Homeless People’s Federation Philippines- Iloilo City

2017 Regional Strategic Plan

JMAS Cove, San Joaquin, Iloilo: July 7-8, 2017

SWOT ANALYSIS

Strengths Weaknesses
 Active Savings Program  Absence of clear, standard or
implemented both in the CA/HOA uniform Savings Policy as well as
and ARC levels; generally understood and
 Ability to cope, revive and sustain accepted purpose, motivation and
savings related activities amidst policy direction;
operational and financial  Uncollected, overdue repayments
constraints due to issues of under the savings and loan
mismanagement; program;
 Strict enforcement of compliance  Inability to enforce compulsory;
with compulsory non-withdrawable savings for HPFPI local
UPDF savings as a precondition communities who do not have
among CA-HOA in accessing loans;
loans;  Unsustained momentum of
 Available and functional regional savings initiatives and failure to
office-level staff and community ensure the balance between
volunteers comprised of Regional social and financial movement;
Coordinator, Mapping, Profiling and  Unreliable government support
Enumeration-in-charge, Mobile and partnership due to intermittent
Repayment Collector, Bookkeeper and ever changing political
and Cash Custodian, Documenter- administration;
Community Facilitator, Community  Mismatch between the need for
Architect; technical assistance and its supply
 Strong coordination and and availability for community
communication between HPFPI upgrading initiatives;
Regional Office and the HPFPI  Technical financial and
Community Leaders which managerial skills are oftentimes
facilitated positive responses in the limited to office level staff and
formation of the newly constituted needs to be developed among
Regional Council; Regional Council members as
 Regular monthly meeting and second liners;
mobilization of Regional Council  Sporadic engagement and
Members in the execution of demand/need driven collaboration
HPFPI rituals as venues for which discourages continuity and
orientation, knowledge sharing, functionality of partnership;
skills transfer, leadership training  Relatively poor repayment
and capacity building; collection rate especially among
 Comprehensive activity/project and communities which initially
financial documentation and experienced very loose or liberal
facilitation works both in the which repayment collection policies.
enables timely submission of Inclusion of provisions which
reportorial requirements; cannot actually be strictly enforced

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 Homeless People’s Federation Philippines- Iloilo City
2017 Regional Strategic Plan
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 Best practice identification and hampers willingness to pay and
replication mechanisms in place- created a culture of complacency;
particularly in terms of partnership  Insufficiency of financial
and engagement, project and assistance and operational
financial literacy and management; support in terms of facilitation,
 The practice of community research, documentation and
exchanges or peer to peer learning organizing;
which facilitate better  Absence of fund support to ensure
understanding and deeper functionality of the new
appreciation among community governance structure especially
leaders or representatives within Regional Council level;
HPFPI network and federation  Insufficient skills and staffing or
members; personnel requirement to manage
 Functional and mutually beneficial post construction and post-
partnership agreements enforced occupancy activities especially as
by active engagement with regard incremental development;
partners especially with the local  Failure to closely supervise and
government units where HPFPI facilitate project or program
membership in local decision- replication and expansion;
making and advisory bodies are  Operations on the regional council
ensured; level is highly dependent on
 Community-led and community- volunteerism while there is patent
managed self-help initiatives are disregard on the importance of
actively participated by the reward system through
community-partner-beneficiary; incentivizes;
 Active participation and  Preference on community
volunteerism among HPFPI exchanges as the best way to
leaders within the HOA/CA, ensure community learnings and
Regional Council and Regional sharing of best practices despite
Office levels; financial constraints;
 Contract and Financial  Loose regional governance
management systems established structure and current regional
and faithfully enforced resulting to council still at infancy stage
better post construction planning requiring heavy institutional
and estate management as well as investment on capacity and skills
repayment collection rates; development;
 Putting premium on transparency  Absence communication strategy
and good governance within the and policy between and among
CA/HOA level; regional offices in relation to the
 Better coordination and national office;
communication mechanism due to  Lack of appreciation and
proximity and accessibility HPFPI comprehension of the functions
Offices; and relevance of the Regional
 Good land transaction and Council with other Philippine
negotiation skills-skills transfer Alliance partners;

