Brief Profile of Davao del Norte and the

B.E.S.T.P.E.O.P.L.E. Development Thrust

NELSON F. PLATA, EnP, MPA
Planning Officer IV, PPDO
 Presentation Outline

 Socio-economic profile
 Demography
 Economy
 Connectivity and Access

 Development Agenda
 Vision, Mission and Goals
Development Thrust
 Strategies
Quick Facts About Davao del Norte
 8 municipalities
Coverage  3 cities
 223 barangays
Capital/Seat of  Tagum City
Government
Population  1,016,332 (2015 Census)
 294 persons/km2
Land Area  346,280 hectares
Economy  Agriculture-based
Mineral Resources  44.8 million MT of non-metallic
minerals
Quick Facts About Davao del Norte

Environmentally  40,726 has. are prone to

Critical Areas flooding, particularly along
Tagum Libuganon River

Water Resources  15 major rivers with Lasang,

Tagum/Libuganon, Saug and
Tuganay as the bigger rivers

Climate and Rainfall  Type IV with rainfall evenly

distributed with no pronounced
rainy season and dry season
Quick Facts About Social Facilities and Utilities

Health facilities  28 hospitals (public and private, including 1 regional

Quick Facts About Social Facilities and Utilities
hospital-DRMC), 14 city/mun. health stations and
Health facilities 
21826 barangay
hospitals (public and private, including 1
regional hospital),health stations
14 city/mun. health
stations and 218 barangay health stations

Education Facilities  386 elementary schools

Education Facilities  368 elementary schools
 107 high schools

 96 high schools
22 tertiary schools

Subdivisions
Security
22 tertiary
 schools
194 subdivision/housing
 Generally peaceful
 15 police stations

 205 subdivisions/housing
7 fire stations
Subdivisions  1 Prov’l. Disaster Center
Welfare Services  With welfare programs for the
Security  Generally peaceful
disadvantage children, women, youth,
elderly, IPs and persons with disability

Day Care Center
15 police stations
 489 Day Care Centers


Power Utilities
7 firestations
Davao Light and Power Company
 DANECO

Water System
 1 Prov’l. Disaster 
Center
5 Water District
Telecommunications  Available provincewide
Quick Facts About Social Facilities and Utilities

Welfare Services  Available welfare programs for the

Quick Facts About Social Facilities and Utilities

Health facilities 
disadvantage children, women, youth, elderly,
26 hospitals (public and private, including 1
IPs
regional and
hospital),persons with disability
14 city/mun. health
stations and 218 barangay health stations

Day Care CenterEducation Facilities  489Day Care Centers

368 elementary schools
 96 high schools
 22 tertiary schools
Subdivisions  194 subdivision/housing

Power Utilities Security
 Davao Light and Power Company

Generally peaceful
15 police stations
 7 fire stations
 DANECO  1 Prov’l. Disaster Center
Welfare Services  With welfare programs for the

 7 Water District
disadvantage children, women, youth,
Water System elderly, IPs and persons with disability

Day Care Center  489 Day Care Centers

Power Utilities  Davao Light and Power Company

 Available provincewide
DANECO
Telecommunications
Water System  5 Water District
Telecommunications  Available provincewide
 POPULATION
As of 2015 Census: 1,016,332
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 Wood, 0.631 Quarrying, 0.301
Services, 2.484 Tourism, 2.351

Industries, 9.740

Agriculture, 26.879
 Land Connectivity and Access
Road Classification Length (kms.)

National Road 238.38

Provincial Road 839.33

Municipal Road 220.74

City Road 541.94
Barangay Road 1,988.85
Total Road Name Length % paved3,831.35
(km.)*

Agusan-Davao Road 37.98 100

Surigao-Davao Coastal Road 6.848 100

Kapalong-Talaingod- 41.737 1.18

Bukidnon Road
 VISION

A premier province in producing export-quality

agricultural products that are globally competitive, with
climate change adaptive and risk-resilient communities,
social equity, improved quality of life under a
transparent and responsive governance.
 MISSION

WE THE OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF DAVAO

DEL NORTE, COMMIT OURSELVES TO UPLIFT THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL
DABAONONS THROUGH:
 TRANSPARENT, EFFECTIVE AND GENDER RESPONSIVE GOVERNANCE;
 ADOPTING A SCIENCE-BASED POLICY IN AGRICULTURE, CLIMATE CHANGE
ADAPTATION AND DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT;
 PROVIDING ADEQUATE FACILITIES AND SERVICES; and
 PROVIDING AVENUES FOR PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION

THUS, ENSURING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

 Improved An environment and
GENERAL environment social-friendly
quality for a safe industries that provides
GOALS and risk resilient widespread income and
employment
community opportunities
Increased
productivity and Efficient E-governance
resiliency to through competent ,
climate change of gender-responsive and
agricultural globally-competitive
products human resource

