ANNUAL REPORT
CY 2006
STATE OF THE
LOCAL GOVERNANCE
REPORT
CY 2006
As we begin our new journey to 2007, I can’t help but
savor our accomplishment in 2006. Since
my inception to the highest position in the town I began to dream, dreams that
I firmly believe will propel our town’s progress, progress full of struggles
and challenges that we were able to survive.
It is overwhelming to look back how we triumph over
the obstacles in 2001, through wise and frugal spending we made a dramatic
turn-around by the end of my first term, with a surplus of at least P3Million. With
that accomplishment there is no sweetest reward but a fresh mandate from your
constituents.
Now as I end my second term, our effort to instill
financial stability was formally recognized in 2006, from 4th class
Orion is now a third class municipality.
As we continue the journey the second class income reclassification is
within our reach.
While political foe underestimated our
accomplishment, it is with our constituents who believe in our leadership that
we draw strength. It is with those
stakeholders whom we serve that we get inspiration.
With pride and honor let me share to you the State of
the Local Governance Report for CY 2006, embodying the hardwork, perseverance
and cooperation of both the executive and the legislative branch and the
various sectors of the community who we open regards as partners in pursuing
our battle cry, Ituloy ang Pagsulong ng Udyong!
Godspeed.
ANTONIO L. RAYMUNDO, JR.
Municipal
Mayor
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
An honest to goodness assessment using the LGPMS is a
great tool for the local government unit to assess their performance for the
past years and make comparison to the previous years.
Comparing is gauging how much the LGU advance or how
backward it was. The year 2006 is a year
the current leadership can boast of, the fact that 2006 is when Orion was
formally reclassified to 3rd class is a big accomplishment.
Slowly the vision of the municipality is now turning
to reality. Although there are still a lot to be done but
much have been accomplished
In terms of governance, needed policy and legislation
in support for quality services have been provided. The enactment of resolutions and ordinances
to sustain local development has been put in place.
Since 2004 availability of information on LGU plans,
programs, records and special events are within reach through the web or
through the planning office and other offices concerned.
While in the formulation stage various plans were
made in participation of the POs/NGOs in the community, they likewise are
invited to participate during the implementation stage.
A concrete proof of Orion pursuing development is the
availability of a revised CLUP to guide the physical development it will pursue
in the next 30 years. Orion probably is
the only LGU were information is easy accessible, it’s Ecological Profile,
Orion Encyclopedia and CLUP is downloadable through the www.udyong.com, the
official website of Orion.
The effort of the LGU to increase its coffer over the
years does not skip the eye of the Department of Finance thus it was
reclassified into 3rd class municipality and reduced dependency on
IRA by 2%. Financial accountability is
in place, does COA have no negative finding for its financial transaction for
2006. With the computerization of the
real property tax system through the eRPTS much has
to be expected in terms of real property collection. With the increase in IRA and local tax
collection, basic needs are effectively and efficiently provided, needed
infrastructures are implemented.
With effective budgeting and accounting system the
financial condition of Orion remains healthy, this is because of the wise and
frugal spending observed by the present administration.
Streamlined business permit processing continues to
create positive and good image for Orion, with San Miguel Corp. as its newest
locator, prospect is really bright for
the municipality.
Municipal Health Office is one of the best performer
among the municipal offices in Orion providing basic services, with its
comprehensive and integrated program called “Health for All” it is expected that negative findings will
soon be turn into positive one.
The Implementation of Community Based Monitoring System
(CBMS) is expected to make a 360 degrees turn-around in term of the delivery of
basic services and improvement of economic life of the people of Orion.
Our effort to protect the environment will soon be
rewarded, that of making people aware of their moral responsibilities in taking
good care of our environment.
This year’s performance should not dampen our spirit
in areas where we perform weak but instead it should encourage us to do better.
PART 1
The State of
The underlying capacity of the local government unit
of Orion is anchored on wise and frugal spending. This means with the meager resources
priorities must be based on the basic and priority needs of our constituents
coupled with resourcefulness to encourage funding from outside agencies. This capacity is seen in terms of existing
structures, policies, guidelines, administrative systems, managerial and
technical competencies, tools, facilities, equipment, and financial
resources. Among these, financial
resources remain to be the most challenging obstacles the LGU has to
surpass. Among the five performance
areas of governance, administration, social development, economic development
and environmental development let us see how the Orion pair.