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2017 Regional Strategic Plan
JMAS Cove, San Joaquin, Iloilo: July 7-8, 2017
made possible through peer to  Limited authority to influence
peer teaching; policy direction and rules of
engagement with alliance partner
institutions;
 Struggle in the transition from the
decentralized to centralized HPFPI
processes, systems and
structures;
Opportunities Threats
 Untapped government housing  Strict regulation of organizations
and land acquisition fund from executing banking functions such
Social Housing Finance HPFPI’s savings and loan;
Corporation as introduced by Ms.  Strict imposition of tax over non-
Eva Marfil of HUDCC Region VI; stock non-profit organizations;
 Possible accreditation as a  Regulatory measures strictly
community facilitator/mobilizer to enforced by the local government
secure facilitation/mobilization units and non-compliance with the
fees; regular annual documentary
 Willingness and eagerness of requirements;
current Iloilo City urban Poor  Non-compliance with complete
Affairs Office Director to forge and sufficient employment benefits
partnership for urban poor for HPFPI Office staff;
electronic data banking and  Project or activity delay due to
knowledge sharing sytem; consequential bureaucracy
 Usufruct agreement/donation of created by the new centralized
some part of HOA/CA housing site governance system/structure;
for site development like drainage  New HPFPI Executive Officers
and road construction; and Board of Trustees lack
 Possible partnership with local sufficient governance and
corporate social responsibility management skills
(CSR) arms of business
establishments;
 Free micro-
entrepreneurship/livelihood
training from Department of Trade
and Industry Region VI through its
Negosyo Center;
 Partnership with Provincial
Government and local government
units in Northern Iloilo for a
disaster management, climate
change adaptation and community
resilience-related activities,
projects or programs as part of its
expansion efforts and

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 Homeless People’s Federation Philippines- Iloilo City
2017 Regional Strategic Plan
JMAS Cove, San Joaquin, Iloilo: July 7-8, 2017
repositioning HPFPI lens;
 Local HPFPI registration initiative
to further strengthen local
capacities in terms of institutional
engagement;
 Enhanced communication strategy
especially as to activity or
institutional branding and
sustainability measures;
 Maximization of the advantages
and benefits under the Micro-
Finance NGO Act particularly on
the imposition of 2% tax on MF-
NGOs in lieu of all other taxes.

ACTION PLAN

What are the basic Why did you identify How do you propose to
needs of the region? these needs? solve/address these
needs?

Capacity Building,  Urgency of the need  Jointly with the LGU,

Organizing, Legal, for assistance, PACSII, TAMPEI and
Technical and Financial insufficient mobilizing other technical
intervention to and organizing professional
support from the volunteers organize a
communities facing land
government and team that will closely
tenure issues (ex. West orStatus of land work together towards
Habog-habog, West ownership of the addressing the
Timawa, Molo and informal needs with emphasis
Ingore, Lapaz) settlers/communities on the role of the
newly formed
Regional Council
Need to upscale  We need to address  Establish area
citywide initiatives the broader needs of resource centers
(program promotion, the urban poor /office to take charge
engagement and sector (e.g. housing, of program promotion
land tenure, and expansion
partnership, savings
upgrading)  Formulate and apply
expansion etc.) efficient
communication
strategies

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 Homeless People’s Federation Philippines- Iloilo City
2017 Regional Strategic Plan
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 Lobby additional funds
for large scale slum
upgrading projects
Need to sustain  The community-led  Continuous promotion
technical assistance process is not yet and advocacy of
within the norm community-led
commonly practiced process as viable
by technical and approach to slum
young professionals, upgrading to technical
volunteer students and young
involved with the professionals and
projects/programs of partner academe
the Alliance.  Allocate budget and
 The need for hire competitive
technical support is technical assistants to
apparently help sustain HPFPI
increasing as the local operations
projects continue to  Establish institutional
scale-up to a city- arrangements with
wide level hence, academic and
this requires full-time professional
technical organizations to tie-up
support/volunteers community-led
for project process to the college
sustainability curriculum and
extension programs;
execute MOAs;
formalize internship
programs
 Promote volunteerism
 Organize programs for
full-time and part-time
volunteers based on
the extent of their
involvement with the
federation’s initiatives

Need to assess and  HPFPI leaders have  Constant sharing and

reflect on the kind of to inculcate the reflection among
relationship between values and core HPFPI key leaders
HPFPI and other principles of the and the employees of
federation to its Alliance partners
alliance partner
partners, and
institutions especially together with the
on the part of the newly community they can
formed Regional work hand in hand
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2017 Regional Strategic Plan
JMAS Cove, San Joaquin, Iloilo: July 7-8, 2017
Council towards the
community-led
principle

