RATIONALIZED PLANNING

SYSTEM (RPS)
Giselle Grace G. Gerial, EnP
Asst. Division Chief, LGCDD, DILG VI
 Topical Objectives
At the end of the session, the participants must
be able to:

 Emphasize the concept of development

 Understand the concept of the Rationalized
Planning System

Time Frame: 30 minutes

Methodologies: Lecturette/ Discussions
 Outline of Presentation
Background and Purpose of the
1 Rationalized Local Planning System (RPS)
2 Local Planning Structure
3 Planning Mandates of LGUs
4 Planning Process

5 Authority levers or tools for implementing

the CLUP and CDP
 WHAT IS
DEVELOPMENT?
“Development is a process that creates growth,
progress, positive change or the addition of
physical, economic, environmental, social and
demographic components.”
(Sid Israel, Pears Foundation)

“improvement in country’s economic

Development means
and social conditions”. More specially, it refers to improvements in
way of managing an area’s natural and human
resources in order to generate prosperity and improve
people’s lives
(Dudley Seers (1969) Director of the Institute of Development Studies )

(gg.gerial, 2019)
 DUTERETE’S 0+10 AGENDA
17 GOALS, 169 TARGETS, 238
INDICATORS
Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
 Why the need to
appreciate the SDGs?
• Commitment for better quality of life…
• Mandate and advocacy being a member of
community of nations
• Standard coordinate efforts for global
supports
• Basis for governments, businesses, civil
society and the general public to work
together to build a better future for
everyone
Translating Global goals into
National goals
Translating Global goals into National goals
Translating Global goals into
National goals
 Administration’s 0+10 Point
Socioeconomic Agenda
0. Peace, law and order, and zero corruption
1. Maintain and improve on the strong macroeconomic
fundamentals
2. Reform the tax system
3. Deal with constitutional restrictions on FDIs and improve
ease of doing business by cutting red tape
4. Accelerate infrastructure investment
5. Develop the agriculture sector
6. Address bottlenecks in agrarian reform and management
systems, including security of land tenure
7. Strengthen health care and basic education (K-12)
8. Promote science, technology, and the creative arts
9. Improve social protection programs
10. Strengthen implementation of the RPRH Law
Translating National Goals to LGU Goals

RATIONALIZED
PLANNING SYSTEM (RPS)
Background
and Purpose
of the
Rationalized
Local Planning
System
 STATE OF LOCAL PLANNING
SYSTEM IN THE PHILIPPINES

❑ Inactive Local
Development Council
❑ Indifferent or
(LDC)
unsupportive
Sanggunian
REGION/
PROVINCE
❑ Weak or total absence
BARANGAY/ CITY/
MUNICIPALITY
of vertical linkages
 STATE OF LOCAL PLANNING SYSTEM
IN THE PHILIPPINES
❑ Weak or total absence of LGUs

horizontal linkages Sectoral plans

CDP BUDGET

❑ Weak plan – to –
budget linkage
❑ Multiplicity of Plans
FEATURES OF THE RPS
❑ Faithful compliance with LGC
provisions

❑ Limits LGU-mandated plans CDP

to the CLUP and CDP

CLUP

❑ Less technocratic, more

participatory and consultative
 WHY RATIONALIZE?
To implement the full implications
of the Local Government Code of
1991 pertaining to planning.

Planning is an integral part of

governance … GOVERNANCE

PLANNING
 Rationalizing local planning will enhance the
LGU’s capability in the performance of its
DUAL functions:

 As a POLITICAL SUBDIVISION of the

National Government:

LGUs are in charge of the management

of its entire geographical territory for
and in behalf of the national government
 Rationalizing local planning will enhance the LGU’s
capability in the performance of its DUAL functions:

As a CORPORATE BODY, LGUs are

responsible for:
❑Representing its inhabitants;
❑Promoting the general welfare among the
inhabitants within its territorial jurisdiction
(Sec. 16, RA 7160); and
❑Delivering basic services and facilities to
enable its inhabitants to develop fully into self-
reliant communities (Sec. 17 RA 7160)
 Performing planning functions involves
addressing the following issues:

CDP/CLU
P

WHO WHY HOW WHAT

are the tools for plan
should be should are plans
implementation?
involved in LGUs prepared?
planning? plan?
 PLANNING AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF GOVERNANCE

The local planning WHO should be

structure and its involved in
functions planning?
The plan or plans that WHY should
the planning structure LGUs plan?
is mandated to produce
The processes that
the planning structure HOW are plans
will follow to produce prepared?
the desired plan
outputs
HOW can LGU
The tools for plan plans be
implementation implemented?
 Components of the Planning
System
1 Mandated Planning Structure

2 Planning Mandates and Mandated Plans

3 Planning Process

4 Authority Levers
 Planning Structure
POLITICAL COMPONENT TECHNICAL COMPONENT

LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL SECTORAL &

DEVELOPMENT SANGGUNIAN SPECIAL FUNCTIONAL
COUNCIL BODIES COMMITTEES

LOCAL CHIEF DEPARTMENT HEADS

EXECUTIVE
PUNONG BARANGAYS LPDO

CONGRESSMAN OR NGAs
REPRESENTATIVE
PRIVATE SECTOR
CSOs/ PSO REPRESENTATIVES/
CSOs
 Functions of the Local
Planning Structure
• The principal function of this planning
structure is to initiate the formulation of the
“comprehensive multisectoral
development plan” for approval by the
provincial, city, municipal, or barangay level
legislative council.

