

2nd 3rd Qtr 2008

3, 4

Meetings and conferences with key implementing and policy makers,

academe, NGOs, professionals, private sector, banks.

HPFP-PACSII

Start 2nd qtr 2008

2nd qtr 2009

3, 4

Major Fora / RTD to present policy reform proposals and fine tune the
same

HPFP-PACSII

2nd -3rd qtr 2009

3, 4

Campaign lobby / advocacy work to Exec and Legislative

HPFP-PACSII

3rd qtr 2008 4th

quarter 2009.

3, 4

C. Policy Reform
Articulation, formulation and lobby for enabling
policy measures to promote community-led
approaches to scaled up community-led secure
tenure, housing, resettlement, upgrading, and
risk reduction/ mitigation and management

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Major Interventions

Planned Activity

Implementers

Timeframe

Objectives
sought to be
Addressed

D. Networking for formation of Support Groups for HPFP

Establishing network support for the HPFP that
understands and imbibes the community-led
context of the undertaking

Meetings

HPFP-PACSII
with
identified
support
personalities, institutions

2nd to 4th
2008

* one focus area is to shore up tech and legal

support for Mandaue HPFP

Orientation campaign for support groups

HPFP-PACSII
with
identified
support
personalities, institutions

2nd quarter 2008

2,3,4

Exposure through area / community visits (various themes of

community-led upgrading, savings, disaster mitigation and response)

HPFP-PACSII
with
identified
support
personalities, institutions

2nd to 3rd qtr 2008

2,3,4

Support group participation in capacity-building and policy reform

interventions as outlined

HPFP-PACSII
with
identified
support
personalities, institutions
HPFP-PACSII
with
identified
support
personalities, institutions

Through out 2nd qtr

2008- 2009

2, 3,4

3rd - 4th qtr 2008

2,3,4

Drafting and execution of MOAs

Launching of HPFP PACSII support group

HPFP-PACSII
with
identified
support
personalities, institutions

quarter

2,3,4

2,3,4

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E. Documentation
Major Interventions
Chronicling Philippine
learning, insights

alliance

Planned Activity
milestones,

Production of IEC materials and tools

Implementers

Timeframe

Documentation of :
Joint meetings, planning, trainings, workshops, fora

identified HPFP and

PACSII documenters

2008-2009

Objectives
sought to be
Addressed
1-4

Documentation of:
Policy reform agenda and lobby
Workshop on producing the materials

identified HPFP and

PACSII documenters
identified HPFP and
PACSII documenters
identified HPFP and
PACSII documenters

2008-2009

1-4

Production of the materials

2nd to 3rd qtr 2008

1-4

3rd qtr 2008 - 2009

1-4

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