shaping change: the alabat experience

SHAPING CHANGE: THE ALABAT EXPERIENCE

The Alabat Development Framework

Health

Comprehensive Approach:

PreventiveCurative

Rehabilitative

Annual Surgical Missions in partnership with UP-Pahinungod

Health

Regular Medical and Dental Missions

Health

Improvement of Water SystemHealth

EducationImprove the level of literacy and spirituality:

1. Strengthen family values, encourage bible studies and spread the Words of GOD.

2. Kasal Misyon to legitimize the couples and their children.

3. Regular YOUTH LEADERSHIP SUMMITS to help make the

youth responsible citizens and to encourage them to become

leaders in their respective communities.

Education

4. Sports Development

5. Regular support to schools

Education

6. Grade 7 offering at far-flung barangays.

7. Support SLSU-Alabat Campus in its Aqua-Silvi Program

Education

Improve the Economic Condition through:

Agriculture and Tourism

Livelihood

Livelihood (Agriculture)

1. Assist the farmers and fishermen to become AGRIPRENEURS and

avail technologies and equipment to become more efficient, reduce

production costs, become competitive and earn a respectable

income through agribusiness activities (processing of raw materials

in-situ to add value).

b. Alabat will soon be a supplier of high quality CERTIFIED ORGANIC

coconut sugar to the world.


Cacao: 240,000 seedlings

have been planted and

grown. We aim to

distribute and grow 1M

cacao trees. A post-

harvest facility will be built

this year to process

tablea.


The Department of Science and Technology IV-A, Philippine Coconut

Authority IV-A, together with the Philippine Coconut Research and

Development Foundation aims to plant Makapuno in Alabat.


Expand the “Lease-to-Own Fishing Boat Program” of BFAR and Rotary

Club worth PhP 1.3M and PhP 1.7M respectively. The boats will be payable in

3 years interest free


Construction of Eco-Tourism roads and develop tourist

destinationS.

Livelihood (Tourism)

Protect and develop caves, fish and

turtle sanctuary, infinity pool in

Tumiis, hiking routes, camping sites,

sites for scuba and snorkelling.


Encourage establishment of lodging houses, home stays,

resorts, rentals of bikes and boats for sports and recreation.


Livelihood (Tourism)Tourism Packages: Floating Cottages, Banana Boat Ride,

Lamon Bay Cruise,

Livelihood (Agri-tourism)

Stingless Bee Farm

Livelihood (Agri-tourism)

Coco Sugar Production Site

Peace and Order

Campaigns against illegal drugs, criminality and illegal

logging and fishing. We have declared 13 barangays as

drug free.

Love, Integrity, and Excellence in Public

Service

LANDBANK Easy Access Facility, GSIS Kiosk, PhilHealth and

SSS remittance, Philippine Statistics Authority BREQS,

•Civil Service Commission

- LGU personnel capacity development

•FOCIG

- Values formation

•Barangay Ko, Pananagutan Ko

- Philippine Information Agency, PTV-4, Radyo ng Bayan for

information dissemination about developments in Alabat.

Tie-ups and Linkages with

Government Institutions

Best Practices in Crisis and Disaster

Management

1. Strengthen Brgy. Disaster Preparedness and

radio Communication (Brgy. ICS)

2. Enhance the Automated Weather Station

Forecast

3. Put up footbridges, path walks and lighting in

the barangays

4. Activate a full time MDRRMO with a plantilla

position

Advocacy for an Ecologically

Sound Environment

Strengthen Environmental Task Force – Bantay Dagat and

Bantay Gubat

AWARDS GARNERED BY ALABAT

PROBLEMS FACED BY LGU-ALABAT

IN SHAPING CHANGE

1. LIMITED LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES FOR

COCONUT FARMERS

•A farmer earns Php1,500/month/hectare for copra

•This is BELOW the poverty threshold of Php8,900 in Alabat

•One cause of poverty among the farmers is the incomplete

support of government in the supply chain:

PRODUCTION PROCESSING MARKETING

With strong

Government

support

Controlled by traders, manufacturers,

and big businessmen so the LGU has to enter

to protect the farmers.


