Programs & Projects Overview
Programs Overview
LCP offers and implements wide range of urban development programs to its member-cities. Its experience in programs and project management with development partners that include funding partners, national government agencies, civil society partners, the business sector, and the academe has sufficiently attained full impact and outcomes to the intended target-partners. This includes the sustainability mechanisms both in local policy and practice through integration into the local development agenda and provision of budget.
A high-value strength in the LCP-initiated programs and projects is its point of entry – through the local chief executive. The city mayors’ full support to the programs and projects initiated by the LCP enables the program implementation to work efficiently at the city level. Buy-in from the other local chief executives and city-to-city mentoring remain important processes in the project implementation. Critical and collaborative support from the other local officials, city department heads and stakeholders complement the program strengths. Programs and projects have also been integrated into the local governance systems and processes. The LCP Secretariat, as the program and project management office, exercises ownership and capacitates its technical and administrative staff.
The LCP Environment Program
The LCP pioneers and implements different environmental programs. The LCP is the first and only Philippine local government association to put up a dedicated unit to dealing with environmental concerns. On April 2005, the LCP created its Environment Program. It has a focal mayor to advocate environmental issues in the National Executive Board and a full-time technical staff.
The LCP Environment Program is the central arm in providing services to LCP members in the areas of environmental policy development and advocacy, training and technical assistance, research, information management, and environmental communications.
It is envisioned to build partnerships, institutionalize environmental projects as well as develop and sustain the LCP capacity. Among its main thrusts are to create replicable models and to provide and facilitate a venue for sharing of best practices in the areas of solid waste management, air quality, water and wastewater management, coastal resource management, upland development, and other cross cutting environmental concerns.
The LCP Advocacy, Marketing, and Networking Program
The LCP Advocacy, Marketing, and Networking Program provides and implements technical assistance and program support in the LCP’s strategic plan along the areas of advocacy campaigns, information, education, and communication (IEC) promotions, social marketing, and strategic networking.
The program conceptualizes and implements development communications support in assisting the LCP to position its issues and influences in the national policy decision making process. The Program is the LCP’s Communication Office as it manages the LCP website, edits the LCP institutional publications, manages knowledge generation, conceptualizes and implements innovative programs to enhance LCP’s institutional branding, and spearheads inter-agency linkaging and partnerships among like-minded institutions and stakeholders.
The LCP Special Projects Program
The Special Projects Program provides and implements technical assistance and program support in the LCP’s strategic plan along the areas of project concept development and implementation, international partnerships and grants development, resource generation, project and program appraisal, and capability-building development. The Special Projects is created to facilitate and manage complex and wide-scale LCP projects like the World Bank City Development Strategies and the United Nations Populations Fund Reproductive Health and Commodity Security Project.
