The Five-Point Agenda:

Robust Local Economy and Agricultural Productivity

  • Poverty reduction and hunger solution through Bahay Kubo Model of Household-Based Food Sufficiency with upgraded barangay nurseries using urban container gardening technology.
  • Intensified Focused Area Development Approach for increased agri productivity focusing on prime agri commodities/industries with sustainable model farms (e.g. from cattle to hogs and chicken, freshwater fish, cacao, and coffee production).
  • Established voucher system for prioritized farmer-support provision.
  • Appropriate and context-based livelihood programs to ensure sustainable additional household income.
  • Value-chain creation of modern, responsible, and small-scale mining industry invigorated small to medium enterprises for a more intensified job creation.

Opportunity-Driven Infrastructure

  • Improved all weather provincial road networks for greater economic opportunities and better delivery of services.
  • Enhanced barangay connectivity through shared investment.
  • Increased level III household water access.

Quality Local Governance and Lasting Public Order

  • Information-based decision-making through enhanced in-house capacity and partnership with research-driven local institutions.
  • Engaged local special bodies and civil society for participatory planning and budgeting.
  • Aligned development initiatives with national government agency priorities.
  • Enabled lower local government units for a more harmonized basic service delivery system.
  • Sustained peace and order through a community-based approach.
  • Enhanced public-private partnership for resource mobilization.
  • Organizational Structure and Staffing Pattern reviewed to ensure development strategy execution.

Universal Health Care and Better Social Services

  • Establishment of extension offices for better delivery and more accessible basic social services.
  • Better health service delivery system by optimizing the universal health care program of the national government.
  • Fulfilled the “Education For All” commitment by giving priority to peripheries of the province to ensure access to quality basic education.
  • Institutionalized voucher system for emergency food assistance.

Environmental Protection, Adaptation, and Resiliency

  • Achieved carbon credit through indigenous people’s approach to environmental care and preservation.
  • Heightened community awareness on climate change and its impact on development.
  • Provision of housing for rent to reduce informal settlement incidence.
  • Utilized contour farming to reduce soil erosion.