STRAIGHT FROM THE BIG CITY

Development projects
IKE ‘KA IKING’ SENERES

MANILA -- I wrote in my prior article that cooperatives could be formed to realize the five advocacies of the United National Integrated Development Alliance (UNIDA), namely shelter, health, agriculture, peace & order and education or SHAPE for short.
One important ingredient for ensuring the sustainability of development programs is clearly assign the tasks to operating groups and to clearly define the performance targets of these groups.
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Being the organization assigned to lead the shelter sector, the Inter-Charity Network (ICN) is now given the task of organizing cooperatives that would go into the business of building social housing for their own members. It appears that it would be a good direction to build condos where it is possible, to maximize the values of the available lands.

Until now, we are still talking to key players who could possibly head the formation of United National Health Association (UNAHEALTH). Once it is formed, UNAHEALTH will become the organization that will be assigned to lead the health sector. Eventually, it will be given the task of organizing cooperatives that will go into the business of building small hospitals for their own members.
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Already formed but still in the process of gathering its internal strengths, Sama-Kabuhayan, the lead organization of UNIDA for the agriculture sector is now assigned the task of organizing cooperatives that would build corporate farms for their own members.

The Citizen’s Foundation for the Prevention of Crime & Injustice (CFPCI), the oldest member of UNIDA, will be assigned the task of organizing cooperatives that would provide third party services to the police stations and courthouses, mostly in the area of information and communications technology (ICT).
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The University Consortium for Resource Networking (UNICORN), the second oldest member of UNIDA, will be assigned the task of organizing cooperatives that would build schools for the children of its own members. Possible entry points could be vocational schools and day care centers.

In all cases, the businesses built by the cooperatives will stand side by side, on equal footing, together with the existing condos, hospitals, farms, third party providers and schools owned by corporations, in the spirit of cooperation under the leadership and guidance of UNIDA.