- This Best Practice is one of the Best Practices for Human Settlements presented in the MOST Clearing House Best Practices Database. Partnerships for Poverty Alleviation in Cebu City Philippines Keyword: Poverty Eradication Background The City Government initiated the Cebu Urban Basic Services Programme in 1988 with the support of UNICEF, the Presidential Commission on the Urban Poor and the ...www.unesco.org/most/asia11.htm