Stakeholders’ Role

SIMPLE requires the participation of various sectors. First, it is important that both provincial government and the municipalities and cities have agreed to undertake the process. Sangguniang members both at the provincial and municipal level play an important role because they will have to approve the Comprehensive Land Use Plan and Zoning Ordinance eventually. The support of national government agencies is likewise crucial. Provinces and municipalities / cities have to partner with the oversight agencies in order to build the Trainer Pool and link the regional and provincial physical planning with local land use planning. Third, the involvement of the civil society organizations, indigenous people, the church, or any other group willing to participate is equally important.

During the set-up phase, the Provincial government plays a central role to provide funds, hardware and staff to build capacity and train the municipal planning facilitators. Barangay officials have to be on board as their role becomes crucial during the community consultations and the formulation of Barangay Development Plans. Very important can be also the building of alliances (inter-local cooperations) between local governments in order to address cross-border issues, such as joint coastlines or watershed areas.

Level Institution Requirement

Region Province Municipality or City Barangay Regional Line Agencies Convergance Initiative: DILG, DAR, DENR, DA, BFAR Other organizations; agencies Establish Geographic Information System (GIS) unit Trainer Pool Sangguniang Panlalawigan Municipal Implementing Team (MIT) Sangguniang Bayan Barangay council Memorandum of Agreement or similar arrangement Second trainers on specific requests and field of expertise Resource persons on-call for specific requests and field of expertise Executive Order; assign at least five personnel Executive Order; assign at least 15 personnel to conduct trainings for munic/cities Board resolution; supporting Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with several local governments in case of an existing InterLocal Cooperation Executive Order; assign up to 10 technical and multisectoral staff (if possible not department heads) Board resolution; MoU with other local governments in case of an existing InterLocal Cooperation Barangay resolution; at the request of the Local Chief Executive (LCE) At the request of the barangay council Objective

Second trainers as members of the trainer pool to provide specialized trainings Provide technical support Share data at no costs

Review plans and act as resource person DA: agri-ecosystem vulnerability assessment, crop planning, irrigation, soil analysis, integrated pest management in the context of Climate Change Adaptation, upland agriculture & soild / water conservation measures including extension techniques, post harvest technologies, product market information DENR: forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment, forest management, agroforestry, watershed management, Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT), slope treatment oriented measures, soil and water conservation measures, biodiversity, processing and market of indigenous forest products, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) BFAR: Fishpond, Mangroves, coastal vulnerability assessment, MPA planning and management, EIA-related expertises to effect ridge-to-reef EIA protocol DAR: Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries, land titling issues, People’s Organization / institutional development, EIA-related expertises to effect ridge-to-reef EIA protocol

DILG, Academe- governance topics applied across ecosystems, use of Community-based Monitoring System in mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation-Disaster Risk Reduction into CLUP, investment programming, budgeting, codification, local government performance assessments

Geographic Information System (GIS) unit to handle GIS trainings, manage Map Viewer and integrate all GIS data from municipalities and cities

Train municipal and city planners and their community facilitators Sustain long-term support to land use planning and management

Sangguniang Panlalawigan members have to be on board at the beginning of the process as approving body of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan and Zoning Ordinance of its component municipalities /cities

Municipal Implementing Team will conduct:

Plan facilitation together with the community

GPS surveys

Digitization of maps

Comprehensive Land Use Plan / Zoning Ordinance writing

Formulation of other important documents (Comprehensive

Development Plan, Local Development Investment Plan)

Sangguniang Bayan members have to be on board at the beginning of the process as approving body of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan and Zoning Ordinance

Council members to participate during consultation process and write-up of plan

Participate at consultations Assist in writing of documents Render voluntary services