Ensure and sustain

Sustained
resiliency and
adaptability of infra PGDdN provision of
quality health
facilities and
utilities to various
hazards
Vision care and social
services
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STRATEGIES
BALANCED ECOLOGY
Protection of local Sustaining significant Strengthen disaster
economy and people interventions and preparedness and mitigation
from the threat of engaging community in efforts by ensuring that disaster
disasters by Empowering environmental risk reduction and climate
the communities protection and change adaptation are among
through adequate, conservation thru the priorities of LGUs with a
extensive & well various greening strong institutional
coordinated IEC program and activities basis/mechanism for
campaign between and implementation through
across LGUs. periodic M & E on the
functionality of different DRRM
structures and mechanisms.
ENHANCED AGRI-AQUACULTURE Promotion of agri-business
development through
Raise the competitiveness implementation of
of the agriculture sector commodity-based
and graduate from clustering approach and
subsistence farming the use of the value chain
analysis

Strengthened extension support to
marginalized farmers through collaboration
and complementation between and across
LGUs to improve adoption of appropriate
technology
Strengthening organizational
capacity of cooperatives and
other rural-based organizations
in project and office
management through provision
of technical assistance and
implementation of
performance incentive fund.
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
Promoting Davao del Norte as the
perfect alternative destination in
this part of the world

Pursuing community-based
tourism initiatives that will
increase income of each family in
the locality

Strengthening of tourism councils

for policy dialogue and
stakeholder engagement, and
exploring PPP endeavors.
TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP
Leaders who are willing to do what it
takes for the good of the people, not for
popularity or for vested interests.

Leaders who can transcend from simply

being a service provider to an enabler.

Leaders who have the dynamism,

competence and commitment to fulfill
their mandate to serve beyond self and
beyond politics
PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
Opening more transportation valves to
facilitate interconnectivity and to prepare
our province from receiving the full pressure
of industrial traffic from all points of
Mindanao.
EDUCATION AND SPORTS
Further beef up the scholarship program to attune its
objectives also on skills-based demand of the global
market

Strengthening coordination and collaboration between

and among national line agencies and local government
in sports development.

Forging partnership with the civil society organizations,

particularly with the sports associations, academic and
business sector, so that a holistic approach is achieved in
sports development.
OPTIMUM HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES

Sustain quality Strengthening Build on the

health care and the capacity and gains of the
social services to capability of Universal
improve the health and Philhealth
quality of life of welfare services coverage and
all Dabaonons facilities and beef up social
fortify the services to
Service Delivery guarantee each
Network (SDN) Dabaonon a life
of dignity
 Deliberate targeting of
households with no access to
clean water and sanitation
through collaboration with
barangay and municipal LGUs
and with national line agencies in
the allocation of funds and
project implementation
Strengthening institutional capacity of
hospitals through expansion of PPP
arrangements to become dynamic
and competitive based from local and
national standards
Empowerment of the members of the
disadvantaged sectors through a positive
bias in terms of access to basic social
services and meaningful engagement in
governance processes
Targeting of RHUs/BHs/birthing
homes in communities with high
morbidity/mortality through
resource sharing with concerned
national line agencies and
between and across local
government units
PUBLIC –PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
Capitalize on the immense financial strength of the
private sector in delivering public goods and services
both in small-scale and large-scale approaches.

Strengthen mechanism to entice more private

investors, both local and foreign, to invest in areas
like public health, public infrastructures,
transportation, education, and housing facilitation.
LINK TO THE WORLD
Opening Pursue efforts for Unify and
digital Davao del Norte standardize
infrastructures to be known as systems,
to facilitate the “Province of processes and
inter- Best Stories” not procedures to
connectivity just in the local hasten
within, as well and national facilitation of
as, to and levels but more public
from the importantly, transactions.
Province worldwide
EMPLOYMENT AND LIVELIHOOD
OPPORTUNITIES Nurture the vibrant services sector and invite
more players to come by revisiting the provincial
investment policies and make them a deliberate
come-on tool

Strengthen livelihood program by harnessing the

local human, social, financial and natural capital
to make it at par with the best practices in the
country.

Push for MSME development by providing better

access to financing and product and skills
development to enable them to compete with
domestic and international players
OVERARCHING GOAL
PEOPLE
EMPOWERMENT
( Social, Economic, Moral, Educational)
 PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT Overarching Goal
(Social, Economic, Moral, Educational)

B.E.S.T. P.E.O.P.L.E. Dev’t. Strategy

COMPETITIVENESS (ABILIDAD) WELFARE (MALASAKIT) Key Areas

ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE ENVIRONMENT SOCIAL SERVICES Major Sectors

 Enhanced Agri-  Transformative
Aquaculture Leadership Balanced Ecology  Education and
 Sustainable  Link to the Sports
Tourism world  Optimum Health
 Public and Social services
 Public-Private Components
Infrastructure
 Employment Partnership
and Livelihood
Opportunities
PGO, PADO, PHRMO, OSS,
PTO, PPDO, PGSO, PBO,
PAGRO, PEO, PVO, PADO PACCO, PASSO,VGO PENRO-LGU, PGO-PDRRMD PHO, PSWDO , PEEDO, PADO
ECONOMIC SECTOR

