Chapter II-Philippine Development Plan

Starting Accurately (Introduction)

This chapter discusses about Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-
2022.

Objectives:
At the end of this chapter, the learners will be able to:
1. enumerate three Millennium Development Goals and discuss their influence to one
another;
2. enumerate five Sustainable Development Goals and discuss how they can
contribute to the achievement of such; and
3. cite three evidences found or observations within in their community, which they
believe are clear manifestations of Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 Vision of
a Matatag, Maginhawa at Panatag na Buhay Para sa Lahat.

Stimulating Learning (Motivation)

Watch the video titled: “8 Millennium Development Goals-What We Met and

Missed.” Ponder on the question: “Did we really achieve the 8 Millennium Development
Goals so far?”

Inculcating Concepts (Input/Lesson Proper)

• Millennium Development Goals

o The United Nations Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that all
191 UN member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. The
United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits
world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental
degradation, and discrimination against women. The MDGs are derived from
this Declaration, and all have specific targets and indicators.
o The Eight Millennium Development Goals are:
• to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;
• to achieve universal primary education;
• to promote gender equality and empower women;
• to reduce child mortality;
• to improve maternal health;
• to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases;
• to ensure environmental sustainability; and
• to develop a global partnership for development.

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 o The MDGs are inter-dependent; all the MDGs influence health, and health
influences all the MDGs. For example, better health enables children to learn
and adults to earn. Gender equality is essential to the achievement of better
health. Reducing poverty, hunger and environmental degradation positively
influences, but also depends on, better health.

• Source: https://www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals/about/en/

Source: https://www.gavi.org/our-alliance/global-health-development/millennium-
development-goals

• Sustainable Development Goals

o The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United
Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and
prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are
the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for
action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership.
They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-
hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality,
and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to
preserve our oceans and forests.
o The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and
more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face,
including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental
degradation, peace and justice. The 17 Goals are all interconnected, and in
order to leave no one behind, it is important that we achieve them all by 2030.
o The 17 Goals:

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• GOAL 1: NO POVERTY
✓ End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
✓ Economic growth must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs
and promote equality.
• GOAL 2: ZERO HUNGER
✓ End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and
promote sustainable agriculture.
✓ The food and agriculture sector offers key solutions for
development, and is central for hunger and poverty eradication.
• GOAL 3: GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
✓ Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
✓ Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being for all at all
ages are essential to sustainable development.
• GOAL 4: QUALITY EDUCATION
✓ Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote
lifelong learning opportunities for all.
✓ Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving
people’s lives and sustainable development.
• GOAL 5: GENDER EQUALITY
✓ Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
✓ Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a
necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and
sustainable world.
• GOAL 6: CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
✓ Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and
sanitation for all.
✓ Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world
we want to live in.
• GOAL 7: AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
✓ Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern
energy for all.
✓ Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and
opportunity.
• GOAL 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
✓ Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth,
full and productive employment and decent work for all.
✓ Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the
conditions that allow people to have quality jobs.
• GOAL 9: INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
✓ Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable
industrialization and foster innovation.
✓ Investments in infrastructure are crucial to achieving sustainable
development.

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 • GOAL 10: REDUCED INEQUALITIES
✓ Reduce inequality within and among countries.
✓ To reduce inequalities, policies should be universal in principle,
paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and
marginalized populations.
• GOAL 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
✓ Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and
sustainable.
✓ There needs to be a future in which cities provide opportunities
for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing,
transportation and more.
• GOAL 12: RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
✓ Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
✓ Responsible Production and Consumption.
• GOAL 13: CLIMATE ACTION
✓ Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
✓ Climate change is a global challenge that affects everyone,
everywhere.
• GOAL 14: LIFE BELOW WATER
✓ Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine
resources for sustainable development.
✓ Careful management of this essential global resource is a key
feature of a sustainable future.
• GOAL 15: LIFE ON LAND
✓ Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial
ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat
desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt
biodiversity loss.
✓ Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and
reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss.
• GOAL 16: PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
✓ Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable
development, provide access to justice for all and build
effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
✓ Access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable
institutions at all levels.
• GOAL 17: PARTNERSHIPS
✓ Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the
global partnership for sustainable development.
✓ Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

Sources:
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

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https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Source: https://tykn.tech/sdgs-sustainable-development-goals/

o What does it take for the SDGs to be achieved?

