Republic of the Philippines National Economic and Development Authority PHILIPPINE NATIONAL VOLUNTEER SERVICE COORDINATING AGENCY
UPDATED 2011-2016 FOREIGN VOLUNTEER DEPLOYMENT FRAMEWORK
(FVDF)
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ACRONYMS
ARBs Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries
ARCs Agrarian Reform Communities
ARMM Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao
CAR Cordillera Administrative Region
CBFM Community-Based Forest Management
CCA Climate Change Adaptation
CRM Coastal Resource Management
DENR Department of Environment and Natural Resources
DRRM Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
DSWD Department of Social Welfare and Development
FVDF Foreign Volunteer Deployment Framework
ICT Information Communication Technology
IEC information education and communication
IPs Indigenous people
IVSOs International Volunteer Service Organizations
IVSP International Volunteer Service Program
LPI Local partner institution
MDG Millennium Development Goals
NEDA National Economic and Development Authority
OSY Out-of-school youth
PNVSCA Philippine National Volunteer Service Coordinating Agency
PDP Philippine development Plan
PSA Philippine Statistics Authority
PWDs Persons with disabilities
TVET Technical Vocational Education
VCA Value Chain Analysis
WEDC Women in Especially Difficult Circumstances
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I. BACKGROUND In 2007, the Foreign Volunteer Deployment Framework (FVDF) for 2007-2010 was developed to guide partner International Volunteer Service Organizations (IVSOs) in deploying volunteers to ensure that the scope and nature of “the international volunteer service program is responsive to the objectives of technical cooperation and socio-cultural exchange.”1 The Medium Term Philippine Development Plan 2004-2010, including the targets to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), served as the basis of the FVDF. With the change in national leadership in 2011, implementation of the 2007-2010 FVDF was reviewed and updated to focus on the priorities of the Aquino Administration; hence the formulation of a new 2011-2016 FVDF. The 2011-2016 FVDF provided a clear set of objectives and priorities (both geographic and sector-based) for the international volunteer service to respond to the development needs of the country. In 2013, a mid-term review of the 2011-2016 Philippine Development Plan was done to make the necessary adjustments in policies, strategies, measures and programs based on updated information, and lessons learned during the first half of the Plan’s implementation since its launch in 2011. Secretary of Economic Planning and NEDA Director General Arsenio M. Balisacan emphasized that updating of the PDP was made “to ensure that there is greater alignment and synchronization of government efforts to focus on sectors and areas where poor and vulnerable are concentrated, so that they too may reap the gains of progress.” Given the Philippine Government’s call for immediate collaborative action towards the attainment of the national development goals, the Philippine National Volunteer Service Coordinating Agency (PNVSCA) deemed it necessary to update the 2011-2016 FVDF to ensure alignment of the international volunteer service assistance to the objectives of the PDP Midterm Update.
II. LOGIC MODEL OF THE UPDATED 2011-2016 FVDF The updated FVDF serves as the principal operational guideline in the identification, assessment, programming and deployment of foreign volunteers in the country. The main revision in the FVDF is the adoption of the current national development priorities and geographic areas in the PDP. The foreign or international volunteer service program aims to contribute to the national goal of rapid and inclusive growth which is defined as poverty in multiple dimensions reduced and massive quality employment created as defined in the PDP Midterm Update. The PDP goal was further clarified as achieving rapid and sustained economic growth and equal development opportunities achieved. Equal means considering poverty magnitude, poverty incidence and vulnerability of provinces to natural disaster in development programming and implementation.2 The objective of ensuring that equal development opportunities are shared by all is apparently the major precursor to spatial consideration in the framework update.
