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Development is lasting and sustainable if it is
fully guided by the parameters and strategies:
POLITICAL
- National sovereignty is protected and defended
as part of the country's inherent right to self-determination
for its people, culture, economy, politics and environment. Uncompromised
national sovereignty truly pursues a pro-poor, pro-people, pro-nature,
spiritual path of development, contextual economic reforms, including
poverty eradication, within the broader framework of sustainable
development.
- Participatory governance, cooperative partnerships
and devolution form the guiding framework at local, provincial
and national levels in operating sustainable and lasting development.
- The process of participatory
governance is guided and enhanced by extensive multi-sectoral
consultations, dialogues and representation; discussion of alternative
policy options and by the principles of subsidiarity, transparency,
accountability and fairness. Meaningful public participation is
relevant decision making processes towards reforming the bureaucracy,
including administrative structures and processes, is achieved
through adequate social preparation, sector representation and
with a clear understanding of the practice of dialogue and principled
negotiations.
- Electoral reforms, including awareness-raising
activities by all sectors of society, usher in an era of true
democracy to replace the elite democracy that has dominated the
political process.
- Government provides an enabling environment for
the equitable and appropriate matching of sustainable and lasting
development investment programs and projects with financial resources,
including both domestic and foreign, public and private, in accordance
with plans and programs developed in coordination with various
sectors of society.
- Development policy creates and environment where
sustainable patterns of production, distribution and consumption
permeate and govern the whole society.
- Deep social and ecological
considerations are directly embedded in the long term development
framework, policies and activities of the nation, in effect internalizing
ecological and social costs, transforming the concept of the "safety"
net to a more proactive and structural stance and rejecting a
"grow now, pay later" approach.
- The conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems
and natural resources by self-reliant communities in rural area
are given greater priority. Appropriate rural development is structurally
linked a balance with urban development.
- A new, comprehensive indicator of sustainable
development, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative measures
of human (basic needs), social (family ties), institutional and
ecological health is adopted to complement and supplement current
gross national product (GNP) and gross domestic product (GDP).
Environment and natural resources accounting (ENRA), human development
index (HDI), gender development index (GDI) and sustainable national
income (SNI) indicators.
- Sustainable community-based resource management
is promoted including ensuring appropriate resource access and
asset reform as well as defense and recognition of ancestral domain
and community intellectual rights.
- Peace and order are pursed and maintained in
recognition of basic human rights and the rights of individuals,
communities and society as a whole to a peaceful and secure existence.
- National security concerns
include human security, environment security, food security and
self-sufficiency.
- Multi-stakeholder and community based sustainable
development plans and programs are prioritize over national plans
and programs that undermine sustainable development, such multi-stakeholder
and community-based sustainable resource management plans and/or
programs are also considered as a basis for national development
planning.
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