Where are we now
Because of health and mobility restrictions, TAMPEI employs remote coordination strategies with Agaw-Agaw residents through the help of HPFPI volunteers in Muntinlupa.
In a recent conversation, they shared to us that they plan to build a social space that would serve as their meeting place, especially now that they have already formed their new set of community officers who just recently took their oath of office under the barangay (village) council.
The team has yet to get a copy of Agaw-Agaw's site development plan to pinpoint a suitable location for their social space. From there, TAMPEI will co-design the facility through a series of participatory workshops with the community.
An indication of our team’s capacity:
50% expertise already found
Finance: € 3,000
As the proposal is still in its initial stages, the team has not yet exactly defined the financial resources needed to keep the initiative going. The following amount are just estimates of pre-identified line items based on fund opportunities indicated by this Global Challenge. Nevertheless, getting any form of support from local and international partners would surely expedite the socio-spatial processes relative to the ongoing transfer of residents from NBP Compound to Agaw-Agaw Relocation.
Construction materials and related expenses for the social space shall be drafted and refined after the series of community design workshops.
- Technical and Legal Research
| 850 |
- Participatory Design Workshops
| 850 |
- Mobilization and Advocacy
| 850 |
| 450 |
Skills: Law & Politics, Planning & Management, Design
For the proposed social space, TAMPEI welcomes community architects who could help facilitate the series of design workshops with the residents. On a larger scale, TAMPEI is also in need of legal experts on tenure security (land and housing rights) as the case of Agaw-Agaw entails spatial and institutional conflicts between national and local governments. Likewise, urban planners who specialize on participatory resettlement planning are a good addition to the team.
The team sees legal education and assistance as critical elements in increasing the individual and collective capacities of Agaw-Agaw residents to negotiate their space in the city. Correspondingly, the active participation of professionals, civil society, and the academia could help spark local discussions about the global discourse on one's right to the city.
As they say, awareness leads to action... and action leads to change!
The ongoing relocation process is a legal battle for tenure security. Residents are in constant dialogues with authorities.
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Stuff: Materials, Equipment & tools
Based on online focus group discussions and site oculars, the residents of Agaw-Agaw Relocation Site are in dire need of
financial and material support for their:
- individual house reconstruction; and
- communal site upgrading which includes toilet and drainage installation, pathwalk concreting, provision of access to water and electricity, and creation of a social space.
While some of the site upgrading needs have already been requested to the local government, the proposed social space is seen as something where the civil society can contribute to. It attempts to holistically address the community's needs for:
- political participation (the space shall essentially serve as a meeting place);
- economic recovery (it will be surrounded by communal gardens); and
- disaster planning (it also serve as an evacuation area).
Vacant spaces in the site as potential location of the social space.
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Hands
While it is envisioned that community members themselves shall take on the role of constructing and supervising the progress of the facility, the team is open to accepting volunteer builders for the proposed social space.
Ongoing individual house reconstruction per family.
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