TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Chapter I Vision Statement 1

Chapter II Introduction 2

Chapter III Cross-Sectoral Concerns on Climate Change 6

Chapter IV Economic Development 11

Agriculture 14
Forestry 30
Quarrying 33
Manufacturing 35
Food Processing 42
Tourism 45
Information and Communication Technology 52
Construction 56
Micro, Small, and Medium Entreprise Development 58
Cooperatives 65
Trade 68
Financial Institutions 72
Labor and Employment 75

Chapter V Social Development 79

Health 82
Education 95
Social Welfare 101
Public Order and Safety 115
Sports and Recreation 128
Shelter 134

Chapter VI Infrastructure Development 138

Roads, Bridges, Ancillary Facilities and Drainage 140
Transportation Facilities 151
Water Supply System 156
Power Supply 159
Information and Communication Technology 161
Economic Infrastructure Support 163

Chapter VII Environmental Management 167

Air Quality 170
Forests and Forestlands 175
Parks, Wildlife and Other Resources 180
 Water Resources and Water Quality 186
Solid Waste Management 193
Mineral Lands 200
Climate Change 202

Chapter VIII Institutional Development 204

Organization and Management 205
Fiscal Management 208
LGU-NGO-PO Linkages 210
Legislative Output of Sangguniang Panlungsod 212
VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT

VISION

Davao City is a globally livable City and a center of excellence in governance, investment,
tourism, climate change adaptation, disaster resiliency, and sustainable growth, driven by
empowered citizenry.

MISSION

 Ensure effective and efficient delivery of services through responsive leadership and
competent human resources.
 Sustain the gains by ensuring that the people of Davao are empowered, protected,
secured, and gender and culturally sensitive to attain the best quality of life.
 Continue to engage participative citizenry in resource-based, market-driven economic
activities within the context of balanced ecology, and equity-led development.
 Develop a progressive and future-proof network of infrastructure, utilities, and support
services.
 Maintain a disaster-resilient, climate change-adaptive, and ecologically balanced
environment through ridge-to-reef approach, proper solid waste management,
preservation of natural environment, promotion of renewable energy, and adoption of
low carbon and eco-friendly technologies.

CORE VALUES

 Leadership
 Good Governance and Service Excellence
 Resiliency and Unity
 Integrity

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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Facts about Davao City

Demographic Characteristics

Davao City has three (3) Congressional Districts with a total of 182 barangays. It is further
divided into 11 administrative districts, where Poblacion and Talomo Districts comprise the First
District; Agdao, Buhangin, Bunawan and Paquibato cover the Second District; and Toril, Tugbok,
Calinan, Baguio and Marilog encompass the Third District. The First District is the most
populous among the Congressional Districts of the City with 592,736 inhabitants.

Figure 1.1 Populous Barangays in Davao City, 2015

Source: Office of the City Planning and Development Coordinator

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From 2010 to 2015, the population growth rate of Davao City is 2.30%, reaching a population of
1,632,991 persons (2015 Philippine Statistics Authority Census of Population). Population
density is seven (7) persons per hectare. Population projection for 2023 indicated that
population will reach to 1,971,499 or an increase of 338,508 inhabitants. The reference period
for the population used in the plan is 2015 since it is the official mid-decade population count.

Table 1.1 Summary of Demographic Characteristics

Total population (2015) 1,632,991

Land Area (hectares) 244,000
Population Density (per hectare) 7 persons
Population Growth Rate 2.30%
Number of barangays/villages 182
IRA share ₱3,330,085,561
IRA dependency rate 53.97%
Total LGU Income ₱7,307,595,301.66
Average LGU revenue per capita ₱4,474.97
Eco-system type Watershed
Economy First Class
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Region XI

Physical Characteristics

Geographic Location and Land Area

Davao City is located in the southeastern part of Mindanao. It is bounded in the north of Davao
Province; in the east partly of Davao Province and Davao Gulf; in the south of Davao del Sur;
and in the west of North Cotabato. Davao City Proper is 946 aerial kilometers or 588 statute
miles, southeast of Manila. The City has an area of 244,000 hectares, or eight percent (8%) of
the land size of Davao Region.

Topography

A substantial part of Davao City is mountainous, characterized by extensive mountain ranges

with uneven distribution of plateaus and lowlands. The mountain range, which delimits the
western boundary of the City, extends to as far as North Cotabato. The large, contiguous
lowland areas of Davao City, are coastal plains and valleys extending inland as gently-rising
valleys. These areas are found in Paquibato District, located in the eastern part of the City,
which is an extension of the vast lowlands at the head of Davao Gulf. The other substantial
lowland areas are located in the southeastern part of the City along the western coast of the
Gulf, and are situated in the districts of Bunawan, Buhangin, Agdao, Poblacion, Talomo, and
Toril. The Davao River, with its numerous tributaries, is the main drainage system of the City. It
originates from Bukidnon Province, flows towards the south, meanders along the central part

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and finally flows eastward emptying into the Gulf at the southern periphery of the City Proper.
The secondary drainage system of the City is the Talomo River, which is the drainage outlet of
the eastern slopes of Mt. Apo. Other major drainage systems include the Lipadas River, Matina
River, Lasang River and Sibulan River (CLUP 2013-2022).

Local Economy

Agriculture

Crop Production. In 2016, production areas for agricultural and industrial crops, fruits, root
crops, and vegetables spanned approximately 74,158 hectares with a total production of
630,000 metric tons. The Third District is the main location in the production of industrial crops,
fruits, rice, root crops, and vegetables. Fruits and industrial crops comprises the largest volume
of production.

Livestock and Poultry. The volume of livestock production for cattle and carabao was estimated
to be at 74,570 heads in 2016. The swine production made up 53.78% or 222,341 heads of the
total livestock production while goats represented 11.26% or 46,553. The First District leads in
poultry production with an estimated volume of 6,293,775 heads.

Fishery. Aquaculture production in Davao City reached 617.020 metric tons in 2016, which was
distributed as follows: inland fishing with 908.79 metric tons, fishponds with 227,418.92 metric
tons and deep sea fishing with 388,597.95 metric tons. More than half of the total figures (63%)
come from freshwater catch.

Commerce, Trade, and Industry

In 2016, the City has issued business permits to 36,254 establishments with capitalization of
₱227,395,300,819.52 and total declared employees of188, 964. Bulk of capitalization (77.83%)
was generated from large businesses, while micro businesses hired the most number of
employees at 122,389 or 64.77% of the total.

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 Figure 1.2 Number of Issued Business Permits, 2016

Source: Business Bureau

A total of 60,759 business lines were registered in 2016. Each business establishment can have
one (1) or more business lines. Of the business lines, retailers account for 42.11% (25,586),
followed by services with 18.03% or 10,922 establishments. Coming in third are the
wholesalers/distributors with 9.66% (5,869) of the total and food handlers composed of
restaurants, carenderias, and refreshment parlors at 6.5% (3,993). Moreover, delivery services
have been noted with 5.31% (3,227). The rest of the business lines account for less than five
percent (5%) of the total.

Tourism

A total of 1,953 tourism-related establishments has been accredited by the City Tourism
Operations Office in 2016. Dining and entertainment establishments topped the list with 1,206
(62%), followed by the accommodation facilities with 273 (14%), money changers with 182
(9%), tour operators, convention facilities, centers, and resorts account for the remaining (15%)
of the total.

The estimated tourism receipts in 2016 amounted to ₱29.56 billion based on an average daily
expenditure of ₱3,964 in an average stay of four (4) days while the estimated economic
benefits derived from the industry is ₱65.03 billion.

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CROSS-SECTORAL CONCERNS ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Exposure

Davao City falls under the Type IV climate of the Coronas Climate Classification System of the
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Sciences Administration (PAGASA). This
climate type is characterized by rainfall, which is almost evenly distributed during the whole
year.

Climate projections of PAGASA reveal that the City will experience an increase in the average
temperature between 0.9 to 1.1°C by 2020 and up to 2.3°C in 2050. This is approximately 28°C
and 29°C in 2020 and 2050 respectively. Days are becoming hotter as observed by many
throughout the City. For the past three decades, there were 109 days that registered a
temperature of 35°C and greater. PAGASA projections revealed it to increase to 2,981 days and
5,373 days in 2020 (2006-2035) and 2050 (2036-2065), respectively. The current observation of
dry days for the same time period have reached 7,930 while the projected figure is 4,789 days
in 2020 and is expected to increase to 5,368 days in 2050. Projections on change in
temperature and total frequency of extreme events are presented in the table below.

Table 2.1 Seasonal Temperature Change (in %) in 2020 and 2050 under
(A1B) Medium-Range Emission Scenario for Davao City

OBSERVED PROJECTED CHANGE PROJECTED MEAN

(°C) (°C) TEMPERATURE (°C)
SEASON
(2006- (2036- (2006- (2036-
(1971-2000)
2035) 2065) 2035) 2065)
Dec-Jan-Feb (DJF) 26.9 0.9 1.9 27.8 28.8
Mar-Apr-May (MAM) 27.8 1.1 2.2 28.9 30.0
Jun-Jul-Aug (JJA) 26.9 1.1 2.3 28.0 29.2
Sep-Oct-Nov (SON) 27.1 1.0 2.0 28.1 29.1
Source: PAGASA, Region XI

According to the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), effects of
a 1°C increase in temperature may include decreased availability of water, reduced farmer’s
productivity, lower cereal productivity in low altitudes, droughts, malnutrition, and increased
morbidity and mortality rate. Other effects include storms, floods, increased coral bleaching,
increased risk of wildfire, and increased risk of extinction of more than 30% of species in the
world. The figure on the next page shows an increasing trend in the average annual
temperature of Davao City.

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 Figure 2.1Observed
Annual Average Temperature
and projected of Davao
30 years City, 1914-2100
Average of
Mean Temperature for Davao City
30.5
30
29.5
Temperature °C

29
28.5
28
27.5
27
26.5
26
25.5
1914-1940 1951-1980 1961-1990 1971-2000 1981-2010 2006-2035 2036-2065 2071-2100
Observed
A1B SCENARIO 27.2 27.2 27.4 27.6 27.9 28.1 29.1 29.9
A2 SCENARIO 27.9 28.7 30.2

Source: PAGASA, Region XI

In reference to the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Policy Issues and
Guidelines, water-related disasters account for 90% of all natural disasters, and their frequency
and intensity generally rise. In Davao City, the average monthly rainfall increased by 10mm
from 140mm in 1990 to 150mm as recorded in 2010. Projections on the seasonal precipitation
change using the mid-range scenario are presented on the table below.

Table 2.2 Seasonal Rainfall Change (in %) in 2020 and 2050 under
(A1B) Medium-Range Emission Scenario for Davao City

OBSERVED (mm) PROJECTED CHANGE (%) PROJECTED RAINFALL

AMOUNT(mm)
SEASON
(2036- (2006- (2036-
(1971-2000) (2006-2035)
2065) 2035) 2065)
Dec-Jan-Feb (DJF) 288.1 18.1 15.2 340.25 331.9
Mar-Apr-May
(MAM) 347.1 -9.8 -12 313.08 305.4
Jun-Jul-Aug (JJA) 494.1 -7.8 -12.6 455.56 431.8
Sep-Oct-Nov
(SON) 442.3 -2.4 -4.5 431.68 422.4
Source: PAGASA, Region XI

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The observed total rainfall volume is the highest during June to November (Southwest
Monsoon). A decrease in rainfall is expected in the months of March to November while an
increase is likely during the months of December to February, where the projection for 2020
registered a greater (18.1 mm) rainfall volume compared to 2050 (15.2 mm).

Tropical Cyclones are also likely to become more intense, proven by recorded tropical cyclones
in areas that had previously been outside the usual path of storms especially in several Cities
and Municipalities in Mindanao including Davao City, being known as a typhoon-free
metropolis. Sea surface temperatures are also predicted to be between 1°C to 4°C warmer by
the end of this century.

These observed and projected changes in the average temperature and precipitation have
posed threats and new challenges for the City. Threats include the increasing frequency and
magnitude of climate-induced and natural hazards and the potential impacts or losses that it
may bring to the City. Given the climate drivers mentioned above, Davao City is exposed to
various climate-induced hazards. The Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment (VAA) identified
at least six major climate change hazards in Davao City, which are flooding, drought, rain-
induced landslide, strong wind, sea level rise, and monsoon waves.

Sensitivity

The vulnerability of Davao City is also defined by its socio-economic condition. The sensitivity
assessment is conducted by analyzing the five (5) development sectors, which are social,
economic, environment, infrastructure, and land use.

The recognized effects of climate change in the social sector include poverty, water supply
inadequacy, damaged settlements, issues and problems on health, nutrition, sanitation, and
social welfare pressures. A large percentage of the population reside in coastal barangays and
within floodplains. Challenges in water supply and sanitation can lead to health problems as
well as diseases.

Climate change affects the economic sector in agricultural production, irrigation, fisheries,
commerce and trade, and tourism, among others. Changes in temperature and rainfall patterns
greatly affect production of fruits and vegetables. Livestock also becomes vulnerable to
diseases.

The infrastructure sector is sensitive to climate change particularly in sewerage, drainage,

roads, bridges, ports, and power generation. The increase in frequency of floods can take its toll
on the existing major infrastructure. Extreme events such as El Niño reduce the capacity to
produce the needed (hydro) power for the City.

Environment elements sensitive to climate change include forest cover, soil fertility, wildlife
habitat, waste management, natural waterways, and groundwater.

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Adaptive Capacity

City-wide adaptive capacity was determined using the six (6) dimensions, which are wealth,
information, technology, institution and governance, social capital, and infrastructure.

Wealth. This includes literacy rate, labor, family income, and population health. The people
perform a vital role in adapting to climate change.

Information. This includes but not limited to plans for health, agriculture, and disaster risk
reduction. These provide the needed guidance to counter the impacts of climate change.

Technology. Davao City has the Central 911 with satellite stations to respond to emergencies to
its large jurisdiction. Early warning systems (EWS) were also established to allow pre-emptive
action by affected communities.

Institution. Functional committees such as Barangay Risk Reduction and Management Council
(BDRRMC), Davao City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (DCDRRMC), and
Peace and Order Council are among the existing committees/council organized to actively
monitor development issues, and formulate strategies especially during calamities in
collaboration with different concerned agencies and offices in a coordinated manner.
Moreover, the City’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan and Zoning Ordinance incorporated the
various hazards to prevent loss of lives and properties.

Infrastructure. Davao City has vital infrastructures located throughout the City. Out of the 182
barangays, 165 of them have a separate structure for health centers while the rest are attached
or inside their respective Barangay Halls. The City also has 33 hospitals, 30 of which are
privately owned while three (3) are owned by the government. In terms of early childhood
development, the City has 538 Day-Care Centers, 106 Home-Based, one (1) Child-Minding
Center for the children of government employees, and two (2) mobile Early Childhood Care and
Development Councils for the far-flung barangays and disaster affected areas. There is an
evacuation center, which can accommodate 500 families in Los Amigos. The City, at times,
resort to using makeshift evacuation centers during calamities and disasters. A total of 72
covered courts/ gyms, 14 Barangay Halls/multi-purpose halls, five (5) chapels/churches, three
(3) day care centers, and nine (9) government owned infrastructures were observed to have
been used as evacuation centers.

Social Capital. Several institutions are also present in the City who are responsible for providing
assistance to the less fortunate such as accredited Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and
People’s Organizations (POs). Gawad Kalinga, which is also present in many cities and
provinces, is also active in providing housing for the poor. CSOs focus on community
empowerment, which is key to building social capital.

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Vulnerability

Vulnerability (exposure + sensitivity) calls for adaptive capacity. The expected impacts of
climate change can be greatly reduced by the City’s adaptive capacity. The vulnerability to the
hazards (ranked from highest to lowest) are:

1.) Flooding
2.) Sea Level Rise
3.) Drought
4.) Monsoon Waves
5.) Strong Winds
6.) Rain-induced Landslides

Hence, there are existing initiatives and ongoing programs of the City government, in
partnership with other concerned organizations and agencies, that continuously enhance the
City’s capacity towards climate change adaptation and mitigation. However, there are other
crucial aspects that shall be addressed and prioritized in reducing the threat level while
increasing the resiliency of identified highly vulnerable areas of the City.

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The Davao City Economic Development Plan was prepared with the intention of enabling the
City Government in fulfilling its mandates related to economic development, which includes
enhancing economic prosperity, promoting full employment, developing self-reliant scientific
and technological capabilities, and ensuring food security.

The plan covers the following sub-sectors, which are agriculture, forestry, mining and quarrying,
manufacturing, food processing, tourism, information and communication technology,
construction, micro, small, and medium-scale enterprises development, cooperatives, trade,
and labor and employment.

3.1 Economic Development Goal

The target is to make every sector contribute to the overall growth of Davao City.

Agriculture
1.) Ensure availability, accessibility, and affordability of food for all Davaoeños
2.) Sustain and expand areas planted with high value crops especially those categorized as
“Export Winners” to generate more earnings for Davao City and increase farmers’
productivity
3.) Promote and facilitate Urban Agriculture practices such as container garden, Greenhouse
garden, vertical indoor plantations, and other schemes that maximize available urban spaces
for agricultural production

Industry and Services

1.) Increase global competitiveness of the industry and services sectors

Quarrying Industry
1.) Sustain supply of quarrying materials to support the construction industry

Tourism
1.) Be known internationally in areas of hosting local, regional, national, and international
conventions
2.) Enhance products and services which provide significant employment opportunities
3.) Enjoin each Barangay to craft their respective Barangay Tourism Plan towards the
development of new tourist products, sites, and services

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Information and Communication Technology
1.) Become a preferred destination for Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
investments and activities in a healthy and competitive environment with focus on
harnessing available resources, multiplying job generation, maximizing socio-economic
gains, and encouraging innovation towards sustainability.

The Byaheng Do30 of the administration of Mayor Sara Duterte from 2016 to 2019 features
agriculture and tourism among the ten priority areas.

Overall Strategies

1.) Focus on developing economic areas and activities where the City has demonstrated
advantage, which include tourism, business process outsourcing, chocolate production,
organic agriculture, and halal certified products, among others
2.) Create an environment that will enable the business sector to invest in priority areas, tap
and strengthen market linkages, ensure the availability of goods and services, and bring
about jobs necessary for a vibrant local economy
3.) Maximize linkages and support from government agencies and international partners to
achieve the City’s economic goals and objectives
4.) Invest purposefully to jumpstart or prime up economic activities and provide the
institutional, physical, and technological infrastructure necessary for sustainable economic
development
5.) Strategically perform a facilitating and enabling role through studies, research and
development, planning, and knowledge management
6.) Ensure the sustainability of the human and natural resources that support the different sub-
sectors and industries through effective regulation, honing, and monitoring

Policies and Legislation

Agriculture
1.) Policy measures to support research and development in crops
2.) Ordinance for the adoption of effective agriculture practices and promotion of organic
farming
3.) Ordinance to establish guidelines on contract farming
4.) Ordinance for the Creation of a Coastal Security Council
5.) Adoption of the Agri-Development Master Plan

Quarrying
1.) Revisit and amend existing law on granting quarry permits by the Sangguniang Panlungsod

Manufacturing
1.) Research on policy and regulation reforms in the woodworks, metalworks, gifts, and
houseware industry

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Tourism
1.) Policy measures identifying Brgy. Malagos, Marilog Proper and other appropriate areas as
expanded tourism development zone/eco-tourism areas
2.) Forging of more City Sisterhood Agreements to boost tourism
3.) Ordinance identifying and supporting Agro-Tourism in Davao City
4.) Ordinance providing for the review of ecotourism standards, including community- based
tourism and farm tourism
5.) Ordinance for the development of community-based village museum for traditions and
culture
6.) Ordinance towards approval of a Davao City Tourism Masterplan

Information and Communication Technology

1.) An ordinance on the regulation of home-based BPOs
2.) Implements policy measures to improve broadband services by encouraging and
promoting the entry of new TELCO players

Micro, Small, and Medium-Scale Enterprises

1.) Ordinances supporting small and medium-scale enterprises in Davao City

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3.2 Sub-Sector Priorities

Agriculture

Davao City has a total land area of 244,000 hectares, 73,100 hectares of which is devoted for
agricultural use. The City has strong agricultural industry composed of crops, livestock, poultry
and fishery sectors. Sixty-one percent (61%) of the agricultural lands are utilized for the
production of cereal, industrial crops, root crops, fruits, and vegetables.

Corn and rice are the main cereals produced by the City. From 2006 to 2016, the area allotted
for corn remained higher than rice. However, through the years, areas for corn and rice
planting continue to decrease due to irrigation problems. Also, both of their volume declined
due to crops shifting (rice to Cavendish) and the reclassification of agricultural lands to
residential areas. Despite this situation, the productivity of rice reached its highest productivity
rate after 10 years, with 3.59 metric tons per hectare in 2016. On the other hand, corn
continued to decrease in small increments from 2.13 metric tons (MT) in 2014 to 2MT in 2015
and 1.97MT in 2016.

Bananas remain to be the leading fruit crop in the City in terms of land area and production.
Cavendish, which is produced by multinational companies, is the most in demand variety with
66.4% of banana production in 2016. The City is where the majority of banana chip producers
are located. The banana industry aims to further develop and improve in terms of production
volume, local and export prices, product quality, and value-added processed products for local
and international consumers. The establishment of Cardava processing factories near the
farmlands is needed in order to achieve the goals of increasing the farmers’ income and adding
value to the products.

On the other hand, durian and mango come in second and third, respectively in terms of land
area. However, pineapple and mango are next in line when it comes to the volume of
production.

In the vegetable industry, eggplant farmers are the highest in number while squash crops
covered the largest area and volume in terms of produce. Marilog District is the most
concentrated area for vegetable production with 12 different crops.

There are five (5) high-value industrial crops in the city namely abaca, cacao, coconut, coffee
and rubber. These crops occupy 43,630 hectares of land and are managed by 33,939 farmers.
Coconut has the most number of farmers, the largest land area, and the highest volume of
production. Davao City yielded 202.40 million coconut fruits in 2016. Abaca, in contrast, has the
least number of farmers, smallest land area and lowest volume produced. While in the root
crop industry, cassava occupied the largest area and produced the highest volume in 2016. On
the other hand, ube had the least number of farmers and had yielded the least. The City may
still be considered a small player in the production of these industrial crops, but it holds a huge
potential in becoming a major producer in the near future, with its rich agricultural land

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(especially in Marilog, Paquibato, Toril, Baguio, and Calinan areas) and the current large
domestic and export markets for agro-industrial processed products. Empowering the farmers
throughout the entire process of production through the provision of post-harvest equipment,
financial and marketing assistance and agricultural support infrastructure will greatly help in
boosting investment opportunities for this industry.

As Davao City continues to strengthen its flourishing agri-based economy, certain facilities have
been established to aid in agricultural production, processing and marketing. Two of which are
the Davao Agricultural Trading Center (DATC) and Davao Food Complex (DFC), located in Daliao,
Toril District. The DATC, which opened in September 2018, is tasked to enhance farmers’ profits
with the use of a more systematic and practical wholesale marketing system. Meanwhile, the
DFC, which is expected to be finished by 2020, will be Davao City’s first agri-based food
manufacturing estate and among the City’s agri-tourism destinations.

In the livestock industry, the swine sector has the largest volume of production accounting for
222,341 heads or 64.73 % of the total, while the cattle sector is at the lowest with 35,875 heads
or 10.4%. This is according to the survey done by the Philippine Statistics Authority last 2016.
Poultry production in the City is mostly concentrated in District III. It has an estimated volume
of 6,293,775 heads in 2016, lower than 2015 by 9.36%.

Lastly, fishing and aquaculture production in Davao City comes from inland fishing, fishponds
and deep sea fishing. In 2016, 617,020 MT was yielded amounting to ₱683.4 million. Majority of
the products are from commercial or deep sea fishing, with 62.97% of the total production.
Aquaculture came in second accounting for 40% of the total volume and 33.4% in terms of total
value. Municipal fisheries supplied the least with 16.6% of the total volume.

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2013-2022

The City’s corn production is larger than rice. Farmers need irrigation facilities to increase rice
production. Even at optimal performance, the full potential yield of cereals cannot serve the
requirements of the City. The production levels of root crops and vegetables meet only a small
portion of the City’s dietary needs. It had been noted that there was a decline on the number of
vegetable farms. Although the Organic Agriculture Ordinance is issued in order to set up organic
agricultural zones that will be protected from encroachment and contamination of chemical-
based farm inputs, it was not systematically implemented.

High-value crops generate large economic proceeds for the City. There was massive expansion
in areas for fruit production in the years 2006 to 2010, same with industrial crops areas.

Fish production in Davao City is insufficient. Only a tenth of the per capita consumption of fish
is sourced from existing production areas in City. Low production in some aquaculture areas is
explained by high production inputs, lack of sources for quality fingerlings, weak financial

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capacity, and undeveloped aquaculture potential areas. With this, the catch per unit effort
(CPUE) in the municipal waters of Davao City is low.

From the Comprehensive Data Plan Consultation Process General/Cutting across Crops,
Livelihood and Fishery

 Agricultural infrastructure issues

 Poor farm-to-market roads (FMRs) and linkage to road networks
 High cost of transporting produce and catch
 Limited access to markets
 Technical support issues
 Insufficient outreach of agricultural extension services and providers
 Inadequate funds to conduct trainings and seminars
 Slow dissemination of technology to farmers and fishers
 Need to update the skillsets of laborers/caretakers in agriculture and fishery
 Low uptake and adoption of new and improved technologies, good agriculture,
aquaculture, animal husbandry, and organic production practices
 Farmers’ and fishers’ lack of capacity to comply with certification requirements and
entrepreneurial skills
 Financing
 Low access to financial assistance, production and market information
 Scarcity of market linkages
 Marketing issues.
 Lack of venues for direct marketing of crops and livestock that are compliant to food
safety standards
 Proliferation of layers of middlemen
 Gross Value Added (GVA) income issues
 Low income from existing crop-based, backyard livestock and poultry-based
livelihood and fishing
 Need to pursue value-adding
 Unstable harvests, yields and fish catch
 Occurrence of post-harvest losses
 Inadequate common service facilities for processing harvests and catch
 Low buying prices of agricultural and fishery products
 Lack of alternative livelihood for farmers and fisher folks

Crops-Specific
 Issues related to planting materials
 Limited supply of quality seeds of high-yielding and disease-free breeds/varieties
 Diminishing number of pollinators
 Inadequate access to disease-resistant and high-yielding breeds/varieties
 Unstable supply of planting materials other than KU50, Lakan 1 and Rayong 5 in the
proximity of cassava farms

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  Lack of coconut planting materials of hybrid, dwarf, and tall varieties
 Constrained capacity of Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) seed farms
 Shortage of resources to further expand seed nut production
 Limited supply of organic vegetable seeds
 High costs of input materials and vegetables due to outsourcing from other places
 Inadequate number of accredited nurseries that results to inconsistent quality of
planting materials available in the market.
 Pests and diseases
 Presence of pest and disease outbreaks
 Insufficient methods to effectively eradicate pest and disease infestations
 Infrastructure for crops.
 Inadequate supply of water for crops
 Technical assistance issues
 Costly inorganic fertilizers
 Limited technical expertise on appropriate organic farming practices
 Issues arose in the delineation of lands for organic and non-organic farming
 Farmers’ access to soil analysis services
 Insufficient access to soil analysis services
 Limited range of Financially-viable and environmentally-safe technologies
 Inadequate range of financially-viable and environmentally-safe technologies for
small for small and medium-scale farmers
 Absence of recognized authority that will oversee the crop industry
 Limited area to promote and market floriculture/cutflower product
 Inadequate support to the growing cacao industry

Livestock and Poultry-Specific

 Limited supply of quality breeder stocks
 Feeds issues
 High costs of feeds
 Low quality of commercial feeds
 Limited supply of locally produced feed mixed ingredients
 Livestock disease control issues
 Threats of possible outbreaks of disease that affect livestock and poultry (e.g.,
Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis (CAE) virus, diarrhea, foot-and-mouth disease, and
others)
 Presence of emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases, which are a concern for
public health
 Absence of City Veterinary Quarantine Service Points or Veterinary Sanitary
Checkpoints
 Technology issues
 Insufficient range of financially-viable and environmentally-safe technologies for
small and medium-scale livestock raisers and methods to effectively eradicate
disease infestation

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  Unavailability of necessary tests against diseases that have economic importance
(e.g. Leptospirosis and Brucellosis) and for checking chemical and microbial residue
in meats
 Technical support issues
 Issues arose due to foul odors coming from livestock farms that do not dispose
wastes properly
 Inappropriate use of chicken dung either as fertilizer or as feeds to fish

Fishing-Specific
 Inadequate infrastructure, testing laboratories and facilities for analysis of chemical
composition, minimal residue levels, and contamination detection
 Need for better management of coastal resources

Agriculture Objectives and Targets

1.) To promote food security and ensure the availability, accessibility, and affordability of food
a.) Optimize production of rice and corn in suitable areas
b.) Encourage consumption of root crops, particularly sweet potato (camote), as
substitutes for rice
c.) Expand areas suitable to vegetables
2.) To sustain production of high-yielding and high-value crops
a.) Ensure availability of high-yielding and high-resistant seeds and breeds
b.) Expand areas suitable for fruit, vegetables, and industrial crop production
c.) Establish Davao City as the chocolate capital of the Philippines
3.) To optimize production, improve quality of products, add value, and create job
opportunities in the agriculture sector
a.) Revitalize the coconut industry in Davao City
b.) Upgrade existing slaughterhouses to “AAA” category
c.) Increase production of livestock, poultry and improve meat quality, attain agri-
industrialization and meet the consumption requirements of the populace
d.) Increase agro-processing activities
4.) To protect and sustain the croplands and coastal ecosystems
a.) Regulate conversion of coastal areas and impose land control measures to prevent
overdevelopment
b.) Manage livestock and poultry wastes to prevent contamination of water supplies
and waterways (e.g., canals, creek, rivers, coastal areas, etc.) and further prevent
environmental pollution from other sources
c.) Protect and conserve environment through organic farming

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Agriculture Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

