Cong. Mangaoang seeks involvement of communities in local development process

Tabuk City, Kalinga – Through his proposed institutionalization of the Community-Driven Development (CDD) Bill, Congressman Allen Jesse Mangaoang sought for community participation in the local development process.

Regie Wacas, a staff of the Office of the Congressman, gave light on the purpose of the bill during the radio program of Mangaoang aired on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

“Daytoy CDD Bill ket mangited ti polisiya nga dagiti programs should emanate from the community. Daytoy ket panangbigbig ti kayat ti tao on the grassroot level, nga isuda mang-conceptualize, isuda ti mang-identify ken isuda ti mang-implement kadagiti project wennu programa nga iyulog dagiti various line agencies,” Wacas explained.

According to Wacas, among the justification of the bill brought to the Congress is the positive impacts of the program when it was implemented in the Municipality of Balbalan under the administration of Mangaoang.

Mangaoang earlier underscored that the ‘insurgency has dwindled to its lowest as locals were dissuaded to be enticed to the recruitment as villages are now connected with local transport road networks and that they feel the Local Government is addressing their issues and concerns.’

Also, ‘corruption was addressed with stringent measures and transparency is always primordial in every LGU spending. With this advocacy, we were able to reinstate the trust of our people to the government.’

The local practice, Wacas said, was recognized by then Regional Director of Department of Social Welfare and Development – Cordillera who is now at the Central Office, joining the Congressman in the fight for the approval of the said bill.

Mangaoang underscored that “as representative of a Province where most of its Municipalities benefitted from a development concept mustered by the CDD program, I feel obligated to see the same program sustained. My sponsorship of the bill to institutionalize the CDD program is borne out from a testimony and personal experience that CDD models are effective ventures to catapult development in the countryside. The voice of our people in the countryside shall always be amplified with the approval of this bill.”

The said bill was primarily referred to Social Services on September 25, 2019, passed to the Committee on Poverty Alleviation on March 10, 2020, and was transmitted to the Committee on Appropriations on February 16, 2021.

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