Presented at the Country Learning Exchange held during the 7th GLTN Partners Meeting 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya.

1. Philippines
STRENGTHENING LAND GOVERNANCE THROUGH
PARTICIPATORY MAPPING AND DATA MANAGEMENT
Christopher Ebreo and Ruby Papeleras
GLTN Partners meeting and Country learning Exchange
April 23-26,2018

2. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
INTRODUCTION
Context of Mutinlupa City
• In 2015, HPFPI with the Philippine Alliance
began the conduct of mapping in Muntinlupa
City.
• The area is located in the southernmost part
of Metro Manila, the largest urban
conglomeration in the Philippines.
• It has a population of half a million residents.
• At the start of the mapping, the local
government had no clear data on informal
settlement communities in the city.
• City’s shelter plan was not updated
Lakeshore communities in
Muntinlupa
Area:
41.67 km2 (16.09 sq mi)
Population:
504,509 (2015 census)
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3. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
KEY LAND CHALLENGES
• No updated information on number and
situation of informal settlement families.
• Lack of coordination among government
agencies, local government departments
in addressing the Informal settlements
(ISF) issue.
• Fragmented responses or solutions to
informal settlements upgrading
• Limited participation of informal settlement
communities in land governance.
• Lack of recognition by agencies and
government of community efforts on the
issue
• Lack of trust between government
representatives and communities.
• Non-existence or lack of knowledge in
preparing of shelter plans of local
government units
• Latest data available on ISF with
Muntinlupa City government data is in
2007
Philippines: Housing Backlog as of
2017: 5.7 Million Units
Based on HUDCC report

4. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
KEY INTERVENTIONS
Project Components
Project preparation: Memorandum of
Agreement (MOA) between City and
implementing partners and creation of core
team and technical working groups (TWG).
STDM and learning hub: Introductory training
sessions with TWG community members and
other city stakeholders in 3 cities
Community-level engagements: Community
organizing work, analysis of data for planning,
technical assistance for project development
and community workshops with members of
TWG.
STDM learning hub in barangay SUCAT, Muntinlupa
Sample STDM digitizing in Muntinlupa

5. Interventions
Community mapping
activities such as training
of core mappers,
settlements profiling,
mapping boundaries
using GPS devices,
structure mapping,
validation of data and
initial planning at the
barangay level, creation
TWG groups per
barangay

6. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
KEY INTERVENTIONS
Data analysis
and presentation
to the
stakeholders

7. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
PARTNERSHIPS

8. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
PROCESSES
Participation, Collaboration, Learning
• Strong participation and commitment of
communities to undertake the process,
despite negative past experience working with
government.
• Participation of other stakeholders – local
government, civil society groups, people’s
organizations and national agencies
• Openness of and recognition by local
government of the importance of having the
communities participate in the process
• Generated information is evidence-based
so that local government units and
communities alike readily accepted the results
and were able to come up with concrete
upgrading plans and projects
• Technical expertise in community mapping
was passed on to the people which has
helped the communities better understand
their own situation, make informed decisions
and eventually share the knowledge and skills
to other communities.

9. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
PROCESSES
• Mapping contributed to intra- and inter-
personal growth among communities,
e.g., they gained sense of leadership,
responsibility, effective communication.
• Informed solutions developed based
mapping results and backed by daily
experiences.
• Sharing of best practices at the
global, regional and country levels
through learning exchange.
Regional Learning Exchange in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia February 6-7, 2018,
“Strengthening Land Governance in the Asia-Pacific”
Technical working group members with Muntinlupa City Government

10. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• The mapping activities resulted in
1) Generated a citywide profile of informal settlements in
Muntinlupa City, total profiled 186 community Association with the
total Informal settlers families of 33,703 and total population of
130,286 which is 25% of the population were ISF based on 2015
City population data 504,509
2) creating a different platforms that links government, communities
and other city stakeholders in planning the city;
3) strengthening of community groups and networks; 4) planning
and implementation of pilot upgrading projects in one barangay ;
5) creation of a learning hub on community mapping and profiling
• Partnerships between and among the city government,
communities and other stakeholders became more clarified
• Establishment of academic and professional linkages – established
new partnerships with the Geodetic Engineers of the Philippines (GEP-
NCR); University of the Philippines Department of Geodetic Engineering
(UPDGE).

11. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
MAPPING RESULTS USING STDM TOOL IN BARANGAY PUTATAN.
ONE OF THE 8 BARANGAYS IN MUNTINLUPA CITY

12. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
Presentation of Data City level-After the mapping has
been done on all barangays the final result will be
presented on the City through the Local Housing Board.
Project development: After the mapping one of the Barangay (Sucat )started to discuss five (5) land
acquisition project with the help of Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC), Land owner , Village Chief
and all departments of the city to help realize priorities with the communities.

13. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
EMERGING OUTCOMES
• Community awareness – communities gained greater
awareness of their own situation through their active
participation in the process. They were able to provide
informed solution rooted to the results of mapping and
backed by their daily experiences.
• Recognition through data and representation through
networks – Some communities were recognized by
government offices through presentation of maps produced
via STDM. Eight (8)barangays already formed their
community networks. 5 out of 31 communities in Sucat
already started land acquisition procesess. 1 out of 8
barangays enacted a Barangay Shelter Plan.
• Social growth and empowerment among community
members – Mapping contributed to intra- and inter-personal
growth among communities, e.g., they gained sense of
leadership, responsibility, effective communication.
• Open dialogue between TWG members and
representatives of city departments.
• Helps Barangay chairman in spending /allocating
approriately the budget to address priority issues
Community mapping in Barangay Sucat
Settlements mapping in Barangay Sucat

14. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
LESSONS LEARNED
• Importance of community participation in the planning and upgrading of
informal settlements.
• Need to have a holistic approach, that is, “citywide” in scope in
addressing the issue.
• Importance of the data gathered that will provide clear picture of what
intervention needed from the city government and barangay officials.
• Value of creating a venue where local governments and communities
contributes to:
a. Improving communication.
b. Exchange of ideas and lessons learned
c. Align their activities to make efficient the use of
resources
• Need to institutionalize the process and tools at the city and national
levels to ensure that data generated will be used in the drafting of shelter
plans.

15. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
SUMMARY & CONCLUSION
The recent mapping project supported by GLTN and its partners
together with the HPFPI and TAMPEI as implementers has:
• Strengthened the community mapping initiatives and processes
started 3 years ago;
• Led to the expansion of the mapping project started in
Muntinlupa City to other two cities - Iloilo and Davao.
• Sustained the positive impact and participation of communities in
the project ensuring the continuity and strengthening of
processes and collaboration in cities.
• Served to connect the ongoing mapping process with the shelter
planning and development planning in the city
• Promoted the process by facilitating knowledge exchange
between HPFPI, TAMPEI and other partners both local and
international, including use of innovative tools such as STDM
through training in other regions across the Philippines.

16. GLTN BRIEFING AND PROGRAMME
ACTION PLAN
• To promote “continuum of land rights” to the partners, stakeholders
and to the community by looking at different tenurial rights and its
specific intervention. Create programs and policies at the local
level.
• Strengthen the capacity of the network of communities to facilitate
the realizations of their own development.
• To pilot one concrete project development in one city as concrete
output to help promote in other cities. There are organizations in
the Philippines such as “League of Cities of the Philippines” and
office of the vice president of the Philippines to take on the process.
• To continue the momentum of selected cities such as Iloilo and
Davao to implement the STDM. Both cities mentioned have already
conducted their profiling through HPFPI programs as well as
established partnership with their respective LGUs.
• GLTN to intervene in data analysis that acceptable both for city and
the community.

17. Philippines
STRENGTHENING LAND GOVERNANCE THROUGH
PARTICIPATORY MAPPING AND DATA MANAGEMENT
Christopher Ebreo and Ruby Haddad
GLTN Partners meeting and Country learning Exchange
April 23-26,2018
THANK YOU!