Crop Production
1.) Quality Seed Production Program
a.) Upgrading of central nursery and setting up of satellite nursery
b.) Upgrading of tissue culture laboratories
c.) Establishment of coconut seed farm
2.) Research & Development (R & D)
a.) Strengthen R & D Services
b.) Establishment of Davao City Cacao Research and Development Center
c.) Establishment of stingless bee multiplier farms
d.) Establishment of satellite cassava multiplier farm
3.) Organic Farming Program
a.) Establishment of Davao City Organic Center
b.) Showcase organic farming technologies for organic demonstration plots
c.) Trainers’ training on Organic Farming
d.) Organic Vegetable seed production project
e.) Declare areas exclusively for organic farming
4.) Integrated Pest/Fertilizer Management Program (DA/LGU)
a.) Trainers’ training on pest control & fertilizer management
5.) Soil and Water Management Program (DA/ BSWM/LGU)
a.) Distribution of soil test kits (STK) to agricultural technician’s and farmer’s associations
6.) Farmers’ Capability Building Program
a.) Establishment of demonstration farms
b.) Development of Farmers’ Guide on Crops
c.) Trainers’ Training on: Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Good Aquaculture Practices
(GAqP), Good Animal Husbandry Practices (GAHP), Participatory Guarantee System
(PGS), and climate-smart practices
d.) Package of technology trainings and behavioral change
e.) Farmer Field School (FFS)
f.) Farmer Business School (FBS)
7.) Agri-Business Enterprise Development Program (DA/DOST/DTI/LGU)
a.) Support to Davao Food Terminal Complex (DFTC)
b.) Chocolate Enterprise Development Project (CEDP) Phase I
c.) Establishment of agribusiness enterprise for production/crop processing
d.) Establishment of One-Stop Shop Agribusiness Development Center
8.) Agri-Institutional Development
a.) Support to various commodity industry councils

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 9.) Agri-Infrastructure Support Program (DA/DPWH/LGU)
a.) Farm-to-market road projects
b.) Establishment of tramline and other efficient means of transporting goods
c.) Spring development, small farm reservoir, pump irrigation, ram pump, SWIP, open-
source pump
d.) Upland micro catchment technology in water harvesting with the use of indigenous
materials
e.) Provisions for mini-backhoe and other necessary equipment

Livestock and Poultry

1.) Livestock and Poultry Development Program (DA/DTI/DOST/LGU)
a.) Establishment of livestock multiplier farms
b.) Establishment of livestock auction market
c.) Establishment of poultry feed mill (DA/LGU/investors)
2.) Meat and Meat Products Regulation & Monitoring Project
3.) Research and Development (DA/LGU/academe)
a.) Strengthen research & development services
4.) Animal Disease Prevention
a.) Establishment of Davao City Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (DA/LGU)
5.) Agribusiness Enterprise Development
a.) Establishment of agribusiness enterprises for livestock
b.) Establishment of one-stop shop for agribusiness
c.) Establishment of poultry feed mill enterprise
6.) Agri-Infra Support Development Program
7.) Climate Change Adaptation
a.) Utilization of green technology

Fisheries
1.) Crafting/Approval of the Fishery Development Plan
a.) Preparation of successor plan for Davao City Agri-Fishery Development Plan (DCAFDP)
2013-2027
2.) Fishery Production Program
a.) Establishment of Davao City Fishery Hatchery (DA/LGU)
b.) Freshwater aquaculture production
c.) Upland freshwater production
d.) Inland household fishpond
e.) Aquaponics (urban)
f.) Sea Ranching, Shellfishes Production
g.) Sea cucumber production
h.) Fish cage production (Mariculture Park)
i.) Seaweeds production & marketing
j.) Soft-shelled crab production
k.) Ornamental fish production and marketing
l.) Establishment of chemical testing & analytical laboratory

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 3.) Agribusiness Enterprises Development
a.) Establishment of Fish Landing Centers
b.) Establishment of One-Stop-Shop Agribusiness Development Center
c.) Establishment of Agribusiness Enterprise for Fisheries
4.) Marine Protected Areas Development Program
5.) Coastal-based Resource Management Program
6.) Alternative Livelihood for Fisherfolk
a.) Clothing, livestock, poultry, containerized gardening, and food processing

Table 3.1 Davao City Agriculture Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
Crops
Problems related to planting materials
 Limited supply of quality  Establish organic rice seed  Quality Seed Production
seeds of high-yielding production and conventional rice Program
varieties seed production
 Establish certified corn seed
production and organic corn seed
production
 Lack of access to and  Upgrading of existing tissue  Establishment/Upgrading of
limited supply of disease- culture laboratories tissue culture laboratories
free and high-yielding  Upgrading of tissue culture
breeds/varieties laboratories
 Diminishing pollinators  Develop multiplier farmers to  Stingless bee multiplier farms
increase the population of insect
pollinators in the agricultural
districts
 Limited number of  Upgrading of CAO central nursery  Upgrading of Central Nursery
accredited nurseries  Establish budwood gardens and and Setting up of Satellite
resulting to inconsistent scion grove Nursery
quality of planting  Support R&D on varietal  Establish Davao City Cacao
materials available in the improvement and appropriate Research and Development
market planting materials and inputs Center
 Conduct research studies  Strengthen Research and
 Strengthens CAO Development Services
 Lack of access to and  Set up farmers’ group-managed  Enhancement of existing and
availability of steady supply multiplication farms to diversify establishment satellite cassava
of planting materials other into the propagation of improved multiplication farms
than the KU 50, Lakan 1, high-yielding varieties
and Rayong 5 within the
proximity of cassava farms
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 Table 3.1 Davao City Agriculture Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Limited supply of organic  Intensify organic vegetable seed  Organic Vegetable Seed
vegetable seed production Production Program
 Increased cost on input
materials and vegetables due
to outsourcing from other
places
 Limited access to soil analysis  Capacitate the City Agriculturist’s  Distribution of Soil Test Kit
services Office on soil and water (STK) to agricultural
management technicians and farmers’
associations
 Soil and Water Management
Program
 Pests and diseases  Buffer stocking of insecticides and  Integrated Pest Management
o Pest and disease pesticides (rodenticides, etc.) Program
outbreak chemical, mechanical, non-
o Limited methods to mechanical, and bio-technology
effectively eradicate pest practices for pest and disease
and disease infestations outbreaks
 Marketing related concerns  Upgrade Davao Food Terminal  Provide support to the Davao
o Limited venue for direct Complex including training center Food Terminal Complex (DFTC)
marketing, compliant to equipped with facilities and
food safety standards accommodation, electrification,
o Limited common service cold storage, fencing, and other
facility for processing equipment.
fruit and vegetable  Processing of cacao into tablea,
products butter fat, confectionery, and
o Proliferation of layers of other tablea-based products
middlemen  Non-Food Crop Processing
 Processing of abaca fiber and
twine
 Inadequate supply of water  Collaborate with DA and other  Spring development, small
stakeholders farm reservoir, pump
irrigation, ram pump, SWIP,
open-source pump, upland
micro catchment technology,
and water harvesting (with the
use of indigenous materials)
 Provision of mini backhoe

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 Table 3.1 Davao City Agriculture Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Technical support for crops  Initiate more programs on organic  Establishment of Davao City
o Limited technical farming and other good Organic Center
expertise on appropriate agricultural practices, especially in  Establishment of Organic
organic farming barangays and remote/far-flung Training Facility and
practices areas Sustainable Agriculture
o High cost of inorganic  Introduce best practices Information Center
fertilizer  Establishment of Organic
o Delineation for organic Demonstration Plots to
and non-organic farming showcase organic farming
(land use issue) techniques
 Declare areas exclusively for
organic farming
 Lack of technical support due  Organize group of skilled  Training of trainers, coops,
to limited outreach of existing caretakers, laborers, and experts farmer leaders, and experts as
agricultural extension services to provide extension services to mentors in integrated pest
and providers barangays and remote/far-flung management (IPM), organic
 Lack of skilled areas farming, Good Agricultural
laborers/caretakers  Accredit extension service Practices, Good Aquaculture
 Low uptake and adoption of providers to increase their Practices, Good Animal
good agriculture practices and credibility Husbandry, Participatory
organic production practices Guaranty System, and climate-
 Lack of capacity to comply smart practices
with certification  Farmer Field School (FFS)
requirements  Package of technology
 Low adoption of farmers to trainings and behavioural
new and improved change
technologies  Farmer Business School (FBS)
 Lack of entrepreneurial skills  Establishment of
demonstration farms
 Limited access to financing  Provide assistance in accessing  Establishment of One-Stop
for crops loans Shop Agribusiness
o Lack of access to  Strengthen value adding through Development Center
financial assistance processing
o Lack of market linkage  Provide assistance in marketing
o Limited access to linkage and information on price
production and market  Promote expansion areas
information

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 Table 3.1 Davao City Agriculture Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Develop programs that provide
health benefits, calamity
assistance, and life and accident
insurance to all farmers and
laborers
 Offer access to government
projects
 Limited range of financially  Strengthen Research and  Policy agenda: Crops research
viable and environmentally Development Services and development
safe technologies for small  Adopt new technologies for higher
and medium scale farmers yields and returns
 Absence of recognized local  Provide support to the Davao City  Extension of support to
authority that will oversee Commodity Industry Council existing Davao City Commodity
the agricultural industry (Cacao, Durian, Saba Banana, Industry Council
Vegetable, Dairy, and Coffee)
which shall serve as policy-making
body and undertake monitoring
and evaluation
 Limited area to promote and  Establish Floriculture Exhibition  Establishment of Floriculture
market floriculture/cutflower Center One-stop shop (display area Exhibition Center
products and training center) through
partnership with UP Mindanao
Livestock and Poultry
 Limited supply of quality  Establish 4 multiplier farms and 2  Establishment of livestock
breeder stocks for organic multiplier farms (goat, multiplier farms
sheep, hog, native chicken, and
apiculture)
 Establish dairy multiplier farm
 Feed issues  Cooperative-managed distribution  Establishment of poultry feed
o High cost of feeds of feeds for feed mill mill enterprises
o Low quality of  Promote alternative source of
commercial feeds feeds
o Limited supply of locally
produced feed mixed
ingredients
o Increased cost on feed
ingredients due to
importation

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 Table 3.1 Davao City Agriculture Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Livestock and poultry disease  Intensify Disease Monitoring and  Livestock and Poultry
control Surveillance Program Development Plan
o Eminent threat of o Establish quarantine
possible disease outbreak facility
(e.g. CAE, diarrhea, foot- o Resume operation of
and-mouth disease, and quarantine checkpoints
others) (in Buda) and establish
o Absence of City quarantine checkpoints in
Veterinary Quarantine strategic areas (e.g.,
Service Points or Lasang and Sirawan)
Veterinary Sanitary
Checkpoints
 Laboratory tests are  Enhance the existing Davao City  Davao City Animal Disease
unavailable for: Animal Disease Diagnostic Diagnostic Laboratory
o Animal diseases that have Laboratory (DCADDL) through the  Establishment of fertilizer
economic ramifications provision of Laboratory production and marketing
(e.g. Leptospirosis and equipment and reagents enterprises
Brucellosis)  Establish fertilizer production
o Emerging and re- facility from chicken dung
emerging zoonotic
diseases which are
primary concern for
public health
o Chemical and microbial
residue laboratory test
for meat
o Chicken dung is not
maximized to address
limited availability and
commercial distribution
of organic fertilizer and
inputs

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 Table 3.1 Davao City Agriculture Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Gross Value Added (GVA)  Livestock Production  Livestock and Poultry
income issues o Dairy Milk production Development Plan
o Low income from the  Source out Island
existing backyard Born
livestock and poultry-  Buyback scheme
based livelihood  Forage and Pasture
Development
o Poultry production
 Poultry breeding farm
 Poultry Hatchery
Dressing Plant
o Establish livestock raising
projects
 Goat Fattening
 Cattle Fattening
 Organic Chicken
production
o Livestock Breeding
 Cattle
 Swine
 Goat
o Capability building for
livelihood projects
o Establish livestock
production enterprises
 Agricultural infrastructure for  Construct Farm- to -Market Roads  Farm-to-Market Roads
livestock and poultry (FMR) Development Program
o Poor farm-to-market  Rehabilitate existing FMRs  Establishment of tramline
roads (FMRs) and linkage  Construct Tramlines in areas
to road networks without FMRs
o Limited access to market
o Increased cost of
transportation

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 Table 3.1 Davao City Agriculture Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Technical support problems  Waste to energy  Utilization of Green
o Conflict in residential o Biogas Production Facility Technology
areas because of foul o For backyard swine raisers:  Livestock and Poultry
odor of farms due to Installation of association- Development Plan
improper waste disposal managed biogas digester
o Slow dissemination of facility in areas with densely
technology transfer to populated livestock raisers
farmers o Conduct Information,
o Limited funds to conduct Education Campaign on waste
trainings and seminars to energy
o Training centers in o Processing of animal waste
Paquibato District are using Hyper Thermophelic
distant Bacteria to fertilizer
o Conduct seminars on the
utilization of green
technology (odor-free feeds
and effective
microorganisms)
o Conduct of trainings and
seminars in strategic venues
(barangays and remote/far-
flung areas) to reach and
educate more farmers
 Marketing  Establish livestock auction market  Establishment of Livestock
o Limited venues for direct for small and large ruminants Auction Market
marketing of livestock
that is compliant with
food safety standards
 Financing for livestock and  Provide assistance in accessing  Establish One-Stop Shop
poultry issues loans Agribusiness Development
o Lack of access to  Strengthen value adding through Center
financial assistance processing
o Lack of market linkage  Provide assistance in marketing
o Limited access to linkage and information on the
production and market price of the products
information  Promote expansion areas

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 Table 3.1 Davao City Agriculture Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Develop programs that provide
health benefits, calamity
assistance, and life and accident
insurance to all farmers and
laborers
 Offer access to government
projects
 Regulation concerns  Intensify regulation and  Meat and meat products
o Weak implementation of monitoring of meat regulation and monitoring
policy that regulates the establishments
entry of meat from other
regions and imported
meat (quarantine and
price control)
 Fingerlings and breeder-  Establish LGU-managed  Fishery Development Plan
based concerns freshwater hatchery and marine  Establishment of Davao City
o Limited supply of hatchery fishery hatchery
fingerlings  Production of fingerlings (hito and
o Lack of breeder base tilapia)
population
 Marketing issues  Establish Community Fish Landing  Establishment of Fish Landing
o Limited venue for direct Centers Centers
marketing, compliant to  Venue for wholesaling and  Establishment of one-stop
food safety standards retailing fish and fish by-products shop Agribusiness
o Proliferation of layers of  Provide assistance in marketing Development Center
middlemen linkage and information on price
o Lack of market linkage  Promote expansion areas
o Limited access to  Develop programs that will
production and market provide health benefits, calamity
information assistance, and life and accident
insurance to all fisherfolk and
laborers
 Offer access to government
projects

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 Table 3.1 Davao City Agriculture Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Options/provision for alternative  Fishery Production Projects
livelihood projects  Freshwater aquaculture
production
 Upland freshwater production
 Inland Household Fishpond
 Aquaponics (urban)
 Sea ranching, and shellfishes
production
 Sea cucumber production
 Mariculture park (fish cages
production)
 Seaweeds production and
marketing
 Soft-shelled crab production
 Ornamental Fish Production
and Marketing
 Land-based alternative
livelihood for fisherfolk
 Clothing, livestock, poultry,
containerized gardening, and
food processing
 Establishment of fisheries
enterprises
 Add more MPAs, breeding
grounds
 Inadequate infrastructure  Establish laboratory equipped  Establishment of chemical
and facilities for analysis of with facilities and supply for testing and analytical
chemical composition, chemical composition, minimal laboratory
minimal residue level and residue level, and contamination  Duplication of CVO Analytical
contamination detection detection and analysis for Laboratory
consumer goods

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 Table 3.1 Davao City Agriculture Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Lack of support for new  Agri-Fishery Support Services  Agri-fishery support services
developments and Program project components: (AFSS)
technologies o Tissue culture production
o Institutional development
o Farmer's and Fisherfolk
Information Technology
Services
o CAFC operations
o Agri-Fishery Product Utilization
Project
 Lack of access to financial  Provide assistance in accessing  Establishment of one-stop
assistance for fishery loans shop agribusiness
 Strengthen value adding through development center
processing
 Need for better  Implement interrelated program  Coastal-Based Resource
management of coastal components namely: Management Program
resources o Marine protected area
management
o Strengthening Fishery Law
Enforcement
o Land-based fishery alternative
livelihood
o Fishery festivals
 Changes in the economy,  Preparation of successor plan for  Preparation of successor plan
society and environment DCAFDP 2023-2027 for DCAFDP 2023-2027
affecting agri-fishery sector  Marine Protected Areas
Development Program

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Forestry

Forestry is the science and craft of creating, utilizing, conserving, and repairing forests and
associated resources to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human and environmental
benefits.

In Davao City, there are two (2) tenurial instruments that are being utilized, namely: Integrated
Forest Management Agreement (IFMA) and the Socialized Integrated Forest Management
Agreement (SIFMA).

The IFMA is a contract for the sharing of production and providing exclusive rights to develop,
manage, protect and utilize a specific area of forest land and resources for a specified period in
accordance with the principle of sustainable development.

On the other hand, the SIFMA allows agreements to develop, utilize, and manage a small area
of forest land in accordance with the approved Comprehensive Development and Management
Plan.

In the City, there are five (5) forest concessionaires registered under the Integrated Forest
Management Agreement (IFMA) covering a total of 2,478 hectares. Another 28 concessionaires
are registered under Socialized Industrial Forest Management Agreement (SIFMA) utilizing a
total of 365.88 hectares.

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) 2013-2022

Davao’s forest cover is only 16% of its total land area which could lead to the endangerment of
the habitat for wildlife and heightened possibility of erosion and landslides.

Based on the CLUP, 16,000 hectares of the City’s area is covered under 13 forest management
agreements between DENR and private groups. However, forest management has not been
maximized and the rate of forestland development has been slow.

From the Comprehensive Data Plan Consultation Process

The feedback from the City’s stakeholders indicated that the analysis from the CLUP still holds:
 Rapid degradation/depletion of the City’s forest resources attributed to
overexploitation;
 Lack of coordination between the different national agencies and the LGU in the
performance of devolved and retained functions;
 Slow replanting of farm forest which is to be undertaken by the contracted community.

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 Objectives and Targets
1.) To undertake effective reforestation initiatives and sustainable forest management.
2.) To increase the contribution of the forestry sector in employment generation and
countryside development.

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

1.) Intensify the protection of remaining old growth/dipterocrop and second growth forest
from any form of destruction such as land conversion and illegal logging.
2.) Strengthen the Bantay-Bukid Program.
3.) Strict implementation of forestry production standards, fees and charges.
4.) Strengthen the convergence between NGAs and the LGU.
5.) Expand the coverage of National Green Program and ensure security of kaingineros and
other qualified occupants through long term stewardship contracts.

Table 3.2 Davao City Forestry Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Rapid degradation/depletion of  Implement sustainable  Intensify the protection of
the City’s forest resources development of forest remaining old
attributed to overexploitation resources growth/dipterocrop and
second growth forest from
any form of destruction such
as land conversion and illegal
logging (NGAs/LGU)
 Strengthening of the Bantay-
Bukid Program (DENR/LGU)
 Lack of coordination between  Strengthening of the  Strict implementation of
the different national agencies Environmental Management production standards, fees
and LGUs in the performance of Program and charges
devolved and retained function  Strengthening of the
convergence between NGAs
and LGU
 Slow replanting of farm forest  Implementation of community-  Expand the coverage of
which is to be undertaken by based forestry program to National Green Program and
the contracted community harness local communities in ensure security of
forest renewal and provide kaingineros and other
them livelihood opportunities qualified occupants through
long-term stewardship
contracts (DENR/LGU)

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Quarrying

Quarrying is the act of extracting useful material (such as building stone) from quarries.

There are six (6) types of non-metallic minerals that are mined or extracted in the City, which
are lime (used for cement production), limestone, earthfill, sand and gravel, tuff/pozzolan, and
gabbro.

The lime generated the most revenue in 2016 at ₱198,103,917.

On the other hand, the production of sand and gravel, earthfill, and tuff/pozzolan increased in
sales and production from 2015 to 2016. However, the generation of gabbro had the opposite
trend. From producing 580 cubic meters in 2015, it went down to 540 cubic meters in 2016. It
also had the lowest revenue at ₱109,000 as compared to other minerals, which raked in
millions of pesos.

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2013-2022

Illegal quarrying was identified as among the causes of soil erosion in the City.

From the Comprehensive Data Plan Consultation Process

The following issues and concerns were raised by stakeholders for the CDP 2018-2023:
 Illegal quarrying that hinders implementation of government infrastructure projects;
 Issues on environmental degradation caused by mining activities;
 Difficulty in the monitoring of quarry and non-metallic mineral extractions;
 As observed by Mines and Geoscience Bureau (MGB) representatives, City revenues
in terms of collection/income from quarrying and mining operations are low due to
the low tariff imposed by the local government compared to neighboring provinces.

Objectives and Targets

1.) To ensure responsible extraction of quarry materials in keeping with conservation and
protection goals for the environment.
2.) To increase city revenues from quarry permits and mining non-metallic minerals.

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

1.) Completion of Land Classification and Evaluation Project.
2.) Conversion of quarry sites to useful endeavors such as housing and relocation.
3.) Assign personnel to monitor production in quarry sites.

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 Table 3.3 Davao City Mining and Quarry Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Policies, Programs/Projects,
Issues and Concerns Strategies Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Issues on environmental  Strengthening of the  Completion of Land
degradation caused by mining Environment Impact Classification and
activities Assessment system Evaluation Project
 Conversion of quarry sites
to useful endeavors such as
housing and relocation
 Low revenue  Increase in tariff fee for sand  Policy agenda: Revisit and
collection/income from quarry and gravel to the levels as that amend existing law on
and mining due to low tariff of neighboring municipalities, granting quarry permits and
imposed by the local cities and provinces mining by the Sangguniang
government as compared to  Strict implementation of Panlungsod
neighboring provinces as production standards, fees
observed by Mines and and charges
Geoscience Bureau
representatives
 Difficulty in the monitoring of  Require permit holders to  Assign personnel to monitor
quarry and non-metallic report production regularly productions most especially
mineral extractions and pay the corresponding tax in quarry sites
thereof

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Manufacturing

In the City Economic Development Plan, the Manufacturing sub-sector is composed of metal
works, furniture and woodworks, and toys, gifts, wearable and housewares.

The metal works industry underwent a major boost in 2014 with the arrival of New Carcar
Manufacturing Inc., a large steel manufacturing company which declared ₱965,600,000 in
investments, accounting for 71.38% of the entire capitalization amount that year. However,
companies involved in metal works dropped from 124 registered manufacturers to 95
manufacturers the following year. This, however, had minimal effect on the total capitalization.
In 2016, there were additional 14 new companies, which helped in increasing the total amount
of investments to ₱1.3 billion, a 0.26% growth rate from 2015.

Woodworks and furniture-making, on the other hand, had been struggling through the years. It
experienced a sudden drop in terms of investments, from ₱ 498,614,560 in 2013 to only
₱202,564,561 in 2015, cutting it to more than half. This may be attributed to the halt of
operations of a huge wood manufacturing company that had a value of about ₱300,000,000
and decrease in popularity of wooden furniture/products. By 2016, manufacturers were only
down to 68 from 102 registered in 2015. This significant change resulted to an all-time low of
51.59% growth rate in investments.

The toys, gifts, wearables, and housewares industry attained a growth rate of 3.25% in 2014,
but were not able to sustain it in the succeeding years. It slowly declined in investments by
25.42% and 29.67% in 2015 and 2016, respectively. In order to revive this sector, the Mindanao
Trade Expo Foundation Inc. (MTEFI), in partnership with government line agencies, local
government units (LGUs) and private organizations, are spearheading a project that aims to
provide intensive training to producers that will enhance their skills, productivity, and
competitiveness by introducing new techniques on handling materials and introduction to new
tools and equipment.

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2018-2022

The locations of the manufacturing firms are well distributed around Davao City but with
pronounced concentration in District I. There is overcrowding of establishments in the Central
Business District. There are pollution-causing industries in District I that may eventually pose
dangers to the people and environment.

There is a healthy demand for industrial lands in the City. However, the prices of land classified
as industrial have become very prohibitive for land consolidators to make a head start in
developing industrial complexes.

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From the Comprehensive Data Plan Consultation Process

The issues and concerns put forward by stakeholders are more specific to each industry. Having
low productivity, poor product quality, and limited access to markets are common across the
three (3) industries.

Manufacturing: Woodworks Industry

 Scarcity of raw materials
 Poor condition of roads
 Inadequate product marketing tools/limited access to market
 Low quality of products
 Need for integrated marketing and technical assistance
 Inadequate database for the wood industry

Manufacturing: Metal Works Industry

1.) Low productivity
 Outdated/ unproductive machinery and equipment
 Lack of skilled workers for design and product development
 Poor product quality
2.) Lack of technical information for product development

Manufacturing: Gifts, Toys, and Housewares (GTH) Industry

 Insufficient capital and institutional support
 Low level of production
 Uncompetitive pricing
 Limited access to markets
 Outdated designs
 Insufficient data on the GTH industry cluster
 Divided industry clusters

Objectives and Targets

1.) To sustain and manage resources in support of the manufacturing industry

a.) Ensure adequacy of industrial lands. Calinan can be a consolidation area for agri-
industrial products prior to their delivery for processing in Toril.
b.) Ensure supply of raw materials
c.) Support enhancement of capabilities in product development and design
2.) To facilitate easy access to financing support for MSMEs
3.) To facilitate the transport of products
4.) To support the development of linkages and markets

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Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

Woodworks Industry
1.) Reforestation Program
2.) Sustainable supply for the WPP’s to operate
3.) Maintain existing roads
4.) Construction of new road networks
5.) Encourage development of product promotional packages via internet
6.) Develop appropriate marketing strategies and price monitoring tool for the wood industry/
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
7.) Establish an Integrated Wood Working Development Project
8.) Capability Building and Enhancement Program
9.) Production of quality products
10.) Product price stabilization

Metal Works Industry

1.) Institutional support in the crafting of the industry roadmap
2.) Research on product development (academe)

Gifts, Toys, and Housewares Industry

1.) Negosyo Center
2.) Magnegosyo Ta Day Program
3.) Roadmap for GHT Industry
4.) Marketing Strategic Plan
5.) Product Development Research (academe)
6.) Manufacturing Industry Survey

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 Manufacturing: Woodworks Industry

Table 3.4a Davao City Woodworks Industry Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Scarcity of raw materials  Propagation of industrial trees  Reforestation Program
in production forests (DENR/LGU)
 Maximize trading agreements  Sustainable supply for the wood
with supplier countries processing plants to operate
(NGAs)
 Poor condition of roads  Maintain existing roads, and  Maintenance existing roads and
identify new road networks construction of new road
network
 Inadequate product marketing  Develop product marketing  Encourage the private sector to
tools/limited access to market tools establish product marketing
packages for their product (DTI)
 Conduct wood summits,
conventions and the like
 Low quality of products  Provide in-house capability  Capability Building and
building activities and Enhancement Program
accreditation of skilled workers (stakeholders)
 Conduct monitoring inspection  Product price stabilization (DTI)
of wood processing plants
 Strengthening the industry and  Policy agenda: Policy and
lobbying for regulation reforms regulations reforms in the
Woodworks industry
(DENR/DTI)
 Need for integrated marketing  Conduct of skills  Market promotion and
and technical assistance training/technology development
 Inadequate database for the demonstrations  Participation in international
wood industry  Technical assistance and domestic fairs/exhibits and
Improvement of production missions
 Conduct of inventory/survey on  Establishment of common
the wood industry display center
 Productivity and quality
improvement
(DTI/stakeholders)

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 Manufacturing: Metal Works

Table 3.4b Davao City Metal Works Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
Low productivity
 Outdated/ unproductive  Upgrading product  Institutional support in the
machinery and equipment development expertise crafting of the industry
 Upgrading of machineries and roadmap (NGAs/LGU)
equipment
 Lack of skilled workers for  Productivity and quality
design and product improvement
development  Upgrading of existing
machinery in lieu of additional
capital equipment
 Poor product quality  Integrated marketing and
technical assistance
 Lack of technical information for  Creation of database and  Research on product
product development better information development (academe)
dissemination

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 Manufacturing: Gifts, Toys, and Housewares (GTH) Industry

Table 3.4c Davao City Gifts, Toys, and Housewares Industry Issues and Concerns,
Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Insufficient capital and  Provide easy accessible  Negosyo Center
institutional support financing support to MSMEs  Magnegosyo Ta Day
Program (DTI/LGU)
 Low level of production  Invest in new technology/  Roadmap for Gifts, Toys,
 Less productive technology modern machineries Housewares Industry
 Upgrade production (DTI/Stakeholders)
technologies
 Conduct required skills
training/capability building
 Uncompetitive pricing  Conduct meetings/conventions
 Limited access to markets  Conduct trade fairs and  Marketing Strategic Plan
missions (DTI/stakeholders)
 Venture in high-potential
markets, particularly exports
 Outdated designs  Conduct product consultation  Product development
workshops for product research (academe)
development and modifications
 Insufficient data on the GHT  Conduct industry survey  Manufacturing industry
industry cluster survey (DTI/LGU)
 Divided industry clusters  Strengthening of the industry  Manufacturing industry
association for the following survey (DTI/LGU)
ends, among others:
o Wholesale purchase of raw
materials, equipment,
machines and spare parts
o Joint local and
international marketing of
products

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 Manufacturing: Gifts, Toys, and Housewares (GTH) Industry

Table 3.4c Davao City Gifts, Toys and Housewares Industry Issues and Concerns,
Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Strengthening of the industry
association for the following
ends, among others:
o Wholesale purchase of
raw materials,
equipment, machines
and spare parts
o Joint local and
international marketing
of products
o Consolidation of
production and shipping
of the products
o Consolidation of
production and shipping
of the products
o Standardize the prices
and quality of products
o Linkaging with the
government and the
private sector
o Improve knowledge of
the industry's trends,
technologies, and issues
 Preservation of indigenous
arts (i.e. weaving, craft
making) so that these can be
utilized in the production of
gifts, toys, and housewares

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Food Processing

Food processing is the conversion of certain edible raw materials into food or other forms of
food through a series of mechanical steps, techniques and/or chemical operation. This process
involves activities such as chopping, marinating, juicing, mixing, cooking, preservation, canning,
and packaging.