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Repair/
Various
Maint. of Various local
Various gov’t. Infrastructure
various roads and Rural
water system buildings and fund
provincial drainage Electrification
development facilities augmentation
roads and development project
project development project
bridges project
project
project
 AGRI-AQUACULTURE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM

High Value
Commercial Cereals Fishery Cooperative
Crop Enhancement Enhancement Enhancement
Development Project Project Project
Project
LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM

Rabies Control and Prevention project

Dairy Development Healthcare Project

Animal Products Regulation and Utilization

Project

Animal Breeding and Upgrading Project

Animal Healthcare and Disease
Management Project

Animal Disease Surveillance and Diagnosis

Project

Livestock and Poultry Production and

Restocking Project
 • Trade and Investment Promotion, Facilitation and
TRADE AND INVESTMENT Generation Project
PROMOTION DEV’T.
PROGRAM • Micro, Small and Medium (MSME) Development
Project

• Tourism Marketing and Promotion Project

TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
• Sites Development Project
PROGRAM
• Human Resource Development Project

• Livelihood and Skills Training Project

LIVELIHOOD AND SKILLS • Establishment and Operation of Training and
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Research for Entrepreneurship & Employment
(TREE) Center
 SOCIAL SECTOR
HEALTH
Local Health
GOVERNANCE
Support Project
PROGRAM

Mother and Family Planning &

FAMILY HEALTH Nutrition health
Child Health Care Responsible
CARE PROGRAM care Project Parenthood Project
Project

Water and Vector Control

ENVIRONMENTAL Water Bacteriology
Sanitation Laboratory project
(malaria, Dengue &
HEALTH PROGRAM Filaria) Project
Project
 SOCIAL SECTOR
DISEASE Prevention and Prevention and
PREVENTION control of Control of Non-
AND CONTROL Communicable communicable
PROGRAM Disease Project Disease Project

HEALTH CARE AGR Philhealth

SERVICES Sponsored
PROGRAM Project

SOCIAL Crises Residential Community

PROTECTION AND Intervention Care Facilities
INTERVENTION Welfare
PROGRAM project Project Project
SPORTS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Talent Reinforcement and Intensification (TRAIN) Project

Complementary Project for Exposure in Tournament and

Events (COMPETE)

Holistic Organizing of Sports Tournaments (HOST) Project

EDUCATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Scholarship and Education Grants

Project

Basic Literacy Project

 ENVIRONMENT SECTOR
INTEGRATED WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM
• Cave Management Program
• Riverbank Rehabilitation Project
• Upland Reforestation Project
• Mangrove Rehabilitation Project
• Urban Greening project
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND
PROTECTION PROGRAM
• Ecological Solid Waste Management Project
• Mineral Resources Management Project
• Establishment of Sanitary Landfill
 GOVERNANCE SECTOR
PEACE AND ORDER PROGRAM
• Anti-crime and Government Integration Project
• Probationers, Parolees & Pardonees Rehab. Project
• Construction of Half-way House for Former Rebels
• Comprehensive Legal Assistance Project

HUMAN CAPITAL ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM

• Socio-cultural Project
• Management Support Services Project
• Gender and Development Project
• Women Livelihood and Empowerment Project
• Continuing Studies for Local Development Project
GOVERNANCE SECTOR
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM
Executive and Legislative Enhancement
Project

Middle manager’s Development Project

Employee’s Competency Enhancement

project

Performance Management System

Project
GOVERNANCE SECTOR
HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM

PGDdN HRD Core Team and Pool of Trainers

Project

Employee’s and Retirees Health and

Welfare Project

Rewards and Recognition Project

 PROJECTS AND MILESTONES
Knowledge
Management Effective and efficient Improved monitoring Empowered NGOs,
Development planning system and evaluation system CSOs, POs
Program (KMDP)

Comprehensive, sectoral
and annual provincial
plans

Planning and Results-based Monitoring and

Development Evaluation Framework/Matrices
Programming

Strengthened collaboration with

development partners
 PROJECTS AND MILESTONES
Knowledge Management Enhanced Database and Information
Development Program Management
(KMDP)

Science-based information system

Geographic
Information System
Development Project
GIS integrated Socio-Economic and
Ecological Profiling System (SEEPS)
GOVERNMENT FACILITIES UPGRADING
PROGRAM
Upgrading of Various Provincial Government
Government Buildings and Center Ground
Facilities Development Project

Beautification of Capitol MRF, Nursery and Waste

Parks and Plaza Material Depot Project

Construction of SP
Building, Phase I
FINANCIAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Asset Acquisition and Property Management Project

Resource Allocation and Appropriation Project

Financial Resources Management Policy and

Expenditure Control Project

Internal Control and Quality Standard Management

project
PUBLIC FISCAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

Revenue Collection
RPTA Development Project
Enhancement Project

Comprehensive Taxmapping
Project
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
Legislative Research Project

Upgrading of SP Session Hall Sound System

Project

Upgrading of Records and Archives Center