Planning for Development

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The year 2021 is probably one of the busiest years in so far as my offline job is concerned. It all started during the last quarter of 2020 when we were ordered to immerse in the villages in order to help them come up with their village development plan. With nearly 200 villages as our target for 2021, it is imperative that we start to conduct planning workshops for different villages as early as the first month of the year. However, due to the influx of projects during the last quarter of 2020, we spent our first two months trying to finish those projects we started during the last quarter. So, we were able to start this month. Our batch, which happens to be the third in series, started during Wednesday of the third week of March. For the information of our friend's here, a development plan or we called it 'Barangay Development Plan' is a comprehensive plan for three years covering the different areas of governance such as social, economic, infrastructure, environment and institutional. Every village is required by law to come up with their own Barangay Development Plan. Our role being in the government sector is to assist them so that they may be able to craft the plan suited in their current situation to consider the different issues they are facing. And that is being done through series of training and workshops. There was a slight deviation from last year's activity. The current activity was conducted through clustering of different villages in one venue. It was more challenging considering that we need to assist more than one village at a time. I was at the venue for 3 days in a week starting last week and it will continue for 4 weeks. I hope we could complete all the needed plans.