- Governance. On the performance area of
governance there are three service areas measured local legislation,
transparency and participation. The
LGU gauged whether needed legislative action is present in support to
sustain local development and ensure high quality service delivery. Accordingly the Sangguniang
Bayan was able to provide for effective
Legislative Agenda, thus a perfect score of 5, meaning all sub indicator
have been positively achieved. All
legislative measure in support of the Executive Agenda has been track down
and positively addressed.
However resolutions and general ordinances have still
to be codified and provided with in support of the social, economic and
environmental development.
In terms of transparency, Orion managed to make that
all information on LGU operation are accessible and shared to the people thru
its website, the www.udyong.com as the
premier window of information to the people of Orion, thus both indicator show
a green color in the color wheel. In the
addition to a very effective website, manual and traditional means of informing
people is effectively use to ensure that transparency is present in all offices
of the municipality, this further enhances LGUs
engagement with the NGOs and POs. Since
2005 with almost all mandated plans are already formulated, people can now
benchmark the LGUs performance vis-à-vis the approved
plan.
In terms of participation, through the years Orion
was able to encourage the participation of more and more sectoral
organizations in the various programs, projects and activities it has
undertaken in the different sectors of the community.
From the time these PPAs
have been conceptualized down to its implementation POs and NGOs are in the
picture to ensure that their respective concerns are being addressed. A manifestation of these is the good
relationship between the LGUs current leadership and
the accredited NGOs/POs in the municipality.
The 20% Development Fund over the past years have been spent in most
cases in population-in-need (93.59), this is so
because they are considered partners from the time the PPAs
was conceived down to its implementation.
- Administration. In the
performance area of administration, five areas have been looked into at
least for 2006 these are development planning, revenue generation,
resource allocation and utilization, financial accountability, customer
service and human resource management. In the service area of development
planning for 2006 and even prior to that the current administration has
high regards on the role of the various sector of the community, LDCs composition is based on the provision of the LGC. The formulation of the CLUP,CDP, LDIP and the Annual Investment Plan adheres to
consultative and participative manner.
Browsing the color wheel these five performance indicator can be
seen as color green meaning a very good performance for 2006. Since 2005 and the following year
thereafter information are available and accessible both manually and
through the website
In terms of revenue generation, the formulation or
revision of Revenue Code in 2005 signals the serious intention of the
municipality to increase the coffer of the municipality which is very crucial
to realize the development plans for the town.
However planning is different from implementing, efforts must be exerted
yet to realize the very goal of making Orion a self sufficient municipality,
with all the 6 elements present in the revised Revenue Code it ensure success
only if it is implemented with political will.
The year 2006 shows the determination of the LGU to
really systematize the real property assessment, with the project electronic
RPTS or eRPTS implementation at least the stage has
been set and the LGU can expect its positive results in the years to come.
Analyzing the cost collection ratio of the LGU at
27.21%, Orion spending is rather low or high. What is to be look at this figure
is whether the present manpower is enough or need to reinforce to improve
collection or re-evaluate each of the manpower functions to know if they are
really maximizing the effort to improve their collection. The local revenue has exceeded its target, however real property tax has still to be improved.
Public enterprise as in the past years shows a bleak
performance this can be attributed from the fact that salary of both the public
market and those who are not directly involved in its operation is being
charged at the budget of the public market operation, the slaughterhouse
operation on the other hand is not really a potential in terms of income
generation considering that the volume is very minimal.
In 2004 Orion’s dependency to IRA is 79% now (2006)
local revenue strengthens to about 22.90% or 77.10% dependency on Internal
Revenue Allotment.
Resource allocation and utilization
remains to be very effective, its
operation is within limit without sacrificing the delivery of basic
services. Budgeting processes is
religiously satisfies statutory and mandatory obligations, disbursement is
based on standard accounting system.
As to financial accountability, Orion managed to put
in placed a high quality of internal control system, with the proposed adoption
of the eNGAS now already in the gestation stage a
much improved financial accountability is expected in the years to come. With frugal spending as its basic principles,
Orion operates within financial capacity thus no borrowings
has been made since 2001.