 To identify the gaps

in terms of technical
skills which young
professionals
Need to influence  We are currently into  Advocate for the
housing-related low-cost housing but exemption or
regulations, practices we are bound to reduction of housing
and policies follow the provisions related fees for
of the building code processing of building
permit and licenses
fees.
 Urban poor
communities usually
face difficulty in
complying with rigid
housing regulatory
requirements (e.g.
building permit and
licenses fees etc.)
Need to capacitate  There are emerging  Organize capacity and
communities to cope issues on legal, skills enhancement
with the current thrust finance, technical programs for
and pace of the organizational and communities
governance aspects (e.g. trainings and
Philippine Alliance
that are confronting workshops) ; learning
the urban poor exposures and
sector exchanges
Need to engage with  To leverage  Continuous
financing institutions resources from engagement with the
private sector private sector and
especially from strategic dealings or
banks/financing partnership
institutions agreement with them
Need to engage local  To sustain support  Tap resources from
and national for community-driven LGUs and national
government for more programs of the government; execute
institutionalized Alliance MOAs/MOUs;
arrangements (e.g. sign
MOAs, leveraging
tangible resources like

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 Homeless People’s Federation Philippines- Iloilo City
2017 Regional Strategic Plan
JMAS Cove, San Joaquin, Iloilo: July 7-8, 2017
funding support, land
counterpart, livelihood
assistance, contribution
to Urban Poor Fund
etc.)

Need to document the  Learnings,  Formulate

experiences, learnings experiences and the communication
and challenges of the important milestones strategies/communicati
federation of the federation on plan
must be
shared/replicated to
other communities
/stakeholders
 To effectively
communicate with
our partners
Need to explore  To identify variety of  Continue research on
alternative technology materials that can be locally available low
for low cost utilized for cost building
housing/upgrading construction; to technology
further lower down
projects
construction cost
Clearly define the  Each institution has  Establish the
relationship within the its own functions Philippine Alliance
Philippine Alliance structure
structure; roles of each  Identify the flow of
decision-making
institution
process

Need to conduct a  To develop and  Conduct case studies;

study (from external improve quality researches in
point of view) to assess approaches/process collaboration with
the processes that es based on the partner institutions
previous experiences
already transpired
of the Alliance
Need to create a venue  No regular meeting  Identify an over-all
to discuss and to update all regions coordinator for
consolidate the issues about the status of technical and finance
pertaining to projects of the projects to oversee and
manage the projects
the Alliance (at least
of the Alliance
quarterly or as need (preferably not from
arises) HPFPI)

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2017 Regional Strategic Plan
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 Assign a focal person

(from each region)
and conduct a
quarterly project
monitoring and
assessment meeting

Need for continued  We need to change  Identify and invite

support for learning the negative potential
exchanges and mindsets of LGUs, partners/allies from
exposures shelter agencies, the LGUs, Academe,
private sector, private sector,
academe and organized urban poor
community leaders communities to join in
towards the urban local learning
poor sector; exchanges
Convince them that
the urban poor can
be active partners for
the city’s
development
Finance

 A standard  Financial reporting  Formulate a standard

format for presentation varies format with inputs
financial every year from donors or
reporting of technical assistance
operational fund
throughout
project
implementation
 Formulate policies or
 Policies/guideline  Eliminate audit guidelines for the
s as to the findings and required attachment in
required uniformity every transaction
supporting
documents in
every transaction  Adopt a simple
method of interest
 The assigned computations
 Simplify the treasurer refuse to
method of accept the
computing loan responsibilities as in  Provide TA on simple
interest charge in bookkeeping

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2017 Regional Strategic Plan
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maintaining the loan
ledger of each
member  Develop a scheme
suited to their capacity

 Reconstruction of their
loanable amount or
loan terms

 Provide livelihood
projects to augment
their income

 Policies/schemes
to address low  Low repayment rate  Review the existing
return of from vulnerable terms and identify the
investments group additional information
needed to arrive at the
 Develop tools to actual loan capacity of
determine the stakeholders
loan affordability  Identification of
of housing  Low repayment rate various schemes
applicants suited to the needs of
Stakeholders

 Loan packages  Funds sourcing

suited to the  Stakeholders are  Identification of
needs of hesitant to avail the hindering factors and
stakeholders project due to limited formulation of
income contingency plan

 Funds to sustain
the operational
expenses of
 -Funds shortage to
project who were
sustain project
not able to meet
implementation
the financial
timeframe of
implementation

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