Philippines

Brief description

The link of the national and sectoral plans with the budgeting process and financing strategies requires further strengthening as these plans and the related SDGs are not mandatory considerations in the formulation of the annual national budgets and the financing gap is significant. To address this, the Joint Programme (JP) will apply the building blocks of the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) to provide catalytic support, tools, technical assistance for strengthening systems, coordination and consensus building on priorities as part of a whole of government approach. 

Approach

This JP seeks to implement 3 strategies to meet the JP outcomes: a) Strengthen and integrate existing building blocks of an INFF in the national government’s planning, budgeting and monitoring infrastructure to ensure appropriate financing and better delivery; b) finance and coordinate multi-sector priority SDG programmes that reduce future expenditure requirements on the SDGs, and (c) identify alternative financing sources for the SDGs. The programme will adopt a multi-sectoral approach in program design and execution led by the Subcommittee on the SDGs. The Subcommittee is mandated to engage local governments, development partners, civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders.

The programme brief description

While the poverty incidence in the Philippines fell 5% between 2009 and 2015, there is increasing geographic disparity, most notable in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The UN Joint Programme addresses the risks and vulnerabilities that the Bangsamoro people, especially the poorest, most vulnerable and marginalized, face in times of natural and human-induced disasters, that perpetuate the cycle of poverty. It focuses on three key interventions:

• Mainstreaming Risk Informed Shock Responsive Social Protection (RISR SP) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region;
• Building capacity of Bangsamoro institutions to analyze and monitor both natural and human-induced risks. Improving synergy and coordination between social protection programmes, climate change adaptation and disaster preparedness and management; 
• Improving the poverty registry system to include risk and hazard vulnerability assessments, predictive analytics, inclusive targeting and effective monitoring.

Approach

Set up programmes respond to the pressing social and economic challenges in the Bangsamoro such as poverty, education, health, access to clean water and electricity, job opportunity, agricultural productivity.

Target groups

Poor households with women, children, small rural farmers and fisher folk, and Indigenous Peoples (IPs), Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and ex-combatants outside the Listahanan.