In 2013, there are 854 businesses engaged in food processing. A slight increase was noted in
2014 with an addition of nine (9) new establishments. However, in 2015, there were only 857
registered manufacturers and further decreased by 1.4% in 2016 with only 845 establishments
left.

Total investments amounted to ₱877 million, ₱1.647 billion, ₱2.119 billion, ₱1.379 billion in
2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 respectively. In 2013, a significant increase of 88% or ₱771 million
was observed and continued to rise by 28.65% or ₱472 million in 2015. A different trend was
exhibited in 2016, where investments significantly decreased by ₱567 million. It was notable
that almost 50% of registered bakeries have stopped its operations while some shifted in
different line of business.

In terms of employment, the total number of declared employees in 2013 was 5,249. An
additional 1,245 workers were registered in 2014 with the opening of new businesses. In 2015,
despite the decrease in food manufacturers, laborers were still in demand, reaching 7,447
employees involved in the food business. However, in 2016, the number of workers declined to
6,664.

Issues and Concerns

The following issues and concerns were raised by City stakeholders, which needed to be
addressed by the CDP:
 Shortage of raw materials supply;
 High cost of transporting raw materials from sources to processing plants;
 Insufficient information regarding the fruit processing sector and its values and
principles;
 Inadequate start-up capital of small food processors;
 Short shelf life of processed foods;
 Insufficient institutional support to the food processing sector.

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Objectives and Targets
1.) To sustain and manage resources in support of the food processing industry
a.) Ensure sustainability of supply of materials
b.) Provide support to food preservation activities for all commodities
c.) To facilitate the transport of food processing materials and products
d.) to provide access to information on the sector's technology updates and
government policies
e.) Increase productivity on foods production
f.) Extend shelf life of processed foods
g.) To ensure that financial support to food processing businesses, particularly start-ups,
is readily available

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

1.) Research and development on food processing
2.) Improve network of farm-to-market roads
3.) Construct new road networks linking production areas to markets
4.) Orientations and information dissemination campaign on Sustainable
Resource Management (SRM) values and principles
5.) Negosyo Center
6.) Conduct financial literacy training programs for food processors
7.) Streamlining loan processes for small enterprises/Micro Small Medium Enterprises
8.) Development (SMED) Council
9.) Conduct seminars and trainings on product packaging
10.) Food technology seminar
11.) R&D on food processing

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 Table 3.5 Davao City Food Processing Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Shortage of raw materials  Conduct researches on  Research and development on
supply sustainability of supply of raw food processing
materials
 High cost of transporting raw  Improvement and  Maintain existing farm-to-
materials from sources to maintenance of existing market roads
processing plants farm-to-market roads
 Construction of new road  Construct new road networks
networks linking production linking production areas to
areas to markets markets
 Insufficient information  Create a knowledge center in  Orientations/information
regarding the fruit processing the City that regularly gives dissemination campaign on
sector's and its values and information about latest SRM values and principles
principles regulations, policies, research
results, and technical findings
on food
 Lack or insufficient start-up  Adopt a simplified yet  Negosyo Center
capital of small food affordable loan avenues for
processors MSMEs
 Financing seminar programs  Conduct financial literacy
of banks training programs for food
processors
 Streamlining loan processes
for small enterprises (MSMED
Council)
 Short shelf life of processed  Conduct technology trainings  Conduct seminars and
foods on food packaging trainings on product
packaging (DTI/LGU)
 Upgrade machineries to  Food technology seminars
increase sales and profitability (DTI/LGU)
 Insufficient institutional  Policy research  Research & Development on
support to the food food processing (academe)
processing sector

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Tourism

Recognized as one of the safest cities in the world for many years and now the home of the first
Mindanaoan President, Davao City remains the prime destination in the Southern Philippines.
With the efforts of the City Government of Davao, local attractions, festivals, and activities are
constantly improved and polished to cater the growing number of tourists.

In 2017, 2,012,625 tourists were recorded to have visited the City, 1,838,310 of which were
Filipinos. With the prevalence of seat sales from different commercial airlines, which makes
travelling more affordable to Filipinos, the inflow of tourist traffic will definitely increase in the
coming years. The declaration of Martial Law in May 2017 has not hindered foreign travellers
and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) from paying the City a visit, with 126,294 and 48,020 in
head count, respectively. This was a 7.95% increase as compared to 2016’s total number of
tourist arrivals, which is at 1,864,343. The last quarter of the 2017 (September-December) had
the highest volume of tourists ranging from 170,000-200,000 visitors every month.

To keep up with the rising number of tourists, new hotels and resorts have been established. A
five-star luxury hotel (Dusit Thani) that can house a 1,000-capacity ballroom and function
rooms that is expected to be fully operational by 2019. Its construction will greatly help in
furthering Davao’s Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Events (MICE) programs that aims to
establish the City as the front-runner in hosting local and international events. Davao also
intends to attract more tourists, including retirees, to increase the tourist receipts.

The City is also making efforts in creating a tourist program that is distinctly Davaoeño. The
IMD4 Davao Project is suggesting in developing a tourism corridor on Davao’s rich cultural
history and agriculture. Toril District will be the center of the said project. The route divides in
Toril and extends up to Calinan District and to the foot of Mt. Apo. The following are six major
facilities that are proposed along the corridor: Farm/Agri-Tourism Circuit; Little Tokyo; Davao
Pioneer Museum; Madayaw Traveller’s Station; Retirement Facility; Kadayawan Cultural Village.
All of which will showcase a mixture of Davao City’s beautiful landscape and its rich history.

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2018-2022
Although tourists can maximize their stay in Davao City because of the close proximity of its
tourist attractions, there is need to develop more natural tourist attractions in other districts to
balance tourism development that is currently concentrated in the First District.

For instance, the City has large agriculture and forest areas but the development of potential
tourism areas is slow. Access issues in particular will discourage tourists from visiting these
natural sites.

The safety, health, sanitation and pollution monitoring capability of the local government need
an upgrade to ensure that tourism establishments provide quality services to clients. In

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particular, enforcement of building regulations must be intensified to ensure tourism
infrastructure standards are met. Tourism-related organizations also have to become better at
policing their ranks.

Negative perceptions on Region XI’s peace and order situation, especially by those from outside
the country, persist and affect the City’s tourism industry.

From the Comprehensive Data Plan Consultation Process

Stakeholders’ inputs indicate that key issues and concerns from the CLUP persist:
 Inadequate promotion of the City as a major tourist destination;
 Blacklisting/bad publicity of Mindanao as a tourist destination;
 Non-compliance of private tourism establishments on tourism standards;
 Commercialization of the cultural heritage of the indigenous people and the continuous
exploitation and possible destruction of social values;
 Absence of a Tourism Development Plan;
 Need to upgrade infrastructure and utilities to support tourism development;
 Issuance of the Implementing Rules and Regulation (IRR) for the Tourism Code.

Objectives and Targets

1.) To establish Davao as an attractive destination for tourists by capitalizing on a range of
special places and their unique natural and cultural assets, and Davao’s being the gateway
to Mindanao and BIMP-EAGA
a.) Davao City is recognized as the Most Tourist-Friendly City in the Philippines
b.) Davao City is regarded as the Chocolate Capital of the country
2.) To be known internationally for hosting local, regional, national and international meetings,
conventions and events
3.) To enhance the City’s tourism appeal by ensuring a quality environment, easy transport
system, and cultural revitalization initiatives.
4.) Provide infrastructure that supports private sector activities and investments in tourism
5.) To sustain tourism activities which could translate into significant employment
opportunities

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Programs/Projects, Services and Activities
1.) Tourism Development Program
2.) Community-Based Eco-Cultural Tourism
3.) Development of community-based village museum for traditions and culture: Village
Museum and Tribal Villages for Traditions and Culture
4.) Adoption of mandated tours
5.) Establishment of Cultural Center for IPs
6.) Upgrading of facilities
7.) One Community, One Product Program
8.) Lumad/IP Knowledge Center
9.) IP Library showcase
10.) Davao City as Most Tourist- Friendly City in the Philippines
11.) Experience the World in Davao Tourism Program
12.) Establishment of IP Database
13.) Tourism development within the context of environmental regulations
14.) Halal Tourism Initiatives Programs
15.) Profiling of transients in the barangay, residential rental facilities and all other
accommodation and lodging facilities
16.) Identify and develop open green parks for 2013-2022 CLUP, 80 ha by 2021
17.) Tourism Infrastructure Enhancement Program
18.) Improvement of the transport system
19.) Multi-level parking facilities with incentives
20.) Determination of designated stops for all transport vehicles including the amenities, and
the penalties for non-compliance
21.) Alpha-numeric codes in relation to transport coding
22.) Davao tourism iconic tours
23.) Additional appropriation for the completion of the Davao City Sports Complex
24.) Establishment of riverside promenade, parks, bike lanes, and tourism development
25.) Street Naming Rationalization Project
26.) Ordinance on preservation of street names
27.) Improvement of public parks and construction of toilets and signages
28.) Crafting of a Tourism Development Plan
29.) Crafting of the IRR of the Tourism Code

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 Table 3.6 Davao City Tourism Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Inadequate promotion of the  Strengthen coordination  Tourism Development Plan
City as major tourist between the government (LGU)
destination and private investors in  Tourism Development
tourism related undertakings Program (DOT/LGU)
 Tap overseas Filipino  Tourism product
communities to act as development
marketing representatives  Development/Establishment
who will generate interest in of international cultural
business engagements to the themes: Chinatown, Japanese
City and Indian
 Intensify efforts to promote  installation of signage in
City as a wholesome tourist international language
destination and as a viable  Improvement of tourism
place for investments network (physical and
 Provision of linkages to organizational)
tourism sites
 Bad blacklisting/publicity of  Promote good image and  Forging of more sisterhood
Mindanao as a tourist strengthen international pacts with others key cities
destination relations and countries
 Branding of Davao as the hub  Tourism promotion in
and gateway for Mindanao Southeast Asia
and BIMP-EAGA  Sustain the City's efforts as
 Creation of more visitor Most Tourist-Friendly City in
destinations that provide the Philippines
meaningful experiences.  Constant press release and
 Conservation of City's history success stories to be featured
and heritage as a tourism in tri-media
feature  Establishment of more
 Maximize social media Information Centers
coverage  Enhancement of existing
Experience the World in
Davao Tourism Program

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 Table 3.6 Davao City Tourism Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Non-compliance of private  Conduct monitoring of  Tourism Standards
tourism establishments on tourism establishments: Compliance Program
tourism standards o ASEAN Clean Tourist City (DOT/LGU)
Standard  Tourism Code Compliance
o Compliance to Program
Accessibility Law  Profiling of tourism
o Compliance to Tourism establishments
Code  Convergence among
 Conduct inventory of departments concerned in
tourism-related tourism business licensing
establishments
 Capability training using DOT
rating scheme
 Commercialization of the  Enhancement of cultural  Tourism Development
cultural heritage of the knowledge among IPs/living Program
indigenous people and the traditions  Community-based eco-
continuous exploitation and  Conduct studies on cultural tourism
possible destruction of social indigenous cultures  Development of community-
values  Conservation of the City's based village museum for
 Tourism Development history and heritage as a traditions and culture:
Program tourism feature Antayapan Museum Datu
 Product development (one Salumay/Sitio Licao
town, one product)  Policy agenda: Identification
 Closure of trekking site: Mt. of Brgy. Malagos and Marilog
Apo proper as expanded tourism
development zone
ecotourism area
 Adoption of mandated tours
 Establishment of one Cultural
Center for IPs
 Upgrading of facilities
 One Community, One
Product Program
 Lumad/IP Knowledge Center
 IP library showcase
 Establishment of IP database

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 Table 3.6 Davao City Tourism Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Tourism development within
the context of environmental
regulations
 Halal Tourism Initiatives
Program
 Profiling of transients in the
barangay, residential rental
facilities and all other
accommodation and lodging
facilities
 Identify and develop open
green parks for 2013-2022
CLUP: 80 ha by 2021; 60 ha
by 2016
 Need to upgrade  Establishment of Cultural  Tourism Infrastructure
infrastructure and utilities to Center Enhancement Program
support tourism  Expansion of the Davao (DOT/LGU)
development International Airport  Improvement of the
 Improvement of seaport transport system (DOTr/LGU)
facilities  Multi-level parking facilities
 Development of on-site and with incentives
off-site facilities for tourism  Determination of designated
destination stops for all transport
 Installation of directional vehicles including the
signages for tourists in amenities, and the penalties
international languages for non-compliance
 Alpha-numeric codes in
relation to transport coding
 Davao tourism iconic tours
(LGU/private sector)
 Additional appropriation for
the completion of the Davao
City Sports Complex
 Establishment of riverside
promenade, parks, bike
lanes, and tourism
development
 Street Naming
Rationalization Project

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 Table 3.6 Davao City Tourism Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Ordinance on preservation of
street names
 Improvement of public parks
and construction of
toilets/signage
 Absence of a Tourism  Data gathering  Crafting of a Tourism
Development Plan  Plan formulation Development Plan (LGU)
 Consultation with
stakeholders
 Issuance of an IRR for the  Review on eco-tourism  Crafting of the IRR of the
Tourism Code standards to include Tourism Code (LGU)
community-based tourism
and farm tourism

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

The telecommunications sector in the Philippines received substantial investments in

infrastructure throughout the years, from fixed-line development in 1990s to the more recent
mobile telephone market and wireless broadband services. Along with these developments are
the stemming of new branches in the Information and Communication (ICT) industry, these
include: Business Processing Outsourcing (Voice Contact Center, Process outsourcing-), Non-
Voice (data entry/transcription), Knowledge Process Outsourcing (graphics, content, animation,
engineering service and design), and Information Technology Outsourcing (software
development.)

Developing Davao City as investment haven for information and communication technologies
(ICT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) is one of the City Government’s key economic
agenda. The continued upward trend of ICT industry is evident with the growing number of
companies that are coming in (Teleperformance, Convergys, IBEX, VXI and Excellence Global
Solutions) and still increases each year.

In 2014, the BPO sector registered $18.9 billion in total revenue and is predicted to grow by
30% to 32% from 2015 onwards. In terms of employment, the BPO industry generated 20,000
jobs in 2015 and ended the same year with some 70% growth to 34,000 jobs.

Davao City continued gaining international recognition as it bagged the 66 th spot in the Top 100
business process outsourcing (BPO) destination in the world in 2016, which was three (3) ranks
higher from 2015, when it was at the 69th.

Another indication of the progress and development of the ICT industry is the growing number
of members of the BPO association of Davao, Inc. (ADI), which has now 35 members. BPO ADI is
an association of big multinational companies and small to medium companies operating in the
City.

Issues and Concerns

The following were raised as issues and concerns affecting ICT in Davao and needing attention
in the CDP:
 Slow connectivity;
 High subscription;
 High demand for qualified talents;
 Need for better trained talent pool for online jobs and BPO locators;
 Proliferation of home-based BPOs; and
 Inadequate government support to the ICT sector.

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Objectives and Targets
1.) To establish Davao as the preferred destination for ICT investments and activities while in
an environment of healthy and competitive dynamics among players focusing on the
utilization of available resources, job generations, and socio-economic gains and
sustainability
a.) Facilitate greater access and connectivity to ICT services (telephony, broadcast,
internet) for all Davaoeños
b.) Provide needed infrastructure improvement, incentives and services, and an
environment conducive to ICT for businesses, particularly BPOs

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

1.) Formulation of ICT-BPO Development Plan
2.) Establishment of innovation/incubation hub
3.) Formulation of local investment incentives package that will attract players in the ICT
industry to locate in Davao City
4.) Talent Development Program
5.) Bridging and Training Programs

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 Table 3.7 Davao City ICT Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 ICT services  Pursue ICT accessibility and  Formulation of ICT-BPO
o Slow connectivity connectivity initiatives Development Plan (Private
o High subscription  Allow entry of new TELCO Sector/LGU)
players  Policy agenda: Improved
 Strengthen ICT-BPO broadband services
industry allowing entry of new
 Provide gateway for TELCO players
shorter route, affordable  Establishment of
and fast internet innovation/incubation hub
connection/availability of
IT Hub
 Inadequate government  Provide an environment  Formulation of ICT-BPO
support to the ICT sector conducive to ICT growth Development Plan (Private
 Focus on the needed Sector/LGU)
infrastructure  Formulation of local
improvement, incentives investment incentives
and services package that will attract
 Strong collaboration and players in the ICT industry
network between and to locate in Davao City
among public and private
stakeholders
 Human resource  Provide training programs  Formulation of ICT-BPO
development issues to residents intending to Development Plan (Private
o High demand for enter the ICT industry Sector/LGU)
qualified talents workforce  Talent Development
o Need for better trained  Establish collaborations Program (Private
talent pool for online and partnerships with Sector/LGU)
jobs and BPO locators training and academic  Bridging and Training
institutions, donors and Programs (Private
other related agencies Sector/LGU)
 Provide support to trainers
on conduct of capability
building initiatives
 Provide funds for bridging
program

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 Table 3.7 Davao City ICT Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Proliferation of home-based  Provide regulating schemes  Policy agenda: Ordinance
BPOs Effective recruitment on the proliferation and
program regulation of home-based
 Develop talent pool BPOs in Davao City
 Davao Alliance Program
(members of which are
second tier schools such as
Colleges)

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Construction

Construction performance in Davao City continues to manifest an erratic trend. In 2012, the
assessment cost in construction posted a total of ₱14.46 billion and significantly increased by
42.44% to reach ₱20.59 billion in 2013. However, it dropped to ₱10.68 billion the following year
and continued to decrease by 28.37%, amounting to a measly ₱7,651 billion by 2015. Davao
City’s real estate investment experienced a comeback in 2016 registering a total of ₱12,828
billion assessment cost, which can be attributed to the 9.4% economic growth rate that Davao
Region accomplished in the same year.

Issues and Concerns

 Duplication of infrastructure projects proposals for local government and Department of
Public Works and Highway (DPWH)
 Lack of skilled workers
 Shortage of construction materials and supply

Objectives and Targets

1.) To ensure the availability and sustainability of labor and construction materials
a.) Conditions for providing needed skilled workers, as well as construction
materials and supply created and sustained to support the construction boom in
the City
2.) To create a common platform of geo-referencing system of infrastructure projects
among local and national-government agencies

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

1.) Skills Training Program/TESDA
2.) Convergence Program for NGAs and LGUs
3.) Quarrying Development Plan
4.) Production Loan Programs

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 Table 3.8 Davao City Construction Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Duplication of infrastructure  Provide mechanisms for the  Convergence Program for
projects proposals for local close coordination among NGAs and LGUs
government units and DPWH national and local agencies
 Lack of skilled workers  Train more people in  Skills Training Program
construction works (TESDA)
 Shortage of construction  Provide support in the  Quarrying Development Plan
materials and supply production of construction (LGU)
materials locally  Production Loan Programs
 Look for local sources more
especially on aggregates

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Micro, Small, and Medium-Scale Enterprise Development

In the Philippines, Micro, Small, or Medium-scale enterprise is defined as any business activity
or enterprise engaged in industry, agri-business and/or services that has an asset size (less land)
of up to ₱100 million, and an employment size with less than 200 employees.

Davao City issued business permits to 36,254 establishments with capitalization of

227,395,300,819.52 and 188,964 total declared employees in 2016.

Of the total numbers of establishments that were given business permits, 36,148 or 99.7% were
micro, small, and medium-scale. Micro businesses hired the most numbers of employees with
122,389 in total or 64.7% of the total.

On the other hand, large-scale enterprises numbered 106 but provided bulk of total
capitalization at 77.8%. There is a slight increase of 5.94% from 2015’s capitalization.

Issues and Concerns

From the CLUP 2013-2022

A large number of manufacturing establishments in Davao are considered micro and small-
scale. A strong micro-entrepreneurial drive amongst the populace has been noted. However,
many of them use the City’s streets and sidewalks as their business space. There is a need to
invest in the provision of urban spaces for informal and micro businesses and assist budding
entrepreneurs in improving or expanding their businesses, as well as enhancing products and
services.

From the CDP Consultation Process

The stakeholders concentrated on matters concerning business climate (access to finance,

accessibility of goods and services, productivity and efficiency, industry cluster development
and promotion) business capacity (human capital development, technology and innovation)
and business opportunities (access to market):
 Need to enhance MSME direct support;
 Lack of LGU support for MSMEs;
 Need to support start-up MSMEs;
 Limited access to some goods and services;
 Need for the coordination of government programs and policies on productivity
enhancement among stakeholders in compliance with quality, quantity, availability, and
affordability;
 Need to sustain existing markets and tap into emerging markets locally and globally.

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Objectives and Targets
1.) To set in place institutional support structures for the development of start-up and
existing MSMEs
a.) Improve the business climate
b.) Enhance productivity and efficiency by coordinating government programs and
policies
2.) To ensure that financial products, services, and support programs that MSMEs need are
sustainably available even to start-up MSMEs
a.) Make the process and cost of obtaining MSME loans reasonable, affordable,
simplified, and streamlined
3.) To assist MSMEs in sustaining existing markets and tap emerging ones

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

1.) Crafting of MSME Development Plan/ Localization of MSME Development Plan
2.) Convergence of the MSMED Council
3.) MSMEs Profiling Project
4.) Market research and development
5.) Entrepreneurial training
6.) Continuous operations and institutionalization of Negosyo Centers in Davao City:
Magsaysay Park, Toril, and Calinan.
7.) Establishment of Negosyo Centers in District I (Talomo) and District II (Buhangin)
8.) Implementation of Shared Service Facility (SSF) Program
9.) Implementation of One Town, One Product (OTOP)
10.) Crafting of Labor and Employment Opportunities Development Plan
11.) Streamlining of government loans to MSMEs to be part of MSME Plan
12.) Negosyo Center
14.) Streamline and simplify loan processes for MSMEs and cooperatives
15.) Provide financial literacy trainings for MSMEs and enhance guarantee system
16.) Assess and implement related laws and programs
17.) Consumer Welfare and Protection Program
18.) Continuous implementation of consumer welfare on trade regulation in areas of
business registration, licensing, and accreditation; consumer welfare with advocacy and
constituency building; and consumer complaints
19.) MSMED Plan convergence of all stakeholders
20.) Infrastructure support systems resilient to climate change
21.) Upgrading of existing infrastructure to support marketing of MSMEs
22.) Establishment of MSME section in Davao City
23.) Implementation of Industry Cluster Program
24.) Crafting/Updating of:
a.) Food Processing Development Plan;
b.) Furniture and Wood Products Development Plan;
c.) Metal Works Development Plan;
d.) Household Wares, Gifts, and Toys Development Plan;
e.) Manufacturing/Non-Food Processing

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25.) Encourage and promote entrepreneurship
26.) Intensify advocacy and education campaigns
27.) Expand shared facilities
28.) Provide financing for equipment and machinery
29.) Promote Philippine National Standards (PNS) by NGAs and its adoption by MSMEs
30.) Develop internationally harmonized industry performance standards
31.) Promotion of agriculture resource-based value adding initiatives
32.) MSMED Plan: Online marketing seminars; enhancement of marketing through social
media.
33.) Expand market access to existing and new markets presented by the AEC and other
preferential trade agreements
34.) Promote e-Commerce
35.) Organize local and international marketing events
36.) Organize signature events
37.) Participate in overseas trade fairs
38.) Design export programs

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 Table 3.9 Davao City Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises Issues and Concerns,
Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 MSMEs  Update the MSME  Crafting of MSME Development
o Need to enhance Development Plan Plan/ Localization of MSME
MSME direct support  Adopt policies for MSME Development Plan (DTI/LGU)
o Lack of LGU support development wherein the  Convergence of the MSMED
for MSMEs City can assist on business Council
development  MSMEs Profiling Project (DTI/LGU)
 Put in place Socio-Economic  Market research and development
support (infrastructure and (academe)
utilities)  Entrepreneurial training (DTI/LGU)
 Sustain results-based MSME  Continuous operationalization/
development among institutionalization of Negosyo
stakeholders Centers in Davao City: Magsaysay
 Provide gender-responsive Park, Toril, and Calinan (DTI/LGU)
and environment-friendly  Establishment of Negosyo Centers
MSMEs in District I (Talomo) and District II
 Simplify, standardize, and (Buhangin) (DTI/LGU)
harmonize MSME-related  Implementation of Shared Service
rules and regulations at all Facility (SSF) Program (DTI)
levels, which will encourage  Implementation of One Town, One
MSMEs to utilize the Product (OTOP) (DTI)
opportunities in  Crafting of Labor and Employment
macroeconomic policy, Opportunities Development Plan
infrastructure (LGU)
development, trade deals,  Urban Spaces Development
and etc. Program
 Expedite delivery of MSME
assistance services
 Streamline business systems
 Reduce regulatory burden
 MSME City Plan
 Reduce MSMEs’ cost of doing
business
 Remove restrictions, provide
urban spaces for informal
and micro businesses

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 Table 3.9 Davao City Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises Issues and Concerns,
Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Access to finance  Adopt a simplified and  Streamlining of government loans
o Need to support affordable credit facility for to MSMEs to be part of MSME
start-up MSMEs MSMEs/loan financing Plan (DTI/LGU/financial
 Bank financing seminars institutions)
 Streamline and simplify loan  Negosyo Center (DTI/LGU)
processes for MSMEs,  Streamline and simplify loan
incentivize local banks and processes for MSMEs and
related institutions to reach cooperatives (financial
MSMEs at the ground level institutions)
while equipping MSMEs with  Provide financial literacy trainings
knowledge and enticements for MSMEs and enhance
to avail of formal financial guarantee system (DTI/LGU)
channels  Assess and implement related
laws and programs
 Limited access to some  Adherence to consumer  Consumer Welfare and Protection
goods and services welfare trade regulations Program (DTI)
 Continuous implementation of
consumer welfare on trade
regulation in areas of business
registration, licensing, and
accreditation; consumer welfare
with advocacy and constituency
building; and consumer
complaints (DTI)
 Need for the coordination  Info on productivity  MSMED Plan convergence of all
of government programs enhancement must be made stakeholders (DTI)
and policies on available and accessible to all  Policy agenda: Ordinances
productivity MSMEs for more supporting small and medium-
enhancement among competitive, standards- scale enterprises in Davao City
stakeholders in compliant, socially  Infrastructure support systems
compliance with quality, responsible, and resilient to climate change
quantity, availability, and environment-friendly (DPWH/LGU)
affordability products and services  Upgrading of existing
infrastructure to support
marketing of MSMEs
(DPWH/LGU)

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 Table 3.9 Davao City Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises Issues and Concerns,
Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 The Davao City Government  Establishment of MSME section in
shall pursue the MSME Davao City
localization as a
response to address the key
challenges and critical
constraints that hamper the
growth and development of
MSME sector in Davao City
 Industry cluster  Strengthen industry clusters  Implementation of Industry
development and in Davao City (abaca, cacao, Cluster Program (DTI)
promotion ICT, wearables, homestyle,  Crafting/Updating of:
o Need to identify fruits and nuts, coco coir, o Food Processing
more stakeholders to livestock, and poultry) Development Plan
complement the o Furniture and Wood Products
different industry Development Plan
value chain o Metal Works Development
Plan
o Household Wares, Gifts, and
Toys Development Plan
o Manufacturing/Non-Food
Processing Development Plan
(DTI)
 Human capital  Expand and strengthen  Encourage and promote
development human resource capacity of entrepreneurship (DTI/LGU)
o Need to MSMEs through optimal  Enhance labor capacities
enhance/upgrade application of a combination  Intensify advocacy and education
skills and capability of mentoring, group training, campaigns
of human resources field outreach, and online  Crafting of Labor and Employment
training complemented with Opportunities Development Plan
practicum and learning by (LGU)
doing approach
 Technology and  Support linkages between  Expand shared facilities (DTI)
innovation MSMEs and large  Provide financing for equipment
o Need for MSMEs to corporations and machinery (private sector)
engage business  Develop inclusive business  Promote Philippine National
using new models and social enterprises Standards (PNS) by NGAs and its
technology  Establish feasible domestic adoption by MSMEs (DTI)
innovations economic zones

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 Table 3.9 Davao City Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises Issues and Concerns,
Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Make innovative  Develop internationally
technologies and sustainable harmonized industry performance
and resilient practices more standards (DTI)
affordable, cost-effective,  Promotion of agriculture
and accessible to MSME resource-based value adding
initiatives (DTI/LGU)
 Need to sustain existing  Establish and sustain  MSMED Plan: Online marketing
markets and tap into marketing support systems seminars; enhancement of
emerging markets locally implementing value chain marketing through social media
and globally approach for maximum (MSMED Council)
returns  Expand market access to existing
 Inventory of product needs and new markets presented by
 Enhance marketing through the ASEAN Economic Community
social media and (AEC) and other preferential trade
introduce/orient MSME on agreements (DTI)
coverage of social media  Promote e-Commerce
 Use information technology (DTI/MSMED Council)
and intellectual property  Organize local and international
system to develop a marketing events (DTI/LGU)
sustainable market share and  Organize signature events
gain competitive advantage (DTI/LGU)
for their products and  Participate in overseas trade fairs
services (DTI/LGU)
 Registration of MSMEs for  Design Export Programs (DTI)
permit/licensing
 Strengthen value and supply
chain linkages; make
domestic and export market
information such as market
analysis, and directory of
potential markets for
matching and interaction,
timely, accurate,
inexpensive, and available
for MSMEs

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Cooperatives

Cooperatives are among the micro, small, and medium-scale enterprises that dominate the
City’s economic scene in terms of numbers.

In 2016, the total number of registered cooperatives reached 439. Multi-purpose cooperatives
numbered the highest at 217, while union and housing cooperatives numbered the least with
only one each. Also in the minority are advocacy, dairy, federation, health service, water
service, and workers cooperatives. The remaining categories such as ARB, consumer, credit,
labor service, marketing, producer, service, and transport range from as low as 10 and as high
as 56.

Issues and Concerns

The issues and concerns raised by the stakeholders focused on the areas of cooperative
management and institutional development, livelihood assistance, and extension services:
 Inadequate technical and management skills in the micro and small cooperative
categories;
 Inadequate capital to expand operation and business of cooperatives;
 Lack of technical/mutual support in the implementation of development projects among
cooperatives.

