La Consolacion University Philippines

Graduate Studies Department MAED

Social Studies Program

August 2022

AGUTAYA COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A Research Paper
presented
in partial
fulfillment of the
requirements for
the course
Selected Topics in Social Science for Social Studies Teacher

Submitted to
Dr. Aileen dela Cruz
Professor

by

Manuel, Francia R.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................

SITUATION ANALYSIS....................................................................................

DEVELOPMENTAL GOAL...............................................................................

OBJECTIVES...................................................................................................

PARTICIPANTS...............................................................................................

PROJECTS......................................................................................................

STRATEGIES...................................................................................................

BUDGET.........................................................................................................

MONITORING................................................................................................
 eastern part of the Cuyo Archipelago in the
Sulu Sea.
INTRODUCTIO

Historically, Agutaya was a part of

Cuyo. In the latter decades of the Spanish
occupation, it was constituted into a
separate district. The word "aguanan,"
which grows profusely in the area, and
"yon," a species of fish that is abundant in
the sea, were combined to create the town's
name. The name of the town was created
by inserting the word ta after agu andyon. One of the issues that face the
Agutaya is a fifth-class municipality in the Agutayan community is the lack of
Philippine province of Palawan. Its official medical facilities and staff. According to
name is the Municipality of Agutaya Atom Araullo's documentary episode on I-
(Tagalog: Bayan ng Agutaya). 12,867 Witness, Agutaya lacks in medical
persons were accounted for in the personnel, facilities, and equipment like
population by the 2020 census. ambulances. My community initiative will
have a health component. Everyone
Agutaya Island, the municipality's
benefits when a community is healthy.
namesake and the second largest island in
And one way to create a healthy
the Cuyo Archipelago, as well as the
community is through community health.
islands of Diit, Halog, Maracanao,
By addressing the structures and
Matarawis (also spelled Matarabis), Eke,
mechanisms that define a place and
and Quiniluban are all included in this
assisting the residents and employees in
island municipality, which is located in the
making healthy decisions, the field of
public health seeks to protect and enhance
health.

The restoration of Early Childhood

Care and Development was another issue
that needed to be addressed (ECCD). The
Early Childhood Care and Development
(ECCD) system is a thorough, integrated,
and multi-sectoral strategy with a focus on the Island. Improving marine
offering children loving care. transportation can effectively and
efficiently move almost any goods. It will
be a big help for Agutaya's economy.

To support the child's physical growth and

development, this initiative makes health
services more accessible to expectant
mothers and children up to the age of 35
months. The educational facilities need to
be restored, and new materials are
required for the children's education,
according to the Agutaya LGU.

According to the United Nations

Development Programme (UNDP), SITUATION
Agutaya's electrical supply, which runs
from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m., is another Even in the best of circumstances,
issue. Installing a solar panel power providing healthcare to indigenous
source would be preferable so that they peoples in distant locations is challenging.
could have power available every single Imagine, however, that some of the
day. patients are living in caves and that riding
a water buffalo is the main mode of
transportation for patients. Physicians
working to treat members of the seven
tribes living on the Philippine island of
Palawan, including the Cuyunin,
Cagayanen, Agutaynin, Molbog,
Tagbanua, and Pala'wans, confront
difficulties such as those mentioned
above. Cultural norms, a pathological lack
The only means of access to the of financial means, and health care
Agutaya is via boat. It will be easy to personnel are a few of the difficulties that
provide help to Agutaya if the government exist. Dr. Andrew Wilner, medical director
will improve the marine transportation of of Lingkod Timog, a nonprofit
organization based in Rhode Island that
conducts yearly
mainland Agutaya, which is a town of
small roads and dirt paths. The provision
and improvement of equipment, supplies,
and facilities for medical and health care
will thus be the focus of one of my
community programs.

My community project will also pay

medical missions to underdeveloped areas

of the Philippines, summarizes the
situation as follows: "There is minimal
care and limited access to the limited care
available."