Customer service is one area that this present administration
has work on from public impression of not too friendly front liner, it was
improved into one and business permit, building permit, MTOP application and
the like has been streamlined further. Frontline personnel were task to provide
fast and efficient customer service.
The current leadership of Orion believes that
competent and professional LGU personnel ensure effective and efficient
delivery of basic services. Although
some effort is still to be exerted to maximize the effectiveness of the
personnel office the present set up provides for at least the qualified
personnel. However systems of awards and
incentives have to be implemented to encourage personnel to really perform
excellently. With the rating of 85.94 it
shows that LGU personnel are given chance for capacity-building initiatives for
their career development. Outstanding performers are then promoted into higher
rank or plantilla position in recognition of what they have contributed to the
organization. Recognizing the importance
of exposure of the personnel to development activities, the LGU through the
HRMO ensures that deserving and qualified personnel availed of these
opportunities.
- Social Development. In the
performance area of social services there are four (4) service area
measured these are: health and
nutrition, education, housing and basic facilities and peace, security and
disaster risk management.
Pursuant to Section 16 of the Local Government Code,
it is the primordial duty of the LGU to promote good health and nutrition among
citizens. The presence of appropriate structures,
health workers needed and facilities are some of the factors use to measure how
effective is the delivery of health and nutrition in the municipality. The composition of the Local Health Board is
in accordance with Section 102 and accordingly discharge their duty in pursuant
to Section 103 of the LGC, Orion rating here is high, except due to the lack of
committees for advisory functions to the Sangguniang Bayan all elements have been complied with. However the whole council itself served as
advisory body in all aspect of health and nutrition. Of the 23 barangays
only half of these number have functional BHC, it is expected that by the early
2007 functional BHC will be 100%. Due to
budgetary constraints needed health workers cannot be provided for the
meantime, however in terms of the needed doctor one is being employed to
complement those area in the outskirt of the town. With the revitalized MHO, the Health for All
Program is being fully implemented thus in terms of the percentage of fully-immunized
children the score of Orion is very high at 98.69. Another manifestation of the effectivity of this program is the low number of 0-71 month
children below normal, least than 7%, infant
mortality is also very low at 1.85% same is true with the mortality of children
aged 1-5. Except for maternal mortality
all the rest requires
maintenance.
Education is among the priority thrust of the present
local administration, in support to the national goal, Orion is staunch
supporter of giving quality education to its student. Ensuring the completeness of the Local School
Board as well as its functionality is a proof that indeed Orion is serious to
provide quality education. Of the 23 barangay all are provided with pre-schools. The performance level in terms of the quality
of alternative learning system is 4 which is high, this means that of the for elements of ALS only one has not been meet. For both the elementary and secondary school
age participation rate it surpassed the national standard of 96.77%, however in
the secondary completion rate is place at 89.86% or medium. The data gathered for both the completion
rate of the tertiary and vocational has still to be validated further as this
does not includes the actual count of those studying
outside the town. Literacy rate is only
82.25 way below the national standard. However the data gathered is to be
validated further.
To address the shelter and basic utility needs of the
citizen. The municipality through the
MPDO was able to establish a database and basic utilities need of its
constituents. Sine 2004 a Local Housing
Project of Orion was implemented in Bilolo to cater
to landless constituents in the area.
Now the 144 beneficiaries has their own land
they will pay at a meager monthly amortization.
Through physical observation most of the beneficiaries is little by
little initiated some improvement in their shelter. However, there still much to do, people
living along the coastal area of Capunitan whose
dwelling place are all makeshift must be relocated soon, this account to barely
1.69%. Accordingly the result of the
CBMS will further enhance the housing program of Orion. Data on the access to safe water, houses with
sanitary toilet is now being validated against the result of CBMS survey, as soon
as reliable data comes out projects that will resolve the problem will soon be
implemented. Problems to the
electrification is estimated to be 10% most of this are living in the far-flung
sitios located at the forested area of barangay Daan Pare, Bilolo and General Lim.
In terms of peace and security, Orion remains to be a
place of peace and tranquility, a safe place for its inhabitants and visitors
alike. Integrated Area/Community Public
Safety Plan is carried on very well despite the lack of enough number police
personnel to provide such services, however police visibility has been very
good and instrumental in the maintenance of peace and order in Orion. Barangay Tanods who are in charge of the peace in order in the barangay generally delivers the services expected to them
by the people. The lack of data with
regards to the organization of Lupong Tagapamaya and index and non-index crime has to be
submitted yet. In terms of risk
management, the municipal offices concerns are always ready including the
Disaster Risk Management Plan in any eventuality.