Objectives and Targets

1.) To harness cooperativism as a catalyst of change in character and leadership towards
securing a better life for Davaoeños
a.) Increase number of compliant cooperatives
b.) Increase survival rate of cooperatives
c.) Enhance of the system of cooperation and collaboration among various
cooperative stakeholders in the City
2.) To create the conditions for a socially responsive and self-regulating cooperative sector
with conscientious observance of environmental protection and preservation
a.) Assist in the enhancement of cooperative knowledge and awareness of the
cooperative members and the community
b.) Assist in the enhancement of competencies of cooperatives officers and
members in the area of management and operations more so of those in the
micro and small categories
c.) Facilitate access to efficient, accessible and competitive financial and allied
services
d.) Facilitate development of effective cooperative procurement, distribution and
market channels and support systems for cooperative products and services

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Programs/Projects, Services and Activities
1.) Cooperative Promotion and Organization
2.) Comprehensive Cooperative Training and Development Program to include the capability
building and skills enhancement
3.) Human Resources Development upgrading of number of personnel and their skills in the
City Cooperative Development Office (CCDO)
4.) Re-engineering of CCDO
5.) Multi-Sector Enterprise Development Program to include business organization or
institutional development
6.) Enhanced livelihood Assistance Program (LAP)
7.) Livelihood training and common service facility
8.) Sustainable Livelihood Programs
9.) Magnegosyo Ta Day Program
10.) Market Development and Linkage Support Program
11.) Davao City Cooperative Development Council (DCCDC)
12.) Cooperative LGU-Active Partnership (CLAP) Award and City support for CLAP Cooperative
Month Celebration

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 Table 3.10 Davao City Cooperative Development Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Inadequate technical and  Provide continuing education  Cooperative Promotion and
management skills in the micro for the coop members and the Organization Development
and small cooperative general public based on the Program
categories principles of cooperatives  Comprehensive Cooperative
 Provide managerial and Training and Development
entrepreneurial skills to Program to include capability
professionalize cooperatives building and skills enhancement
and their services in Davao  Human Resources Development
City -upgrading of number of
 Upgrading of personnel and personnel and their skills in the
their skills in the City City Cooperative Development
Cooperatives Development Office (CCDO)
office (CCDO)  Re-engineering of CCDO
 Inadequate capital to expand  Mobilization of capitalization  Multi-Sector Enterprise
operation and business of through regular savings to Development Program to
cooperatives generate more contribution include business
 Intensify support to the organization/institutional
existing livelihood assistance development
cum market development  Enhanced Livelihood Assistance
system Program (LAP)
 Livelihood training and common
service facility
 Sustainable Livelihood Programs
 Magnegosyo Ta ‘Day Program
 Market Development and
Linkage Support Program
 Lack of technical/mutual  Continuously encourage  Davao City Cooperative Development
support in the implementation support and participation of Council (DCCDC)
of development projects all stakeholders in cooperative  Cooperative LGU-Active
among cooperatives development Partnership (CLAP) Award and
programs/projects and City support for CLAP
activities  Cooperative Month Celebration
 Livelihood training and common
services facility

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Trade

Metro Davao steadily gains momentum in terms of trading, considering its strategic location,
rich natural resources, and conducive growth business environment. It becomes popular to
local and foreign investors, who desire to tap into the 25-million market of Southern
Philippines.

The steady influx of investors who are willing to capitalize in the City’s promising economy has
helped positioning Davao as one of the strongest economies in the Philippines. Currently, there
is a large pool of local developers that are leaning into establishing hospitals, condominiums,
low-cost housings, and five-star hotels in the City. Foreign companies have also been eyeing
Davao City as the potential home for their manufacturing plants.

With all these possible developments, the local trade industry will be expecting a significant
boost and expansion in the following years. In 2017, Davao City experienced a boost in exports,
grossing up to $2,217,766,598, increasing by 2.25% from 2016’s total production value. Top
export products were banana, coconut oil, pineapple fresh, desiccated coconut (niblets,
toasted), and rubber. Japan, China, and Korea were the leading destinations for exported
products. On the other hand, import value also increased to ₱29,980,870,095 in 2017 from
₱17,803,412,872 in the previous year. Top import products were mineral fuels, iron and steel,
nuclear reactors, boilers, fertilizers and other chemical products.

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2013-2022

The original Central Business District continues to be a prime location of businesses in Davao
although business establishments have begun to expand towards Districts II and III. There is a
need to increase different types of infrastructures, facilities, and services to serve the demands
of these auxiliary growth centers.

From the Comprehensive Data Plan Consultation Process

 Inadequate business trade/commercial service centers in the auxiliary growth centers of

the City
 Low awareness by the international market of Davao City’s potential as a viable
investment destination
 Lack of special economic zones to support the promotion of the Preferred Investment
Areas, indicated in the Davao City Investment Incentive Code, specifically on Agriculture,
Tourism, and Light Manufacturing
 Lack of coordination for SME support
 Preferred Investment Areas, indicated in the Davao City Investment Incentive Code, are
already outdated and needs to be reviewed

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Objectives and Targets
1.) To establish a favorable and stable business climate, which will encourage and support
private sector investments and the operation of business activities consistent with the
development needs of the City
a.) Encourage and increase private sector investments in the identified auxiliary
growth centers of the City
b.) Promote Davao City as today’s best destination in the Philippines for investment
activities
c.) Establish special economic zones for manufacturing, agri-industrial, and tourism
d.) Institutionalize programs and activities that will support local SMEs to become
competitive in domestic and international trade
e.) Review the Preferred Investment Areas indicated in the Davao City Investment
Incentive Code ensuring that it is responsive to the current development needs
and planning objectives of the City

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

1.) Investment presentations highlighting auxiliary growth centers of Davao City as viable
location for investment activities
2.) Aggressive investment and tourism roadshows in identified countries; participation in
trade fairs and exhibits in partnership with the private sector
3.) Established plans for investment promotion activities as part of the cooperation
agreement of sisterhood relationship
4.) Constant coordination in providing updated economic profile and activities of Davao City;
inclusion in the mailing list of DCIPC’s e-newsletter; close coordination in the conduct of
investment roadshows
5.) Regular meetings with investment promotion agencies
6.) Regular meetings and support to the activities of the consular offices and honorary
consular offices in Davao City
7.) Organize SME industry-specific promotional activities
8.) Consultations with various industry sectors during the review
9.) Close coordination with concerned lead agencies
10.) Targeted investment promotion campaign to attract specific types of investments that
are considered business generators with multiplier effects
11.) Investment and business counselling to guide investors on the specific ventures with good
ROI projections
12.) Business entry facilitation services and after care services to ensure the link between
business and government is healthy and collaborative toward growth and development
13.) Feedback mechanisms such as the conduct of consultations and forums to ensure that the
local government is responsive to the call for a more conducive business environment such
as the constant streamlining of processes for permits and licenses

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 Table 3.11 Davao City Trade Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Inadequate business  Identification and delineation of  Investment presentations
trade/commercial service the business, trade, and service highlighting auxiliary growth
centers in the auxiliary growth areas in auxiliary growth areas in centers of Davao City as viable
centers of the City the City’s updated Land Use Plan location for investment activities
 Low awareness by the  Intensify promotion activities in  Aggressive investment and
international market of Davao foreign countries, specifically tourism roadshows in identified
City’s potential as a viable those within the ASEAN Region, countries; participation in trade
investment destination Japan, China, South Korea, and fairs and exhibits in partnership
Australia as primary markets; with the private sector
secondary markets shall include (DTI/DOT/LGU)
countries with potential in  Established plans for investment
establishing halal facilities, such promotion activities as part of
countries within the Middle East the cooperation agreement of
 Strengthen and utilize the sisterhood relationship
linkage and relationship with the  Constant coordination in
existing sister cities of Davao City providing updated economic
 Further strengthen partnership profile and activities of Davao
with the Foreign Trade Service City; inclusion in the mailing list
Corps of the Department of of DCIPC’s e-newsletter; close
Trade and Industry in coordination in the conduct of
disseminating the economic investment roadshows
profile and investment  Regular meetings with
opportunities of Davao City investment promotion agencies
 Establish link and cooperation  Regular meetings and support to
with other national government the activities of the consular
agencies with functions related offices and honorary consular
to investment promotions, such offices in Davao City
as DOT, Tourism Infrastructure
and Enterprise Zone Authority
(TIEZA), Philippine Economic
Zone Authority (PEZA), and
MINDA
 Close coordination and
cooperation with consular
offices and honorary consular in
Davao City

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 Table 3.11 Davao City Trade Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Continue established linkage
with foreign embassies and
chambers that have existing
projects with Davao City
 Lack of special economic  Identification of potential City
zones to support the government-owned and private
promotion of the Preferred properties that can be converted
Investment Areas, indicated in to special economic zones
the Davao City Investment consistent with the requirements
Incentive Code, specifically on of the PEZA or the TIEZA
Agriculture, Tourism, and Light  Coordination with PEZA or TIEZA
Manufacturing in encouraging private property
owners to develop their
properties into special economic
zones
 Lacks coordination for SME  Centralize the City Government’s  Organize SME industry-specific
support programs and activities for the promotional activities (MSMED
SME sector to be handled by one Council)
agency
 Davao City Micro, Small, Medium
Enterprise Development Council
(MSMED) to come up with
innovative programs to support
the SME sector beyond the usual
conduct of the SME Week every
July of every year
 Preferred Investment Areas,  Partner with a competent  Consultations with various
indicated in the Davao City auditing firm to strategically industry sectors during the
Investment Incentive Code, review and update the Davao review
are already out-dated and City Investment Incentive Code  Close coordination with
need to be reviewed  Ensure that the review is concerned lead agencies
consistent with other master
plan reviews to ensure a holistic
development plan

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Financial Institutions

Financial institutions in Davao City are composed of banks, lending investors, pawnshops,
insurance companies, money changers, and savings or loans associations.

According to the report made by the Business Bureau Department in 2016, majority of the
financial sectors are increasing in number, especially the money changers, which tripled to 172
from only 59 dealers in 2015. In contrast, only two (2) sectors, the lending investors and the
loan associations, decreased in figures.

Banks remain as the dominant players in the financing industry despite existing cyberthreats
and emerging risks of online banking. At present, there are 255 banks in Davao City; 170 of
which are classified as universal and commercial banks, while thrift banks edged the total
number of rural and cooperative banks by one (1) at 43.

Issues and Concerns

From the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

The following issues and concerns were discussed in the BSP presentation entitled
“Evolving Banking Fraud and Cyber Threats: A regulator’s perspective:”
 The emergence of advanced malicious software that targets mobile banking and ATM
users;
 Increase in fraudulent acts involving Card-not-present transactions (e.g., internet, mail
order, telephone order) whereby consumer and card are not present;
 Prevalence of ATM and Credit card Skimming, wherein private information are obtained
illegally through false card readers, scanning of card’s magnetic strip or disguised
cameras positioned to capture a victim’s PIN;
 Widespread use of out-dated software and operating systems, faulty network
configuration and weak physical security control over ATM terminals.

Objectives and Targets

1.) Zero reports on skimming incidents and fraudulent bank transactions
2.) To ensure that the financial system of the City is safe from cyber criminals
a.) Monitor the adherence of banks and financial institutions to the policies and
regulations formulated by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas against cyber threats
b.) Strengthen the law enforcement response to cybercrimes

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Programs/Projects, Services and Activities
1.) Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) IT Risk Management Framework
2.) BSP Circular No. 958- Multifactor Authentication
3.) BSP Circular No. 949-Guidelines on Social Media Risks
4.) BSP Memorandum 2017-019 – Supplemental Guidelines on Europay, MasterCard, and Visa
(EMV) Migration
5.) BSP Memorandum 2017-017 – Reported Incidents of Fraudulent Emails and Websites
6.) BSP Memorandum 2017-018 – Guidance on Managing Ransomware and other Malware
7.) Organizing seminars regarding cyber-threats and cyber security

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 Table 3.12 Davao City Financial Institutions’ Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 The emergence of advanced  Educate card holders  Organize seminars that
malicious software or Malware that regarding existing will discuss cyber threats
targets mobile banking and ATM threats in online and ways to prevent it
users. banking  BSP’s Guidelines on Social
Media risks
 BSP’s memorandum on
Guidance on managing
Ransomware and other
Malwares
 Increase in fraudulent acts  Raise fraud awareness  Organize seminars that
involving Card-not-present through information will discuss cybersecurity
transactions (e.g., internet, mail dissemination  BSP’s Memorandum on
order, telephone order) whereby Reported Incidents of
consumer and card are not present. Fraudulent Emails and
websites

 Prevalence of ATM and Credit card  Raise fraud awareness  Adoption of a global
skimming, wherein private through information standard for cards, which
information are obtained illegally dissemination is the Europay,
through false card readers,  Tighten security in all MasterCard and Visa
scanning of card’s magnetic strip or automated teller (EMV) chip.
disguised cameras positioned to machines  BSP’s Monetary Board
capture a victim’s PIN. issued guidelines on EMV
migration
 Organize seminars that
will discuss cybersecurity
 Widespread use of outdated  Require banks to have  BSP’s Monetary Board
software and operating systems, updated operating issued guidelines on EMV
faulty network configuration and systems and strong migration
weak physical security control over physical security  BSP Multifactor
ATM terminals. control in all their Authentication (MFA)
branches. policy

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Labor and Employment

Davao Region’s labor force is comprised of 2,087,472 workers, with an employment rate of 95.5
percent or 2,087,472 employees. An estimated 16.7 percent of the employed workers were
considered underemployed, which was composed of highly-skilled workers who worked in low
paying low-skill jobs, as well as part-time workers who preferred to work full time. The rate of
unemployment on the other hand decreased from 5.5% in 2015 to 4.5% in 2016.

To further reduce unemployment rate, the regional office of the Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE)-Davao Region expanded its JobStart Philippines Program (JPP) in the
region last 2017. It launched three (3) additional areas (Panabo, Sta.Cruz and Digos City) that
would provide jobs and accommodate 600 jobseekers. The main goal of the program is to
prepare the youth for employment through formal education or technical training. The partner
employers in Davao City are in the wholesale and retail, hotel and restaurants, IT, business
processing management and the agri-industry.

Other existing programs include DOLE’s Integrated Livelihood Program and Emergency
Employment Programs (DILEEP) that has two (2) components, which are Kabuhayan or DOLE
Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP) and Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating
Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) or Emergency Employment Program. The program
aims to reduce poverty and lower the vulnerability to risks of the working poor, marginalized
workers either through emergency employment or promotion of entrepreneurship and
community enterprises. Monthly job fairs, which are organized by the DOLE, are also helping to
reduce unemployment rate.

Issues and Concerns

 4.5% unemployment rate (regional figure)
 Undocumented OFWs
 Youth unemployment is high
 At-risk youth of 18-24 years old high school (HS) graduates, college level/fresh graduates
with less than a year of work experience
 Need to support or employ deserving students coming from low-income families
 Need to address jobs-skills mismatch

Objectives and Targets

1.) To create an environment favorable to gainful employment through synergy among
human resources, industries, educational institutions, and government.
a.) Generate job opportunities
b.) Fast track employment facilitation and minimize number of months to search
for a job
c.) Provide job experience to youth-at-risk
d.) Help poor but deserving students continue studies in college
e.) Track skills available and minimize job-skills mismatch

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Programs/Projects, Services and Activities
1.) Coverage of agencies with no local office in Davao for the recruitment
2.) Job Fairs
3.) Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES)
4.) Career Employment Coaching (CEC)
5.) Implement module in conducting Jobs Fit 2022

Table 3.13 Davao City Labor and Employment Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Policies,
Issues and Concerns Strategies Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 4.5 % unemployment  Conduct job fairs  Crafting of Human
rate (regional figure)  Convergence of agencies with no Resource Development
local office in Davao City for the Plan
recruitment of applicants  Special Recruitment
Activity for Overseas
(SRA) (DOLE/LGU)
 Local Recruitment
Activity for Overseas
(SRA) (DOLE/LGU)
 Undocumented OFWs  Convergence of companies with  Job Fairs
urgent need of personnel to hire  Integrated Livelihood
applicants on the spot Program DOLE proposal-
 Develop alternative source of based/starter kits
income /livelihood assistance for  Livelihood Development
workers /groups, and individuals Assistance Program
through the LGU and cooperatives (LDAP) for distressed
OFWs (DOLE)
 Balik-Pinay, Balik-
Hanapbuhay Program
(BPBH)
 At-risk youth 18-24 years  Partner with the business sector to  JobStart Program Free
old HS graduate, college provide skills, training /internship Life Skills Training
level /fresh graduate to qualified job starters (ADB/LGU)
with less than a year  Memorandum of Agreement  Three-month technical
work experience (MOA) with companies to provide training w/private
 High youth stipend to job starters companies with stipend
unemployment  Companies to absorb interns (DOLE/LGU)
 Government Internship
Program (GIP) (LGU and
Partners)

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 Table 3.13 Davao City Labor and Employment Issues and Concerns,
Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Policies,
Issues and Concerns Strategies Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Special Program for  Conduct orientation in schools  Implementation of SPES
Employment of Students  Dissemination of information (LGU)
(SPES) through media
 Coordination with private
companies and DOLE
 Conduct skills registration of
barangay constituents 18 years old
and above
Conduct of survey
Feed results of SRS to online
registration for participating
companies to view and or facilitate
job placement
 Need to address jobs-  Conduct orientation on career  Career Employment
skills mismatch development for high school Coaching (CSC)
graduating student in all schools  Implement module in
 Info dissemination on "hard-to-fill conducting Jobs Fit 2022
jobs" and "in-demand jobs" to  Industry profiling of
minimize job-skills mismatch competencies/skills
 Strengthen job-skills matching requirements (DRDP)
focused on tertiary education and (LGU)
human resource competencies on
industrial requirements and higher
of global competencies

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SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

The Davao City Social Development Plan addresses issues and concerns that impact the well-
being of the constituents and seeks to improve social services, which are the City Government’s
direct ways of promoting and securing citizens’ well-being.

Social development covers the sub-sectors health, education, protective services, housing,
social welfare, and sports and recreation to which every government places equal importance.
They are listed as part of the City’s priorities in formulating programs, projects, and activities
for implementation.

All efforts to improve the quality of living for all Davaoeños are in line with targeting the
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is done by addressing issues
and concerns currently faced by the City and preventing or minimizing those that may occur in
the future.

The Social Development Plan outlines the overall goals, strategies, and legislative actions. The
issues and concerns for each sub-sector that the City will address through policies,
programs/projects, services, and activities or PPSAs are informed by the sectoral analyses
undertaken as part of the preparation of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) for 2013 to
2022 and various consultative activities conducted as part of the preparation of the
Comprehensive Development Plan for 2018 to 2023.

4.1 Social Development Goals

The Social Development Goals of Davao City for the period 2018 to 2023 are:
1.) Ensure healthy lives of people at all ages by providing sustainable and quality health
services in the community
2.) Ensure inclusive and equitable education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for
all to produce globally competitive human resources
3.) Improve the living conditions of the economically, physically, and socially disadvantaged
population of the City
4.) Promote a healthy environment and active community with access to safe, accessible,
green public spaces and modern sports facilities
5.) Create a healthy, viable and eco-friendly environment that enable every household the
choice of a secured and decent dwelling unit consistent with economics and human
settlement needs
6.) Ensure peace and public safety, strengthen resilience, adaptive capacity, and response
to climate-related hazards, and natural disasters

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Social Development Overall Strategies

The CDP for 2018-2022 is expanded to meet the priority issues and concerns identified by the
City Government and stakeholders. Social services and results for 2018 to 2023 will also be
characterized by the following overall strategies:
1.) Maximizing support from national agencies such as the Department of Health (DOH),
Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), and Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)
through human resource augmentation and facility enhancement;
2.) Developing and harnessing partnerships with civil society organizations (CSOs), private
companies, religious sector, and academe for health services, assistance to the elderly and
persons with disabilities, sports development, parks development, and outreach and
research;
3.) Coordinating with private providers of health and protection services through a health
referral and reporting system and private provision of towing services, and coordinative
activities and monitoring of cases at the barangay level through the BHW including those
catered by private facilities and practitioners;
4.) Empowering communities to make decisions about and participate in achievement of health,
public order and safety, and social welfare outcomes through community-based health
services such as community-based management of acute malnutrition, community-led total
sanitation, community-based mental health facilities, community-based training programs
for priority sectors, community-oriented policing system, and community-based village
museum for traditions and culture;
5.) Enlarging the barangay’s role in health, education and social welfare by augmenting health
human resource at the barangay level, reactivating the Barangay Health Emergency and
Response Team (BHERT), convening the Committee on Education at the barangay level, and
ensuring that Barangay LGUs perform their roles in monitoring, treatment, and resettlement
of informal settler families and the maintenance of cleared areas;
6.) Linking the barangay to a full system of health and disaster response through a referral
network from the BHS to RHU to tertiary facilities, localized deployment of doctors, nurses
and midwives in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas, by improving transport for
health providers, and the Barangay Communication and Alert Warning System Project.

Social Development Proposed Policies and Legislation

Health
1.) An ordinance on mental health, particularly on establishing a mental health facility
2.) A resolution for culturally sensitive health governance operational systems from the Tribal
Council of Indigenous Peoples or the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP)

Education
1.) A policy instrument for DepEd to mainstream culture-based education and include Filipino
ethics in the curriculum

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Social Welfare
1.) An ordinance on the localization of Magna Carta for Women
2.) An ordinance for the institutionalization of Barangay Children’s Associations
3.) Updating of the Davao City Children’s Welfare Code to integrate child protection policy in
media
4.) An ordinance creating the Local Youth Development Council
5.) An ordinance on the preservation of cultures of the indigenous and Moro peoples and the
promotion of their arts and products
6.) Issuance of memorandum to Barangay Councils regarding DILG Memo Circular 2017-89 -
Policies and Guidelines on the Monitoring, Treatment, and Resettlement of Informal Settler
Families and the Maintenance of Cleared Areas

Public Order and Safety

1.) Policy action banning butane refilling
2.) Policy action amending business permit application and renewal requirements regarding
installation of CCTV camera
3.) Policy action requesting Bureau of Fire Protection National Headquarters for additional fire
fighters in the City (Personnel Hiring Program)
4.) Policy action requesting Request BJMP National Headquarters for additional jail officers in
the City’s jails (Personnel Hiring Program)
5.) Policy action recommending to DepEd to integrate Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate
Change Adaptation (DRR-CCA) in the new K to 12 curriculum
6.) Policy action allowing the City to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with
Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Inc. (DCCCII) on providing social,
economic, and infrastructure services
7.) Policy action allowing the City to enter into MOA with private towing companies to provide
towing services for illegally parked vehicles
8.) Legislation transforming the Public Safety and Security Command Center (PSSCC) from a
unit under the City Mayor’s Office into a full-pledged department;
9.) Legislate transforming the City Transport and Traffic Management Office (CTTMO) into a
full-pledged department

Sports and Recreation

1.) Policy action mandating an agency to monitor and conduct inventory of all public and
private open spaces
2.) A resolution to develop at least one public open space into plaza/playground or tree park
with areas for both active and passive recreation in every barangay
3.) Issuance of an Executive Order for the reconstitution of the Culture and Arts Council

Shelter
1.) Policy action amending the pricing policy of the City to match current land market prices
2.) Policy action on developing policies on substitution
3.) Policy action on the formulation of policies for penalties on selling of rights

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4.2 Sub-Sector Priorities

Health

Health programs are focused on the application of a healthy lifestyle in every household.
Advocacy efforts done in the barangays disseminate significant information that will encourage
communities to engage in activities, which will lead to the improvement of health practices.
The City, in partnership with the Department of Health (DOH), spearheads the extension of
health services and enhancement of health facilities to address health needs of its people
particularly in the geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas.

Activities that maintain and check quality of nutrition in the community and in learning centers
for children zero (0) to five (5) years old are implemented by the Nutrition Office under the
management of the City Health Office. These programs provide supplementary feeding as well
as educate people on water and sanitation especially those in far-flung barangays.

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2013-2022

The analysis of the City’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) 2013-2022 included concerns on
the state of health facilities in Davao that, if unaddressed, could mean low coverage of clients
and poor quality of services that may lead to increase in morbidity and mortality and other
epidemic occurrences.

In terms of the general health situation, at the time of the preparation of the CLUP, the
morbidity rate was high and consultation rates were low, which potentially indicates to an end-
state of a worsened health condition among the constituents. An implication of the child health
indicators is that the survival, health and development of infants and children are at risk.

Improper disposal of wastewater, water-borne diseases such as dengue and poor hygiene could
pose not only additional financial burden but also increase morbidity and mortality from
environmental health hazards. Low percentage of households with access to sanitary toilets
could affect water quality and cause the spread of diseases. Inadequate human resources for
health, particularly in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas or GIDAs, and a health
budget that is below the DOH-recommended 22% of the total LGU budget could mean
inadequate delivery of quality health services particularly for the poor.

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From the Comprehensive Data Plan Consultative Process

Davao City stakeholders from the public and private sectors and civil society who were
consulted as part of the formulation of the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) identified
the following as priority health issues and concerns for the period 2018 to 2023:
 High maternal mortality ratio. Maternal Mortality Ratio is high at 55 deaths per 100,000
live births due to low quality ante-natal care (ANC), low post-partum care coverage and
unpracticed essential intra-partum newborn care (EINC) Facility-based deliveries and
skilled birth attendants are below the national standard of 90% especially in
geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDA).
 Low treatment coverage for sick children under five.
 High prevalence of malnutrition from 3.1% in 2014 to 3.9% in 2015. Low coverage of
exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) with only 72.5% of the total livebirth newborn infants.
Increasing severely acute malnourished (SAM) children defaulters.
 Low fully immunized children (FIC) coverage with 84% compared to national standard
of 95%.
 High incidence of teenage pregnancy. The incidence of teenage pregnancy increased
from 4.52% in 2014 to 4.59% in 2015. Young men and women are vulnerable to sexually
transmitted infections (STI).
 Increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases. HIV cases increased from 61 in 2011 to 209 in
2015.
 Increasing dengue cases. There were 2,853 dengue cases with 49 deaths recorded in
2015.
 Inadequate psychosocial care and support services.
 Low number of orally-fit children under five years old.
 Low basic oral health care coverage among grade 1 and grade 6 pupils.
 10% of households have no access to sanitary toilets.
 2% of households have doubtful water sources.
 There is need to standardize health facilities.