(Title Six, Sections 106-115 of the Local Government Code)

 Political Technical
Component Component
❑ Policy making body that ❑Supplies the technical
defines the content and content and process of
direction of local local planning
government

❑ Its principal function is ❑It generally has no

to deliberate to make decision-making
decisions or lay down powers
policies
Structure of the Local Development Council
Composition of Sectoral Committees
Composition of Sectoral Committees
Composition of Sectoral Committees
 Components of the Planning
System
1 Mandated Planning Structure

2 Planning Mandates and Mandated Plans

3 Planning Process

4 Authority Levers
Relationship of City/Municipal Plans
(Source: CDP Guidebook, chart based on the original design of Prof. Ernesto Serote)
 Planning Mandates and Mandated Plans
Section 20 (c). The LGUs shall… continue to
prepare their respective CLUPs enacted through
zoning ordinances, which shall be the primary and
dominant bases for the future of land resources.

Sections 447, 458, 468, RA 7160 – Powers of

the Sanggunian
• “Adopt a comprehensive land use plan ...”
• “Enact integrated zoning ordinances in
consonance with the approved CLUP ...”
 Planning Mandates and Mandated Plans

Section 106. Local Development Councils. (a) Each

LGU shall have a comprehensive multi-sectoral plan to
be initiated by its development council and approved
by the Sanggunian… the development council at the
P/C/M/B level shall assist the corresponding
Sanggunian in setting the direction of economic and
social dev’t, and coordinating dev’t efforts within its
territorial jurisdiction.
 Planning Mandates and Mandated Plans
Section 109. Functions of Local Development Councils. (a) The
provincial, city, municipal development councils shall exercise the
following functions:

(1)Formulate long-term, medium-term, and annual socioeconomic

development plans and policies;
(2)Formulate the medium-term and annual public investment
programs

Section 112. Sectoral or Functional Committees. The local

development councils may form sectoral or functional committees
to assist them in the performance of their functions.
 CLUP CDP
The plan for the The plan that the
management of local LGU prepares in its
territories, pursuant to capacity as a
the LGU’s status as a corporate body
political unit.
Comprehensive Land Use Plan
PRIVATE DOMAIN
(Alienable & Disposable) ANCESTRAL DOMAIN

PUBLIC DOMAIN

o Untitled A & D
o Timberlands
o Mineral Lands
o National Parks
o Municipal
Waters
 The Four (4) CLUP Policy Areas
PROTECTED AREAS
▪ NIPAS
LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM ▪ Non- NIPAS
▪ Protected Agricultural
▪ Environmentally constrained
SETTLEMENT AREAS
▪ Urban (Town Centers)
▪ Rural (Upland, coastal, lowland)
▪ IP settlements
SPACE FOR LIVING INFRASTRUCTURE AREAS
▪ Transport Network
▪ Social Infrastructure
▪ Economic infrastructure
▪ Administrative support
PRODUCTION AREAS
▪ Agricultural (Croplands, fishery,
livestock, poultry)
▪ Industrial
SPACE FOR MAKING A LIVING ▪ Commercial
ANY TERRITORIAL UNIT
▪ Tourism
 The Plan with which the LGU promotes the general welfare of
its inhabitants in its capacity as a corporate body.

CDP
Comprehensive Development Plan
 Development Sectors & Sub-sectors
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1. Population (Size, growth, 1. Primary Sector

distribution o Agricultural crops
2. Social Services & Status of Well- o Livestock
being o Fisheries (inland, brackish, marine)
o Education, culture, o Forestry
recreation 2. Secondary Sector
o Health o Mining & quarrying
o Welfare o Manufacturing
o Housing o Construction
o Social Services o Electricity, Gas, Water utilities
3. Tertiary Sectors
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT o Wholesale & retail trade
o Transportation & communication
1. Organization & Management o Finance, insurance & related services
2. Fiscal Management o Real estate
3. Legislative Output o Community & personal services
4. LGU – NGO – PO Linkages o Tourism
4. Informal Sectors
 INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES

1. Economic Support 1. Lands

o Irrigation systems o Lands of the public domain
o Power generation (mini-hydro) o Private and alienable & disposable
o Roads, bridges, ports lands
o Flood control & drainage o Ancestral domain
o Telecommunications 2. Forest Lands
o Protection forests
2. Social Support o Production forests
o Hospitals
o Schools 3. Mineral lands
o Public socialized housing o Metallic / Non-metallic mineral lands
o Facilities for ages, infirm & disadvantaged 4. Parks, wildlife & other reservations
o Waterworks & sewerage 5. Water resources
o Freshwater (ground, surface)
3. Administrative support 6. Air quality
o Government buildings 7. Waste management
o Jails o Solid waste
o Freedom parks & public assembly areas o Liquid waste
o Toxic and hazardous
 Core Concerns of Each Sector and Subsectors