- Economic Development. In a
municipality like Orion, agriculture and fisheries plays a crucial role in
pursuit of economic development. This is because large part of the
municipality still engages in agriculture most of its inhabitants rely on
the bounty of nature for its subsistence and progress. Orion urbanization trend for over the
past years show fast urbanization of its poblacion
barangay
Business establishment sprout like mushrooms these are
manifestation the Orion economy is booming.
Through the Office of the Municipal Agriculture LGUs program in support of sustainable agriculture is being
carried out. Despite limited resources
coordination with provincial and national office has been very effective and
carrying out the needed support of the agricultural sector.
Demonstration
farm are present in the municipality but in spite of this the traditional
beliefs and practices remains to be a stumbling block in agricultural
development in some areas.
Small entrepreneur in Orion is thriving. Local Investment Promotion Code is in place
to encourage investment. Despite the
turtle walk phase the potential of transforming Orion into business and
industry have is great, with its strategic location and infrastructure support
realization of this dream is within the reach of our hand. One such major investment is San Miguel
Corporation who locate its model broiler farm in
- Environmental
Development. There are two performance area measured
to determine environmental development of Orion, first the natural
resources management and second the waste management and pollution
control.
Various policies in support to sustainable
development of both the forest and the coastal area of Orion have been enacted,
however the same has not yet codified.
The level of awareness on the importance of nature among the people of
Orion, thus participation in conservation and rehabilitation activities of the
forest and the sea is very well participated.
Orion is the only municipality in
Orion SWMB is still expected to make a bold move in respone to the compliance to RA 9003. The present system of waste management is
without segregation in the barangay level, only
scavenger in the dumping area retrieving some recyclable materials for their
living the rest of the waste are din backfilled.. Solid Waste Management Plan is still to be
formulated, initials step to gather data on solid waste and waste
characterization has been undertaken.
- Priority
Areas for Action.
Governance. In the performance area of governance the
following must be prioritized:
1.
In terms of
local legislation, the codification of general ordinances and resolution must
be given priority. The same must be done
for policies in support of social, economic and environmental development.
2.
Despite the easy
access of POs and NGOs in dealing with the LGU, assigned desk or other
mechanism in support to this must be institutionalized.
Administration. Under the performance area of administration
the following must be given attention:
1.
Although Gender
and Development plan are installed in every office as a part of regular
performance target. It is recommended
that the same should be treated separately, to give emphasis and at the same
time measure its effectiveness target vis-à-vis the actual performance.
2.
Financing scheme
should be included in the CLUP and LDIP to ensure that provisions that need to
be realized are being implemented.
3.
Monitor the
implementation of the eRPTS to measure if the system
is capable of improving the coffer of the LGU.
Include expenditures on computerization of the system in the computation
of the cost collection ratio, will increasing
expenditures on tax collection increase collection of tax?
4.
To get a better
view of Revenue Target Accomplishment Rate, graphical presentation must be
shown both on the MTOs annual report or display in
the bulletin board to encourage personnel to achieve should be achieved. Separate report on RPT and local sources must be
submitted.
5.
Financial report
does not reflect true operation of public enterprise as charging of personnel
indirectly involved in its operation are being charged to its operation, to get
a vivid report of public enterprise includes expenses directly spent on its
operation of the public enterprise alone.
6.
Despite improve
collection from local sources focus must be given on additional sources of
income in order to further reduce the dependency on IRA.
Social Development. The following are the priority areas that
need to be acted upon on social services:
1.
Responding on
the last years SLGR, the low percentage on barangay
with functioning BHC has been initially addressed and is expected to be 100%
functional by the ensuing year.
2.
The present
ratio of public health worker to the population is far from the standard,
especially the ratio of doctor to population, improving financial capacity of
the LGU will allow it to hire doctors to cater or at least pass the standard
required.
3.
The root cause
of low percentage of pregnant provided with pre-natal care can be attributed to
two, one is the lack of health personnel and second
the lack of awareness of pregnant women on the risk of not having a pre-natal
check-up.
