The
Comprehensive Development Plan is the
principal document from which the local
development investment programming proceeds.
The Local Development Investment Program (LDIP),
which in turn as the basis for preparing the
local expenditure program. It serves as the
link between the plan and the budget. This
being so, DRM – related proposals can be
prioritized and assured of appropriate
financial resources.
The CDP is the
planning document that seeks to address the
multi-sectoral concerns of the LGU,
especially those that are provided under
Sec. 16 of the LGC. It embraces all
development sectors (social, economic,
infrastructure, environment and
institutional, including their respective
sub–sectors) and embodies the LGU’s vision,
policies and strategies for development,
programs, projects and legislative measures
to ensure their implementation. The CDP also
establishes relationships between and among
the various development sectors and
sub-sectors to bring about effective
horizontal linkages, including those between
the city/municipality and the province, and
among the other component LGUs of the
province.
The CDP, being
comprehensive, takes into consideration all
other sectoral and thematic plans which
certain laws or executive and administrative
issuances from some national government
agencies require LGUs to prepare. The
integration of all these sectoral and
thematic plans provides opportunities for
national agencies to interface with the LGUs
in every step of the local development
planning process.
As advocated
under the Rationalized Planning System (RPS),
the CDP must be vertically linked to
development plans at the higher level of the
administrative hierarchy, i.e. the
Provincial Development Plan, the Regional
Development Plan and the Medium – Term
Development Plan as well as the lower –
level Barangay Development Plans.
The need
remains for a systematic integration of
disaster risk management in the
comprehensive development planning process,
investment programming and budgeting. The
specific steps and mechanisms and
institutional arrangements have to be
clearly defined and set in motion.
Therefore, a complete and deeper
understanding of the steps in the
preparation of the CDP is important in order
to pinpoint avenues and opportunities for
DRM to be integrated into the local
planning, investment programming and
budgeting process.
The proposed
project is geared towards the preparation of
Guidelines for Mainstreaming DRM in the
Local Planning, Investment Programming and
Budgeting Process.
In more
specific terms, it is aimed at the following
objectives:
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Provision
of participatory approaches to DRM
within the framework of the Rationalized
Planning System and the Joint Memorandum
Circular No. 001 series of 2007
(Synchronizing and Harmonizing Local
Planning, Investment Programming,
Revenue Administration, and Budgeting
and Expenditure Management;
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Identification of opportunities for
interface and strengthening of linkages
between the LGUs and national government
agencies concerned with DRM;
-
Identification of potential
Interventions, roles, responsibilities
of LGUs in terms of long term disaster
risk management and development of a
road map for operationalization of the
process.
-
Identification of opportunities and
complementation of efforts on DRM
between the LGUs and the Province and
among the component LGUs of a province.