Objectives and Targets

1.) Reduce maternal mortality ratio
2.) Increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the
health workforce
3.) End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five (5) years of age, aiming to
reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-five (5)
mortality to at least as 25 per 1,000 live births
4.) End all forms of malnutrition, including achieving by 2025 the internationally agreed targets
on stunting and wasting in children under five (5) years of age, and address the nutritional
needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
5.) Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality
essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential
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6.) Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family
planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into
national strategies and programs
7.) Promote mental health and well-being
8.) Achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open
defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls, and those in
vulnerable situations

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

The CLUP 2013-2022 identified the following as the strategies for achieving objectives related
to Health:
 Construction and upgrading of health facilities;
 Improvement of accessibility to geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDA)
for better delivery of health services;
 Water quality surveillance

The above have incorporated into the Programs and Projects for 2018 to 2023 which are
designed to respond to the identified issues and concerns:
1.) Safe Motherhood Program-Ante-Natal Care;
2.) Essential Intra-Partum Newborn Care Program;
3.) Coordinative meetings with private health facilities and practitioners;
4.) Establish effective referral/reporting system;
5.) Develop a mobile application on integrated reporting for all cases/complaints and services
of the City;
6.) Inventory of Barangay Health Stations (BHS) without permanent nurses;
7.) Permanent schedule of nurses in barangays (one (1) nurse per barangay);
8.) Additional nurses and midwives;

Service Delivery
1.) Construction of additional BHS with birthing facility and equipping of existing BHS especially
in GIDA;
2.) Massive Health education on maternal care;
3.) Provision of emergency vehicles;
4.) Capability building, coordination meetings and trainings;
5.) Construction of half-way homes;
6.) Procurement of motor vehicle for mobilization/inspection and monitoring at least
per Congressional District;
7.) Bio-containment Medical Building;
8.) New City Health Building;
9.) Health Facility Enhancement Program;

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Health Governance
1.) Establish referral system (include Hilots);
2.) Resolution for culturally sensitive operational system (Tribal Council of IPs/NCIP);

Health Financing
1.) Accreditation to PHIC
2.) Increase PHIC enrolment;
3.) Increase local investment program for CHO;

Human Resource
1.) Filling in of vacant positions;
2.) Scholarship for IP (midwifery, nursing);
3.) Additional IP BHWs;
4.) Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI)
a.) Capability Building for Government MDs, Nurses and Midwives
b.) Capability Building for BHWs on Community IMCI
c.) Provision of complete treatment to all under five sick children seen at the Health
Center (all-inclusive diseases/conditions in the IMCI strategy)
5.) Establish referral protocol;
6.) Nutrition Program
a.) Conduct of OPT activities
b.) Garantisadong Pambata implementation
c.) Micronutrient Supplementation
d.) Deworming
7.) Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM)
a.) Supplemental Feeding Activities by providing hot meals or therapeutic treatment
b.) Conduct of OTC day per District
c.) Stakeholders meeting for CMAM
d.) Caregiver/Mothers Class on Hygiene/Skills Training and Family Planning (FP)
e.) M & E through home visits of caregivers of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)
Patient
f.) Tapping stakeholders as partners for Supplemental Feeding Program
g.) Scientific approach in projecting scientific inventory
8.) Exclusive Breastfeeding Program;
9.) Expanded Program on Immunization;
10.) Community-Based Management System;
11.) Monitoring of immunized children at the barangay level through the BHW including those
catered by private facilities and practitioners;
12.) Adolescent Reproductive Health Program;
a.) Adolescent Reproductive Health Sexuality Orientation
b.) Adolescent Health Advocate (AHA) Training
c.) IEC on ARH
13.) Training of Peer Educators;
14.) Access to birth control supplies;

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 15.) STI, HIV, and AIDS Program
a.) STI Risk Assessment and Syndromic STI Case Management for all BHS, RHU, and
Ante-Natal Clinics
b.) Etiologic STI Case Management (Social Hygiene Clinic) in all high-risk areas
c.) Voluntary HIV Testing and Counseling
d.) Condom Use Program
e.) Advocacy Campaigns and IEC materials
f.) Provision of free basic laboratory services: RPR HIV Testing, Gram Staining, Wet
g.) Mount, TPHA in RHUs
16.) Reproductive Health Development Plan;
17.) Dengue Prevention and Control Program
a.) Establish referral protocol
b.) Intensify drive to break mosquito life cycle
18.) Provide counseling services in every RHUs ;
19.) Profiling of psychosocial cases in every barangay;
20.) Profiling of psychologists and health professionals in every barangay;
21.) Provision of maintenance medicines for mentally ill persons;
22.) Conduct study on psychosocial problems among young and adult;
23.) Organized pool of peer counselors;
24.) Construction of Teen Centers with hotline in every barangay;
25.) Free Oral Health Program in public schools and communities;

Household Sanitation
1.) Promotion of proper disposal/ management of domestic waste water;
a.) Campaign and provision of technical assistance in the proper construction of
toilet facilities
b.) Community-led total sanitation - "Zero Open Defecation" Campaign
c.) Allocation of budget for toilet bowl-making
d.) Construction of communal toilets supervised by the barangay
2.) Sewerage /Wastewater Treatment Facility;
3.) Inventory/Identification of households per barangay with access to safe water ;
4.) Provision of IEC materials;
5.) Disinfection/chlorination of households with doubtful water source;
6.) Water sampling for analysis;
7.) Procurement of chlorine granules

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 Table 4.1 Davao City Health Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
High maternal mortality ratio  Strengthen coordination  Safe Motherhood Program
 Maternal Mortality Ratio is and reporting system of o Ante-Natal Care
high at 55 deaths per private health facilities and  IEC/Health
100,000 live births due to practitioners Promotion
low quality ante-natal care  Integrate and strengthen Programs
(ANC), low post-partum care nutrition services in the  Provision and
coverage and unpracticed maternal continuum of care utilization of
essential intra-partum  Augmentation of human pregnant
newborn care (EINC) resource in the barangay tracking toll,
(NDP) birth and MCB
 Integration of health  Conduct of Safe
programs/services Motherhood
 Strengthen the referral Caravan/Buntis
network from BHS–RHU– Congress
tertiary facility  Essential intra-partum
 Accessibility newborn care Program
 Strengthen awareness on  Coordinative meetings
maternal complications with private health
facilities and practitioners
 Establish effective
referral/reporting system
 Develop a mobile
application on integrated
reporting for all
cases/complaints and
services of the City
 Inventory of Barangay
Health Stations (BHS)
without permanent nurses
 Permanent schedule of
nurses in barangays (one
nurse per barangay)
 Additional nurses and
midwives

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 Table 4.1 Davao City Health Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Facility-based deliveries and  Support from DOH Health  Service Delivery
skilled birth attendants Facility Enhancement o Construction of
below the national standard Program (HFEP) - additional BHS with
of 90% especially in equipment/ supplies birthing facility and
geographically isolated  Presence of private birthing equipping of existing
disadvantaged areas (GIDA) facilities BHS especially in GIDA
 PHIC package o Massive Health
 Human resource education on maternal
augmentation from DOH care
 Implementation of DOH o Provision of emergency
Administrative Circular on vehicles
Traditional Birth Attendants o Capability building,
(TBAs) coordination meetings
 Establish partnership with and trainings
other GOs and NGOs for o Construction of half-
health financing way homes
 Localize deployment of  Health Governance
doctors, nurses, and o Establish referral
midwives in GIDAs system (include Hilots)
 Improvement of transport o Resolution for
culturally sensitive
operational system
(Tribal Council of
IP/NCIP)
 Health Financing
o Accreditation to PHIC
o Increase PHIC
enrolment
o Increase local
investment program
for CHO
 Human Resource
o Filling in of vacant
positions
o Scholarship for IP
(midwifery, nursing)
o Additional IP BHWs

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 Table 4.1 Davao City Health Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Low treatment coverage  Ensure integration with  Integrated Management of
for sick children under-five other health services Childhood Illnesses (IMCI)
 Institutionalized IMCI in all o Capability Building for
barangay health stations Government MDs,
 Strengthen the referral Nurses and Midwives
network from BHS–RHU– o Capability Building for
tertiary facility BHWs on Community
 Intensify medical outreach IMCI
programs in partnership o Provision of complete
with civic organizations, treatment to all under
schools, etc. five sick children seen
at the health center
(all-inclusive
diseases/conditions in
the IMCI strategy)
o Establish referral
protocol
 High prevalence of  Target the nutritionally at  Nutrition Program
malnutrition from 3.1% in risk and vulnerable o Conduct of OPT
2014 to 3.9% in 2015  Adopt and implement activities
o Low coverage of appropriate guidelines for o Garantisadong
exclusive breastfeeding the community-based Pambata
(EBF) with only 72.5% management of acute implementation
of the total livebirth malnutrition o Micronutrient
newborn infants  Promote optimum infant Supplementation
o Increasing severely and young child feeding o Deworming
acute malnourished practices in various settings
(SAM) children to reduce prevalence of
defaulters underweight and stunted
under-five children

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 Table 4.1 Davao City Health Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Community Management
of Acute Malnutrition
(CMAM)
o Supplemental
feeding activities by
providing hot meals
or therapeutic
treatment
o Conduct of OTC day
per District
o Stakeholders
Meeting for CMAM
o Caregiver/Mothers
Class on
Hygiene/Skills
Training and FP
o M & E thru home
visits of caregivers
of SAM Patient
o Tapping
stakeholders as
partners for
Supplemental
Feeding Program
o Scientific approach
in projecting
scientific inventory
 Exclusive Breastfeeding
Program
o Production of IEC
Materials on EBF and
Complementary
Feeding

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
o Symposiums of EBF
Mothers
o Capability Building and
Skills Knowledge on
Infant and Young Child
Feeding
o Training on Infant and
Young Child Feeding
(IYCF) Support Group
 Low fully immunized  Augmentation of human  Expanded Program on
children (FIC) coverage resource in the barangay Immunization
with 84% compared to  Strict implementation of  Community-Based
national standard of 95% REP Management System
 Strengthen coordination  Monitoring of immunized
and reporting system of children at the barangay
private health facilities and level through the BHW
practitioners including those catered by
private facilities and
practitioners
 High incidence of teenage  Raise awareness on  Adolescent Reproductive
pregnancy reproductive health care Health Program
o Incidence of teenage  Improve services on o ARH Sexuality
pregnancy increasing adolescent and youth Orientation
from 4.52% in 2014 to health and replication of o Adolescent Health
4.59% in 2015 Teen Centers in other Advocate (AHA)
o Youth vulnerable to barangays Training
sexually transmitted  Designate an area within o Construction of Teen
infections (STI) the barangay hall where Centers in every
children can congregate barangay
o IEC on ARH
 Training of Peer Educators
 Access to birth control
supplies
 Increasing number of  Presence of Reproductive  STI, HIV, and AIDS Program
HIV/AIDS cases Health and Wellness Center o STI Risk Assessment
o HIV cases increasing (RHWC) and Syndromic STI
from 61 in 2011 to  Inclusion of STI-HIV AIDS as Case Management for
209 in 2015 a regular program in the all BHS, RHU and
RHUs Ante-Natal Clinics
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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Full enforcement of Davao o Etiologic STI Case
City AIDS Ordinance Management (Social
 Strengthening of Local AIDS Hygiene Clinic) in all
Council high-risk areas
o Voluntary HIV Testing
and Counseling
o Condom Use Program
o Advocacy Campaigns
and IEC materials
o Provision of free basic
laboratory services:
RPR HIV Testing, Gram
Staining, Wet Mount,
TPHA in RHUs
o Reproductive Health
Development Plan
 Increasing dengue cases  Strengthen implementation  Dengue Prevention and
o Occurrence of dengue of environmental sanitation Control Program
cases with 2,853 cases and vector control o Intensify IEC
and 49 deaths  Strengthen linkages with o Conduct of clean-up
recorded in 2015 schools and other entities drives such as de-
to ensure maximum reach clogging of canals
of promotional activities o Strengthen Blood
 Strengthen referral system Donation Program
to other private health o Policy advocacy
facilities for further o Establish Referral
treatment if necessary Protocol
 Increase local investment o Provision of
program for CHO medicines, medical
 Re-activation of BHERT supplies, equipment
(Barangay Health and mobility for
Emergency and Response dengue cases
Team) o Intensify drive to
break mosquito life
cycle

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Inadequate psychosocial  Establishment of  Policy agenda: Mental
care and support services community-based mental Health Ordinance
health facility o Establishment of
 Partnership with academe Mental Health
for research study Facility
 Establishment of hotline  Provide counselling services
 Partnership with private in every RHUs
and religious sectors and/or  Profiling of psychosocial
academe cases in every barangay
 Profiling of psychologists
and health professionals in
every barangay
 Provision of maintenance
medicines for mentally ill
persons
 Conduct study on
psychosocial problems
among young and adult
 Organized pool of peer
counsellors
 Construction of Teen
Centers with hotline
 Low number of orally-fit  Partnership with CSOs and  Free Oral Health Program in
children under five years private companies for public schools and
old outreach activities as part communities
 Low basic oral health care of their corporate social o Provision of dental
coverage among Grade 1 responsibility (CSR) supplies
and Grade 6 pupils  Enhance delivery of basic o Conduct of oral
oral health care examination among
 Mandatory toothbrush drill target clients in day
care centers
o Conduct of oral
prophylaxis
procedures
o Conduct of toothbrush
drills in day care
centers

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
o Conduct of fluoride
treatment among day
care pupils enrolled
o Conduct of permanent
filling procedures
among clients
o Conduct of tooth
extraction procedures
o Augmentation of
dental personnel
 10% of households have  Regular inspection and Household Sanitation
no access to sanitary monitoring of households  Promotion of proper
toilets relative to proper excreta disposal/ management of
disposal domestic waste water
o Campaign and
provision of technical
assistance in the
proper construction of
toilet facilities
o Community-Led Total
Sanitation - "Zero
Open Defecation"
Campaign
o Allocation of budget
for toilet bowl making
o Construction of
communal toilets
supervised by the
barangay
o Sewerage/Wastewater
Treatment Facility

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 2% of households have  Coordinate with barangay  Inventory/Identification of
doubtful water sources officials and other agencies households per barangay
on provision of safe water with access to safe water
for households  Provision of IEC materials
 Disinfection/chlorination of
households with doubtful
water source
 Water sampling for analysis
 Procurement of chlorine
granules
 Procurement of motor
vehicle for
mobilization/inspection and
monitoring at least per
Congressional District
 Need to standardize health  Enhance health facilities  Bio-containment Medical
facilities Building
 New City Health Building
 Health Facility
Enhancement Program

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Education

Programs on education in the City address the need for literacy starting from early childhood
development until such time an individual is ready for life skills program, which will
subsequently produce globally competitive human resources. Mainstreaming of values, culture,
and Filipino ethics in the curriculum is part of literacy.

Davao City has initiatives linked with the Department of Education (DepEd) to improve the
education performance of the City for both elementary and secondary levels.

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2013-2022

The CLUP for 2013-2022 highlighted key issues concerning education in Davao. In the rural
areas, school sites are not accessible to school-going age pupils. There are also fewer public
secondary schools in Davao City’s rural areas. These could have the implications of increasing
the number of drop-outs and lowering participation rates in both elementary and secondary
education. Rural families might be affected by high costs of expenses as they look for options to
obtain education for their children, and in some settings, safety of school children might be a
concern.

In terms of school facilities in Davao City’s public elementary schools, most do not have science
laboratories, computer rooms, internet access, clinics, and even good comfort rooms. Public
secondary schools fared better but similarly most do not have computer rooms, internet
access, clinics, libraries, and good comfort rooms. These could impact negatively on
pupils’/students’ interest in reading, science, research, and constrain them from learning good
online and livelihood skills.

Although there are schools that have more teachers, classrooms, desk/armchair than required,
there are also public elementary and secondary schools that do not have the required quantity
of teachers, classrooms, desks/armchairs and textbooks. These could lead to poor quality of
education because of overcrowded classrooms, overloaded teachers, and shortened classes.

At the elementary level, more boys were enrolled than girls, although more girls were enrolled
than boys in the secondary level which could indicate further inquiry on the gender dimensions.

Although Davao scored higher than the regional ratings in terms of Cohort Survival Rate and
Completion Rate for both elementary and secondary levels, the City’s elementary school
Participation Rate was lower.

Davao scored low across National Achievement Test (NAT) subject areas, particularly in subjects
such as English, Science, Mathematics, and HEKASI, which could constrain them from
proceeding to next level of schooling.

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From the vantage point of the CLUP, the City has to pay attention to the metrics that indicate
an increase in school-going age children joining the ranks of the out-of-school youth, as this
could signify higher probability of these children to engage in activities that could bring them in
conflict with the law, among others.

From the Comprehensive Data Plan Consultation Process

Going by the priority educational issues and concerns identified by Davao City stakeholders
below, the trends outlined by the CLUP are still holding:
 Education performance issues. Davao City’s performance in Participation, Survival,
Completion, and Drop-Out Rates for both elementary and secondary levels are low
compared to national standards. The number of Alternative Learning System (ALS)
completers is low. There are some ALS teachers who are perceived to lack competence;
 Inadequate facilities. The number of teachers, classrooms, desk/armchairs, textbooks
and other educational facilities in public elementary and secondary schools are
inadequate;
 Cultural education issues. Appreciation of Filipino culture and arts in education is
diminishing. Schools do not adequately emphasize values education and good manners
and right conduct;
 Scholarship issues. Availing of scholarship opportunities can be difficult for vulnerable
groups;
 Non-compliance to standards. There are issues concerning compliance with CHED
Minimum Standards on Quality Assurance in Philippine Higher Education;
 TechVoc issues. Demand for community-based training programs for priority sectors,
e.g. rebel returnees, voluntary drug surrenderees, dependents of victims of armed
conflict, and prisoners is increasing. There is a lack of competency assessors. Certified
National TVET Trainers (NTT) for specific skills are lacking;
 Jobs-skills mismatch. Mismatch in jobs available and the skills of graduates persist;
 Non-maximization of HEI support. Research, development and extension (RD&E)
support of higher education institutions (HEIs) is not maximized.

Objectives and Targets

1.) Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary
education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
2.) Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and
provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environment for all
3.) Improve school size by attaining the space standards
4.) Increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and
vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
5.) Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational
and tertiary education, including university

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Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

The CLUP 2013-2022 specified the following strategies for Education, which were used to
inform the choice of Education Programs and Projects for the CDP 2018-2023:
 Improving accessibility of schools located in the rural areas;
 Construction and upgrading of school facilities;
 Provision of additional classrooms equivalent to 69 hectares;
 Barangay mapping and monitoring of children not in school;
 Early Registration (DepEd Order No. 6, 2017);
 Educational Service Contracting Program;
 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM);
 Institutionalization of Technical Vocational Program at the barangay level;
 Sunday Class Program;
 Distance Learning Program;
 Madrasah Comprehensive and Promotion Program;
 Livelihood/Income-Generating Projects;
 School-based feeding;
 Construction and rehabilitation of school buildings/classrooms compliant to Accessibility
Law and with water and sanitation facilities;
 Adopt-a-School Program;
 Provision of capacity building equipment such as sewing machines, computers and the
like for senior high schools;
 Use of renewable energy in far-flung schools;
 Conduct of cultural mapping;
 Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP);
 Training for Work Scholarship Program for Trainers Methodology l (COC II);
 Unified TVET Program Registration and Accreditation System;
 Conduct study on industry needs;
 Skills Registry System;
 Jobstart Program;
 Career and employment coaching;
 Scholarship on Tertiary Education Program (STEP);
 Establish a mechanism on Adopt-a-Scholar Program;
 Continuous monitoring and evaluation of HEI typology;
 Outcome-Based Education (OBE);
 K to 12 Transition Program;
 Collaboration with HEIs;
 Create a mechanism for HEI to be involved in local development.

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Education performance  Strengthen Committee  Barangay mapping and
issues on Education at the monitoring of children not in
o Low Education barangay level school
Performance Indicators  SP Committee on  Early Registration (DepEd
on both levels Education to partner Order No. 6, 2017)
(elementary and with private schools and  Scholarships
secondary) compared CSOs to provide  Educational Service
to national standard scholarships and Contracting Program
specifically on: resources to education-  Alternative Delivery Mode
 Participation Rate related activities (ADM)
 Survival Rate  Creation of Community  Institutionalization of
 Completion Rate Advisory Board for Technical Vocational Program
 Drop-Out Rate Education headed by the at the barangay level
o Low number of SP Committee on  Sunday Class Program
Alternative Learning Education  Distance Learning Program
System (ALS)  Intensify  Madrasah Comprehensive
completers implementation of and Promotion Program
o Incompetent ALS Alternative Delivery  Livelihood/Income-
teachers Mode (ADM), ALS, and Generating Projects
school health and  School-based feeding
nutrition program
 Linkage with the Liga ng
mga Barangay for the
institutionalization of
Technical Vocational
Program
 Request for additional
items for mobile
teachers
 Strengthen livelihood
projects at the barangay
level (allocate barangay
budget on livelihood
projects for OSY)
 Collaborate with
stakeholders

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Inadequate number of  Allocation of 40% SEF budget in  Construction and
teachers, classrooms, the construction of classrooms rehabilitation of school
desk/armchairs, textbooks and 15% for repairs and buildings/classrooms
and other educational maintenance compliant to Accessibility
facilities in public  Coordination with partner Law and with water and
elementary and secondary agencies sanitation facilities
schools  Generate resources from private  Adopt-a-School Program
sectors as part of their CSR  Provision of capacity
building equipment such as
sewing machines, computers
and the like for the senior
high school
 Use of renewable energy in
far-flung schools
 Cultural education issues  Cultural mapping  Conduct of cultural mapping
o Diminishing  Mainstreaming culture-based  Policy agenda for DepEd to
appreciation of education in the curriculum mainstream culture-based
Filipino culture and education and include
arts in education Filipino ethics in the
o Lack of emphasis in curriculum
schools on values
(good manners and
right conduct)
 Technical-Vocational issues  Develop more trainers through  Training for Work
o Lack of competency the allocation of scholarship Scholarship Program (TWSP)
assessors slots for NC II holders with  Training for Work
o Increasing demand for industry work experience for Scholarship Program for
community-based Trainers Methodology I Trainers Methodology l
training programs for  Coordinate with DepEd to allow (COC II)
priority sectors, e.g. teachers who are TESDA  Unified TVET Program
rebel returnees, accredited competency Registration and
voluntary drug assessors to accept assessment Accreditation System
surrenderees, assignments
dependents of victims  Encourage companies to identify
of armed conflict, current workers to become
prisoners assessors
o Lack of certified  Coordinate with TESDA to
National TVET Trainers establish/enhance its own pool
(NTTC) for specific of trainers for community based
skills training programs

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Job-skills mismatch  Upgrading of curriculum  Conduct study on industry
 Enhance partnership needs
between technical-  Skills Registry System
vocational schools,  Jobstart Program
higher education  Career and employment
institutions and coaching
industries
 Difficulty in availing  Adaptable guidelines for  Scholarship on Tertiary
scholarship opportunities Scholarship Programs Education Program (STEP)
 Less stringent criteria to  Financial assistance for Lumad
enter and remain in the  Medical and Law School
program Educational Assistance
 Encourage community Program
volunteerism  Technical and Vocational Skills
Training Program
 Education assistance for
persons with disability or
persons with special needs
 Establish a mechanism on
Adopt-a-Scholar Program
 Non-compliance with CHED  Adherence to CHED  Continuous monitoring and
minimum standards Memorandum Circular evaluation of HEI typology
No. 46, series of 2012  Outcome-Based Education
Policy Standard to (OBE)
Enhance Quality  K to 12 Transition Program
Assurance (QA) in
Philippine Higher
Education through an
Outcomes-based and
Typology-Based QA
 Subjected to PSYS
 Research, development and  Tap HEIs for RD&E  Collaborate with HEIs
extension (RD&E) support of  Create a mechanism for HEI to
higher education institutions be involved in local
(HEIs) is not maximized development

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Social Welfare

The local government provides meaningful opportunities for social and economic growth of the
disadvantaged sectors. These are vulnerable clients like the heads of families and other needy
adults, disadvantaged women, persons with disability, older persons, youth and children with
specific needs, and victims of calamity and ensure that indigenous and Moro population have
access to basic services. These basic social services like self-employment assistance (SEA),
practical skills development (PSD), women empowerment, early childhood care and
development (ECCD), responsible parenthood, effective parenting, emergency relief, and
livelihood assistance are extended to develop them into productive and self-reliant citizens.
Also, these services aim to maintain the functionality and to better the quality of life of the
disadvantaged citizenry.

The City manages residential facilities that provide temporary shelter to children at-risk (CAR),
children in conflict with the law (CICL), victims of violence against women and children (VAWC),
girls who are victims of physical and sexual abuse, and abandoned elderly. In addition, these
centers also provide case management, psychosocial interventions, family life education, group
and individual counselling, educational assistance and after care services.

All client categories are handled by using casework, group work and community organizing
methods of social work practice.

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2013-2022

In terms of social welfare facilities, there are challenges in meeting DSWD standards on day-
care centers. At the time of CLUP preparation, 170 more day-care centers were needed to meet
the 1:500 families standard. A total of 73 day-care centers were in poor or critical condition.
The presence and state of facilities impact on children three (3) to five (5) years old who need
special protection, psycho-social healing and physical safety in order to achieve their right to
health, psychosocial and mental development.

The City has noted increases in the number of disadvantaged families and in poverty incidence
which indicate higher demand for social services. Indigenous and Moro peoples generally have
limited access to basic services. Inadequate information has also prevented effective profiling
of families living in disaster-prone areas.

A higher number of violence against women (VAW) cases signify continued perpetuation of
discrimination against women. As the number of dysfunctional families increase, so does the
likelihood of more women bearing multiple burdens and reduced benefits and privileges for
them.

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The rise of psychosocial problems due to juvenile delinquency has also been noted, which could
lead to an increase in crimes associated with children who are in conflict with the law (CICL).

Persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the City still endure different types of discrimination such as
unequal employment opportunities. Generally, PWDs have limited access to appropriate
services at the barangay level, which means that the needs of many PWDs for physical, social
and mental development are still unmet.

The number of elderly receiving social pension is limited.

In terms of the City’s social welfare service delivery system, not all barangays have social
workers. District Social Welfare Offices have inadequate spaces, which restrict movement and
accommodation and the quality of services especially when clients need some level of privacy
during the process of divulging sensitive matters.

From the Comprehensive Data Plan Consultation Process

Updated data that were considered in the preparation of the CDP indicate that the trends in the
issues and concerns described in the CDP about the disadvantaged populations in Davao City
are still holding.

Disadvantaged Families
 Need to sustain access to basic services of poor and disadvantaged families/persons;
 Victims of disasters;
 Presence of informal settlers in danger zones;
 Prevalence of dysfunctional families

Disadvantaged Women
 Increasing incidence of violence against women and children (VAWC) and other
gender-related offenses. The number of victims of violence against women and their
children increased from 571 cases in 2011 to 1,075 in 2015.

Disadvantaged Children and Youth

 Growing number of children needing special protection (CNSP) from 4,925 CNSP served
in 2011 to 8,462 served in 2015, an average annual growth of 17.9%).
 Low awareness and enforcement of policies and programs on children. Awareness on
laws and programs for children is low. Enforcement of local ordinances concerning
juvenile status offenses (curfew on minors, internet cafes, substance abuse, selling of
cigarettes and liquor to minors) is low and so is the level of child participation in
planning and policy-making bodies.
 Inadequate early childhood care and development (ECCD) facilities. ECCD Centers are
dilapidated. Absence of comfort rooms/water and hand-washing facilities as well as
ramps/ handrails for children with disability in ECCD Centers.

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 Some ECCD centers lack playground equipment. The accreditation of ECCD centers and
service providers is not strictly enforced.
 Negative influence of media technology (print, broadcast and social media). Violent and
lewd materials, and sexist interviews on sensitive issues against children by media
practitioners are aired.
 Lack of a database on children that includes children with disabilities and indigenous
children. Data on children aged three (3) to four (4) years old who attend education and
development program is not comprehensive.
 Low level of youth participation in planning and policy-making bodies

Persons with Disability and the Elderly

 Needs and requirements of persons with disabilities (PWDs) and the elderly are not
met. PWDs have difficulties accessing basic services. Enforcement of the Accessibility
Law (standard ramps, express lanes in establishments, parking lanes) is low. There is a
need for the development of centers for children with special needs and differently-
abled children. Security in old age and abuses committed against the elderly must be
addressed.

Indigenous Peoples and Moro

 Difficulties of indigenous cultural communities/indigenous peoples (ICCs/IPs) in
governing their ancestral domains
 Preservation of the cultural heritage of IPs and Moro
 Absence of comprehensive local data on Indigenous Peoples and Moro
 Practices detrimental to the rights of women and children. Practices that are
detrimental to the rights of women and children such as duway, dowry, polygamy, and
child marriage still persist.
 Difficulties in ensuring IP and Moro access to social services. IP and Moro access to
basic health services is low, particularly in geographically isolated and depressed areas.
Health facilities and staff in GIDA and IP communities are lacking; where they are
existing, there are concerns about cultural sensitivity. The referral system is poor. The
implementation of DOH Administrative Circular on Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs)
transfer is an issue. PHIC enrolment among IPs and Moro communities is low.

Objectives and Targets

1.) Eliminate all forms of violence against women and children
2.) End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against children
3.) Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
4.) Build/Upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide
safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environment
5.) Increase the number of youth who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational
skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
6.) Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
7.) Ensure that all men and women particularly the poor and the vulnerable have equal rights
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8.) Enhance capacity-building support to increase the availability of quality, timely, and reliable
data disaggregated by sex, age, disability and other relevant characteristics
9.) Ensure that all men and women particularly the poor and the vulnerable have equal rights
to economic resources and basic services
10.) Ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and
upgrade slums
11.) Protect and preserve cultures and rights of Indigenous People

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

Disadvantaged Women
1.) Comprehensive Gender and Development Program
a.) Barangay VAWC Desks
b.) Residential care facility (Sidlakan Women Crisis Center)
2.) Expand coverage of services of the Kean Gabriel Hotline to include cases such as rape and
VAWC, and serve as a depression and suicide prevention trunk line
3.) Strengthening of Barangay Council for Women (BCW)
4.) Sustainable Livelihood for Women in Especially-Difficult Circumstances (WEDC)

Disadvantaged Children and Youth

1.) Comprehensive Juvenile Intervention Program
2.) Quick response team for children’s concerns
3.) Upgrading of residential care facilities (Bahay Pag-asa, Balay Dangupan, and Paginhawaan
Drop-In Center)
4.) Family Development Training Program
a.) Enhanced Parent Effectiveness Service (EPES)
b.) Empowerment and Reaffirmation of Paternal Abilities Training (ERPAT)
5.) Integrated information dissemination and campaign programs
6.) Psychosocial and legal interventions referral program
7.) Barangay and City Wide Children’s Congress
8.) Dialogue with KBP concerning sensitivity in handling interviews, reports and others
9.) Creation of Community-Based Teen Center
10.) Teen Forum
11.) Organization of Barangay Children’s Association in all barangays
12.) Positive life skills training for CAR and CICL
13.) Suicidal Management Training for CNSP and Needy Out of School Youth (OSY)
14.) Pag-asa Youth Association of the Philippines (PYAP) Convention
15.) Pag-asa Youth Association of the Philippines (PYAP) Quarterly Connect
16.) Children’s Fun Day
17.) Strengthening of Barangay Council for the Protection of Children (BCPC)
18.) City-wide quarterly consultation/ dialogue with stakeholders on children’s concerns
19.) Children’s Congress
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21.) Rehabilitation/Repair of ECCD centers with single sex comfort rooms, water and
hand washing facilities, and ramp
22.) Installation of playground facilities
23.) Mobile ECCD
24.) Parents Teaching Other Parents (PTOP)
25.) Community-Based Child-Minding Center
26.) Monitoring of Davao City Council for the Welfare of Children - ECCD Committee
27.) Policy agenda: Update Davao City Children’s Welfare Code to integrate child protection
policy in media.
28.) Dialogue with KBP
29.) Community-based monitoring system
30.) Management information system on children
31.) Online registry of CICL and CAR
32.) Educational assistance
33.) Scholarship on Tertiary Education Program
34.) Basic Business Management Training
35.) Special Program on Employment for Students
36.) Jobstart Philippines
37.) Creation of Youth Development Office
38.) Y (Youth) Speak
39.) Pag-asa Youth Association Program

Persons with Disability and the Elderly

1.) Creation of Persons with Disability Office (PDAO)
2.) Sustainable Livelihood Program
a.) Cash for Work
b.) Magnegosyo Ta, ‘Day
c.) Self-Employment Assistance
3.) Conditional Cash Transfer
4.) Mandatory enrolment to PhilHealth
5.) Installation of standard accessibility architectural facilities or structural features in all
government buildings
6.) Social pension for the elderly
7.) Residential care facilities for persons with disabilities and older persons
8.) Establishment of centers for developmentally-challenged/children with special needs

Indigenous Peoples and Moro

1.) Capability building on the management of ancestral domain
2.) Forest Land Use Planning
3.) Management Agreement between DENR, NCIP, IPs, ICCs, LGUs
4.) Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan (ADSDPP) updating
5.) Review of all laws governing ancestral domain
6.) Establishment of IP cultural communities
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8.) Kadayawan Festival
9.) Palarong Katutubo
10.) Development of community-based village museum for traditions and culture (Antayapan).
11.) Community-based monitoring system
12.) Rehistro Nyo, Sagot ng Gobyerno
13.) Sa Paaralan ko Pwede nang Magparehistro
14.) IP Development Program
15.) IP Women Summit
16.) Gender Sensitivity Trainings
17.) Massive advocacy on the rights of women and children in GIDAs
18.) IP Women Organizing
19.) Construction and equipping of additional BHS with birthing facility
20.) Intensify health education campaign with emphasis on the ill effects of non-availment of
basic health services, IEC
21.) Construction of half-way homes in GIDAs
22.) Hiring of health personnel within GIDAs
23.) Increase PHIC enrolment for IPs

Disadvantaged Families
1.) Sustainable Livelihood Program
2.) Skills Development Training
3.) Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program
4.) Development and market linkages of IP products

