Cities will be home to 2 billion new residents by 2045, and the pressure to develop land in and around cities is growing. This will pose a great challenge to lower-income cities since they tend to grow through slums and other informal settlements. Slum residents have inadequate and inequitable...

The Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS), which is an organized technology-based system of collecting, processing and validating local-level data based on a census of households in the locality, was institutionalized by virtue of Republic Act No. 11315 in April 2019. This paper aims to...

More than halfway through the implementation of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022, it is deemed important to examine the contribution of the "Build, Build, Build" (BBB) program in the attainment of the PDP targets considering the program’s huge fiscal implications. In this light,...

This article focuses on the challenges of rural areas, the formative power of citizens and the funding programme for village development in Lower Saxony. The article elaborates the importance of collective responsibility in villages by means of cooperation between local political...

Structured in two priority directions (reform and investment) The National Recovery and Resilience Plan is one meant to help communes, local communities in the crisis caused by COVID-19, as such any investment started after February 1, 2020, the date that is considered to be the beginning...