4.
Data on
education at least for this report cast doubt on its accuracy, to further
verify it report will be validated against the result of the CBMS survey
conducted in 2006.
5.
In coordination
with the concerned barangays updating of the data as
of peace and order and risk management should be updated.
Economic Development. In the area of economic development the
following are the priority areas:
1.
Encourage
farmers to join cooperative and other organization in support of the
agriculture sector by way of IEC. Ask
MAO to further validate/update their data on farming and fisheries.
2.
Analyze the
characteristics of constituents in working age or labor force in order to know
if it match the nearby labor market or at least know what training skills
program to provide.
3.
If the income
per capita of Orion is to believe, cases of poverty in Orion must be rampant,
if physical attribute is the benchmark you’ll observe that most houses are of
hard or strong materials. It could be
that many people does not tell the real income of
their family, thus the data gathered is not reflective of the real economic
situation in the town.
Environmental Development. In terms of
environmental development the following needs an urgent action:
1.
Enactment of
Orion Environmental Code.
PART 2
The State of
This part reports the state of productivity or the
availability and quality of basic services delivered by the LGU of Orion to its
constituents. It also attempt
to compare its performance in 2006 to that of 2005.
- Governance. With only of the three elements present, performance level of
Orion with a regards to the presence codes in support of social, economic
and environmental development is considered medium.
CLUP,CDP,LDIP, AIP and other
thematic plans are accessible in Orion, Copy CLUP is in fact downloadable
through the official website of Orion the www.udyong.com
. In this service area the score of
Orion is very high having the 6 elements all present.
Measuring administration in terms of development
planning Orion was able to deliver a quality CDP,CLUP
and Gender and Equality Plan through the later has to be segregated and
compiled on its own.
The performance level of the municipality in terms of RTAR is very high
this means that actual collected overshoot the projected collection for 2006 at
least from locally generated income. Accomplishment rate on RPT barely reach
the 50% mark . Orion dependency to IRA is still a high
77.10%
- Administration. A review on the projection
on the collection of RPT must be undertaken to know if it is realistic, if
so improve RPT collection by way of IEC.
Report must be made on the operation of the public
enterprise alone to determine is profitability.
Effort must be made to slowly decrease Orion
dependency to IRA. Resource allocation and utilization particularly
expenditures on personnel services falls within medium performance level
meaning its does not exceeded the 45% limitation for 3rd class
municipality lkike Orion.
In the service area of financial accountability,
Orion can boast of its performance for 2006 as it achieved 0% of disbursement
with negative COA findings. Except for
the failure of the LGU to advertise its certified financial statement in local
media, the other entire four element under this
indicator have been achieved.
Speaking of customer service Orion efficiently served
its clientele. The absence of customer
complaints for 2006 is a manifestation that they have high satisfaction in
terms of securing various permits from the LGU.
Through the initiatives of the Department of Trade and Industry to
further streamlined the issuance of local permit, Orion was able to further reduce
the average waiting time of its clientele.
Still under the performance area of administration,
the participation of plantilla staff in human recourse development plays an
important role achieving the vision of the municipality, in this area the score
of the LGU is very high, plantilla
personnel are continuously exposed to various training to further develop or
hone their skills and knowledge. This
exposure includes both outside and local initiatives.
- Social Development. The
percentage of women provided with pre-natal care is only 46.19 or an
adjectival rating of medium, this is the manifestation of the lack of
health personnel to undertake visitation in the far-flung area and the low
awareness of some mothers on the benefits of natal care. Assessing the percentage fully immunized
children for 2006, Orion has almost 100% accomplishment.
The result of the output indicator, secondary
participation rate cannot be rely one.
Further validation of the data gathered will be undertaken.
Although the municipality has an existing Local
Housing Project, it does not involved construction of houses, however most of
the beneficiaries was able to avail of lot was able to construct house made of
hard and strong materials, on their own.
No available data to assess effectiveness of Lupong Tagapamayapa, especially
the number of disputes resolved.
- Economic Development. The
following output indicators show more or less the state of productivity of
agriculture and fisheries in the municipalities. IN terms of membership to
farmers and fisher folks cooperative the performance level of LGU
according to the MAO report is low.
The percentage of beneficiaries of extension program is high among
farmers and very high among fisher folks.
