Development Process & Approaches

COMMUNITY PROFILING & INSTITUTION MAPPING

• Project information dissemination & rapport building
• Community assessment & baseline survey
• Preparation of sitio/community/barangay profile
• Mapping & profiling of CIs/community organizations

COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION

• Community vision, goal, & objective setting
• Formulation of operational framework
• Identification, planning & implementation of "anchor activities"
• Identification & selection of Community Volunteer Organizers

COMMUNITY INSTITUTION BUILDING

• CIs/SHGs formation and strengthening
• Promotion/Operation of development initiatives (savings, credit, income generation, access to PAF & CIF)
• Identification & mapping of poorest households
• Establish barangay/community management committees
• Organizational assessment & situational analysis
• Vision, mission, goal setting, & operational planning
• Strategic development planning (integrating culture, gender, environment)
• Capacity building & skills development
• Integration of CIs to local special bodies & viable multisectoral support structure/committee
• Establish mechanism for Gender Equality & Women Empowerment

PARTICIPATORY PLANNING

• Participatory Rural Appraisal
• Formulation of integrated sitio/community development plan & annual work plan/budget
• Integration of plans to BDP, MDP, PDP
• Community project mobilization plan
• Generation of community initiatives projects (CIPs)

PARTICIPATORY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLANNING

• Formulation of ecological profile/resource mapping
• Determine natural resource utilization & identify farming practices/system
• Formulation of community resource management plan
• Natural resource management mechanism

PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF THE INSTITUTIONS

• Designing of review systems and strategies
• Professionalization of operation of community institutions
• Enhancement of project management & technical leadership
• Installation of community economic system

PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION

• Formulation/installation of community-based monitoring & evaluation mechanism
• Performance analysis and ownership enhancement

CONSOLIDATION AND PHASE-OUT

• Summing up & sustainability planning
• Exit strategies & phase-out mechanism
• Alliance building among CIs & community organizations,
• Linkages and network development with public/private organizations and agencies
• Institutionalize support mechanism with NGOs, LGUs, GAs as community partner/s for delivery of basic services, programs/projects

ADVOCACY AND SUSTAINABILITY

• Institutionalization of federation/coalition
• Integration of community micro-economic system to mainstream business enterprise and secondary or tertiary cooperatives
• Marketing of project's replicable development models through IEC/Advocacy
• Integration of models & good practices to regular programs and services of primary stakeholders at the barangay, municipal , provincial level
• Integration of gender and natural resource development council to network organization/s and concerned agencies