RURAL DEVELOPMENT

in the Philippines
BY MAURICIO MAGALLEON

Republic of the Philippines

QUICK GLANCE:
Official Name : Republic of the Philippines
Location
: Southeastern Asia, archipelago
between the Philippine Sea and
South China Sea, east of Vietnam
Islands
: 7,107
Area
:300,000 square kilometers
Capital
: Manila
Climate
: Tropical Marine/Monsoon
Population : 88.5 Million
Literacy
: 92.6%
Religions
: Roman Catholic 80.9%
Muslim 5%, Evangelical 2.8%
Basic Ed Cycle
: 10 years
Medium of Inst.
: English except for Filipino Subject
No. of Dialects Spoken: Over 200 native languages and
dialects

Philippine Government Structure

President

Cabinet Secretaries (23)

ve
uti

House of
Representatives
(Lower Chamber)

Le
gis
lat
iv

Provision of
Public Services

Constitutional
Bodies

ec
Ex

CITIZENS/STAKEHOLDERS

Senate
(Upper Chamber)

Departments, e.g.

Department of Education
(DepEd)

COMELEC

Department of Agrarian
Reform

COA

Expenditures

Judiciary
Revenues

Department of Finance

Supreme Court

Department Budget and

Management

Court of Appeals

CSC

Provision of
Public Services

Expenditures

OMB
Revenues

CHR

National Economic and

Development Authority

Lower Courts

REGION
17
Local Government Units:

Provinces

80

Levels of Governance
Local Government Units:
Cities (120)
Local Government Units:

Municipalities (1,511) or
Barangays (42,008)

What is Rural and Local

Development?
Rural Development is used to
denote the actions and initiatives
taken to improve the standard of
living in non-Urban neighborhoods,
countryside, and remote villages.
Local Development is a
multidimensional concept of change
which help improving quality of life,
supporting empowerment of ordinary
people, developing local assets,
overcoming market failures and
delivering grass-root development
projects.

What is Development?
Development generally means the
improvement of peoples lifestyles
through improved education,
incomes, skills development and
employment. Development also
means that people should have
decent housing, and that they should
have security within those houses.

What is Sustainable
Development?
Sustainable Development is the management and conservation of the natural
resources base, and institutional change in such a manner as to ensure the
attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs for present and future
generations.

What is Rural Areas?

Where the people are engaged in primary
industry in the sense that they produce things
directly for the first time in cooperation with
nature.

DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL AREAS CAN BRING

INFASTRUCTURE

TECHNOLOGY
ECONOMY

EDUCATION

HEALTH

Main Objectives
To build
Infrastructure

Public Service

Communication

To improve
Health

Education

Living condition

To generate
Employment

Farm & storage

Economical
activities

Rural Development
in the Philippines

Strengthening local
government units and
improving the provision
of rural credit

Developing rural
infrastructure

Expeditious
completion of agrarian
reform program

Improving upland
agriculture and natural
resources

Solution to
Rural Poverty

Improving agricultural
extension
Expansion of Irrigation

PNOYs RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The Philippine Rural Development Program (PRDP)
a 6-year program (2013-2016) designed to establish the
government platform for modern, climate-smart, and marketoriented agri-fisher sector.
It focuses on expanding market access and improving
competitiveness while introducing reforms in the internal
operations of the Department of Agriculture
The Program Development Objectives
At least 5% increase in annual real household income of
farmer benificiaries
7% increase in value of annual marketed output
20% increase in number of farmers and fisheries with
improved access to DA services
Complement to national agencies like: DAR, DPWH, DSWD,

PNOYs RURAL DEVELOPMENT

1% funded by Grant from
Global Environment Facility

11% funded by Local

Government Units

13% funded by National

Government

75% funded by World

Bank

Promises
to allocate

27.5
billion
annually

92% is designed to
deliver goods &
services directly
through I-BUILD and IREAP

8% to
other
services

RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Increasing the
DAs
STRATEGY
Absorptive
On enacting
rational land
policy

On Financial
Equity &
Productivity

capacity

CONGRE
SS

On declaring
the coconut
levy funds
public fund

Increasing the
productivity
of rice &
other crops
through
irrigation

RECOMMENDATION
Confronting the rice
issue

Alternative
ways of
financing and
implementing
CARP
Making the most
out of a
redistributive
program

Vulnerable groups
Wide information
dissemination &
educations

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