Access to barangay to nearby market is
also very high, indicating the serious intent of the LGU to propel the
agriculture industry to economic development.
With the location of major player in economic
development of Orion,
San Miguel Corporation though it has to formally begin its operation has already created a lot
of jobs as a result of this major investment. Percentage of new enterprise and business is
likewise high, indicating a very bright future in terms of economic development
of Orion.
- Environmental Development. True to its reputation of one of the front
liner in natural resources management, the LGU continuous to draw the
participation of the various CSOs and the community in the participation to Kontra Kalat sa Dagat and Earth Day.
The level of awareness of Orion constituents on solid
waste management is reflected on the high percentage of solid waste reduction, and industry player
although on a handful of them is also aware of their social responsibility
through self instilled pollution control.
- Priority
Areas
Governance.
1. Codification of General Ordinance must be
prioritized. Enactment of Orion Children
Code must likewise be undertaken as of the last quarter of 2006, discussion on
the endorsement of Orion Children’s Code have been undertaken by the Municipal
Council on the Protection of Children
Administration.
1.
One area that
needs priority action is the formulation of separate Gender and Development
Plan, despite the present of GAD in the budget and performance target of each
municipal office, the need to segregate it is necessary, by doing so monitoring
and evaluation will be easier, beside budget for GAD is specifically mandated.
2.
Reformulate
Revenue Target Accomplishment consider the trend at least three to five years
back.
3.
Segregate
accounting of public enterprise, include or account expenses and income that
are relevant to its operation.
Social Development.
1.
With low
percentage of women provided with natal care, the MHO should addressed
this problem as this may result to other problem. This is proposed to among the priorities of
the MHO in response to the call of the MDG.
2.
Elementary and
high school education must be made more accessible, although score are high of
the problem or those who failed to finish elementary and high school must be
given assistance in order to finish education which will eventually become
their foundation to better life.
3.
Based on the
CBMS survey conducted in May 2006 access to school is the main problems of
far-flung barangays, accordingly they requested that
this issues be addressed immediately, as most of this students really desires
to finish education but to no avail due to lack of money to finance the every
transportation fare.
Economic Development.
1.
Build data base
on farmers and fisherfold, assess why most of them
does apply for membership to cooperative.
If its is for the lack of information conduct IEC on the existing
cooperative/organization and what benefits they can get or avail as the selling
point for their membership.
2.
Identify more road connecting the farm production area to the market and if in the
long run provision of such road will be feasible, plan for one and avail
outside funding agency for implementation if the LGU cannot afford to implement
it.
PART 3
The State of
This is the result of the performance measurement of
Orion for 2006 in terms of the outcome or state of development. State of development refers to the
socio-economic and environmental condition of the
- Social Development.
The performance level of Orion in terms of the
percentage of children aged 0-71 months is only 6.52% by adjectival rating is medium, the number is not substantial to affect the
nutritional status of children 0-71 months in Orion. However this data should serve as a caution
and must be eliminated in due time.
Infant mortality is 1.52% this reflects the effective program of the MHO
to reduce child mortality in Orion. As
to the mortality rate of children aged 1-5 barely does it has a case, meaning
proper health care are being effectively delivered. Mortality rate among mothers is high, however
intensive program has been undertaken since 2006 its effect will then be
reflected by 2007.
For the secondary school completion rate the
performance level of Orion is 89.86 by adjectival rating is medium, meaning
needed effort is still to be exerted to ensure that every secondary school
student complete high school, much to be desired the problem lies with
accessibility. The same result is the
outcome reflected in the CBMS survey, and poverty is the reason why high
student oftentimes unable to complete the secondary education. The result of the measurement on the number
of college level who completed their course is
only 63.33% which is very low, it is possible that the data does not reflect
the real situation in term of tertiary education, the
plan is to validate it against the result of the CBMS survey conducted in May
2006. On the other hand those locals who
completed vocation is 82.81 or by adjectival performance level is also low, the
same as in tertiary completion rate will be undertaken. It quite adamant to believe at least on part
the very low literacy rate of Orion, to establish the validity of this date the
same will be compared to the outcome of CBMS survey conducted last May 2006. The
current leadership aims to provide citizens with decent shelter and the basic
utilities they need.