1 RA 9418 or “Volunteer Act of 2007” 2 Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016 Midterm Update
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Figure 1. Logic Model of the Updated Foreign Volunteer Deployment Framework 2011-2016
GOAL
Poverty in multiple dimensions reduced and massive quality employment created
Rapid and sustained economic growth Equal development opportunities achieved
SECTORAL OUTCOMES
Globally competitive and innovative industry and
services sectors achieved
Competitive and sustainable agriculture
and fisheries sector achieved
Human capabilities improved and
vulnerabilities reduced
Sustainable and climate-resilient environment and natural resources
achieved
Stable national security achieved
Cross-cutting Themes: Good Governance, Climate Change Adaptation, Gender and Development
INTERMEDIATE OUTCOME
Strengthened3 local partner institutions to empower disadvantaged and marginalized sectors
IMMEDIATE OUTCOME
Enhanced knowledge and skills
of LPI staff
Increased knowledge and skills of of community partners/beneficiaries4
VO
LUN
TEER
OUTPUTS Services, Products/Resources
STRATEGIES Capacity Development/Enhancement, Resource Sharing/Collaboration, Partnership Building
ACTIVITIES Project Cycle Management, Policy Review and Advocacy, IEC, Instruction/Teaching, Production, Research & Development,
Technology Extension and Services , Market Linkaging, Systems development/enhancement
INPUTS Tools, Skills, Experiences and Approaches
3 Better systems & processes = improved governance 4 Direct assistance to ultimate beneficiaries
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The FVDF logic model (Figure 1) shows how foreign volunteer assistance contributes to the achievement of the sectoral outcomes and ultimately, the PDP goal. The immediate or short-term outcomes and outputs become specific to foreign volunteer assistance recognizing that it is at these levels that local partner institutions and volunteers have control or influence. Guided by the principles of technical cooperation namely, ownership, alignment and harmonization, short-term or immediate outcomes will focus on building or enhancing capacities both at the organizational and individual levels. These capacity needs or gaps were identified by the requesting local partner institutions (LPI) so that from the onset of engagement, there is ownership of the volunteer-assisted development projects. Foreign volunteers will contribute their tools, knowledge and skills, experiences and approaches in the areas of project cycle management, policy review and advocacy, information education and communication (IEC), instruction/teaching, production, research & development, technology extension and services. Together with their respective counterpart workers and supervisors at the LPI, volunteers shall produce significant outputs in the forms of services, products and resources. In the process, individual and organizational capacities shall be developed and/or enhanced through partnerships and linkages, resource sharing and collaboration—which is in essence harmonization. Volunteer assistance directly benefits not only the intermediaries or the LPIs but also the ultimate beneficiaries because of the nature of project that requires direct intervention to the community as in the case of volunteers who co-teach students in schools, volunteers who provide training for farmers and fisherfolks in the community, volunteers who coach the micro-entrepreneurs, among others. Thus, the FVDF logic model reflects that increased knowledge and skills of community partners will directly contribute to the achievement of sectoral outcomes and ultimate goal. As a medium-term outcome or result, volunteer assistance shall strengthen local partner institutions manifested by improvement of systems, processes and/or installation of mechanisms to ensure alignment of efforts to national and international development goals including empowerment of the marginalized and disadvantaged sectors in the community. Achievement of these development results at the level of partner institutions (intermediaries) shall contribute to sectoral goals and eventually to the long term goal, “Poverty in multiple dimensions reduced and massive quality employment created.”
III. STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS FOR FOREIGN VOLUNTEER ASSISTANCE A. GEOGRAPHIC AND SECTORAL PRIORITY INTERVENTIONS To maximize foreign volunteer assistance that would contribute to the achievement of national development goals, foreign volunteer deployment shall adopt the priority geographic categories and intervention areas of the PDP Midterm Update. Figures 2 to 4 below show the three (3) geographic categories with corresponding interventions. Provinces in these categories were chosen based on (i) number or magnitude of poor households in the province, (ii) the provincial poverty incidence, or the proportion of poor individuals to the provincial population, and (iii) the province’s vulnerability to natural disasters (particularly floods and landslides). Significant to achieving equal development opportunities for all is the provision of volunteer assistance to marginalized and disadvantaged sectors (IPs, PWDs, Senior citizens, women and children in difficult circumstances, OSY) wherever they are located.
