Issues in Community Development Planning in The Philippines
Issues in Community Development Planning in The Philippines
Issues in Community Development Planning in The Philippines
DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
IN THE PHILIPPINES
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WHAT IS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT?
The term “community development” designates the utilization under the one single program of approaches
and techniques which rely on local communities as units of action and which attempt to combine outside
assistance with organized local self-determination and effort and which correspondingly seek to stimulate local
initiative and leadership as the primary instrument of change.
• The plan uses basic of the social • The plan approaches barrio
structure as its major units of problems from the integrated
operation, i.e, the barrio and the wholeness of life point of view.
municipality.
• The plan encourages the aided
• The plan uses elected local self-help approach to barrio
leadership to sponsor improvement with its
innovations rather than concomitant requirement of local
depending solely upon determination of project
promotion by external agents. priorities.
• The plan recognizes the role of a • The plan provides for using
general barrio worker as a coordinated teams of experts to
facilitator and stimulator of capitalize on the accumulated
change as distinct from the role knowledge and experience of the
of a technical specialist. capital agencies.
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2 CRUCIAL POINT OF
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
1. To obtain the necessary agency
cooperation for the successful operation
of the Municipal Community
Development Councils.
2. To orient government personnel at
national, provincial and municipal levels
about the plan and where they fit in it.
• Competitiveness and
employment creation.
• Urban Governance and
Management.
• Urban Governance and
Management.
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