The ambulance used by the

Agutayas was a typical motorcycle (I-
Witness, Atom Araullo-2019). This latest
initiative by the Regional Health attention to educational challenges in the

Department to address the issue of area. Unfortunately, many rural primary

medical team transportation in difficult schools are overcrowded and lack

locations includes three trial regions, one appropriate textbooks and instructional

of which being Agutaya. The motorcycle materials if we look at their early

is equipped with the necessary blinking

lights and sirens, as well as a first aid kit,
blood pressure monitor, and saddlebags
that can accommodate an oxygen tank and
defibrillator when necessary. The good
doctor (Dr. Lionels Peters) claims that
these features have never been used in this
childhood educational system. A
location. The two tough, practical wheels
blackboard is frequently the only piece of
that make up this ambulance's most crucial
equipment in the classroom. Many times,
component are also its defining feature. It
kids are crammed into tiny classrooms,
is the best and occasionally the only
and the majority of schools don't have
means to provide aid to those who need it
libraries. The ECCD (not only) needs to
most in the five villages that make up
upgrade the resources and facilities,
particularly in Agutaya, for the sake of the
kids' learning. Modern existence is
impossible without electricity. Electricity
is used by
RAPPLER. The Palawan Electric
Cooperative (PALECO), which serves the
entire province of Palawan, including
Puerto Princesa City, is always attempting
to increase the electricity's dependability
and lessen power outages. Two 5 MVA
substations were built in Brgy as part of
PALECO's ongoing projects to improve its
power distribution networks, which were

people to run appliances, computers,

electronics, machinery, and public transit
systems as well as for lighting, heating,
cooling, and refrigeration. It is necessary
to our daily lives. The electricity, however,

included in a report to the National

Electrification Administration (NEA).
Brgy. and Lucbuan. Puerto Princesa City's
Montible. Agutaya has limited electricity,
and access to safe, potable water is still a
problem.
will give us various stories in Agutaya. It
seems that there will never be an end to
DEVELOPMENT
the nearly daily cyclical power outages
that Palawan has been dealing with for
years. Despite claiming to be looking for The goal of community

both immediate and long-term solutions to development is to raise peoples' quality of

the power problems, Palawan Electric living. Through the organizing and

Cooperative (Paleco), the province's sole development of the people's capacity, it

power supplier on the mainland, did not develops and supports participatory

provide its customers any assurances that democracy, sustainable development,

there would never be an outage.- rights, economic circumstances, equality,

and social justice in a community. health coverage.
Community development is crucial Tulong Sulong Edukasyon
because it provides the base upon which a  Learning how to read, write, talk, and
city may improve the quality of life for its listen aids in improving one's
residents. It builds solid, diversified communication abilities. Critical
communities with the capacity to draw in thinking is developed via education.
The objective of the initiative is to
consistently improve the standard of
instruction provided to all students in
Agutayan. We strive to create
exceptional, internationally

and retain talent, launch and expand

enterprises, and resolve problems as they
emerge. The following are the objectives
of my particular community development
programs:

Kasama Karamay Sagip Buhay

 All Agutayan, regardless of age, are to
benefit from the project by leading competitive Agutayan throughout the
healthy lives and promoting project, which could one day benefit
wellbeing. It aspires to give every their community and to develop in
person of the Agutaya community each Agutayan student an awareness
access to the highest caliber drugs. of constructive change that is
Every stage of life, starting from the occurring in one's own life as well as
beginning, is vital for one's health and in their community, country, region,
wellbeing. This objective covers all and the world.
key areas of public health concern, Liwanag sa Magdamag
including access to quality, cheap  Electricity utilized for residential
medications and vaccinations for purposes such as operating fans,
everyone as well as reproductive, electric stoves, air conditioning, and
maternity, neonatal, child, and lighting up rooms. People can find
adolescent health, infectious and non- consolation in all of these. The
communicable diseases, universal project's goal is to give every home
 with unrestricted access to electricity,
a backup power source that is not
detrimental to the environment, and
lower-cost electricity.
barangay in Agutaya had rebuilt every
single one of its Yolanda-damaged
classrooms.
4. By the end of the project, all Agutayan
pupils will have access to education
thanks to improved railroads and
bridges as well as school supplies. It
won't be a hardship for the student to
get to school if the roads and bridges
are built correctly, even if they live far
from the school.

