Policy Overview
Policy Development and Advocacy are the core of League of Cities of the Philippines’ development work. Implied in its Vision Statement is a commitment to genuine and effective local autonomy and development while promoting democratic access to all available resources. The LCP’s Mission in the Local Government Code (RA 9184) states that the it shall “ventilate, articulate and crystallize issues affecting city government administration” and secure solutions to these issues “through proper and legal means.”
During the series of LCP Island Cluster Strategic Planning on August 2004, local chief executives expressed and agreed that LCP should strengthen its policy development and advocacy work.
A Policy Development and Advocacy Plan was developed to address this critical gap in the LCP’s efforts to craft and advocate for legislative and executive policies both at the national and local levels of government.
In the Plan, the first major action was to strengthen the LCP internal system. As a response, the LCP's Program Unit for Policy and Legislation was created within the LCP Secretariat. This is a major step forward for the LCP to address policy issues and concerns with full-time policy officers to provide policy research support, formulate policy agenda, implement policy advocacy campaigns, and facilitate the sharing of experts to gather and refine issues affecting today’s Philippine cities.
Vision Statement
Vision Statement
A Program Unit within the LCP with:
1.The professional competence to conduct policy study, research and training, and policy information exchange; and
2. The organizational efficacy to operationalize the League’s policy positions within a framework that is systematic, facilitative and efficient.
Mission Statement
Mission Statement
Establish the LCP’s strong presence in the policy advocacy arena and thereby execute its mission of ventilating, articulating, and crystallizing issues affecting city government administration, within the bounds of promoting local self-government.
Purposes
1. Promote the interest and welfare of member-cities through policy study and advocacy work within the general framework of engendering genuine local autonomy and development;
2. Provide a cohesive force that embodies the sentiments and aspirations of member-cities, to the end that decentralized urban governance is promoted through appropriate policy legislation and supportive policy implementation mechanism;
3. Serve as policy forum and feedback mechanism on policy and legislation; and
4. Render policy development support to member-cities
4. Render policy development support to member-cities
Program’s Focus Areas
1. Address issues that are currently affecting city governments and impending issues that will most likely impact on their operations like the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act (RA 9003), Clean Water Act (RA 9275), Internal Revenue Allotment formulation, LGU shares in the income from the use and exploitation of the national wealth (e.g. Mining Act, quarrying, water extraction), the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act (RA 9344), and share of LGUs from value-added taxations, among others;
2. Issues affecting and delimiting the access of city governments to fund sourcing;
3. Other issues identified and classified by the city mayors as priority during the LCP national executive board meetings and strategic planning; and
2. Issues affecting and delimiting the access of city governments to fund sourcing;
3. Other issues identified and classified by the city mayors as priority during the LCP national executive board meetings and strategic planning; and
4. Day-to-day developments and current realities that impact on city governments;