• Since all 17 goals are big challenges, it will require a lot of effort from
both the international community but also from the citizens of the
world.
• Here are 5 recommendations from Ortwin Renn, Managing Scientific
Director at Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)
Potsdam, as to how to achieve these goals:
✓ Take it step-by-step.
✓ Think regional, not global.
✓ Work from bottom-up.
✓ Strategically balance conflicting objectives.
✓ Use stories to drive change.
• In summary, it will take a lot of continuous efforts, funding and
perseverance for the SDGs to be achieved.
o How can I help the SDGs?
• Goals such as fighting for equality, stop climate change and eradicate
extreme poverty can be overwhelming. It is easy to feel very small and
powerless when facing these 17 goals. But change starts with you and
with little actions that all of us can undertake every day.

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 • On the individual level, you too can help achieve the SDGs. Here are,
from the UN’s Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World, just a few of
the examples you could partake in:
✓ Turn off the lights when you don’t need them.
✓ Speak up to your local governments to engage in new initiatives
that don’t harm the people or the planet.
✓ Recycle.
✓ Replace old appliances with energy-efficient models and light
bulbs.
✓ Donate what you don’t use.
✓ Use refillable water bottles and coffee cups.
✓ Voice your support for equal pay for equal work.
✓ Encourage your company to work with the civil society and find
ways to help local communities achieve their goals.

Source: https://tykn.tech/sdgs-sustainable-development-goals/

• Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022

o The first medium-term plan to be anchored
on the 0-10-point Socioeconomic
Agenda and geared towards the
Ambisyon Natin 2040, which articulates
the Filipino people’s collective vision of a
MATATAG, MAGINHAWA, AT PANATAG
NA BUHAY PARA SA LAHAT.
o Takes into account the country’s
international commitments such as the
2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
o E.O. No. 5 signed on October 2016.
o This plan will empower the poor and
marginalized, push for improved
transparency and accountability in
governance, and fuel our economy.
o Specifically, it intends to make growth more
inclusive by lowering poverty incidence in
the rural areas, creating more jobs, making
individuals and communities more resilient,
driving innovation, and building greater trust in government and in society.
o Reducing all forms of criminality and illegal drugs is also a priority as with
enhancing peace and security.
o These are alongside our continued commitment to pursue infrastructure
development and resolve to restore our environment and natural resources.

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1. Overview of the Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 and Ambisyon Natin
2040
o Motivation: “Realizing the Asian Century”
1. Asia will nearly double its share of Global Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) to over 50%.
2. Asia’s per capita income will rise six-fold from 2010 to 2050, higher
than the global average.
3. 7 economies will lead Asia’s march to prosperity (South Korea,
Japan, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand).
4. The Philippines will be overtaken by India and Vietnam; will be in the
company of Mongolia and Cambodia.

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o Ambisyon Natin 2040: Our Vision, Our Ambition
1. A long-term (25 years)
vision for the Philippines.
2. An anchor for
development planning
across administrations.
3. A guide for engaging
with international
development partners.
4. A basis of unity among
Filipinos.
5. It is a vision, NOT a
plan.

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o With right policies, the Philippines can be a high-income economy by 2040.

o Filipinos believe that hunger, local employment, and poverty are the main
development issues that should be addressed.

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o Studies show that poverty can be eradicated by 2040.

o Corruption is the most important governance issue that should be addressed.

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o Priority Sectors for Ambisyon Natin 2040:

o From Vision to Action:

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o The Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022 – the first medium-term
development plan to be anchored on a long-term vision or Ambisyon Natin
2040.

o Economic Growth Targets for 2017-2022:

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o PDP 2017-2022 Targets:

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o 2017-2022: The Philippines’ Golden Age of Infrastructure

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o Public Spending on Infrastructure Targets as % of GDP, 2017-2022:

o National Spatial Strategy

1. Build on the efficiencies and
maximize the benefits of scale
and agglomeration economies.
✓ Decongest Metro Manila.
✓ Develop regional and sub-
regional centers.
2. Connect the settlements to form
an efficient network.
✓ Improve linkages among
settlements and key
production areas by
connecting rural areas to
growth centers.
3. Make vulnerability reduction an
integral part of development.
✓ Reduce the risks of
communities exposed to
the threats of disasters.

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 o Proposed Legislative Measures:

o Legislative Agenda to Expand Economic Opportunities in Industry & Services

(I & S), 2017-2022

*FDI – Foreign Direct Investments.

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Source: Menardo, A. Overview of the Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 and
Ambisyon 2040. PDF File.

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