IN SHAPING CHANGE

Prospects to Alleviate Poverty: Coco Sugar ProductionOne hectare of coconuts can potentially employ:

Six (6) Sap Harvesters – Average of Php10,000/month

Three (3) Cooks – Php9,000/month

Owner-manager - ~Php21,000/month


IN SHAPING CHANGE

The Alabat Coco Hub Project

LGU-ALABAT

INTEGRATED COCONUT-BASED

ECONOMIC ENTERPRISE

INCOME FROM

ENTERPRISE

SOCIO-ECONOMIC

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

(50%)

ENTERPRISE

RESERVES/SINKING FUND

(50%)

KAANIB

FREE SOCIAL

SERVICES &

SCHOLARSHIPS

MAINTENANCE &

EVENTUAL BUSINESS

EXPANSION

2. POOR GOVERNMENT SERVICES

Patriotism

Spirituality

ExcellenceIntegrity

The words of God is the foundation

of the Morality of Man.


IN SHAPING CHANGE

Prospects to Address Poor Government Service • Partnerships with the Civil Service Commission to conduct seminars (Lingkod

Bayani Program)

• Partnerships with FOCIG and CCF for values formation within the local government

system.

Daily bible study before going to work

Declared Alabat as “Bayan ng Diyos.”


IN SHAPING CHANGE


IN SHAPING CHANGE

3. There is too much POLITICS

That’s why I remained independent.

There is always a massive political shift favouring those

who are in power (i.e., 2013 and 2016 National Elections)

There are too many political parties in the Philippines – You

cannot distinguish the ideologies being pursued by the

political parties.

Prospects:

FEDERALISM?National Agencies - Centralized

allocation of resources

Local Government Units –

bigger responsibilities and

accountabilities; direct and

immediate impact on the lives of

the people


IN SHAPING CHANGE

4. Security

PNP: politically controlled; need to revisit “single police”

policy; incapable in handling insurgency;

AFP: No police power but tasked to handle insurgency;

training is to kill, search and destroy vs. foreign aggressors


IN SHAPING CHANGE

5. Overlapping Programs of Agencies and no agency is focused

in integration at the local level

The local government unit does the integration but we are

not fully aware of what programs are available that can be

awarded and availed of.


IN SHAPING CHANGE

6. The Local Government Code

The LGU Code gave more authority and responsibilities to the

local governments but it is not accompanied with enough

resources to actually implement programs.

One example is the devolution of Agriculture and Health. The

support is only for salaries and wages of these devolved

agencies.


IN SHAPING CHANGE

7. There are good concept programs like the Bottom-upBudgeting, but it is VERY SLOW in implementation.

Programs are well-processed; a series of consultations to concernedproponents are conducted before creating a proposal.

Failure in implementation:>Agencies are too cautious and very slow (2015 BuB Programs are not

yet fully implemented)>Lack of trust to the LGUs – the agencies themselves want to

implement>Some programs in the BuB Menu are not suitable to the

city/municipality or they cannot be implemented completely.>Now, Assistance to Disadvantaged Municipalities (ADM) is being

implemented, downloading funds directly to the local government.


IN SHAPING CHANGE

8. Lack of capable LGU PersonnelMost projects are slow to implement and new projects

from government agencies cannot be availed by theLGU due to incapable staff (i.e., having difficulty in thecreation of well-made project proposals, lack ofmanagement and leadership skills)Trained and capable LGU staff search for greener

pastures that leads to brain drain which is a very commonoccurrence.


IN SHAPING CHANGE

9. In terms of food production:

The average age of our farmers today is 57 years old while our

youth are steering away from jobs that are agricultural in nature.

This trend can ultimately affect our food production and wil

pose a threat to food security in our country.


IN SHAPING CHANGE

There is a STRONG AND URGENT NEED

to empower the Local Government Units

to address the issues and challenges

hindering inclusive growth in the

grassroots. The LGU – being very close to

the people – can easily make its actions

and programs felt by the populace.

APPEAL TO FELLOW PUBLIC

SERVANTS:

Let us SPARK THE FIRE OF CHANGE

in our respective families, communities,

offices, and agencies to become more

relevant to God, to country, and people.

shaping change: the alabat experience

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