Bautista reported that the Quezon City government has partnered with UN Women to implement the Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces Global Initiative. QC is the first city in Metro Manila to join over 24 cities around the world in the programme to stop street harassment and sexual violence against women in public spaces with the support of the Spanish Cooperation for International Development (AECID).

Mayor Herbert Bautista has agreed to host the 3rd Global Mayoral Forum on Mobility, Migration, and Development, an important gathering of local governments'/cities' officials worldwide, in which migration and development (M&D) initiatives, best practices, and challenges. On 17 August 2018, the much anticipated signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) and the Local Government of Quezon City to pledge the full support of both parties to the localization of the e-governance project BaLinkBayan: Overseas Filipinos One-Stop Online Portal for Diaspora Engagement in Quezon City, finally took place at the Bulwagang Amoranto, Quezon City Hall. In attendance were over a hundred representatives of various Quezon City OFW Associations and several QC departments including members of the QC Migration and Development Council, led by the Quezon City Public Employment and Services Office (PESO), and local partners.

QC Mayor Herbert Bautista spearheaded the HIV Programme for YKP as part of his plans to fast track HIV response in the National Capital Region (NCR) and his commitment to support the global initiative aiming to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. As part of its HIV Programme for YKP, the local government came up with a printed handbook on HIV, AIDS, and STI, and an HIV 101 video; these are currently being rolled out in all 46 public high schools in the city for A.Y. 2017-2018, benefitting more than 35,000 Grade 8 students.

• Under the leadership of Bautista, the Quezon City became first city in the Philippines to implement a Green Building Ordinance, an ordinance requiring the design, construction, retrofitting of buildings, other structures and, movable properties to meet minimum standards of a green infrastructure.
• Mayor Herbert Bautista has signed into law a measure prohibiting the use of polyethylene or plastic-based election campaign and propaganda materials in the city. Bautista said the new ordinance is intended to strengthen the QC government's continuing effort to regulate the use of plastic bag and poster materials in the city.