The informal settlers in Orion are barely 2% this are
the migrants coming from other provinces where because of poverty in their
place of origin are attracted to live in Orion.
These settlers are located in the coastal area of Brgy.
Capunitan whose houses are makeshift and are often
made of light materials.
Source of potable water for residents of Orion are
still accessible to at least 79% of its population, even if it is high the rest
of 21% without access to safe potable water must be provided with immediately. Allowing this number to its present level is
allowing or exposing them to health risk.
Despite the absence of data for incidence of index
crime and non-index crime, Orion remains to be generally peaceful.
- Economic Development. In terms
of the effort agricultural development the percentage of irrigated land
over total agricultural land is described adjectivally as medium. The least than 20% often engage in non-palay planting.
Crop yield as per report of the Municipal Agriculture
Office is only 0.3% or very low, assuming that the figure is acceptable
productivity of the agriculture industry is therefore down but by observation
it seems that rice farmer and mango growers are in the upswing at least
economically.
Despite of what many fisher folk complain of low fish
catch, the MAO report is 2% which is adjectivally very high, meaning fisher
folks catch is still adequate and can sustain the basic needs of people in the
fishing community who often depend on the bounty of the sea for their subsistence.
Unemployment rate in Orion is 55% which means more
than half of the labor or working age are economically idle. This data corresponds with the finding of the
CBMS survey, this it seems is the major economic problem of the
municipality. Other than looking at
business locator for Orion, a characterization of this unemployed group must be
undertaken, to know or assess what exactly the LGU can do to address this
problem.
Income per capita level of most families in Orion is
very, almost at the poverty threshold at least for
- Environmental Management. With
high level of appreciation on environmental protection, despite isolated
cases of reforestation among the towns of
The spirit of
participation when it comes to mangrove planting is very much alive in Orion,
other than the tree planting the support that this small trees needs must be
provided by the concern government agency in order for this trees to reach its
full potential.
- Priority Areas for Attention. Based on the state of development or socio-economic development in
Orion, the following are the priority areas of attention.
Social Development.
1.
Improve
nutritional status of children aged 0-71 months with below normal weight.
2.
Eliminate case of
death of infant.
3.
Improve maternal
health. Conduct IEC to mothers living in far-flung barangays
4.
Improve access
to public elementary and secondary school.
Or provide mobile school within reach of the people in the outskirt.
5.
Provide
alternative learning system to increase literacy rate.
6.
Coordinate with barangay on the pattern of in-migration to avoid influx of
informal settlers especially the coastal area.
7.
Coordinate with
the water district and communicate the finding of CBMS survey which is a
reflection on the non-trust on the services the water district offers.
8.
Request the
Orion MPS to provide data on incidence of index crime and non-index crime.
Economic Development.
1.
Establish a
system through the Municipal Agriculture Office on how they can gather information
with regards of crop yield in the locality.
If it is really low introduce new technology that can help farmers
improve their yield.
2.
Characterize the
composition of unemployed labor force to determine what causes the high
unemployment rate despite the strategic location of Orion to the nearby labor
market.
Environmental Development.
1.
Required
compliance to the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act especially those in the
barangay.
2.
Re-organized
Solid Waste Management Board.
3.
Formulate SWM
Plan for the municipality.
PART 4
Priority Strategies for Implementation
Priority
strategies in pursuit for development of Orion should not change yearly. This is to ensure the continues of programs, projects and
activities rather enhancing those that need to be enhanced must be made.
·
A more
aggressive and an honest to goodness campaign against the number social menace
in the municipality, drug addiction.
·
Implementation
of a more comprehensive “Health For All Program” of the municipality
·
Computerization
program of the whole local government system from the municipal level down to
the barangay.
·
Convergence
through the LGU website www.udyong.com,
reaching out to all, solicit help for the less.
·
Making public
enterprise work and delivering for the municipal coffer.
·
Improvement of
the municipal abode for effective and efficient delivery of services.
·
Attracting
investment to propel economic activities and create jobs and business opportunities
for the people of Orion
·
Continuous
implementation of the Sagip Bakawan
expanding it to cover Sagip Kagubatan.
·
Adoption with
some customization of the programs like Kung Maliit ang Pamilya kayang-kaya,
Gawad-Kalinga and honest to goodness localization of
the Millennium Development Goals through Community Based Monitoring System
(CBMS).