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Category 1 Priority: 5th and 6th Class Municipalities of the 10 Provinces Province-wide for vulnerable sectors (PWDs, IPs, Senior Citizens, OSY, women5 and children6 in difficult circumstances) Strategies: More investments to create more employment opportunities Improve human capital, flexible work arrangements, continually upgrade social services
Sectoral Interventions: Industry and services – manufacturing, tourism (Primary Interventions) Agriculture Social services and Social protection
5 "Women in Especially Difficult Circumstances" (WEDC) shall refer to victims and survivors of sexual and physical abuse, illegal recruitment, prostitution, trafficking, armed conflict, women in detention, victims and survivors of rape and incest, and such other related circumstances which have incapacitated them functionally (RA 9710, Magna Carta of Women, Section 30; http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2009/ra_9710_2009.html); retrieved 08 Dec 2014
6 Children who experience all forms of abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation and discrimination, and other conditions
prejudicial to their development (RA 7610 or Child Abuse Act); retrieved 08 December 2014
Figure 2. Category 1: Ten provinces with highest magnitude of poor households, DSWD 2010
Ilocos Region
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Figure 3. Category 2: Ten provinces with highest poverty incidence based on population, PSA 2012
PROVINCE REGION Poverty
Incidence (%)
Lanao del Sur ARMM 73.8
Maguindanao ARMM 63.7
Eastern Samar Eastern Visayas 63.7
Apayao Cordillera 61.4
Zamboanga del Norte
Western Mindanao 54.4
Camiguin Northern Mindanao 53.6
Saranggani SOCCSKSARGEN 53.2
North Cotabato SOCCSKSARGEN 52.4
Masbate Bicol 51.3
Northern Samar Eastern Visayas 50.2
Category 2 Expansion Areas (provinces with at least 30% Poverty Incidence)
REGION PROVINCE % Poverty Incidence
Cordillera
1 Abra 37.4
2 Ifugao 42.4
3 Mt. Province 37.6
Cagayan Valley
4 Batanes 33.3
Central Luzon
5 Aurora 30.8
MIMAROPA
6 Marinduque 32.9
7 Occidental Mindoro 38.1
8 Romblon 40.5
Bicol
9 Albay 41
10 Camarines Sur 41.2
11 Catanduanes 33.8
12 Sorsogon 40.7
Western Visayas
13 Antique 30.9
14 Negros Oriental 50.1
15 Negros Occidental 32.3
Central Visayas
16 Bohol 36.8
17 Siquijor 32.6
REGION
PROVINCE % PI
Eastern Visayas
18 Leyte 39.2
19 Southern Leyte 43.3
20 Western Samar 50
Western Mindanao
21 Zamboanga del Sur 32.0
22 Zamboanga Sibugay 44.8
Northern Mindanao
23 Bukidnon 49
24 Misamis Occidental 42.8
25 Lanao del Norte 49.1
Davao Region
26 Compostela Valley 36.7
27 Davao Oriental 45.8
28 Davao del Norte 33.4
SOCCSKSARGEN
29 Cotabato City 44.3
30 South Cotabato 32.0
31 Sultan Kudarat 53.2
CARAGA
32 Agusan del Norte 34.7
33 Agusan del Sur 48.1
34 Surigao del Norte 41.8
35 Surigao Del Sur 36.0
ARMM 36 Basilan 41.2
37 Sulu 45.8
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Strategies: Basic social services that promote economic and physical mobility while creating economic
opportunities Link small agri-based enterprises to the supply chain of product or service providers in more
developed areas Peace-building efforts
Sectoral Interventions: Social development: education, health, social services (Primary Interventions) Agriculture Agri-based enterprise/industry Peace and security
Figure 4. Category 3: Provinces exposed to multiple hazards, DOST and DENR (2012)
Region Province
1 Ilocos Norte
Ilocos Sur
CAR Abra
Benguet
2
Cagayan
Isabela
Nueva Viscaya
Quirino
3
Aurora
Pampanga
Zambales
4A
Cavite
Laguna
Rizal
5 Catanduanes
6 Antique
Iloilo
7 Bohol
8
Eastern Samar
Leyte
Northern Samar
Southern Leyte
9 Zamboanga del Sur
Zamboanga Sibugay
13
Dinagat Island
Agusan del Sur
Surigao del Norte
Surigao del Sur
Category 3 Primary Interventions:
DRRM & Natural Resources Management (province-wide)
Strategies: Risk reduction and mitigation, disaster-risk
management
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The updated FVDF recognizes the need for collaboration and concerted effort of stakeholders to help achieve inclusive growth in the country. Hence, expansion areas were considered to:
(1) provide continuity of program assistance in some geographic areas; (2) align the framework with the Country Strategy of the program partners; and (3) to respond more appropriately to the identification of volunteer assistance as being project-based and
demand-driven.
B. MENU OF INTERVENTIONS
Based on previous experience in FVDF implementation, and per consultation with key national government agencies, a set of interventions are listed below for quick reference of Program partners.
