DILG Annual Report CY 2015 - LML final

Local governments are key pillars in the realization of the societal outcome. However, the
likelihood of a local government contributing is better assured of success under a condition where
sustainable development is valued. After all, social well-being, economic well-being and environmental
well-being are what public service and public welfare all about.
Sub-Sector Outcomes
The sub-sector outcomes indicate that a local government has reached the state where it is
already capable of addressing local needs and challenges along the lines of economic development,
environmental protection and preparedness to deal with climate change phenomena, and protection,
development and safety of the constituents especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalized. In the
contemplation of the framework, a local government that is able to deliver or achieve these sub-sector
outcomes can be considered as a leader of the pack in development.
It must be emphasized that, while the DILG offers a menu of programs and projects that are
geared towards the hastening of the fulfillment by local governments of these outcomes, it is not only the
Department that is into this continuing challenge but other agencies and community of interest as well.
The key is to build a collaborative tension among all concerned partners.
Inclusive growth and poverty reduction are anchored on sustainable development.
The environment provides the natural resource capital for economic development. Unshared
economic prosperity further marginalizes the poor. The poor cannot productively engage in economic
transformation. Survival drives the poor to be instruments of environmental degradation.
Business-Friendly and Competitive LGUs
This is a condition where a local government is genuinely committed to take the lead in
sustainable and inclusive economic development. Setting the direction and minding it are aptly the role of
local authorities. Investing in it is the domain of the business sector.
Minding development means creating an assuring policy environment and investment climate,
projecting resource endowment potentials, projecting an ability to maintain industrial peace, reforming
the business processing and permitting systems, engaging in a robust investment promotion strategy, and
investing in disaster risk reduction and management, among other fundamentals.
Environment-Protective, Climate Change Adaptive
and Disaster Resilient LGUs
This is a condition where a local government puts premium on the integrity of the natural
environment, and ably confronts the challenges posed by destructive climate change phenomena such as
strong typhoons, extreme rainfall, flood-flashflood, coastal flood or urban flood, or landslide, or by a
geologically-induced disaster such earthquake or tsunami.
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