Chapter 1 PLANNING PROCESS

Chapter 1 PLANNING PROCESS 1
Chapter 1
1.1 THE PLANNING PROCESS
For the next six years, 2018 – 2023, the City Government of Angeles shall be
administered using a framework where government actions in terms of programs,
projects and policies to be adopted and implemented shall originate from a
comprehensive study of the various development challenges confronting the City. As the
primary objective of the process, Comprehensive Development Planning is expected to
capture the genuine needs, aspirations and interests of the Angeleños, whether as
groups or as individuals. Towards this end, a participatory process was undertaken to
ensure that the programs and projects and the policies that will be adopted are truly
reflective of popular sentiment.
1.2 LEGAL MANDATE
The governing law for all Local Government Units (LGUs), the Local Government Code of
1991 or R.A. No. 7160, enjoins all LGUs, from the Barangay up to the Province or Highly-
Urbanized City level, to prepare Integrated and Comprehensive Multi-Sectoral Plans.
Section 109 of the LGC expressly mandates LGUs to undertake comprehensive planning.
1.3 SECTORAL CONCERNS
Sectoral concerns and issues identified in this Plan document were drawn heavily from
the Angeles City updated Area Ecological Profile (AEP). While titled “Profile”, the AEP
goes beyond profiling because it contains an analysis of the development problems
besetting the City. Validated in public consultations with the various stakeholders of the
City, these problems were defined to ensure correctness of the response-interventions
expected from the City. Said interventions will be concretized through Programs,
Projects and Policies.
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 – 2023

Below are the major Sectoral Concerns intended to be magnified, fleshed out and which
resolution requires precise employment of resources by the Angeles City Government.
1.3.1 Social Development
This section of the CDP is concerned with advancing the well-being of the local
population. They are the essence of development and for whom and by whom the LGU
exists and functions. Measures for upgrading social services that respond to the needs of
the people for achieving better quality of life and improving participation in local
development are tackled in this sectoral plan.
1.3.2 Economic Development
Good governance and a sound economy are complementary of each other. Good
governance is necessary to be able to provide the resources the government needs to
keep it functioning and to create the environment that will be favorable to job-
generation for the people in the community. On the other hand, these resources will
come from a sound economy which is not possible without good governance.
The Economic Development chapter of the CDP, hence, provides a description of how
the LGU shall provide the environment for stimulating the growth of the local economy
and how the people will participate in and benefit from this growth. The sector plan also
includes measures for tapping into the potential and existing assets of the local area to
create opportunities for growth of economic activities.
1.3.3 Environmental Management
Section 16 or the General Welfare Clause of the LGC expressly states the responsibility of
every local government to ensure and support, among others, the promotion of health
and safety of the people and the enhancement of their right to a balanced ecology.
Thus, considering this, the Environmental Management chapter of the CDP embodies
the local government’s plan for ensuring the sustainable development of the City. This

includes measures for ensuring that development shall not cause harm to both people
and the environment, and that protection or preservation of the quality of the
environment for the people’s enjoyment are pursued alongside with the pursuit of
physical and economic development.
1.3.4 Infrastructure Development
This component of the CDP identifies infrastructure needed to support or is essential in

promoting local economic development and ensuring public health and safety as well as
the comfort and convenience of citizens. Such programs include, among others, the
construction and maintenance of roads and bridges, water supply systems, public
markets, schools, health centers or hospitals, drainage and sewerage, and flood control
and the laying down of an efficient and appropriate pattern of development deemed to
encourage growth across areas of the City.
1.3.5 Institutional Development
Good governance lays the foundation for the sustainable development of the local area.
It provides the momentum to development and ensures that such shall be achieved as it
is the duty and responsibility of the local government to manage the affairs of its
territorial jurisdiction, more so, its growth and development for the well-being of its
people. This component, thus, of the CDP, focuses on enhancing the capability of the
bureaucracy and the local officials to plan and manage the City’s development and to
effectively and efficiently deliver the public goods and services expected of it to provide
and carry out. This includes, among others, programs for improving the structure and
staffing of the local government bureaucracy, better fiscal management, enhancing
stakeholder participation in the development process, and strengthening executive and
legislative tie-up.