Table 1. Menu of Interventions, Updated FVDF 2011-2016
SECTOR Scope/Menu of Interventions
1. AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES
Production of high value commercial crops (HVCC) and industrial crops Livestock and fisheries Farming systems/crop diversification/agro-forestry Agri-processing and product standards: quality and safety Agri-tourism Value Chain Approach Information, Education and Communication Rural infrastructure
2. INDUSTRY & SERVICES Business Research and Development (agro-industry, manufacturing & food processing, product & service improvement/ value-adding, Value Chain Management, market linkaging/ expansion, tourism, mining and minerals processing)
Technical-vocational skills enhancement Consumer welfare, ISO standards compliance Cooperative development (including ARCs and ARBs)
3. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
3.1 Education Curriculum and materials development: English, Science & Technology, Math, entrepreneurship, TVET (ICT, agri-fishery, alternative fuel technology, green skills and gender, language and culture), life skills
Strengthening management system across DepEd School facility improvement (except IT systems) Special Education Support to ALS and preschool education program Competency-based training programs for school heads/teachers Special Program for Foreign Language (e.g. German, Japanese, Spanish)
3.2 Health Family planning, maternal and child care services Prevention and Control of TB, HIV/AIDS and Malaria Reproductive Health Public healthcare services including nutrition and nutrition-related services
and facilities enhancement
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SECTOR Scope/Menu of Interventions
3.3 Social Protection/ Services
Organizational Development Service delivery to vulnerable sectors (e.g. IPs, PWDs, Senior citizens, women
and children in difficult circumstances, OSY) Children and youth development Poverty reduction convergence programs (e.g. CCT or 4Ps) Support to housing assistance focusing on vulnerable households
4. ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
DRRM mainstreaming Natural Resource Management (CRM, CBFM) Solid Waste Management Water and Sanitation Renewable Energy
5. PEACE AND SECURITY
Livelihood in conflict-affected areas Peace Building Conflict Transformation Diversified livelihood opportunities Emotional Recovery Human Rights
CROSS-CUTTING THEMES Good Governance, Climate Change Adaptation, Gender and Development
Good Governance Institutional development/strengthening including Information Technology (e.g. GIS, e-library system, MIS), resource mobilization, planning, human resource development, gender mainstreaming, M&E
Climate Change Adaptation CCA mainstreaming, IEC, vulnerability assessment tools
Gender and Development GAD mainstreaming
Annex 1. 2015-2016 Focus Geographic Areas of the FVDF
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Region Province
PDP focus based on
(1) High Poverty Magnitude (2) High Poverty
Incidence**
(3) Vulnerability to Shocks and
Disasters
5th & 6th Class municipalities only*
# of HH Province-
wide % PI
Province-wide, DRRM & NRM only
1
Ilocos Norte 24,890 9.9 X
Ilocos Sur 34,213 17.3 X
Pangasinan X 148,601 20.4
CAR
Abra 17,544 E 37.4 X
Apayao 13,794 X 61.4
Benguet 17,947 3.7 X
Ifugao 15,936 E 42.4 X***
Mt. Province 59,186 E 37.6
2
Batanes 4,380 E 33.3
Cagayan 38,270 19.7 X
Quirino 8,492 21.2 X
Isabela 54,678 24.4 X
Nueva Viscaya 16,500 20.7 X
3
Zambales 23,804 16.0 X
Pampanga 55,328 7.6 X
Aurora 9,333 E 30.8 X***
4A
Cavite 58,536 3.4 X
Quezon X 122,139 27.5
Laguna 55,417 6.4 X
Rizal 48,360 6.1 X
4B
Marinduque 73,738 E 32.9
Occidental Mindoro 181,631 E 38.1
Romblon 104,992 E 40.5
5
Albay 102,327 E 41.0
Camarines Sur X 136,208 E 41.2
Catanduanes 16,743 E 33.8 X
Masbate 89,666 X 51.3
Sorsogon 297,931 E 40.7
6
Antique 38,157 E 30.9 X
Negros Occidental X 138,664 E 32.3
Negros Oriental 638,466 E 50.1
Iloilo X 122,770 26.2 X
7
Bohol 70,028 E 36.8 X***
Cebu X 151,425 22.7
Siquijor 27,282 E 32.6
8
Eastern Samar 38,487 X 63.7 X***
Leyte X 132,377 E 39.2 X***
