2013-2019 Iloilo City Comprehensive Development Plan Chapter 3 DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

Chapter 3 DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

2013-2019 Development Framework

Regional Planning through the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Economic Development Council

Urban Development through the City Development Strategy (CDS) Framework

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2013-2019 Development Framework

The 2013-2019 CDP embarks on a sustainable urban development framework that has four
components: the urban economy, society, environment and governance/administration. This is
illustrated in the following framework that shows the four components’ integration and
harmonization with the Iloilo City’s international, national and local commitments and strategies
which include the UN MDGs, Pres. Benigno Aquino III’s Social Contract with the Filipino People,
Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016, Western Visayas Regional Development Plan 2011-
2016, MIGEDC Roadmap 2015, 2011-2020 Iloilo City Comprehensive Land Use Plan, 2013-
2023 Iloilo-Batiano River Development Master Plan, 2012 State of Local Governance Report,
City Development Strategy (CDS) Plan and the City Climate Change Action Plan:

Philippine Development Plan 2011-

2016, PNoy’s Social Contract with United Nation’s MDG
the Filipino People

ECONOMY
2011-2020 Iloilo City CLUP,
2013-2023 Iloilo-Batiano River
Western Visayas Medium Development Master Plan,
Term Development Plan SOCIETY 2012 LGPMS/SLGR, CDS
2011-2016 and the MIGEDC Plan, City Climate Change
ROADMAP 2015 Action Plan
ENVIRONMENT

GOVERNANCE/ADMINISTRATION

Figure 1: the 2013-2019 City Development Framework (and its integration and harmonization with the
UN MDGs, PNoy’s Social Contract with the Filipino People, Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016,
Western Visayas Medium Term Development Plan 2011-2016, MIGEDC Roadmap 2015, 2011-2020 Iloilo
City Comprehensive Land Use Plan, 2012 State of Local Governance Report, 2013-2023 Iloilo-Batiano River
Development Master Plan, CDS Plan and the Iloilo City Climate Change Action Plan)

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Iloilo City’s economy exists entirely within the context of its society because it is driven by the
exchange of goods and services among the urban population. The Ilonggo society is much
larger than the economy and includes family, barangay, city, communities of people and
cultures.

Both the city’s economy and society exist entirely within the city’s urban environment. People
rely on environmental goods and services to drive the economy while society’s basic
requirements - the air that people breathe, the food that people eat, the water that people drink,
the health – come from the environment.

Iloilo City’s sustainability will ultimately come about as a result of good urban governance and
administration so that the Iloilo City government under the leadership of Mayor Jed Patrick
Mabilog and its citizens can work together to bring about a prosperous and sustainable Premier
City by 2015. It is the interplay of these four components and its harmonized focus on the
various development anchors such as the MDGs, PNoy’s Social Contract with the Filipino
People, Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016, Western Visyas Medium Term Development
Plan 2011-2016, MIGEDC Roadmap 2015, 2011-2020 Iloilo City Comprehensive Land Use
Plan, 2013-2023 Iloilo-Batinao River Development Master Plan, ISA-PGS Scorecards, 2012
State of Local Governance Reports, CDS Plan and the City Climate Change Action Plan. The
integration and harmonized interplay will ultimately help define Iloilo City’s realization of
sustainable urban development and achievement of its vision of becoming a premier city by
2015 and further gaining the stature Queen City of the Philippines.

Regional Planning through the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Economic Development

Council (MIGEDC)

With its adopted approaches on inclusive and participatory bio-regional planning, investments
and strategies would not be carried out by the Iloilo City government alone, but in collaboration
with the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Economic Development Council (MIGEDC) composed of the
Province of Guimaras, the City of Iloilo and the Municipalities of Pavia, Oton, Leganes, San
Miguel and Sta. Barbara. The Municipality of Cabatuan was added to the membership recently
as urbanization trends now direct towards the International Airport which is located in the
Municipality of Cabatuan. The unique voluntary metro-structure was created by President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo in August 28, 2006 through an Executive Order 559. Iloilo City’s
development efforts are now undertaken in coordination with the following MIGEDC’s nine (9)
areas of collaboration:

1. tourism development
2. environmental management
3. infrastructure development
4. public safety and security
5. basic services delivery
6. land use planning and management
7. trade and investment promotions
8. special projects
9. transportation planning and traffic management

Following the ISA-PGS scorecard approach to development planning the MIGEDC Roadmap
2015 was formulated in 2006 though a series of consultative multi-stakeholder workshop
sponsored by the Canadian Urban Institute, a NGO partner that has helped establish the
MIGEDC in the late 1990s. The roadmap helped the MIGEDC in identifying capacity gaps that

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helped pave the way in accessing ODA and foreign technical assistance for some of its more
immediate regional development planning and growth management concerns.

Urban Development through the City Development Strategy (CDS) Framework

In Iloilo City, the City Development Strategy (CDS) concept pioneered by the Cities Alliance
provides an innovative and operational framework for mapping out investments for the city’s
growth and development efforts. The 2013-2019 CDP adopts the CDS plan by identifying
programs, projects and activities that help realize the CDS project priorities listed below.

As defined by the city’s baseline profile or Urban Karte, such investments are to be built on the
following desired attributes:

1. Livability
2. Governance and Management
3. Competitiveness
4. Bankability

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