San Carlos Negros

The JF Ledesma Foundation Inc. (JFLFI), in collaboration with the Asian Rural-Urban Development and Peace Institute, Inc., organized its own YP Design Challenge for young professionals and students in the Visayas and Mindanao region. (JFLFI is the partner organization of TAO-Pilipinas which spearheads YP activities in Visayas and Mindanao while TAO-Pilipinas organizes those in Luzon.) The design competition was themed “Incremental Housing Design and Development for the Slum Dwellers: The YP-VisMin MDG Challenge.”

8-9 December 2009
APTC-2, Translink Highway, San Carlos City
Negros Occidental 6127 Philippines

YP CAMP OBJECTIVES:

1. To inculcate awareness and importance of urban livability and technical solutions among academic communities;
2. To identify the role and importance of Higher Education in Urban Development and Livability
3. To instill the importance and direction of Disaster Risk adaptation in Community Designs and Shelter delivery;
4. To update the new features of earth-based technology and application with fabricated production equipment as support system.

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December 7-8, 2009
APTC-2, TranslinkHighway
San Carlos City, Negros Occidental

Objectives:

1. To know the government fiscal direction in realizing the MDG targets and challenges;
2. To update the participants on the Philippine poverty situation and poverty alternative solutions;
3. To identify legislative actions to address issues towards MDG mobilization and realization;
4. To know the status of MDG attainment through Score Card Monitoring and direction for 2015/2020 targets

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A Paper Presentation to the 2nd Asia Pacific Housing Forum
"Maximizing Urban Poverty Housing Solutions for Greater Results"
7-9 September 2009, Manila, Philippines

The San Carlos Integrated Rural-Urban Area Development Program is an initiative of the JF Ledesma Foundation, Inc. (JFLFI) in collaboration with key stakeholders, especially with the San Carlos Local Government Unit (LGU) to promote sustainable economic growth in the City of San Carlos. The realization that LGUs could not perpetually be dependent on the central government prompted JFLFI to initiate a development initiative to make the City become a global standard of excellence in integrated sustainable development while maintaining its rural city character. The Program aims to transform a small rural community into a modern sustainable city that is economically viable and socially responsible. It is guided by a Master Development Plan (MDP) that puts forward a practical strategy to shift attention from a traditional and historic sugar-based economy to non-conventional and sustainable industry.

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Various ARDEP sessions with diverse pluralistic faith and international participants

The Positivist perspective has very much shaped the Scholarship of the twentieth century. One key issue has been raised by such perspective as to the role of religion in society. There is primarily a belief that religion is a vestige of a traditional society and an impediment to social progress. As societies progress, it is believed that modernization would result to secularization wherein the normative function of religion loses its significance and beliefs on the supernatural is replaced by belief in human capability. Scholarship followed in the same vein with the positivist proposal for objectivity. There is sufficient evidence, however, that even in the modern era, religion attenuates a role that is facilitative of change in individual and societal levels. Religion, together with Ethnicity, has gained political significance in the past two decades. This stems from the very fact that religion has been a source of ethnic and collective identity, the latter of which is threatened by the homogenizing trend of globalization.

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On June 2007, JFLFI-ARDEP, SCDBI and SCC-LGU submitted a proposal titled “SUSTAINABLE WATER & LAND USE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: A Decentralized and Industry-Based Application” to the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) for consideration. The proposed three-year project will be a collaborative effort between and among the City Government of San Carlos, SCDBI and the JF Ledesma Foundation – Asian Rural-Urban Development and Peace Institute (JFLFI-ARDEP) and GTZ . The project aims to establish a sustainable land and water resource management system in San Carlos City using a combined experimental and hands-on participatory approach and institutional skills transfer.

MPSC, Audio Visual Center
Cagayan de Oro City
December 6, 2008, 8:00 A.M.

hosted by MPSC in collaboration with JF Ledesma, ARDEP and YP-Philippines

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October 03, 2008
Cagayan De Oro City

October 4, 2008
IliganCity

Theme: "Academic Research – Community Extension Collaborationon Housing Issues: A Partnership Initiative of YP and Development Institutions"

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23-29 March 2008
APTC-2, Brgy. Prosperidad
San Carlos City, Negros Occidental

Theme: "Building Construction Materials' Solutions & Technological Alternatives: The Young Professionals' Challenge for 2008 & Beyond"

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December 18, 2007
MuscovadoHall, Sugarland Hotel
Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines

Target 1: Poverty Reduction
Target 12: Land Tenure Security & Shelter Delivery

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