Northern Samar 59,262 X 50.2 X***
Southern Leyte 23,185 E 43.3 X ***
Western Samar 361,045 E 50.0
Annex 1. 2015-2016 Focus Geographic Areas of the FVDF
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Region Province
PDP focus based on
(1) High Poverty Magnitude (2) High Poverty
Incidence**
(3) Vulnerability to Shocks and
Disasters
5th & 6th Class municipalities only*
# of HH Province-
wide % PI
Province-wide, DRRM & NRM only
9
Zamboanga del Norte
103,669 X 54.4
Zamboanga del Sur X 170,181 E 32.0 X
Zamboanga Sibugay 74,643 E 44.8 X
10
Bukidnon 664,158 E 49.0
Camiguin 9,755 X 53.6
Misamis Occidental 241,738 E 42.8
Lanao del Norte 443,271 E 49.1
11
Davao del Sur X 111,655 24.4
Compostela Valley 259,485 E 36.7
Davao Oriental 246,026 E 45.8
Davao del Norte 328,442 E 33.4
12
Cotabato City 130,477 E 44.3
South Cotabato 430,210 E 32.0
North Cotabato 89,667 X 52.4
Sarangani 141,612 X 53.2
Sultan Kudarat 357,960 E 53.2
13
Dinagat Island 12,869 n/r X
Agusan del Norte 230,721 E 34.7
Agusan del Sur 65,473 E 48.1 X
Surigao del Norte 45,343 E 41.8 X***
Surigao del Sur 59,179 E 36.0 X***
ARMM
Basilan 110,711 E 41.2
Lanao del Sur 114,245 X 73.8
Maguindanao 55,921 X 63.7
Sulu X 122,218 E 45.8 X***
*Province-wide for interventions for vulnerable sectors (PWDs, OSY, IPs, WEDC, children in difficult circumstances) **including expansion areas (E), i.e. more than 30% poverty incidence
***Top 10 most at-risk provinces (DRRM Framework by Simon O'Donnell,2013)
****Provinces in bold letters – convergence areas for priority interventions
Data Sources:
(i) Poverty incidence - NSCB, 2012
(ii) Poverty magnitude - Top 10 provinces (DSWD-NHTSPR, 2012), expansion areas (NSCB, 2012) (iii) Vulnerable to shocks and disasters - DOST and DENR/ READY Project (2010)
Annex 1. 2015-2016 Focus Geographic Areas of the FVDF
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SECTORAL INTERVENTIONS PER CATEGORY
CATEGORY INTERVENTION
1 High Poverty Magnitude
primary Industry and services (e.g. manufacturing, tourism, product development/improvement, Value Chain Management)
secondary Social development (education including TVET, health, social services), environment and natural resources management
2 High Poverty
Incidence
primary Social development (education including TVET, health, social protection--poverty reduction programs)
secondary Value chain analysis, agri-based enterprises (seaweeds, fisheries, coconut), eco-tourism, environment and natural resources management, peace and security
3 Vulnerable to
Shocks &
Disasters
primary
CCA/DRRM mainstreaming, environment and natural resources management, residual waste management
Cross cutting Themes Good Governance, Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), Gender and Development (GAD)
Annex 2. 5th and 6th Class Municipalities of PDP Category 1 - High Poverty Magnitude
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Region Province Municipality Income
Class
Region Province Municipality
Income Class
Region 1 Pangasinan Sto. Tomas 5th Region 8
Leyte Tunga 6th*
Region 4A Quezon Agdangan 5th La Paz 5th*
Alabat 5th Mayorga 5th*
Jomalig 5th Mc Arthur 5th*
Patnanungan 5th Pastrana 5th*
Perez 5th Sta. Fe 5th*
Plaridel 5th Hindang 5th
Quezon 5th Julita 5th
Sampaloc 5th Merida 5th
Region 5 Camarines Sur Bombon 5th Tabon-tabon 5th
Cabusao 5th Tolosa 5th
Camaligan 5th Region 9 Zamboanga del Sur Josefina 5th*
Gainza 5th Sominot 5th*
Region 6 Negros Occidental None Tigbao 5th*
Region 6 Iloilo Mina 5th Vincenzo Sagun 5th
San Rafael 5th Region 11 Davao del Sur None
Batad 5th ARMM Sulu Hadji P.Tahil 6th
Bingawan 5th K. Caluang 5th
Region 7 Cebu Ronda 5th* Lugus 5th
Alcantara 5th Maimbung 5th
Alcoy 5th P. Estino 5th
Boljoon 5th Pata 5th
Ginatilan 5th Tapul 5th
Malabuyoc 5th *Not re-classified under Department Order No. 23-08 due to incomplete certified
income data but the classification as stated are their income re-classification under DOF Order No. 20-05, dated July 29, 2005. Source: BUREAU OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE www.blgf.gov.ph; Updated March 27, 2013
Pilar 5th
Samboan 5th
Tudela 5th