OBJECTIVES

1. By supplying medical supplies,

upgrading medical facilities, and
adding medical staff, the goal is to
improve medical support for all
Agutayan by 2023. A patient's
improved health may benefit their
family financially and emotionally.
2. By the project's conclusion, district
health staff will have grown by 80%
from the previous figures, and every
barangay will have its own ambulance
and motorcycle to help with patient
transportation. It will be better for the
Agutayan to live if there are sufficient 5. To cover the needs of 1,000 families, 32
personnel and resources to meet their acres of solar power panels were
medical demands. erected by the project's conclusion in
3. By the third year of the initiative, every every barangay in Agutayan. Every
barangay had a daycare facility with member of the household has access to
suitable learning facilities, and every electricity around-the-clock. People
can benefit from lower electricity costs electricity costs and support renewable
and sustainable energy through energy.
community solar without having to
build or own a solar array on their land.
Additionally, it enables those who
might not own property to reduce their

health regulations. The DOH not only

PARTICIPANTS oversees all health-related services and
goods but also offers technical support
All the members of Agutayan
to stakeholders and health practitioners
community.
in the form of special tertiary care
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services.
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Others- those who are willing to donate
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In order to expand on their official

community plan, their role in guiding
community growth, and their control
over land use, local governments might
start a community's economic planning
a fund such as individual, organizations
initiatives. The delivery of a wide
or companies
range of services in relation to roads,
DepEd- Formal and informal basic
traffic, planning, housing, economic
education policies, strategies,
and community development,
programs, and initiatives are
environment, recreation and amenity
developed, carried out, and coordinated
services, fire services, and maintaining
by the Department of Education
the register of electors is the
(DepEd). In addition to providing for
responsibility of local authorities,
the establishment and maintenance of a
which serve multiple purposes.
comprehensive, adequate, and
DOH- Its task is to create national
integrated system of basic education
policies, scientific benchmarks, and
pertinent to the objectives of national
development, it also supervises all
elementary and secondary educational
institutions, including alternative
learning systems that are both public
and private.
PALECO- The Palawan Electric
Cooperative, Inc. (PALECO) is an
electric cooperative that
established and continues to function in
PROJECTS
accordance with the P.D. as modified
by P.D., 269
The National Electrification
Administration (NEA) registered 1645
on January 25, 1974; it was given a
fifty-year (50) franchise to run and
provide electric power services to its
member-consumers in its
coverage, which includes
City/Municipalities of Puerto Princesa
City, Narra, Aborlan, Quezon, Brooke's
Point, Balabac, Rizal, Roxas, Taytay,
El Nido, Araceli, Dumar
Enfinity Imperial Solar Solutions Inc.-
With more than 20,000 reasonably
priced homes of the highest caliber
spread around the nation, Imperial
Homes Corporation is the pioneer in
cutting-edge housing technology in the
Philippines. Enfinity Global is a leader
in the production of renewable energy,
having built over 17,000 MW of solar
and wind installations across the globe.
EISSI was able to power up the
Philippines' First Solar Powered
Subdivision in Batangas – Via Verde –
by combining the skills of IHC and
Enfinity Global.
was
The Agutaya community's life will
be supported, strengthened, and improved
by the entire program. No activity or
program content that is disrespectful to the
customs of the Agutaya community shall
be imposed by the procedure. Every
area
the
program will be built around an all-
encompassing vision of societal progress
and personal growth for every Agutayan.
All the programs will implemented for 6
years and to sponsor the program, the
LGU or a non-governmental organization
will be approached. The relevant
authorities will receive a draft budget plan
that has been created. In accordance with
the intended objectives, the budget If possible, the Department of Provincial
components will be divided into various Health Specialist will work with the
budget lines with allocations for various Health Coordinator to provide all families
program activities. with information on water sanitation and
health education. Observation and
Example projects process and its
assistance will be given following each
impact:
training session.
Kasama Karamay Sagip Buhay

