Since 2003, UN-Habitat has supported the Philippines in achieving transformative results in housing, urban planning and design, climate resilience and improving the urban environment.
People’s Process
With support from the Spanish government, through the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), the project was launched to make housing and sustainable livelihood accessible to the Sama Bajau families who were left homeless and displaced when Typhoon Rai hit Surigao in 2021.
Members of the indigenous group Sama Bajau and informal settler families of Sitio Panubigon in Surigao City were equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring real change in their lives by achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through a day-long workshop conducted by UN-Habitat Philippines together with UN Women.
Developed under the Healthy Oceans and Clean Cities Initiative, this paper looks at how the People’s Process became a significant driver for community-based plastics circularity social enterprise development. It has specifically looked at organizations in HOCCI’s partner cities of Manila, Calapan, Davao, Legazpi, Cagayan de Oro, and Ormoc.
This document summarizes the key accomplishments of the Rebuilding Marawi through Community-Driven Shelter and Livelihood project from 2017-2022.
This guide draws from UN-Habitat’s solid experience of building 1,000 permanent houses for internally displaced families in Marawi City.
This handbook provides overall guidance on the integration of environmental and social safeguards within the People’s Process as demonstrated through the Rebuilding Marawi project.
Rebuilding Livelihoods (Islamic Microfinance) documents how livelihood support of the Rebuilding Marawi project is operationalized on the ground guided by Islamic principles and teachings.
Promoting Peace is a training manual on the two elements of the peace and development framework: basic community peace education and basic community dialogue facilitation.
Promoting Peace is a training manual on the two elements of the peace and development framework: basic community peace education and basic community dialogue facilitation.