Tanauan Mayor Roque
Tiu informed that the
San Carlos City
delegation will be headed by no less City Mayor Eugenio Jose “Bong”
Lacson and Vice Mayor Gerardo P. Valmayor, Jr.
The visitors will be
welcomed by Mayor Roque Tiu and the local municipal officials and
employees amidst the presentation of the town’s PASAKA Festival which
recently won the fifth place in the Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival of
Festivals and which in the past has won second place in the nationwide
Aliwan Festival in Manila.
They will be briefed
on the LUB-BDP by the Municipal Implementing Team and the GTZ Tacloban
with the end-in view of providing the delegation first hand knowledge
about the process for possible replication in the City of
San Carlos.
After lunch, the group
will be brought to the actual replication being done at Barangays
Cabalagnan, Maribi and Pago where the visitors can interact with the
Barangay officials on the actual process of replication.
The Municipality of
Tanauan is a pilot municipality, together with the municipalities of
Tolosa, Tabon-tabon, Dagami and Pastrana all in the province of Leyte,
for the Land Use Based Barangay Development Planning and has been
featured in the latest issue of Ang Punong Bayan magazine for
municipalities with the theme "Celebrating municipalities' innovations
and excellence: Best buy in local governance."
Entitled Ang Galing Mo
Mayor! A Tribute to Innovation and Excellence in Participatory Local
Governance, the magazine lauded the town's Land Use Based Barangay
Development Plan which has been piloted in one barangay and is now
being replicated in all the 54 barangays of Tanauan.
So far, more than 50
percent of the 54 barangays of the town have already replicated the
process and have their own Barangay Development Plan.
Through this system of
Development Planning, the barangay people are able to identify not
only the use of the land in their barangay, but they are also able to
determine the geohazards which are present in the barangay. Hence,
they are able to plan ahead so that they will be able to mitigate if
not fully prevent the damage of disasters.
By using the Land Use
Based Development Planning, the barangays are able to determine which
portion of the barangay is safe for residential locations and which
parts are the best for productivity and what priority projects the
barangay must undertake. The people will even know which lot to buy
and what purpose the land is best used for.
The best thing
however, is that through this kind of planning, the barangays are
empowered to plan for themselves and undertake projects which the
barangays will finance with support from the other government
entities. This teaches them to be self-reliant and not be so dependent
on the municipal government, the provincial or the national
government.
With disasters
occurring every so often, this type of planning will also hopefully be
adopted by other barangays and municipalities in the Visayas area.
Mayor Tiu added
that by using the LUB-BDP, the economic aspect is also incorporated in
the process and in the plan. All the barangay Plans will be
incorporated in the Municipal Development Plan, thus, promoting and
achieving participatory governance which is the real essence of good
governance.