1. Support to Elderly and Handicap

People- All elderly (especially those ill)
Impact:
and handicap people will be supported and
provided some medical assistance, foods  The students are capable of using
for their livings based on necessary needs, what they have learned in their
through assessment by staff, community respective families or houses.
leaders and people themselves.  For drinking water surrounding
their
Impact:

 Encouraged old and disabled

persons to have hope in life and to
be accepted into Agutaya culture
and the global community as fellow
humans.
 These people, who were elderly and
disabled, devised several business
ideas for the future.
 They will receive greater support
and attention from many individuals homes, trainees have cleansed water
throughout the world. filters.

2. Water Sanitation and Health Education-  Washing their hands before eating
 helped trainees maintain
hygiene.
3. Improvise Motorcycle to assists
Emergency transportation- Agutaya has
some residences built in extremely
distant areas. Due of their road, it is
quite difficult to carry patients. They
can go more quickly and with less fuss
if they use motorcycles.
Impact:
 Rapid access to medical care in
rural places.
 Boost the patients' chance of
surviving.
Sulong Tulong Edukasyon
1. To supply the employees, kids, and
better enough water, which improved their
health.
 Instead of leaving the classroom to
look for those, both children and
adults pay attention in class.
 Children and adults are content and
frequently attending classes.
2. School repairs- Over time the school
building settles and moves creating
minute stresses at joints in materials
that can cause small cracks to appear.
There is a need for expansion and
repairs, notably in the typhoon-
damaged rooms.
Impact:
 Better environments and
atmospheres were created for
both children and adults.
 More assurance that more kids
and adults will enroll in school.
Liwanag sa Magdamag

1. Solar Panel - Every barangay in

students with clean water and sanitary

facilities, one treadle pump/well and
one toilet have been built next to the
office and school center. In order to
improve the environment and
atmosphere for students and children to
learn in, it is also necessary to finish
filling in the land.

Impact:
Agutaya will have solar panels
 Students of all ages received
 installed.
BUDGET
Impact:

 Reduced heating costs for low- Estimated budget for propose project:
income people.
Kasama Sulong Tulong Liwanag sa
 Less reliance on public utilities Karamay Edukasyon Magdamag
 Jobs are created and pollution is Sagip Buhay

decreased, improving the

environment. 100Million 150Million Pesos 100Million
Pesos Pesos

STRATEGIES
 New  Reconstructions  Training
Equipment of buildings  Installation
First we will conduct a research to  New  Learning  Solar

increase public awareness and to facilities materials panel

 Medicines  Feeding  Lot to
understand issues facing by the
 New staff program install
community. salaries
 Trainings
For people involved in the project, we
will secondly perform a training and
development program to raise their level
of awareness, as well as their abilities and MONITORING
motivation for the work.
To make sure the project is
successfully carried out and reaches its
objective during the six years of
implementation, a monitoring and
evaluation strategy has been developed.
To gauge the effectiveness of each
program

Lastly we will conduct a survey to

Agutaya community to collect information
about the behaviors, needs, and opinions
of the community. Surveys can be used to
find out attitudes and reactions, to
measure satisfaction, and to gauge
opinions about various issues.
area's outcome, indicators are created for
each program area. By periodically
comparing the progress made to the
outcomes/impacts expected for the
program, the overall success of the project
will be assessed. With the assistance of
expert outside organizations, this will be
accomplished over several phases. In-
depth qualitative analysis and organized
scientific research will both be included in
the evaluations.