Appropriating Funds For The Manila Urban Development Project

Case Overview and Summary

Summary of Presidential Decree No. 931

Appropriating Funds for the Manila Urban Development Project

- Objectives:
• Establish, maintain and ensure adequate social services in urban development and squatter relocation to guarantee decent living standards. (Preamble)
• Assign priority to blighted urban areas to alleviate problems from rapid population growth, unemployment, poverty, malnutrition, and inadequate shelter and urban services. (Preamble)
• Upgrade blighted areas, provide employment opportunities, improve urban services, and enhance capabilities of national and local agencies involved. (Preamble)

- Manila Urban Development Program:
• Upgrading of sites and services in Tondo Foreshore. (Preamble)
• Development of Dagat-Dagatan resettlement area. (Preamble)
• Provision of improved environmental sanitation, infrastructure, and social services such as roads, pathways, drainage system, water and sewerage system, public buildings, socio-economic development programs, housing materials, small business loans, and traffic engineering and management. (Preamble)

- Financial Assistance:
• The government sought financial assistance from the World Bank in the form of loans amounting to about US$ 32M. (Preamble)

- Appropriation of Funds:
• P598.10 million is appropriated from the National Treasury for the following components of the Manila Urban Development Project: (Section 1)
    • P243.10 million for Tondo Foreshore upgrading of sites and services by the National Housing Authority (NHA). (Section 1(a))
    • P15.00 million for construction and/or improvement of Tondo sewer outfall. (Section 1(b))
    • P65.00 million for Dagat-Dagatan resettlement by the NHA. (Section 1(c))
    • P125.00 million for construction of major roads including bridges. (Section 1(d))
    • P70.00 million for traffic improvements. (Section 1(e))
    • P60.00 million for technical assistance, studies and training for NHA and Department of Public Works and Transportation (DPWTC). (Section 1(f))
    • P20.00 million for technical assistance of DPWTC for transport planning, coordination, operations, and studies. (Section 1(g))

- Implementation Schedule:
• The total amounts shall be made available for the corresponding project component through the implementing agencies over the duration of project implementation as indicated in the accompanying schedules. (Section 2)
• The accompanying schedules provide the yearly disbursement schedule for each project component from 1976 to 1979. (Yearly Schedule of Disbursement)