Victims of Disasters
1.) Vulnerability and adaptability assessment (VAA) on Climate Change
2.) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan
3.) Shelter Program for Qualified Informal Settlers in Danger Zones
4.) Kusina ng Bayan
5.) Construction of new evacuation centers.
6.) No habitation zones are dedicated for urban greening
7.) River easement protection/conservation
8.) Child and Women Friendly Spaces in the Evacuation Center ECCD in Emergency
9.) Camp Management in Evacuation Centers
10.) Tulong Para sa Mga Disadvantaged (TUPAD)-Emergency Employment for disaster victims
11.) Food for work for restoration of damaged community facilities such as day-care centers,
etc.
12.) Emergency Relief Assistance

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 Table 4.3 Davao City Social Welfare Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
Disadvantaged Women
 Increasing incidence of  Raising awareness on  Comprehensive Gender and
violence against women and laws on women and Development Program
children (VAWC) and other children o GAD advocacy activities
gender-related offenses o Implementation o GAD development
o Increasing number of of Women summit
victims of violence Development o Gender sensitivity
against women and Code, RA 9710 or trainings
their children from 571 the Magna Carta o Barangay VAWC Desks
cases in 2011 to 1,075 for Women and o Residential care facility
in 2015 RA 9262 or the (Sidlakan Women Crisis
Anti-Violence Center)
Against Women  Expand coverage of services of
and their Children the Kean Gabriel Hotline to
 Sustain legal assistance include cases such as rape and
dedicated to VAWC VAWC, and serve as a
cases depression and suicide
 Localization of Magna prevention trunk line
Carta of Women  Strengthening of Barangay
 Strengthen organized Council for Women
women organization  Sustainable Livelihood
 Mandatory Utilization of Program for Women in
GAD budget for Women Especially-Difficult
Capability Building, Circumstances (WEDC)
Program and Projects  Policy agenda: An ordinance
 Mobilize women as on the localization of Magna
resource in Community Carta of Women
Development
 Strengthen women’s
participation on political
and social agenda
Disadvantaged Children and Youth
 Growing number of children  Raising awareness on  Comprehensive Juvenile
needing special protection the rights and Intervention Program
(CNSP) from 4,925 CNSP responsibilities of the  Quick response team for
served in 2011 to 8,462 children and self- children’s concerns
served in 2015, an average enhancement activities  Upgrading of residential care
annual growth of 17.9%)  Enhancement of facilities
psychosocial and legal
interventions

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Monitoring, surveillance,  Family Development Training
and rescue of victims Program
 Prosecution of violators o Enhanced Parent
 Build capabilities to Effectiveness Service
enhance parenting skills; (EPES)
promote men’s/paternal o Empowerment and
participation to uphold Reaffirmation of
family solidarity Paternal Abilities
 Standardization of Training (ERPAT)
residential care facilities  Integrated information
dissemination and campaign
programs
 Psychosocial and legal
interventions referral
program
 Barangay and City-Wide
Children’s Congress
 Dialogue with KBP
concerning sensitivity in
handling interviews, reports
and others
 Creation of Community-
Based Teen Center
 Teen Forum
 Organization of Barangay
Children’s Association in all
barangays
 Positive life skills training for
CAR and CICL
 Suicidal Management
Training for CNSP and Needy
Out of School Youth (OSY)
 PYAP Convention
 PYAP Quarterly Connect
 Children’s Fun Day

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Low awareness and  Raising awareness on  Strengthening of Barangay
enforcement of policies and laws and ordinances Council for the Protection of
programs on children  Strict enforcement of Children (BCPC)
o Low awareness on laws laws especially at the  City-wide quarterly
and programs for barangay level consultation/ dialogue with
children  Build capabilities to stakeholders on children’s
o Low enforcement of enhance the skills of concerns
local ordinances children and youth in  Policy agenda: An ordinance
concerning juvenile planning and policy- for the institutionalization of
status offenses (curfew making Barangay Children’s
on minors, internet  Institutionalization of Associations
cafes, substance abuse, Barangay Children’s  Children’s Congress
selling of cigarettes and Association  Hiring of Social Worker in
liquor to minors)  Provision of 1 Social every barangay
o Low level of child Worker in every
participation in planning barangay
and policy-making
bodies
 Inadequate early childhood  Upgrading of ECCD  Rehabilitation/Repair of
care and development centers, installation of ECCD centers with single sex
(ECCD) facilities single sex comfort rooms comfort rooms, water and
o Dilapidated ECCD and water and hand- hand washing facilities, and
Centers washing facilities, ramp
o Absence of comfort playground facilities  Installation of playground
rooms/water and hand-  Compliance of ECCD facilities
washing facilities Centers with  Mobile ECCD
o Lack of playground Accessibility Law  Parents Teaching Other
equipment in some  Strict implementation of Parents (PTOP
ECCD centers Early Years Act  Community-Based Child-
o No ramps/handrails for  Implementation of the Minding Center
ECCD children with new guidelines on the  Monitoring of Davao City
disability registration and granting Council for the Welfare of
 Accreditation of ECCD centers of permit and Children - ECCD Committee
and service providers not recognition to public and
strictly enforced private Child
Development
Centers/Learning
Centers offering ECCD
Programs for 0-4 years
old Filipino children

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Negative influence of media  Establish mechanism on  Policy agenda: Update Davao
technology (print, broadcast, child protection in media City Children’s Welfare Code
and social media)  Strengthen regulation of to integrate child protection
 Airing of violent, lewd radio programs policy in media
materials, sexist interviews  Dialogue with KBP
on sensitive issues against
children by media
practitioners
 Lack of a database on  Profiling of children  Community-based monitoring
children that includes  Strengthening of ECCD system
children with disabilities and Committee  Management information
indigenous children  Enforcement of Early system on children
o Data on 3-4 years old Years Act  Online registry of Children In
attending education  Provision of Conflict with The Law (CICL)
and development scholarships, technical and Children At Risk (CAR)
program is not and vocational training,  Educational assistance
comprehensive and other capability  Scholarship on Tertiary
 Youth not in employment, training Education Program
education or training  Basic Business Management
(According to DOLE, Training
the Not in Employment,  Special Program on
Education, or Training Rate in Employment for Students
the Philippines is 24.3%.)  JobStart Philippines
 Low level of youth  Creation of Local Youth  Policy agenda: An ordinance
participation in planning and Development Council as creating Local Youth
policy-making bodies mandated in RA 10742 Development Council
or the Sangguniang  Creation of Youth
Kabataan Reform Act of Development Office
2015  Y Speak
 Bai-Y
 Pag-asa Youth Association
Program
Persons with Disability and Elderly
 Needs and requirements of  Job opportunities for  Creation of Persons with
persons with disabilities and marginalized sector Disability Office (PDAO)
the elderly are not met  Productivity skills Assistance
o Access of persons with training and livelihood
disabilities to basic opportunities
services

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
o Low enforcement of  Increase budgetary  Sustainable Livelihood
Accessibility Law allocation for livelihood Program
(standard ramps, assistance o Cash for Work
express lanes in  Replicate national o Magnegosyo Ta, ‘Day
establishments, parking government micro- o Self-Employment
lanes) enterprise development  Conditional Cash Transfer
o Need for development  Enforce BP 344  Mandatory enrolment to
centers children with (Accessibility Law) PhilHealth
special needs and  Enrolment in  Installation of standard
differently-abled government social accessibility architectural
children protection programs facilities or structural features
o Security in old age  Partnership with support in all government buildings
 Abuses committed against groups and other non-  Social pension for the elderly
the elderly government  Residential care facilities for
organizations persons with disabilities and
older persons
 Establishment of centers for
developmentally-
challenged/children with
special needs
Indigenous Peoples and Moro
 Difficulties of indigenous  Integrated area  Capability building on the
cultural development approach management of ancestral
communities/indigenous to implement culturally domain
peoples (ICCs/IPs) in responsive economic  Forest Land Use Planning
governing their ancestral programs for IPs  Management Agreement
domains  Information drive on the between DENR, NCIP, IPs,
rights and roles of IPs ICCs, LGUs
over lands covered by  ADSDPP updating
CADT/CALT  Review of all laws governing
ancestral domain
 Preservation of the cultural  Policy formulation to  Policy agenda: An ordinance
heritage of IPs and Moro promote the products, on the preservation of
arts and culture of IPs cultures of the indigenous
and Moro People people and Moro peoples and
the promotion of their arts
and products

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Cultural mapping
 Kadayawan festival
 Palarong Katutubo
 Development of community-
based village museum for
traditions and culture
 Absence of comprehensive  Conduct  Community-based monitoring
local data on indigenous census/barangay system
peoples and Moro profiling  Rehistro Nyo, Sagot ng
 Registration of acts and Gobyerno
events on civil status and  Sa Paaralan ko, Pwede nang
birth Magparehistro
 Barangay Civil Registration
System (BCRS)
 Practices detrimental to the  Raising awareness on  IP Development Program
rights of women and laws on women and o IP Women Summit
children (i.e., duway, dowry, children o Gender Sensitivity
polygamy, and child  Implementation of Trainings
marriage) Women Development o Massive advocacy on the
Code, RA 9710 or the rights of women and
Magna Carta for Women children in GIDAs
and RA 9262 or the Anti-  IP Women Organizing
Violence Against Women
and their Children
 Difficulties in ensuring IP and  Support from DOH  Construction and equipping of
Moro access to social Health Facility additional BHS with birthing
services Enhancement Program facility
o Access to basic health (HFEP) - equipment/  Intensify health education
services supplies campaign with emphasis on
o Not culturally-sensitive  PHIC package the ill effects of non-availment
facility and staff (GIDA  Human resource of basic health services, IEC
and IP communities) augmentation from DOH  Construction of half-way
o Poor referral system  Establish partnership homes in GIDAs
o Implementation of DOH with NGOs, civic  Hiring of health personnel
Administrative Circular organizations and within GIDAs
on Traditional Birth private sector for health  Increase PHIC enrolment for
Attendants (TBAs) outreach programs IPs
o Lack of health
personnel
o Low PHIC enrolment

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Coverage in GIDAs  Localized deployment of
doctors, nurses and
midwives in GIDAs
Disadvantaged Families
 Need to sustain access to  Job opportunities for the  Sustainable Livelihood
basic services of poor and marginalized sector Program
disadvantaged  Productivity skills o Cash for Work
families/persons training and livelihood o Magnegosyo Ta, ‘Day
opportunities o Self-Employment
 Increase budgetary Assistance
allocation for livelihood  Skills Development Training
assistance  Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino
 Replicate national Program
government micro- o Conditional Cash
enterprise development Transfer
 Enrolment in o Modified Conditional
government social Cash Transfer
protection programs  Development and market
linkages of IP products
Victims of Disasters
 Presence of informal settlers  Integrate climate change  Vulnerability and adaptability
in danger zones measures into policies, assessment (VAA) on Climate
strategies and planning Change
 Education, awareness-  Disaster Risk Reduction and
raising and human and Management Plan
institutional capacity on  Shelter Program for Qualified
climate change Informal Settlers in Danger
mitigation, adaptation Zones
and disaster risk  Kusina ng Bayan (Mobile
reduction kitchen providing hot meals to
 Promote mechanism for victims of disasters)
disaster risk reduction  Construction of new
and management evacuation centers
 No habitation zones are
dedicated for urban greening
 River easement
protection/conservation

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Policy agenda: Issuance of
Memo to Barangay Council re:
DILG Memo Circular 2017-89 -
Policies and Guidelines on the
Monitoring, Treatment, and
Resettlement of Informal
Settler Families and the
Maintenance of Cleared Areas
 Child and Women Friendly
Spaces in the Evacuation
Center- ECCD in Emergency
 Camp Management in
Evacuation Centers
 Tulong Para sa Mga
Disadvantaged (TUPAD)-
Emergency Employment for
disaster victims
 Food for work for restoration
of damaged community
facilities such as day care
centers, etc.
 Emergency Relief Assistance

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Public Order and Safety

Police services, fire protection, and jail management are the main components in providing
protective services for the City.

The Davao City Police Office (DCPO) monitors all 12 police stations in the City to attain the most
accurate information of crime report and improve police visibility and community involvement.

The City has a Fire District, a major component of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), which has
11 sub-stations strategically located in all Congressional Districts.

There are three (3) jail facilities of the Davao City Jail (DCJ), namely DCJ Main, DCJ Annex, and
the Davao City Female Dormitory (Ray of Hope Village).

Standards govern the delivery of protective services such as assigning personnel per population
for the police, fire fighters and jail officers whose capacities also need to be continuously
updated. Information dissemination and community involvement are also part of Public Order
and Safety as these are needed for disaster prevention, mitigation and preparedness, and
emergency response.

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2013-2022

The CLUP 2013-2022 already flagged concerns about inadequacies in the human resources
providing protective services, particularly police, fire fighters and jail personnel that could affect
the prevention, response and investigation of crimes and fire incidents, and compromise jail
security.

The inadequacy and poor conditions of firefighting, jail facilities, and equipment could limit
responses to fires and put jail security at risk. Related to these are the need to enhance fire
stations, resolve lot ownership issues in a few fire stations, and the absence of fire stations in
the City’s piers. There are also eight (8) tourist spots, which are flagged for having no Tourist
Police Assistance Centers (TPACs).

Crime and security threats to the City impose great risk on peace and order, family relations,
properties, and livelihood of the Davaoeños. Reported incidents of 36 barangays affected by
threat groups and the increasing rate of violence against women and children are issues of
great concern.

Obtaining a better profile of the City’s barangay tanods was considered important in
compliance to the Republic Act No. 10121 or the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Act of 2010, particularly with respect to the creation of a dedicated office.

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From Comprehensive Data Plan Consultation Processes

A number of issues and concerns raised in the CLUP were validated and updated by City
stakeholders during the CDP consultation processes. However, new ones were also raised.

Police/Law Enforcement
 Increasing incidence of index crimes. Murder cases increased by 36.88% from 160 in
2013 to 219 in 2015 occurring mostly in the Area of Responsibility (AOR) of Talomo
Police Station. Rape cases increased by 22.77% from 202 in 2013 to 248 cases in 2015
occurring mostly in the AOR of Talomo Police Station.
 Presence of illegal drugs. A total value of ₱486, 471, 977.51 of illegal drugs was seized
from 2013 to 2015.
 Additional 2,067 police are needed from the existing 1,401 (as of December 2015) to
meet the standard 1 police for every 500 persons for highly urbanized cities.
 Need to increase crime solution efficiency from 78.88% and crime clearance efficiency
82.62% in 2015 to 100% by 2021.

Fire Protection
 No fire stations in a few high density residential areas (Maa, Ulas, and Tugbok). Fires
mostly occurred in residential areas; 576 cases or 51.99% of 1,108 cases for the period
of 2013 to 2015 happened in residences.
 Increase of 108.68% in number of fire incidence from 219 in 2013 to 457 in 2015.
 Additional 557 fire fighters are needed to meet the standard of one (1) fire fighter for
every 2,000 persons.

Jail Management and Penology

 Congestion and equipment problems at Davao City Jail. The Davao City Jail is
congested. Davao City Jail has a total lot area of 16,130 sq.m. or 4.86 sq.m. per inmate,
which is below the national standard of 30 sq.m. of lot area per inmate. It has a total cell
area of 2,941.7 or 0.89 sq.m. per inmate, which is below the standard of 4.7 sq.m. cell
area per inmate. The standards of women detention facility are unmet. Ray of Hope has
20 cells with 17-20 inmates per cell. Standard number of inmates per cell is 7. There
were 398 inmates in 2015. Out of 22 security cameras, 4 are unserviceable including the
only two security cameras being used in DCJ Annex and another 2 in Female Dormitory.
 Convicted criminals have a tendency to reoffend.
 Additional 344 jail officers are needed to meet the standard 1 jail officer for every 7
inmates.

Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Preparedness and Emergency Response

 A total of 94 barangays were identified to be at risk of flooding, 19 are at risk of sea
swells (monsoon waves), while 77 for fire hazards, 55 of earthquakes, and 13 of strong
winds.

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City Security Services
 Inadequate and obsolete technological security hardware and solutions
 Increasing risks of safety and security of schools and students, and city facilities.
 Lack of stability of the organization overseeing the coordination and integration of
various emergency response

Anti-Insurgency and Counter-Terrorism

 High threat level of terrorism
 Continuing and intensified attacks of insurgent groups

Road Safety and Traffic Management

 High incidence of road vehicular and pedestrian accidents
 Increasing traffic congestion in major intersections

Objectives and Targets

1.) Reduce crime incidence by at least 20% annually or more than 50% by 2021
2.) Eradicate presence of illegal drugs in the city
3.) Increase Crime Solution Efficiency and Crime Clearance Efficiency to 90% in 2021
4.) Meet the standard 1:500 police-population ratio
5.) Decrease number of fire incidence and improve and modernize fire response services and
fire fighting force
6.) Meet the standard 1:2,000 fire fighter-population ratio
7.) Improve security services and meet the standard 30 sq.m. lot area per inmate and 4.7 sq.m.
cell area per inmate
8.) Promote the development, overall well-being and welfare of inmates to prepare them for
reintegration to the community
9.) Meet the standard 1:7 jail officers-inmate ratio
10.) To have effective and technologically advanced emergency and rescue services, and
minimize damage to property and loss of lives by strengthening disaster mitigation
and response capability of every barangay
11.) Incorporate public safety in every urban design
12.) Provide protective services to tourists and agricultural zones in the city especially areas
with existing threats of insurgency

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

Police
1.) Establishment of a Community-Oriented Policing System (COPS) in all barangays/puroks
2.) Peacekeeper Capability Program
3.) Improve the capability of existing police outpost in strategic areas
4.) 24/7 foot and mobile patrol
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6.) Intensify Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Program
a.) Conduct regular drug tests of employees for internal cleansing
b.) Conduct barangay drug clearing operations
c.) Continual monitoring of drug-affected barangays
d.) Enrollment of reformists to CBRAP
7.) Upgrading of police stations and communication facilities
8.) Augmentation of both local and national police manpower
9.) Establishment of additional security outposts in conflict vulnerable areas
10.) Strengthen implementation of projects in conflict vulnerable areas
11.) Davao City Integrated Police Information System – GIS-enabled intelligence information
system
12.) Strict enforcement of City Ordinance No. 0407 Series of 2012, which requires the
installation of CCTV cameras for all establishments with capitalization of not
less than ₱3,000,000
13.) Crime Solution (Recognition) Program

Fire Protection
1.) Fire Fighting Modernization Program of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)
2.) Upgrading of existing fire stations including acquisition of site
3.) Construction of additional fire stations in Tugbok, Maa, Talomo, Ulas, and other areas
4.) Adhere to 1:1 fire fighter equipment-fire fighter ratio
5.) Procurement of 3 fire trucks annually
6.) Cancellation of business permits for non-compliance with fire safety standards
7.) Organize fire response teams in communities and private establishments
8.) Conduct fire prevention seminars, fire drills and symposia in barangays, public offices, and
business establishments
9.) IEC on fire safety at home

Jail Management
1.) Construction of new jail building in a new and bigger site at Wangan, Calinan District
2.) Procurement of additional equipment, supplies, facilities and transport vehicle in BJMP
a.) Medicines and medical supplies
b.) Multi-purpose building for all activities and events
c.) Transport capabilities such as multi-purpose van and prisoners’ van
d.) Security capabilities such as communication equipment, emergency lights
security cameras, metal detector, firearms and handcuffs
3.) IEC on the current jail facility situation
4.) City Government financial assistance to Davao City Jail Women Detention (Ray of Hope)
5.) Rehabilitation Training Program
a.) Livelihood Trainings
b.) Spiritual and Counselling Activities
c.) Alternative Learning System Project
d.) Therapeutic Community and Modality Program
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6.) College Behind Bars Project
7.) Health services
a.) Sanitizing inmates’ cells
b.) Regular Dental Check-up
c.) Regular T.B. DOTS Program
d.) Early Detection of T.B. Disease
e.) Sputum Collection
f.) Monthly Check-up for Mental Patients
g.) Provision of medical supplies and equipment

Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Preparedness and Emergency Response

1.) Facility Enhancement Program
a.) Construction and equipping of the Davao City DRR/CCA Knowledge Management
and Training Institute
b.) Equipping Public Safety and Security Command Center’s (PSSCC) Security and
Disaster Response
2.) Community-based IEC: Awareness on climate change preparedness, mitigation, and
adaptation
3.) Barangay Communication and Alert Warning System Project
4.) Enhance Davao City hazard and risk mapping
5.) Tree planting in coastal areas and riverbanks
6.) Construction of flood-control dikes for high-risk rivers
7.) Improvement of riverbanks and sewerage system
8.) Tagging of structures along riverbanks
9.) Resettlement of families living along high risk areas
10.) Inventory and assessment of all existing infrastructure facilities
11.) Ban development in critical areas (slope above 45°)
12.) Regulate issuance of building permits especially in congested areas
13.) Implement retrofitting program adopting the greening and environment-friendly
Structures
14.) Formulate policies on the principle of green development
15.) Enforce implementation of safe standard distance of signboards and billboards from power
lines
16.) Upgrade all drainage lines and imposed easements along the drainage/shoreline
17.) Regular coastal clean-up
18.) Flood Control and Mitigation Plan
19.) Update Davao City DRRM Plan
20.) DCDRMMC IEC Program
21.) Establishment of Community Integrated DRR Training Institute
22.) Community-based DRRM Training for the barangays
23.) Conduct disaster response seminars and drills
24.) Establishment of disaster response center in all barangays
25.) Operationalize Barangay Disaster Operation Centers
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27.) Activation of Emergency Operations Center
28.) Deployment of responders with tools and equipment
29.) Profiling of affected families
30.) Provision of spaces for children, lactating mother, conjugal and other vulnerable groups
31.) Timely and efficient clearing of roads and ports
32.) Food and cash for work
33.) Establishment of a temporary learning facility
34.) Establishment of treatment area
35.) Provision of psychological intervention
36.) Setting up of emergency lighting communication and potable water
37.) Expansion of 911 main headquarters and satellite stations
38.) Mobile quick relief and hot meal/soup
39.) Formulate a Recovery and Rehabilitation Plan for different scenarios
40.) Provide access to financing
41.) Livelihood Program
42.) Resettlement/Relocation Program
43.) Restoration/Rehabilitation of infrastructure facilities according to safety and resiliency
standards
44.) Mangrove Replenishment Program

City Security Services

1.) Upgrade technology software and hardware used to ensure security and safety of the City
2.) Hire and train qualified civil security personnel for deployment

Anti-Insurgency and Counter-Terrorism

1.) Provide additional personnel, equipment, and supplies for Task Force Davao and other
military forces operating in Davao City

Road Safety and Traffic Management

1.) Inclusion of road safety and courtesy in the school curriculum
2.) Enhance the information, education, and communication for a more effective performance
of traffic enforcers
3.) Implement the transport modernization program including the rapid bus system in the City
4.) Citation ticket for traffic rules violators for both road users and pedestrian
5.) Anti-Dangerous Driving and Keeping the Intersection Open Program
6.) Implement safer traffic rules such as crosswalks (where all vehicles will stop before the
intersection regardless if going ahead straight, left or right)

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 Table 4.4 Davao City Public Order and Safety Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
Police
 Increasing incidence of  Provide more efficient  Establishment of a Community-
index crimes protective and Oriented Policing System
o Murder cases investigative services (COPS) in all barangays/puroks
increased by 36.88% especially in areas with  Peacekeeper Capability
from 160 in 2013 to more crime incident Program
219 in 2015 reports  Improve the capability of
occurring mostly in  Empowerment of existing police outpost in
the Area of barangay tanods and strategic areas
Responsibility (AOR) establishment of  24/7 foot and mobile patrol
of Talomo Police Barangay Intelligence
Station Networks System
o Rape cases increased  Intensify community
by 22.77% from 202 education on gender-
in 2013 to 248 cases based violence
in 2015 occurring
mostly in the AOR of
Talomo Police
Station
 Presence of illegal drugs,  Intensify campaign  Construction/Improvement of
seizing a total value of against illegal drugs treatment & rehabilitation
₱486,471,977.51 from  Coordinate with facilities for drug dependents
2013 to 2015 Department of Health,  Intensify Philippine Drug
Technical Education and Enforcement Agency (PDEA)
Skills Development Program
Authority (TESDA), o Conduct regular drug tests
DSWD, and other of employees for internal
partnering agencies on cleansing
the rehabilitation and o Conduct barangay drug
reintegration programs clearing operations
of the Community-Based o Continual monitoring of
Rehabilitation and drug-affected barangays
Aftercare Program o Enrollment of reformists to
(CBRAP) CBRAP

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Table 4.4 Davao City Public Order and Safety Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Additional 2,067 police  Request for additional  Upgrade police stations and
needed from the existing police manpower and communication facilities
1,401 (December 2015) improve police visibility  Augment both local and
to meet the standard 1  Improvement of police national police manpower
police for every 500 facilities and equipment  Establish additional security
persons for highly outposts in conflict
urbanized cities vulnerable areas
 Strengthen implementation
of projects in conflict areas
 Need to increase Crime  Improve surveillance and  Davao City Integrated Police
Solution Efficiency from intelligence report Information System (GIS-
78.88% and Crime  Comprehensive and real enabled intelligence
Clearance Efficiency time updates of police information system)
82.62% in 2015 to 100% information blotters, case  Strict enforcement of City
by 2021 status, communication, Ordinance No. 0407 Series of
intelligence reports and 2012, which requires the
other relevant installation of CCTV cameras
information between for all establishments with
police precincts for faster capitalization of not less than
exchange, appropriate ₱3,000,000
evaluation and response  Policy agenda: Amendment
to police situation of business permit
 Gender-Responsive application and renewal
Database Management requirements regarding
installation of CCTV camera
 Crime Solution (Recognition)
Program
Fire Protection
 No fire stations in few  Improvement of fire  Fire Fighting Modernization
high density residential stations Program of the Bureau of
areas (Maa, Ulas, and  Provide fire stations in Fire Protection (BFP)
Tugbok) high density and high fire  Upgrading of existing fire
 Fire incidence mostly incidence areas stations including acquisition
occurred in residential  Procurement of additional of site
areas with 576 cases or fire trucks annually to  Construction of additional
51.99% of 1,108 cases reach at least 50% of the fire stations in Tugbok, Maa,
for the period of 2013 to required population of Talomo, Ulas, and other
2015 fire truck ratio populated areas

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Table 4.4 Davao City Public Order and Safety Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Barangay monitoring on  Adhere to 1:1 fire fighter
illegal electrical equipment-fire fighter ratio
connections  Procurement of 3 fire trucks
 Strict policy on the usage annually
of butane  Policy agenda: Ban butane
refilling
 Increase of 108.68% in  Better enforcement of  Cancellation of business
number of fire incidence Implementing Rules and permits for non-compliance
from 219 in 2013 to 457 Regulations of Republic with fire safety standards
in 2015 Act 9514, otherwise  Organize fire response
known as the “Fire Code teams in communities and
of the Philippines 2008” private establishments
 Improve awareness and  Conduct fire prevention
response to fire situations seminars, fire drills and
through coordination and symposia in barangays,
full cooperation of the public offices, and business
private and public sector establishments
 IEC on fire safety at home
 Additional 557 fire  Request additional fighter  Policy agenda: Request
fighters are needed to manpower Bureau of Fire Protection
meet the standard of 1 National Headquarters for
fire fighter for every additional fire fighters in the
2,000 persons City (Personnel Hiring
Program)
Jail Management
 Congestion and  Construction of new  Construction of new jail
equipment problems at facilities and building in a new and bigger
Davao City Jail improvement of services site at Wangan, Calinan
o Congestion of  Secure budget through District
detained inmates at support from other  Procurement of additional
Davao City Jail sources equipment, supplies,
 The lot area is  Standardize detention facilities and transport
4.86 sq.m. per facility vehicle in BJMP
inmate, which o Medicines and medical
is below the supplies
national o Multi-purpose building
standard of 30 for all activities
sq.m. per
inmate

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Table 4.4 Davao City Public Order and Safety Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
o Standard of women o Transport capabilities
detention facility is such as multi-purpose
unmet. Ray of Hope van and prisoners van
has 20 cells with 17- o Security capabilities such
20 inmates per cell. as communication
Standard number of equipment, emergency
inmates per cell is 7. lights security cameras,
There were 398 metal detector, firearms
inmates in 2015 and handcuffs
o Out of 22 security  IEC on the current jail facility
cameras, 4 are situation
unserviceable  City Government financial
including the only assistance to Davao City Jail
two security cameras Women Detention (Ray of
being used in DCJ Hope)
Annex and another 2
in Female Dormitory
 Tendency to become  Formulation of re-  Rehabilitation Training
repeat offenders integration plan of Program
inmates to the o Livelihood Trainings
community o Spiritual and Counselling
 Provision of basic health Activities
services in the jail facility o Alternative Learning
System Project
o Therapeutic Community
and Modality Program
o Basic Computer
Education
 College Behind Bars Project
 Health services
o Sanitizing inmates’ cells
o Regular Dental Check-up
o Regular T.B. DOTS
Program
o Early Detection of T.B.
Disease
o Sputum Collection
o Monthly Check-up for
Mental Patients
o Provision of medicines
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Table 4.4 Davao City Public Order and Safety Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Additional 344 jail  Request for additional jail  Policy agenda: Request
officers needed to meet officer manpower BJMP National
the standard 1 jail Headquarters for
officer for every 7 additional Jail Officers in
inmates the City’s jails (Personnel
Hiring Program)
Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Preparedness and Emergency Response
 94 barangays were  Prevention and Facility Enhancement Program
identified to be at risk of Mitigation Construction and Equipping of
flooding, 19 of sea swells o Institutionalize the Davao City DRR/CCA
(monsoon waves), 77 of community-based Knowledge Management and
fire hazards, 55 of Climate Change Training Institute
earthquakes, and 13 of Adaptation (CCA) and Equipping Public Safety and
strong winds Disaster Risk Security Command Center’s
Reduction (DRR) Plan (PSSCC) Security and Disaster
o Upgrading of existing Response
facilities and Community-based IEC
equipment Awareness on climate change
o Strengthen and preparedness, mitigation, and
increase level of adaptation
awareness, capacities, Barangay Communication and
and self-reliance of Alert Warning System Project
every barangay Enhance Davao City hazard
towards disaster and risk mapping
resilience Tree planting in coastal areas
o Intensify and riverbanks
implementation of Construction of flood-control
environmental policies dikes for high-risk rivers
and programs with Improvement of riverbanks
strong DRRM and CCA and sewerage system
o Strict enforcement of Tagging of structures along
the Zoning Ordinance riverbanks
o Introduce and adopt Resettlement of families living
flood and heat along high risk areas
resilient design of
houses/schools/health
centers and other
facilities