1.4 COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLANNING PROCESS
Described here are the steps observed in the preparation of the Angeles City
Comprehensive Development Plan, to wit:
1.4.1 Situational Analysis/Problem Identification
Interview with Key Informants

The Planning Team’s Sectoral Technical Working Groups (TWGs) created to do the Plan
Preparation were time and again convened to ascertain the circumstances surrounding
the City’s development issues and concerns. All department heads and their respective
technical staff provided incisive insights through their experiential views and
commentaries. These were considered in the definition of said development issues and
concerns. It is also in this phase that existing plans were revisited together with the
City’s vision. This will help the planning team in identifying and profiling the existing
sectoral and thematic plans for their responsiveness to recent mandates and prevailing
situations and can be incorporated in the CDP.
Consultations with Various Development Stakeholders

Consideration of the socio-economic issues or challenges facing the whole spectrum of
governance of the City including the smallest political unit, the barangays, was given
forum through the conduct of public consultations. Representatives from all sectors –
national government and civil society together with City government officials and
employees were gathered in a series of workshops in the determination of the problems
and its resolutions.
Public consultations served as a venue to generate inputs from various stakeholders as

to the characterization of the development concerns and issues – why they exist and the
reasons for their persistent recurrence. Development strategies and interventions
(programs, projects) needed to be implemented within the six-year plan period were
identified. Said public consultations were held on June 16, June 20, June 21, June 23,

and July 5, 2017 for the different sectors- Economic Development, Environmental
Management, Infrastructure Development, Institutional Development, and Social
Development.
The nexus of Problem and Interventions (Programs, Projects and Policies) Identification
has cast in stone the unity, coherence and effectiveness of the Plan in addressing the
City’s development concerns and issues towards inclusive growth.
1.4.2 Goal Formulation
Using the problem/inter-connected problems and their characteristics as premise the

desired future condition under a problem-less setting was envisioned. Merged into a
cohesive and unified response statement, each Goal formulated describes the desired
future state or scenario where the problem/s shall have been eliminated. Under the
usual planning process, the Goals formulated are considered as inter-sectoral in nature,
broader, more comprehensive and representative of multi-faceted development
perspective.
The compilation of Goals, when achieved shall help attain the long-range Vision of the
City.
1.4.3 Objective Formulation
Ideally, an Objective is on a one-on-one correspondence with a Problem. Pure and

simple, like the Goal, it is a condition when said problem shall already have disappeared.
While an objective is more detailed and more focused than a Goal, it is limited and
narrower in scope. An Objective is expectedly, the direct (positive) opposite of every
Problem analyzed. A compilation of related objectives will contribute to the attainment
of a Goal.
1.4.4 Target-Setting

A technical analysis enhanced by insights from the stakeholders, and the past or
historical values of relevant Outcome Indicators were closely looked into and considered
in the quantification of targets within the plan period. An analysis of problems being
addressed to include those related to plan implementation was considered in the
process. Consideration of the causes of problems and the performance of historical data
was directed at ensuring that the targets set within the plan period are realistic and
attainable.
1.4.5 Strategy Formulation
Ways on achieving Goals, Objectives and Targets were identified in this stage. Strengths
and Opportunities (SOs) were surfaced and validated through the public consultations.
Strategy Statements were technically crafted to ensure that they would be pushed hard
on meeting the set Objectives and Targets and minimize the anticipated adverse effects
from identified Weaknesses and Threats (WTs). The value of an intensive Problem
Identification and Analysis was appreciated in this respect. This stage will input into the
Project and Policy Identification process.

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Chapter 1 PLANNING PROCESS 1

1.2 LEGAL MANDATE

1.3 SECTORAL CONCERNS

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 – 2023

1.3.1 Social Development

1.3.2 Economic Development

1.3.3 Environmental Management

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 – 2023

1.3.4 Infrastructure Development

This component of the CDP identifies infrastructure needed to support or is essential in

1.3.5 Institutional Development

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 – 2023

1.4 COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLANNING PROCESS

1.4.1 Situational Analysis/Problem Identification

Interview with Key Informants

Consultations with Various Development Stakeholders

Public consultations served as a venue to generate inputs from various stakeholders as

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 – 2023

1.4.2 Goal Formulation

Using the problem/inter-connected problems and their characteristics as premise the

1.4.3 Objective Formulation

Ideally, an Objective is on a one-on-one correspondence with a Problem. Pure and

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 – 2023

1.4.5 Strategy Formulation

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2018 – 2023

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