LCP and the Millennium Development Goals
Philippine Citi
es play crucial roles in achieving the country's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. As more people are migrating to cities and with 61 percent of the country’s more than 80 million population residing in urban areas today, the delivery of MDG-related goods and services cannot be overemphasized. Urbanization is a natural phenomenon. As engines of growth, cities have to live up to the demands of both its transient and night time population.
es play crucial roles in achieving the country's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. As more people are migrating to cities and with 61 percent of the country’s more than 80 million population residing in urban areas today, the delivery of MDG-related goods and services cannot be overemphasized. Urbanization is a natural phenomenon. As engines of growth, cities have to live up to the demands of both its transient and night time population. The League of Cities of the Philippines, as the mandated local government association of Philippine cities, remains committed to help the country achieve MDG targets. With development agencies, civil society partners, and national government agencies as partners in development, it has started series of localization projects to its member-cities as early as 2004. Some of these cities have already mainstreamed crucial MDG indicators into their development plans and budgets and have set up monitoring mechanisms. Some even localized further their MDGs at the barangay levels by establishing MDG Watch. In some cities, in their MDG localization process, the families themselves are able to comprehend and meaningfully imbue MDG principles at their homes through MDG-based progress reports of their children.
The League of Cities continues to facilitate and consolidate these experiences to inspire not only other cities but other local governments as well.