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Inventory and assessment
of all existing
infrastructure facilities
 Ban development in
critical areas (slope above
45°)
 Regulate issuance of
building permits especially
in congested areas
 Implement retrofitting
program adopting the
greening and
environment-friendly
structures
 Formulate policies on the
principle of green
development
 Enforce implementation of
safe standard distance of
signboards and billboards
on power lines
 Upgrade all drainage lines
and imposed easements
along the
drainage/shoreline
 Regular coastal clean-up
 Flood Control and
Mitigation Plan
 Preparedness  Update Davao City DRRM
o Increase level of Plan
awareness and skills of  DCDRMMC IEC Program
the communities to  Establishment of
cope with the impacts Community Integrated
of disasters DRR Training Institute
o Increase DRRM and  Community-based DRRM
CCA capacity of the Training for the barangays
DRRM Council and  Conduct disaster response
Barangay DRRMs seminars and drills

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Table 4.4 Davao City Public Order and Safety Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Development and full  Policy agenda:
implementation of the Recommend to DepEd to
Davao City DRRM IEC integrate DRR-CCA in the
Program new K to 12 curriculum
 Review and updating of  Establishment of disaster
the Davao City DRRM Plan response center in all
2013-2016 barangays
 Strengthen partnership  Operationalize Barangay
and coordination among Disaster Operation
key players and Centers
stakeholders
 Disaster Response  Establish community-
o Enhance pre-impact based operational
measures and evacuation sites
coordination  Activation of Emergency
o Enhance efficiency on Operations Center
Search, Rescue, and  Deployment of responders
Retrieval (SRR)  Profiling of affected
o Efficient and families
systematic  Provide spaces for
management of the children, lactating mother,
dead and missing conjugal and other
individuals vulnerable groups
o Efficient and  Timely and efficient
systematic relief clearing of roads and ports
operations  Food and cash for work
o Ensure Early Recovery  Establish temporary
Support learning facility
 Establish treatment area
 Provide psychological
intervention
 Setting up of emergency
lighting, communication,
and potable water
 Expansion of 911 main
headquarters and satellite
stations
 Mobile quick relief and hot
meal/soup

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Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Rehabilitation and  Formulate a Recovery and
Recovery Rehabilitation Plan for
o Improve system of different scenarios
conducting damage  Policy agenda: Davao City
assessment and needs to enter into a
analysis, planning, Memorandum of
monitoring and Agreement with DCCCII on
evaluation providing social,
o Strengthen economic economic, and
activities of the infrastructure services
affected communities  Provide access to financing
o Establish safe  Livelihood Program
relocation and gender  Resettlement/Relocation
sensitive resettlement Program
sites with complete  Restoration/Rehabilitation
basic facilities of infrastructure facilities
o Enhance DRR-CCA according to safety and
sensitivity of human resiliency standards
settlements and  Mangrove Replenishment
environment Program
o Improve DRR-CCA
resilient
infrastructures,
transportation, and
basic utilities
City Security Services
 Inadequate and obsolete  Keep up with  Upgrade technology
technological security technological software and hardware
hardware and solutions advancements in the used to ensure security
 Increasing risks of safety areas of safety and and safety of the city
and security of schools security  Hire and train qualified
and students, and City  Provide adequate number civil security personnel for
facilities of civil security personnel deployment
 Lack of stability of the  Upgrade the organization  Policy agenda: Legislate
organization overseeing the PSSCC from a unit
the coordination and under the City Mayor’s
integration of various Office to a full-pledged
emergency response department

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Table 4.4 Davao City Public Order and Safety Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
Anti-Insurgency and Counter-Terrorism
 High threat level of  Improve and strengthen  Provide additional
terrorism the capability of the AFP personnel, equipment,
 Continuing and units operating in Davao and supplies for Task
intensified attacks of City to deter and supress Force Davao and other
insurgent groups terrorism and insurgency military forces operating
threats in Davao City
Road Safety and Traffic Management
 High incidence of road  Public information and  Inclusion of road safety
vehicular and pedestrian education on road safety and courtesy in the school
accidents and courtesy curriculum
 Increasing traffic  Strict enforcement of  Enhance the information,
congestion in major traffic rules and education, and
intersections regulations communication for a more
 Reduce volume of effective performance of
vehicles using public traffic enforcers
roads  Implement the transport
 Construction and modernization program
widening of road (e.g., rapid bus system)
networks  Citation ticket for traffic
 Discourage the rules violators for both
proliferation of surplus road users and pedestrian
vehicles  Policy agenda: Davao City
to enter into an MOA with
private towing companies
to provide towing services
for illegally parked
vehicles
 Anti-Dangerous Driving
and Keeping the
Intersection Open
Program
 Policy agenda: Legislation
transforming the City
Transport and Traffic
Management Office into a
department
 Implement safer traffic
rules
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Sports and Recreation

Public and private sports facilities are available in Davao City. The City’s first sports complex is
being constructed at the University of the Philippines Mindanao complex in Tugbok.
Recreational facilities are also available to promote the City’s rich arts and culture.

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2013-2022

The City does not have sufficient data and information about sports programs, activities and
facilities, which hampers the City’s assessment and affect efforts at coordinating sports
development.

In relation, there is also inadequate data on existing privately owned parks/recreational

facilities/areas, open spaces in barangays and sports facilities, which makes it difficult to assess
and make policies and plans for these parks and recreational areas.

The City does not have a modern Sports Complex and track and field facilities. This limits the
venues for athletes to practice and engage in competitions and also prevents the City from
hosting national and international sports competitions.

Many sports and recreational facilities are concentrated in the City’s urban centers, thus,
depriving constituents in rural areas of opportunities to develop skills in sports, and
constraining the discovery of athletic talents from far-flung rural areas. It also reinforces
exclusion and inequities in the arena of sports and recreation.

Appreciation and practice of traditional sports and games, particularly among children, and
theater also slowly diminished.

Mendicants and entrepreneurs are present in Davao’s public parks and without necessary
interventions this could contribute to the further deterioration of these places.

From the Comprehensive Data Plan Consultative Process

The issues and concerns from the CLUP are recognized by the participants of the different
consultative activities being conducted in formulating the CDP for 2018 to 2023. Other issues
and concerns have also been raised concerning sports and parks and recreation.

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Sports
 Inadequate support to players/athletes. The number of participants competing in
national and international tournaments is lesser because only in-school athletes were
sent to competitions. There are lesser opportunities for out of school youths to compete
in various tournaments.
 Outdated City Sports Development Plan.
 Undetermined qualifications of coaches and referees leading to poor performance in
sports competitions.
 Sports facilities are inadequate and lack variety. Publicly accessible modern sports
facilities are lacking. Campus spaces for sports are diminishing due to the construction
of additional buildings/classrooms. Variety of existing sports facilities are lacking.

Parks and Recreation

 Incomplete data on open spaces and non-compliance to park standards. Data
collection on open spaces donated to the City Government for development is
incomplete. It does not adhere to ideal standard of parks.
 Need for more child and elderly-friendly community parks. Areas for people to
unwind/roam around in barangays are limited and existing parks are not child and
elderly-friendly.
 Diminishing appreciation for arts and culture due to limited public recreational
facilities.
 Scarcity of available areas for water recreational facilities due to the deteriorating
water quality of coastal and inland waters.

Objectives and Targets

1.) Develop the potential of Davaoeños to excel in sports by updating and improving the
Comprehensive Sports Development Program
2.) Promote the overall well-being of Davaoeños by providing venues for recreation, relaxation,
and fellowship

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

The programs and projects recommended for the CDP 2018-2023 reflect the strategies in the
CLUP. The list has also been expanded to meet more recently identified issues and concerns.

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Sports
1.) Sports Development Program for IPs and Moro to develop inherent skills
2.) Organize sports competitions/leagues at barangay level and in schools in cooperation with
different sports associations
3.) Integrate sports programs in schools including sports clinics and trainings
4.) Offer financial assistance in trainings and tournaments
5.) Establish a scholarship program for local athletes
6.) Update the City’s Sports Development Plan with the cooperation of public and private
institutions, associations, and other stakeholders
7.) Provide clinics, courses, accreditations, and licenses for coaches and referees in cooperation
with national sports association and national agencies
8.) Profiling of sports associations in the City
9.) Profiling and mapping of public and private sports facilities
10.) Identify spaces for sports in schools
11.) Construction of modern sports facilities in two (2) Congressional Districts.
12.) Improve/upgrade existing sports facilities

Parks and Recreation

1.) Upgrading of parks
2.) Urban Greening Program
3.) Conduct activities to promote the use of public parks and playgrounds
4.) Establish child-friendly educational parks, theme parks, and interactive museums
5.) Establish exercise and meditation area in parks for the elderly
6.) Support film showing, forums, and art exhibitions showcasing the history of and modern
Davaoeño culture
7.) Promote organization of local theater plays in private recreational facilities such as
auditoriums
8.) Establishment of artists’ wall/freedom wall
9.) Commission local artists for murals or sculptures showcasing the City’s rich culture for the
beautification of parks and playgrounds
10.) Close monitoring of water quality in water recreational facilities

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 Table 4.5 Davao City Sports and Recreation Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
Sports
 Inadequate support to  Seek out potential sports  Sports Development
players/athletes champions that can Program for IPs and Moro to
o Less number of represent the City in develop inherent skills
participants competing national and international  Organize sports
in national and sports competitions competitions/leagues at
international  Popularize sports program barangay level and in
tournaments because that will suit physical schools in cooperation with
only in-school athletes attributes of Filipinos different sports associations
were sent to  Integrate sports programs in
competitions schools including sports
o Inadequate support to clinics and trainings
local athletes  Offer financial assistance in
o Lesser opportunities trainings and tournaments
for out of school  Establish a scholarship
youths to compete in program for local athletes
various tournaments.
 Outdated City Sports  Formulate an updated  Update the City’s Sports
Development Plan Sports Development Plan in Development Plan with the
accordance with the cooperation of public and
national standards set by private institutions,
the Philippines Sports associations, and other
Commission stakeholders
 Undetermined  Build stronger cooperation  Provide clinics, courses,
qualifications of coaches with different sports accreditations, and licenses
and referees leading to poor associations, private sectors, for coaches and referees in
performance in sports and other major cooperation with national
competitions stakeholders sports association and
agencies
 Profiling of sports
associations
 Establish a sports federation
 Sports facilities are  Establish a map,  Profiling and mapping of
inadequate and lack of comprehensive profile, and public and private sports
variety status report of existing facilities
o Lack of publicly public and private sports  Identify spaces for sports in
accessible modern facilities schools
sports facilities  Promote the City’s potential  Construction of modern
in outdoor sports and boost sports facilities in two (2)
tourism Congressional Districts
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 Table 4.5 Davao City Sports and Recreation Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
o Diminishing campus  Diversification of sports  Improve/Upgrade existing
spaces for sports due facilities other than sports facilities
to construction of basketball courts
additional
buildings/classrooms
Parks and Recreation
 Incomplete data on open  Standardization of existing  Upgrading of parks
spaces and non-compliance parks  Urban Greening Program
to park standards  Assess all open spaces in  Policy agenda: Mandate an
o Incomplete data barangays agency to monitor and
collection on open  Strict enforcement of HLURB conduct inventory of all
spaces donated to the Guidelines on the public and private open
City Government for development of open spaces
development spaces in subdivisions  Conduct activities to
o Lack of adherence to  Promote the use of existing promote the use of public
ideal standard of parks public parks and parks and playgrounds
playgrounds
 Need for more child and  Development of community  Policy agenda: Resolution to
elderly-friendly community parks within the 500-meter develop at least one public
parks radius open space into
o Limited areas for  Public-Private Partnership plaza/playground or tree
people to for the construction of new park with areas for both
unwind/roam around parks active and passive
in barangays recreation in every barangay
o Existing parks are not  Establish child-friendly
child and elderly- educational parks, theme
friendly parks, and interactive
museums
 Establish exercise and
meditation area in parks for
the elderly
 Diminishing appreciation  Promote the City’s potential  Support film showing,
for arts and culture due to in arts and culture forums, and art exhibitions
limited public recreational  Provide spaces for visual showcasing the history of
facilities arts and modern Davaoeño
 Reconstitute the Davao City culture
Culture and Arts Council  Promote organization of
local theater plays in private
recreational facilities such as
auditoriums
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 Table 4.5 Davao City Sports and Recreation Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities (PPSAs)
 Establishment of artists’
wall/freedom wall
 Policy agenda: Issuance of
an Executive Order for the
reconstitution of the Davao
City Culture and Arts Council
 Commission local artists for
murals or sculptures
showcasing the City’s rich
culture for the beautification
of parks and playgrounds
 Scarcity of available areas  Assess water quality of all  Close monitoring of water
for water recreational coastal and inland water quality in water recreational
facilities due to the recreational facilities facilities
deteriorating water quality
of coastal and inland waters

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Shelter

Issues and Concerns

From the Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2013-2022

The City has problems with uncontrolled squatting particularly along danger areas (water ways,
open canal, road right of way, and riverbanks) and privately-owned properties. This indicates a
rising number of informal settler families (ISFs) who are vulnerable because they live in danger
zones or are exposed to human-made risk/hazards such as flooding, fire, and landslides.

Davao has had to deal with severe and frequent flooding that affect residential areas such as
subdivisions and settlements which resulted in losses to lives, properties and livelihood.

Land speculation is contributing to the upward spiral of the cost of land. Landowners are thus
inclined to sell to high-end developers rather than to the City or to urban poor community
associations who cannot meet higher prices and immediate payment terms. These contribute
to scarcity in potential socialized housing areas that, in light of the demand for relocation of
affected families, high development costs, and high prices of construction materials, making it
more expensive for the City to acquire and develop relocation projects.

It was also observed that high-end subdivisions have the propensity to utilize large tracts of
land but results to lesser number of home lots. 


Land use and development patterns in the City is continuously changing (i.e., from residential to
commercial). 


From the Comprehensive Data Plan Consultative Process

In addition to the issues and concerns generated by the CLUP process, which generally were
reflected by the list of issues and concerns identified in the course of the CDP consultations,
there are problems related to Urban Land Reform Program (ULRP) initiatives in the City to wit:

 Growing housing backlog due to squatting along danger areas (water ways, open canal,
road right of ways, river banks and privately owned properties).
 Severe and frequent flooding affecting residential areas/subdivisions/settlement.
 Land speculation and increasing cost of land.
 Incomplete land/award documentation, low CER and selling of rights in old ULRP and
relocation projects.

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Objective and Target
1.) Adequate shelter for every Davaoeño
 Ensure affordable decent housing units and basic services to all residents
 Provide adequate, safe and sustainable relocation/dwelling sites to all bona fide
and qualified residents

Programs/Projects, Services and Activities

1.) Updating of the Davao City Comprehensive Shelter Plan

2.) Formulation of the City Resettlement Action Plan for families affected or to be affected
by government infrastructure projects, natural or man-made disasters/calamities, those
occupying danger zones, public areas, and private lots especially with court-ordered
demolition and eviction
3.) Upgrading of on-site resettlement areas
4.) Rehabilitation of the existing blighted and urban slum areas to minimize displacement of
dwellings
5.) Securing land tenure through the various modes of land acquisition
6.) Formulation of an appropriate scheme for transition housing to address the emergency
shelter needs of victims of natural and man-made calamities
7.) Provision of a staging area/temporary housing area for program beneficiaries in
relocation sites while they are constructing their dwelling units
8.) Land banking and development of relocation sites
9.) Develop an award system/disposition for City relocation projects like:
a.) Usufruct agreements;
b.) Rental housing;
c.) Data bank management (curtail double availment and selling of rights);
d.) Public information on policies of relocation projects.
10.) Partnership projects with identified highly vulnerable barangays based on the
vulnerability assessment conducted by the City
11.) Upgrading and resettlement of ISF in high-risk areas
12.) Accreditation and partnership with CMP mobilizers, socialized housing
developers, and other agencies that can help in scaling up the project
implementation
13.) Encourage collective and integrated DRR/CCA response
14.) Provision of funds for land documentation
15.) Revisit pricing policy of old ULRP projects

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 Table 4.6 Davao City Shelter Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Growing housing backlog  Identification and  Policy agenda: Amend
due to squatting along prioritization of affected pricing policy of the City to
danger areas (water ways, ISF based on the match current land market
open canal, road right of Vulnerability prices
ways, river banks and Assessment/DRRM  Land banking and
privately owned Plan/CCA Plan development of relocation
properties)  Relocation of prioritized sites
beneficiaries  Develop an award
(underprivileged and those system/disposition for City
living in the area prior to relocation projects like:
1992) o Usufruct agreements
 Relocation of prioritized o Rental housing
beneficiaries under City- o Data bank
wide development management (curtail
approach double availment and
selling of rights)
o Public information on
policies of relocation
projects
 Partnership projects with
identified highly vulnerable
barangays based on the
vulnerability assessment
conducted by the City
 Upgrading and
resettlement of ISF in high-
risk areas
 Accreditation and
partnership with
Community Mortgage
Program (CMP) mobilizers,
socialized housing
developers, and other
agencies that can help in
scaling up the project
implementation

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 Table 4.6 Davao City Shelter Issues and Concerns, Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Severe and frequent  Partnership building and  Encourage collective and
flooding affecting residential coordination with other integrated DRR/CCA
areas/settlement local and national agencies response
 Development of DRR and
CCA housing, upgrading
and community
development designs
 Land speculation and  Land banking (acquire  Policy agenda: Amendment
increasing cost of land lands in areas strategically of pricing policy of the City
located
(development/expansion
are planned and
implemented)
 Incomplete land/award  Outsource land  Provision of funds for land
documentation, low CER, documentation of previous documentation
and selling of rights in old ULRP projects that result to  Revisit pricing policy of old
Urban Land Reform increase collection and ULRP projects
Program (ULRP) and distribution of awards  Policy agenda: Formulate
relocation projects  Monitor/validate and policies on substitution
document cases of selling  Policy agenda: Formulate
of rights policies on penalties on
selling of rights

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INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

Infrastructure Development is focused primarily on providing adequate physical base to

support economic and social development. It also operationalizes the spatial strategy chosen in
the Comprehensive Land Use Plan of Davao City.

This covers seven (7) sub-sectors of Infrastructure Development such as roads, bridges, ancillary
facilities, and drainage; transportation facilities; water supply system; power supply;
information communication technology; economic infrastructure support, and social
infrastructure support.

5.1 Infrastructure Development Goal

To build reliable, comfortable, adequate, climate-resilient and safe infrastructure that will
improve the quality of life of our citizenry without compromising the environment.

Infrastructure Development Overall Strategies

The City Government has identified particular strategies appropriate to the nature, objectives,
and issues and concerns of each sub-sector. The sub-sector strategies are also informed by the
following overall strategies:
 Generate relevant and updated information through research such as the urban and
rural road inventory survey, databank of existing sidewalks and other ancillary road
facilities to enable the City Government to understand needs, opportunities, options
and implications necessary to make strategic decisions and investments;
 A plan-based approach to infrastructure development (e.g., Sasa Port Modernization
Plan and Rural Water Supply Investment Plan, among others) so that initiatives are not
one-off but are clearly in pursuit of the achievement of planned results and compliance
with recognized national and international standards;
 Develop comprehensive measures to address key challenges to the City and its growing
population, specifically flooding and transport and traffic management;
 Maximize infrastructure support from the national agencies by proposing priority
infrastructure projects to the Departments of Public Works and Highways (DPWH),
Agriculture (DA), and Science and Technology (DOST) as well as the National Irrigation
Authority (NIA), among others;
 Deliberately design different initiatives so that there is connectivity and alignment such
as factoring in the intermodal bus stations of the foreseen High Priority Bus System
(HPBS) in identifying locations for waiting sheds;
 Ensure sustainability by designing and implementing climate change-resilient
infrastructure initiatives and carrying out appropriate maintenance measures;
 Uphold that infrastructure is not only about hard projects but also people;
 Benefits to and impacts on people are important considerations in infrastructure
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  Different stakeholders also need to be capacitated for infrastructure initiatives to be
successful (e.g., trainings in rural water supply management for Barangay Water and
Sanitation Association (BAWASA); training the City Engineer’s Office (CEO) and DPWH
personnel in organizing and strengthening BAWASAs; establishment of a Butcher
Training Center, among others).

Infrastructure Development Proposed Policies and Legislation

1.) Ordinance for sidewalk and pedestrian facilities

2.) Policy research on requiring memorial park developers to set aside 10% of their project site
for socialized burial facility

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5.2 Sub-Sector Priorities

Roads, Bridges, Ancillary Facilities, and Drainage

Issues and Concerns

Roads
 Some roads are still in poor condition. About 46.77% of total road network are
gravelled; 54.12% are barangay roads located in District III; and 20.34% are still earth
roads, entirely located in the rural barangays.
 Not enough high standard farm-to-market-roads (FMRs). Agricultural products are
compromised due to poor status of FMRs. The farmers and settlers of some barangays
of District II, particularly Paquibato District, transport their agricultural products directly
to Davao del Norte and not pass through the City due to bad road condition.
 Road project requirements and implementation problems. Some road projects have
difficulty in the acquisition of Road-Right-of-Way (RROW). There are no data for specific
corridors vis-à-vis length, width carriageway and road surface condition particularly in
Central Business District (CBD). Sometimes City and DPWH have identical road projects
because barangay councils would request projects from City and DPWH at the same
time. The CEO does not practice survey stationing, they only use the names of puroks
for project locations.
 Inadequate signage for inter-regional intersections, particularly at Buda, Davao City
and Bukidnon Province and more prevalently among City rural road junctions. The
ongoing construction of new ones also causes traffic congestion.
 Road openings passing through a Conservation Area poses threats, particularly at the
boundary of Marilog–Magpet (Cotabato Province).
 Inadequate high standard highway. Expressways should be the direct linkage to other
cities, municipalities and regions outside the City.
 Proposed road projects with no drainage systems.
 Pavement markings were removed. Other pavement markings were removed during
asphalt overlay project.
 Road obstruction. Illegal parking is rampant. There are also illegal structures and
sidewalk vendors.

Bridges
 Inadequate and poorly maintained bridges. A total of 24 bailey bridges and 25 steel
bridges are needed to be replaced with Reinforced Concrete Deck Girder (RCDG), these
are mostly located in Districts II and III. There are also 13 hanging bridges/footbridges
that are recommended for rehabilitation. Out of the 65 bridges in Davao City, 40% or 26
of it needs to be replaced. The abutments of some of these bridges are also dilapidated
due to soil erosion in the riverbanks.

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Ancillary Facilities
 Poorly maintained pedestrian overpasses. A number of pedestrian overpasses have
clearance problem and are unsafe. Vendors also ply their wares on pedestrian
overpasses.
 Poorly maintained substandard sidewalks. Sidewalks are crowded and are conducive to
petty crimes against passers-by. There are informal settlers and vendors who live on the
sidewalks. Existing sidewalks have uneven or different height and grade.
 Unsafe pedestrian crossings. Some intersections where vulnerable road users regularly
cross have no pedestrian crossing markings, making them unsafe for pedestrians to
cross without assistance due to vehicle numbers, speed, or road widths.
 No waiting shed policy. Some waiting sheds are wrongly placed in the CBD. There are
varying structural design because of the absence of a uniform one. Building permits are
not required.
 Problems in street lighting. Busted streetlights are often not reported and not replaced.
Some streets are dim and prone to vehicular accidents and crime.
 Traffic signals. Some points are not responsive. Flashing should be avoided or minimized
based on traffic count. Existing traffic signals are sometimes not responsive to current
traffic volume.

Drainage and Sewerage

 Some areas have poor drainage facilities. There are City streets near the main drainage
that are located in the coastal areas which are identified by the Mines and Geo-Sciences
Bureau (MGB) as flood-prone areas. Most of these are located in District I. There are
City streets that are not identified in the flood susceptibility map but were reported to
have incidents of flooding. During heavy rainfall, there are drainage lines with
insufficient capacity or time to cope with heavy downpour. Some culvert installations
have larger size than the next conduit system resulting to flow mismatch.
 Absence of sewerage system.

Objective and Target

To establish a network of climate change-resilient roads, bridges, ancillary facilities, including

drainage system anchored on the development strategy of the City.

Programs and Projects

Roads
 Urban and Rural Roads Inventory Program
 Urban and Rural Roads Development Program
 Procurement of heavy equipment for road maintenance
 Rural Roads Development Program
 CBD Road Inventory Program
 City and Barangay Roads Stationing Program
 Directional Transport and Traffic Signs Project

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  Tourism Road Development Program
 Construction of 44-kilometer, including 2-km tunnel, Bypass High Standard Highway
 by JICA/DPWH
 Coastal road from Toril - Bago Aplaya -Talomo-Matina Aplaya-Times Beach-Bucana-Sta.
Ana Wharf and R. Castillo shorelines
 JICA proposed highways
 All road projects will have a drainage component
 Marking restoration agreement with DPWH, DCWD and LGU
 Ordinance for sidewalk and pedestrian facility
 Roads for Peace Program
 All proposed roads and highways and other related infrastructure projects enumerated
under the IM4 Davao Project
 Rehabilitation of existing pumping station at Brgys. 22 and 23 Poblacion District
 Implementation of vertical helophyte sewerage filtration system

Bridges
 Bridges for Peace Program of Davao City
 Rehabilitation Projects
 New Bridge Projects
 Conversion from Bailey to RCDG Projects
 All bridge components identified under the IM4 Davao Project

Ancillary Facilities
 Construction of pedestrian overpass at:
o Ma-a Elementary and High school
o Bolton Bridge
o Quimpo-LTO
o Panacan
 Victoria Plaza Pedestrian Overpass retrofitting and other dilapidated overpasses
 Comprehensive Sidewalk Improvement and Rehabilitation Program
 Sidewalk Regulation and Acquisition (right-of-way) Program
 Comprehensive Pedestrian Crossing Improvement Program
 Waiting Shed Inventory and Development Plan that coincides with HPBS
 Street Lighting Optimization Project
 Upgrading existing traffic system to a responsive and adaptive system
 CTTMO Technical Capability Program

Drainage and Sewerage

 Davao City Drainage Master Plan Updating Project
 Construction of pumping station and underground flood water retention facility
 Rehabilitation of existing pumping station at Brgys. 22 and 23 Poblacion District
 Implementation of vertical helophyte sewerage filtration system
 Establishment of Sewerage Treatment Plants

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Strategies and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
Roads
 Some roads are still in poor  Conduct urban and rural road  Urban and Rural Roads
condition inventory survey Inventory Program
o 46.77% of total road  Propose more priority road  Urban and Rural Roads
network are gravelled projects to DPWH to include Development Program
o 54.12% are barangay proposed road projects from  Procurement of heavy
roads located in District Calinan, Marilog and Paquibato equipment for road
III Districts as verified by CPDO and maintenance
o 20.34% are still earth CEO vis-à-vis farm-to-market-
roads entirely located roads (FMRs)
in the rural barangays  Purchase more heavy
equipment for road
maintenance and rehabilitation
 Climate change-resilient road
projects
 Not enough high standard  Conduct consultation meetings  Rural Roads
farm-to-market-roads with concerned agencies: CEO, Development Program
o Agricultural products DPWH, City Agriculturist’s
are compromised due Office, Department of
to poor status of FMRs Agriculture, Barangay Officials,
o The farmers and and other stakeholders related
settlers of some to farm to market roads
barangays of District II, development
particularly Paquibato
District, transport their
agricultural products
directly to Davao del
Norte and no longer
pass through the City
due to bad road
conditions

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Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Road project requirements  The CEO to assist the barangay  CBD Road Inventory
and implementation in facilitating deed of donation Program
problems  Compensate land owners by  City and Barangay
o Some road projects giving just compensation Roads Stationing
have difficulty in the  Conduct of road inventory Program
acquisition of Road- within CBD areas  Directional Transport
Right-of-Way (RROW)  The CPDO, CEO and DPWH shall and Traffic Signs Project
o No data for specific have a regular meeting to  Tourism Road
corridors vis-à-vis reconcile projects Development Program
length, width  Mechanism to coordinate and
carriageway and road reconcile with concerned
surface condition agencies
particularly in Central  GPS and geo-tagging of projects
Business District (CBD) to avoid overlapping of projects
o Road projects  Standard format and
duplication between requirement for infrastructure
the City and DPWH projects (roads, bridges,
 The CEO has no drainage, water system etc.)
survey stationing, must be required
they only use name  Inventory of major rural roads
of puroks for project junction
location  Plot out barangay road for every
 Barangay Councils barangay to set priority projects
would request vis-à-vis road inventory
projects from the
City and DPWH at
the same time
o Inadequate signage for
inter-regional
intersections,
particularly at Buda,
Davao City and
Bukidnon Province and
among City rural roads
junctions

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Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
o Ongoing construction
of new ones also causes
traffic congestion
o Road opening passing
through a conservation
area poses threat,
particularly at
boundary of Marilog–
Magpet (Cotabato
Province)
 Inadequate high standard  Development of super high  Construction of 44
highway, i.e., expressways standard highways kilometer including 2-
as direct linkage to other km tunnel Bypass High
cities, municipalities and Standard Highway
regions outside Davao City by JICA/DPWH
 Coastal road from Toril
- Bago Aplaya -Talomo-
Matina Aplaya-Times
Beach-Bucana-Sta. Ana
Wharf and R. Castillo
shorelines
 JICA proposed highways
 Proposed road projects  The CEO and DPWH will include  All road projects will
with no drainage system drainage system in road have a drainage
inclusion projects in rural areas component
 Pavement markings were  Responsible agency will restore  Marking restoration
removed pavement and markings after agreement with DPWH,
o Other pavement every road project completion DCWD and LGU
markings were removed
during asphalt overlay
project
 Road obstruction  Enforcement of traffic  Ordinance for sidewalk
o Illegal Parking regulations and pedestrian facilities
o Illegal  CEO and Auxiliary Services Unit
Structures/Vendors to monitor and clear the streets
of illegal structures