❑ Social Sector
•Social characteristics of the population
•Overall quality of life
•Availability of, and access to social services
•Social justice

❑ Economic Sector
•Food security
•Retaining existing business industry
•Attracting new business
•Nurturing small and start-up businesses
•Developing and financing facilities that help capture business
locators and re-circulate funds
•Providing employment opportunities
•Creating a strong tax base
❑Economic Sector

•Promoting a city image as an attractive place to live and work in

•Tourism development promotion
•Advertising local advantages
•Participating in international trade missions
•Creating financial incentive packages for both business and the
community
•Sensible and consistent government regulation

❑Infrastructure Sector

•Support for the preferred spatial strategy or urban form

•Economic Objectives and production targets
•Eliminating current backlogs
•Reducing vulnerability to environmental risks and disasters
•Maintaining environmental integrity
❑Environmental Sector

•Implementation and enforcement of national policies

and laws
•Ensure that proper measures to safeguard and conserve
land, minerals, marine, forest and other resources are
enacted by Sanggunian and enforced by LCE
•Protection and conservation of natural resources

❑Institutional Sector
•Improving structures and functions
•Efficient and effective fiscal management
•Promoting public participation in local governance
•Ensuring transparency and accountability in government
transactions
Inter-sectoral Consultations
 Components of the
Planning System
1 Mandated Planning Structure

2 Planning Mandates and Mandated Plans

3 Planning Process
4 Authority Levers
THE ENHANCED CDP CYCLE
Approach to the CDP Formulation Process
 Simplified Planning Process
Vision ELABORATION SPECIFICATION
OF ENDS OF MEANS

Element Physical Planning Goals SPATIAL

Descriptors CLUP STRATEGIES

LOCATION
Success PRINCIPLES
Indicators ▪ Settlement

Vision –
C D P ▪
▪
Protection
Production
▪ Infrastructure
Reality Gap Sectoral Sectoral
Goals Objectives
Current Reality

What can be DEVELOPMENT

Whatever it
▪ Policies
takes to close reasonably ▪ Strategies
• Ecological Profile the gap done in 3 years ▪ Programs
• Statistical Compendium
▪ Projects
• Thematic Maps
▪ Legislations
 Synchronized Local
Planning and Budgeting
Calendar (SLPBC 2016)
 Components of the
Planning System
1 Mandated Planning Structure

2 Planning Mandates and Mandated Plans

3 Planning Process

4 Authority Levers
 ❑REGULATIONS
➢Zoning

➢Subdivision Regulation

➢Building Regulation

➢Environmental Law
Enforcement
 ❑TAXATION

➢Basic Taxes

➢Special Levies on Property

▪ Special Education Fund

▪ Idle Lands Tax

▪ Special Benefit Levy

 TAXES ON REAL PROPERTY
 Basic real property tax

❑ Special Education Fund (SEF) – 1% of RPT – used for maintenance and

operations of public schools

❑ Idle Land Tax – additional 5% on the assessed value of an idle land

 Agricultural – area is not less than 1 hectare and ½ of which is
unutilized for agriculture (exemption: agric lands planted to
permanent or perennial crops with at least 50 trees to a hectare);
lands used for grazing)
 Urban – area of not less than 1000 sq.m., ½ of which remains
unutilized or unimproved (exemption: force majeure, civil
disturbance, natural calamity)

❑ Special Benefit Levy - assessment on lands that are specially benefited

by public works projects (as much as 60% of the cost of the project
from contributions from the owners of the land that stand to benefit as
a result of the project in the form of increased land values)
 ❑ PUBLIC INVESTMENTS

 Local Development Investment Program

 Annual Investment Program

 NGA Programs and Projects

 ❑ PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT INCENTIVES

➢ Fiscal Policies, e.g. tax

breaks

➢ Build – Operate - ➢ Joint venture

Transfer
 ❑ National-Local Government Co-management
of the Environment and Natural Resources

COASTAL LAND MUNICIPAL WATERS (15 OFFSHORE

KMS.) WATERS
USES

UPLAND
FARMS LOWLAND
▪ LGU AGRICULTURE SETTLEMENTS MANGROVES &
▪ DA ▪ LGU ▪ LGU SEAGRASS
COMMUNITIES
CORAL REEFS
▪ DENR ▪ DA FISHERIES
▪ NCIP ▪ NCIP ▪ LGU ▪ LGU
▪ DENR ▪ DA ▪ < 15 km: LGU
▪ BFAR (FLAs) ▪ DENR ▪ > 15 km: BFAR
▪ NCIP
Thank you!
GISELLE GRACE G. GERIAL, EnP
gisellegracegerial@gmail.com
09088936896