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Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
Bridges
 Inadequate and poorly  Upgrade and conversion of  Bridges for Peace
maintained bridges inferior short-lived bridges like Program of Davao City
o A total of 24 bailey wooden, steel bailey bridges to o Rehabilitation
bridges and 25 steel permanent Reinforced Concrete Projects
bridges need to be Deck Girder (RCDG) o New Bridge
replaced with  Better design standards for Projects
Reinforced Concrete hanging bridges o Conversion from
Deck Girder (RCDG).  Rehabilitation and Bailey to RCDG
These are mostly reconstruction of bridges to Projects
located in Districts 2 increase capacity and provide
and 3. Some 13 better access to the countryside
hanging o Inventory of bridge and
bridge/footbridges are prioritize/ranking/replace
recommended for steel bridge with RCDG
rehabilitation  Second hand steel bridge to
o Of the 65 bridges in transfer to other rural
Davao City, 40% or 26 barangays
need to be replaced
 Abutments of
some of these
bridges are
dilapidated due
to soil erosion in
the riverbanks
Ancillary Facilities
 Poorly maintained  Build pedestrian overpass that  Construction of
pedestrian overpasses are accessible to all, and climate pedestrian overpass at:
o Unsafe pedestrian change-resilient o Ma-a Elementary
overpass with  Pedestrian bridge project which and High Schools
clearance problems aims to improve campus o Bolton Bridge
o Vendors in pedestrian connectivity o Quimpo-LTO
overpasses o Panacan

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Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Ageing infrastructures like  Victoria Plaza
pedestrian overpass should be Pedestrian Overpass
upgraded retrofitting and other
 Pedestrian overpass will have dilapidated overpasses
provisions for an elevator and
ramp with elevator attendant
assigned, particularly for PWDs,
elderly, pregnant women, etc.
(Accessibility Law)
 Regular monitoring of all ancillary
facilities
 The width shall be wide enough
to also cater to pedestrians with
bicycles or a shared cyclist path
(pedestrian and bicycle bridge).
 Pedestrians overpass should have
precautionary measures to
prevent deliberate attempts to
jump from it
 Poorly maintained  Construction of sidewalk with  Comprehensive Sidewalk
substandard sidewalks bike path Improvement and
o Crowded sidewalks  Consider sidewalk zones Rehabilitation Program
which is conducive to  Uneven sidewalk surface will be  Sidewalk Regulation and
petty crimes against redesigned properly following Acquisition (right-of-
passers-by International standards to way) Program
o Presence of informal accommodate wheelchairs and
vendors and settlers also guide pedestrians to
inhabiting sidewalks crosswalks
o Existing sidewalks have  Establishment of
uneven or different databank/inventory of existing
height and grade sidewalks and other ancillary
road facilities

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Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Sidewalks should be delineated
by a vertical (curb and gutter)
and horizontal separation
(median strip or road verge—a
strip for vegetation/trees, etc.)
from moving traffic to provide an
adequate buffer space and a
sense of safety for pedestrians
 Sidewalk will be separated from
the vehicular section by a curb
following DPWH-standard design
for curb and gutter
 Enforcement side for sidewalk
obstruction
 Sidewalks should be provided in
all streets within the CBD
 Some sidewalks may be used as
social spaces with sidewalk cafes,
or for bicycle parking, etc.
 Provide awnings/canopy,
sidewalk cafes, and other
elements that improve the
comfort and appearance of
sidewalks
 Unsafe pedestrian crossings  Place markings of pedestrian  Comprehensive
o Some intersections crossings Pedestrian Crossing
where vulnerable road  Require big-scale commercial Improvement Program
users regularly cross corporation to provide
have no pedestrian protective crossings for
crossings markings; it is pedestrians
unsafe to cross without  CTTMO to evaluate and
assistance due to recommend projects for
vehicle numbers, speed pedestrian crossing markings
or road widths  Identify road corridors where
pedestrian crossings are
prohibited

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Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Study list of existing pedestrian
crossing whether to remove,
retain and add more
 Provision of crosswalk signs and
markings
 Engineering improvements for
public safety
 No Waiting Shed Policy  Consider the Transport  Waiting Shed Inventory
o Some waiting sheds are Modernization Program in and Development Plan
wrongly placed in CBD planning the location of waiting that coincides with HPBS
o Various structural design sheds
(no uniform design)  Uniformity and regulations will
o No building permit be adopted
required  Consider the impending bus
systems to synchronize with
future bus stops
 Waiting shed inventory to
determine those that are
dilapidated or not allowed
 Recommend to have a uniform
waiting shed design
 Building Official to require
clearance or permit for proper
design through City Architect/
location in coordination with
CTTMO
 Problems in street lighting  Damaged streetlights to be  Street Lighting
o Busted streetlights are reported by barangay officials to Optimization Project
not reported and not DLPC by identifying the post
replaced number
o Some streets are dim  The CEO/Electrical Division to
and prone to vehicular check the luminance and actual
accidents and wattage and the records to be
criminalities validated by the City
Accountant’s Office
 Consider using energy-saving
street lights in all City streets
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Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Traffic Signals  Constant updating of traffic  Upgrading existing
o Points not responsive counts in signalized intersections traffic system to a
o No/minimize flashing for Traffic signal recalibration responsive and adaptive
based on traffic count  Traffic signalization system
o Existing traffic signals  CTTMO Technical
sometimes not Capability Program
responsive to current
traffic volume
Drainage and Sewerage
 Some areas have poor  Regular maintenance of main  Davao City Drainage
drainage facilities drain and its inlets to avoid Master Plan Updating
o There are City streets flooding in the identified areas Project
near the main drainage  Drainage systems must be  Construction of pumping
that are located in the covered and kept free from station and underground
coastal areas which are materials that clogs flood water retention
identified by the Mines  Construction of retention basin facility
and Geo-Sciences reservoirs built and connected  Rehabilitation of existing
Bureau (MGB) of DENR along waterways that can reduce pumping station at
as flood-prone areas. the magnitude of downstream Brgys. 22 and 23,
Mostly are located in flooding Poblacion District
District I  Culvert (RCCP) installation
o There are City streets projects should refer to Master
that are not identified Plan
in the flood
susceptibility map but
were reported to have
incidents of flooding

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Strategies and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
o There are drainage
lines during heavy
rainfall with insufficient
capacity or time to
cope with heavy
downpour
o Some culvert
installations have
larger size than the
next conduit system
resulting to flow
mismatch
 Absence of Sewerage System  Implementation of
vertical helophyte
sewerage filtration
system
 Establishment of
Sewerage Treatment
Plans

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Transportation Facilities

Issues and Concerns

Air Transport
 Limited capacity of the F. Bangoy International Airport. Equipment and Terminal
Building has to be upgraded. There is also a rapid growth in air traffic volume both in
cargo and passengers. The area for future expansion is limited considering that the
current airport only has an area of 204 hectares.

Sea Transport
 Sasa Port needs upgrading. Facilities in the port are outmoded. There is an issue with
the informal settlers. The clients are also transferring to Davao International Container
Terminal (DICT) Port in Panabo City, Davao del Norte.
 Sta. Ana Wharf is dilapidated and outdated. There are issues on ownership. The lease
contract is short-lived thus any improvements made are not long-term. The sea water
also overflows during high tide. Facilities for passengers are also lacking.
 Unregulated small craft landing facilities. Passenger bancas, motorized or non-
motorized, on Davao River particularly along Magallanes and Bangkerohan dikes are not
registered. Registration of fishing boats of up to three (3) tons and non-motorized crafts
is the responsibility of CTTMO, while the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) handles
boats above three (3) tons based on Executive Order No. 305.

Land Transport
 Outdated Davao City Overland Transport Terminal (DCOTT). The terminal may not be
relevant in the long run due to its size and location. There are illegal van terminals in the
vicinity of DCOTT.
 Other land transportation modes (tricycles, trisikads, and bicycles). There are tricycles
plying the national streets and the regard for this type of transportation mode is very
low. These modes of transportation are not maximized within CBD.

Urban Transportation System

 Traffic congestion due to poor or lack of mass transportation system.
 The existing mass transport system is unreliable and uncomfortable.
 The proposed High Priority Bus System (HPBS) will have social impacts.
 The franchise of many PUVs will expire in 2018 to 2021.

Objective and Target

To enable Davao City’s citizens to achieve a status of sustainable mobility embedded in a

community with high quality transportation facilities and services at a reasonable cost with
minimal environmental impact and enhanced socio- economic status of the City.

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Programs and Projects

Air Transport
1.) Mindanao Airport Development Study
2.) Airport Terminal Upgrading Project (DIA)
3.) Airport Cargo Terminal Upgrade Project (DIA)
4.) Taxiway Development Project (DIA)

Sea Transport
1.) Expansion Program (Sasa Port)
2.) Equipment Upgrading Program (Sasa Port)
3.) Informal Settlers Relocation Program (Sasa Port)
4.) Installation of shore to ship (STS) crane (Sasa Port), rubber tire gantry crane
5.) Improvement of port facilities for cargoes (Sasa Port)
6.) Improvement of port passenger facilities bound for Samal Island
7.) Passenger Port Facility Improvement Project
8.) CCTV installation for security
9.) Upgrading of the site with appropriate filling materials
10.) New Sta. Ana Wharf design with coastal road beside it
11.) Non-Motorized/Motorized Banca Registration Project (CTTMO)
12.) Transition Plan for Inter-regional buses with the establishment of Bus Terminals in
Southwest (e.g Toril or Sirawan), Central (Tugbok, Calinan), and Northeast (Airport,
Panacan, or Bunawan) parts of the City. DCOTT can be transformed into a City
Government Center once the inter-regional bus terminals are operational

Land Transport
1.) Improvement of existing DCOTT with security features and comfort for passengers
2.) X-ray machines for passengers
3.) Covered walkways for passengers
4.) Accommodation facilities
5.) Commercial Stalls Upgrading DCOTT Transformation Project
6.) Tricycles/Trisikads Rerouting Project
7.) Bicycle Regulation Program
8.) Point to point Bus Services or Bus Services with limited stops for underserved areas
in the City

Urban Transportation System

1.) Davao Mass Transport Modernization Project (High Priority Bus System and City Rail)
a.) Provision of social intervention packages for affected stakeholders
b.) Implementation of a modern Bus System alongside a rail system
2.) City Railway System with indicative alignment from Ulas to Matina, to CBD, to JP Laurel,
to Lanang, with interchanges going to Buhangin Airport and Mindanao Rail
3.) Mindanao Railway System (with indicative alignment along the Coastal Road)
4.) Transport and Traffic Master Plan (short, medium, and long term)

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 Table 5.2 Davao City Transportation Facilities Issues and Concerns, Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
Air Transport
 Limited capacity of the F.  Maintain the Airport to the  Mindanao Airport
Bangoy International level of International Civil Development Study
Airport Aviation Organization (ICAO)  Airport Terminal
o Equipment/Terminal standards Upgrading Project
Building needs  Undertake a study of finding (DIA)
upgrading an alternative airport site  Airport Cargo
o Rapid growth in air within the next 3 years Terminal Upgrade
traffic volume both in  Advocate for the final creation Project (DIA)
cargo and passenger of the Davao International  Taxiway Development
o Limited area for future Airport Authority (DIAA) Project (DIA)
expansion (only 204
ha)
Sea Transport
 Sasa Port needs upgrade  Preparation of Sasa Port  Expansion Program
o Outmoded facilities Modernization Plan (Sasa Port)
o Informal settlers issue  Consider PPP scheme for  Equipment Upgrading
o Freight movement. improving port facilities Program (Sasa Port)
Clients are transferring  Informal Settlers
to Davao International Relocation Program
Container Terminal (Sasa Port)
(DICT) Port in Panabo  Installation of shore to
City, Davao del Norte ship (STS) crane (Sasa
Port), rubber tire
gantry crane
 Improvement of port
facilities for cargoes
(Sasa Port)
 Improvement of port
passenger facilities
bound for Samal Island
 Dilapidated and outdated  Encourage private sector  Passenger Port Facility
Sta. Ana Wharf investment in the Improvement Project
o Issues on ownership; development of Sta. Ana  CCTV Installation for
lease contract is short- Wharf not only as port facility security
lived; thus, not for but also as a comprehensive
long-term tourism complex

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 Table 5.2 Davao City Transportation Facilities Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
o During high tide the  Transfers of ownership to LGU  Upgrading of the site
sea water overflows or extend the lease to LGU for with appropriate filling
(sea level rise issue) another 50 years materials
 Lack of facilities for  Relocation of informal settlers  New Sta. Ana Wharf
passengers  Redesign the area in relation design with coastal
to the Coastal Road road beside it
 Unregulated small craft  Non-
landing facilities Motorized/Motorized
o Non-registration of Banca Registration
passenger bancas in Project (CTTMO)
Davao River
particularly along
Magallanes and
Bangkerohan Dikes
o No registration of non-
motorized bancas
 CTTMO: Fishing
boats-3 tons and
below and non–
motorized
 Marina: EO 305-
above 3 tons
Land Transport
 Outdated Davao City  Plan for the  Improvement of
Overland Transport Southern/Northern Provincial existing DCOTT with
Terminal (DCOTT) Bus terminals with due security features and
o Terminal size and consideration of the ADB bus comfort for passengers
location may not be terminals and Mindanao  X-ray machines for
relevant in the long run railway terminals to establish passengers
o Illegal van terminals in intermodal transfer facilities  Covered walkways for
the vicinity of DCOTT  Consider using DCOTT in the passengers
long run for other use such as  Accommodation
government center with multi- facilities
level car park or as the Central  Commercial Stall
Control system site for  Upgrade DCOTT
Integrated Transport System Transformation Project

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 Table 5.2 Davao City Transportation Facilities Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Other land transportation  Identify through markings  Tricycles/Trisikads
modes (Tricycles, Trisikads, tricycle lanes where they Rerouting Project
and Bicycle) would allowed in major roads  Bicycle Regulation
o Tricycles plying the  Tricycle regulation has to be Program
national streets incorporated in CTTMO
(existing non- operations
conforming)  Trisikads should be
o Very low regard for this incorporated in CTTMO
type of transportation operations
mode  Registration/Regulation of
o Mode within CBD is not tricycles to be incorporated in
maximized CTTMO operations
 Confinement of tricycles
operations in subdivisions
 Enforcement of existing
policies governing tricycle
operations
Urban Transportation System
 Traffic congestion due to  Adoption of modern bus  Davao Mass Transport
poor or lack of mass system Modernization Project
transportation system  City to manage or govern vis-a-vis High Priority
o Unreliable and intermodal transport system Bus System (HPBS)
uncomfortable mass  HPBS mitigating measures for  Railway System that
transport system operators, drivers and will also connect to
o Social impact of HPBS dispatchers: HPBS
o Expiration of PUVs o A chance to apply to the  CBD Railway System
franchise in 2018 to bus system (Monorail)/LRT
2021 o Bus cleaning  Transport and Traffic
o Depot maintenance Master Plan
o Availment of technical
trainings/seminars or for
other members of the
family
o Provision of
compensation

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 Table 5.2 Davao City Transportation Facilities Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Provision of technical and/or
livelihood trainings for the
displaced stakeholder
including the family members
 Prioritization to be absorbed in
the HPBS as investor and/or
worker (driver, admin and
operations support, mechanics
and maintenance, etc.)

Water Supply System

Issues and Concerns

 Lack of water source in some areas. Over extraction of water is a threat to water sources
in the future. Regulation of private well development is weak. Water service is
intermittent or irregular especially in District II. In some cases, spring sources are far from
the community settlement area or at lower elevation from the beneficiaries.
 Water quality issues in some areas. There are no proper water treatment facilities for
Levels I and II water systems. Regular water quality monitoring is not undertaken.
 Problems in pre and post project implementation of Rural Water Supply Projects. There
are mostly no Barangay Water and Sanitation Associations (BAWASAs) in communities to
maintain rural water facilities.

Objective and Target

To have an adequate, safe, and potable water supply both in urban and rural communities.

Programs and Projects

1.) Groundwater System Development Program for level I and II for communities that have no
access to potable water
2.) Conduct Geo-Resistivity Survey of water source
3.) Utilize solar energy for water pumps
4.) Salt Water Intrusion Study
5.) Water Aquifer Monitoring Wells (Ground Water Monitoring Program)
6.) Management agreement between National Water Regulatory Board (NWRB) and
LGU/DCWD

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 7.) Purchase of geo-resistivity equipment
8.) Expansion of Tamugan Water Surface Project
9.) Rural Water Supply Investment Plan
10.) BAWASA Strengthening Program
11.) Construction and equipping of City Health Office water quality testing laboratory

Table 5.3 Davao City Water Supply System Issues and Concerns, Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Lack of water source in  Expand water connections in  Groundwater System
some areas unserved areas Development Program
o Over extraction is a  Inventory of water extraction for level I and II for
threat to water sources rate including public and communities that have
in the future private companies no access to potable
o Weak regulation of  Decentralization of NWRB water
private well operations by deputizing an  Conduct Geo-Resistivity
development entity (Local Watershed Survey of water source
o Spring source is far Management Council) to  Utilize solar energy for
from the community perform the function at the water pumps
settlement area or at LGU level  Salt Water Intrusion
lower elevation from Study
the beneficiaries  Water Aquifer
Monitoring Wells
(Ground Water
Monitoring Program)
 Management
agreement between
NWRB and LGU/DCWD
 Purchase of geo-
resistivity equipment
 Intermittent/ irregular  Development of surface water
water service especially in as a source of water supply to
District II augment sub-surface water
sources
 Strict implementing of
Rainwater Harvesting
Ordinance
 Regulate housing
development

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 Table 5.3 Davao City Water Supply System Issues and Concerns, Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Water quality issues in  Conduct periodic monitoring  Construction and
some areas and treatment of water equipping of City Health
o Levels I and II: No system Office water quality
proper water treatment  Implement advanced or testing Laboratory
facility modern treatment facility
o No regular water  Sustainability projects for the
quality monitoring maintenance and preservation
of water systems
 Problems in pre and post  Capacitate all BAWASA in rural  BAWASA Strengthening
project implementation of water supply management Program
rural water supply projects  Train CEO and DPWH  Establishment of
o Weak or no BAWASA in personnel in organizing and BAWASA as a requisite
the community to training of BAWASAs prior to turn-over of the
maintain the rural  The cost of operation and water system
water facility maintenance of water system
o No continuing water will be borne by the BAWASA
system management
training for BAWASA

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Power Supply

Issues and Concerns

 Steady and sufficient supply of power in Davao City is sometimes compromised
 Energy mix is more on coal
 Electricity rates are going up
 While 100% of Davao City’s barangays are energized, there are some remote sitios that
remain un-energized (18% or 533 sitios out of 2,886 sitios)
 Some areas in Davao City are not well-lighted because some posts do not have street
lights which pose security risk to residents and pedestrians
 Some billboards are near power lines and they are potential hazards

Objectives and Targets

1.) To guarantee steady, sufficient and affordable supply of power through increasing utilization
of renewable energy for the whole Davao City
2.) To attain 100% sitio electrification by 2022

Programs and Projects

1.) Mindanao Grid Interconnection Project to Visayas Grid
2.) Energy Development Plan for Mindanao (DOE)
3.) Renewable Energy (RE) Program
4.) Research agenda for RE Program
5.) Rural Electrification Program
6.) Establishment of Barangay Association for Renewable Power Supply Management Program
7.) Street Lighting Upgrading Program
8.) Street Lighting Energy Conservation Program
9.) Underground Cabling Program

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 Table 5.4 Davao City Power Supply Issues and Concerns, Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Steady and sufficient supply  To encourage more investment  Mindanao Grid
of power in Davao City is in power generation capacity in Interconnection Project
sometimes compromised Mindanao to Visayas Grid
 Close coordination should be  Energy Development Plan
made with DLPC, DOE, NGCP, for Mindanao (DOE)
ERC, LGU
 Energy mix is more on coal  Advocate for simpler  Renewable Energy
registration process for RE Program
projects  Research agenda for RE
 Attain a balanced energy mix to Program
address energy security,
business development and
environmental protection.
 Electricity rates are going up  Intensify consumer protection
 While 100% of Davao City’s  Intensify sitio electrification by  Rural Electrification
barangays are energized, optimizing the use of ER 1-94 Program
some remote sitios remain Funds of DOE  Establishment of
un-energized (18% or 533 Barangay Association for
sitios out of 2,886 sitios) Renewable Power Supply
Management program
 Some areas in Davao City are  Pursue conversion of sodium  Street Lighting Upgrading
not well-lighted because streetlights to LED Streetlights Program
some posts do not have  Ensure that the City is well-  Street Lighting Energy
street lights which pose lighted for the security and Conservation Program
security risk to residents and safety of the residents and
pedestrians visitors
 Some billboards are near  Ask clearance from DLPC before  Underground Cabling
power lines and they are billboard construction to ensure Program
potential hazards safety and avoid possible power
interruption

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Information Communication Technology (ICT)

Issues and Concerns

 Some postal services have been overtaken by current technologies.
 Slow Internet service. Globe/Smart have infrastructure or cell sites procurement
problems and a number of subdivisions/homeowners oppose cell site locations because
of fears about radiation. In some cases, ideal locations for cell sites are found but there
are issues encountered such as land acquisition/right-of-way issues. Internet speed is
slow in some areas because there are many customers availing of the internet service
but the cell site signal is poor.
 Services in some rural areas are not yet available.
 Disarrayed/disorganized wires and cables attached to buildings from posts of
telecommunication companies.
 Limited coverage of landline facilities. Although Globe/Bayantel provides landline to
mobile phones services and PLDT landline services, landline facilities still have limited
coverage.
 Coverage of television networks and cable television networks. Some areas are not yet
serviced by television and cable television networks especially in rural areas.

Objectives and Targets

1.) To attain internet speeds comparable to other Asian countries or if possible world-
class standards
2.) To link all growth centers including Davao City’s remote areas with high speed internet,
telephone services including postal services, and responsible and relevant media outlets

Programs and Projects

1.) Postal Service Upgrading Program
2.) Underground cabling in major thoroughfares by telcos/utilities
3.) Globe/Smart Infrastructure Upgrading Program
4.) Cell Site Development Program
5.) Free WIFI in strategic public places
6.) Public WIFI Development Program
7.) Continue fiscal and non-fiscal incentives on ICT-related investments
8.) Mandatory MTTC installation ordinance
9.) Require telcos to clear dead wires
10.) Require distinguishing marks or color
11.) Landline Modernization Program
12.) TV/Cable Networks Expansion Project

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 Table 5.5 Davao City Information Communication Technology Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Some postal services have  Modify postal service system  Postal Service Upgrading
been overtaken by current  Develop system of detecting Program
technologies contrabands in the packages
 Slow internet service  Adoption of related and  Underground cabling in
o Globe/Smart latest/modern available major thoroughfares by
infrastructure/cell sites technology to be implemented: telcos/utilities
procurement problems o Long Term Evolution (LTE)  Globe/Smart
o Subdivisions/homeown latest technology for very Infrastructure Upgrading
ers oppose cell site good/high speed signal Program
locations due to o Fiber optics for direct to  Cell Site Development
radiation issue house connections Program
o Land acquisition/right-  Advocate for the entry of new  Free WIFI in strategic
of-way issues service providers public places
o Ideal location for cell  Public WIFI Development
sites but with issues Program
o Slow internet in some  Continue fiscal and non-
areas with many fiscal incentives on ICT-
customers availing of related investments
the internet service but
cell site is poor
 Disarrayed/disorganized  PLDT to use a Main Telephone  Mandatory MTTC
wires and cables attached to Terminal Cabinet (MTTC) in installation ordinance
buildings from telcos posts buildings  Require telcos to clear
 Services in some rural areas  Local ordinance/Building Code dead wires
are not yet available to require old and new buildings  Require distinguishing
to have a MTTC marks or color
 Limited coverage landline  Innovate to expand coverage  Landline Modernization
facilities without using cables Program
o Globe/Bayantel
(landline to mobile
phones) and PLDT
(landline)
o Limited coverage of
landline facilities

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 Table 5.5 Davao City Information Communication Technology Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Television Networks and  TV/Cable Networks
Cable Television Networks Expansion Project
o Some areas are not yet
serviced especially in
rural areas

Economic Infrastructure Support

Issues and Concerns

 Overcrowded public cemeteries. Expansion areas for cemeteries are lacking.
 Substandard slaughterhouses. The Ma-a Slaughterhouse is run by a cooperative under
PPP arrangements (60 for the co-op and 40 for the City sharing of income). There is an
existing concern regarding its waste treatment as foul odor discharge reaches Woodridge
Subdivision. The land ownership of Toril Slaughterhouse is under litigation. It is
dilapidated and facilities are substandard. The Calinan Slaughterhouse is also substandard
and has no room for expansion.
 Dilapidated and unsanitary public markets. There are no ample parking spaces or
facilities in most of public markets, which also suffer from overcrowding.
 Post-harvest facilities (milling, cold storage, multi-purpose drying pavement, market
centers warehouse).
 Underutilized Davao Fishport. The fishport has accessibility problems and its facilities are
outdated.
 Communal Irrigation System (CIS) is not a major strategy in the Davao agriculture sector.
Davao City does not have high potential for wide rice fields because of its undulating
terrain that is more upland or mountainous in form. Farmers prefer to plant cacao than
rice due to economic opportunities. Reportedly, the City has 8,000 hectares of potential
irrigable areas for verification and mapping. Malabog area in Paquibato District has
irrigation facilities (diversion dam/canals) that are unused, according to the National
Irrigation Administration (NIA). The existing irrigation facilities like dams and canals are
silted, and dilapidated, which need retrofitting.

Objective and Target

To establish and develop infrastructure facilities that would hasten economic growth taking into
consideration minimal effort on traffic and environment.

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Programs and Projects
 Construction of crematorium at Wireless Cemetery (City Economic Enterprise)
 Public Cemeteries Expansion and Improvement Program
 Columbarium
 Acquisition of land for additional public cemetery sites
 Proposed Projects:
o ₱50 million Wastewater Treatment Facility at Ma-a Slaughterhouse (DA grant);
o Construction of Wastewater Treatment Facility (localized) (DOST);
o Construction of New Slaughterhouse (Halal) in Brgy. Malagos;
o Defeathering Facility for Chicken (DA).
 Agdao Public Market Modernization Project with sufficient parking facilities
 Public Markets Rehabilitation and Improvement Program
 Completion of Food Terminal Complex at Daliao
 Davao Fish port Modernization Project
 Capacity expansion
 Small Water Impounding Projects (SWIP)
 Slope Farming Programs excluding agricultural non-tillage areas
 Salapawan Irrigation System (NIA)

Table 5.6 Davao City Economic Infrastructure Support Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Overcrowded public  Rehabilitation of public  Construction of
cemeteries market to provide ossuary and crematorium at Wireless
o Lack of expansion compartmentalized niches Cemetery (City Economic
areas for cemetery  Crematorium as another Enterprise)
mode of burial  Public Cemeteries
 Policy research on requiring Expansion and
memorial park developers to Improvement Program
set aside 10% of their project  Columbarium
site for socialized burial facility  Acquisition of land for
additional public
cemetery sites
 Policy research on
requiring memorial park
developers to set aside
10% of their project site
for socialized burial
facility

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 Table 5.6 Davao City Economic Infrastructure Support Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Substandard  Establishment of Butcher  Proposed projects:
slaughterhouses Training Center/ISO o ₱50 million
o Ma-a Slaughterhouse accreditation requirements to Wastewater
 Under PPP/run by a maintain AA standard Treatment Facility
Cooperative (60  Upgrade slaughterhouse at Ma-a
(Coop)/40 (City) facilities to AA class Slaughterhouse (DA
sharing of income)  Prepare operational and grant) (check with
 Concern on waste maintenance plan annually economic
treatment (foul  Require all slaughterhouses to enterprise office)
odor discharge that have Waste Treatment Plants o Construction of
can reach (WTP) Wastewater
Woodridge  Transfer Calinan Treatment Facility
Subdivision) Slaughterhouse to a better (localized) (DOST)
o Toril Slaughterhouse location o Defeathering
 Land ownership is Facility for Chicken
under litigation (DA)
 Dilapidated and o Construction of
substandard New
facilities Slaughterhouse
o Calinan (Halal) in Brgy.
Slaughterhouse Malagos
 Substandard
and no room
for expansion
 Dilapidated and unsanitary  Rehabilitation of existing  Agdao Public Market
public markets public markets Modernization Project
o No ample parking with sufficient parking
facilities in most of the facilities
public market  Public Markets
o Overcrowded public Rehabilitation and
markets Improvement Program

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 Table 5.6 Davao City Economic Infrastructure Support Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Post-harvest facilities  Completion of Food
(milling, cold storage, multi- Terminal Complex at
purpose drying pavement, Daliao
market centers warehouse)
 Underutilized Davao  Improve road network leading  Davao Fishport
Fishport to the Davao Fishport Modernization Project
o Accessibility problem  Improvement/ Rehabilitation  Capacity expansion
o Outdated facilities of existing facilities
 Communal irrigation system  Direct/Refer programs and  Small Water Impounding
(CIS) not a major strategy in projects to the Agricultural Projects (SWIP)
the Davao agriculture sector Development Plan of Davao  Slope Farming Programs
 Davao City lacks potential City excluding agri non-tillage
for rice fields with its  Explore rice terraces type of areas
undulating terrain agricultural practice for Salapawan Irrigation
 Davao City has 8,000 Paquibato areas System (NIA)
hectares for potential  NIA and DA collaboration
irrigable areas, but it is still  Drip irrigation source from
for verification and mapping water impounding or water
 Malabog area in Paquibato reservoir
District has irrigation  Prime agricultural lands to be
facilities (diversion converted to rice fields and
dam/canals) that are not other high value crops
used by the farmers
 Because of economic
opportunity, farmers prefer
planting cacao than rice
o Dilapidated irrigation
facilities like dams and
canals (silted/for
retrofitting)

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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The natural environment of Davao City is essential to the well-being of the people as well as the
flora and fauna that makes the City a rich and diverse locality. It provides the resources for the
sustained development of the City’s economy, infrastructure and culture.

It has always been a challenge for the City to strike balance between urbanization and
environmental management. It is essential that the carrying capacity of the City’s natural
resources is not compromised when projected and unexpected progress is being addressed.

This chapter covers key elements or sub-sectors of the environment of the City, which are air
quality, forests and forestlands, parks, wildlife and other reservations, water resources and
water quality, mineral lands, and solid waste management.

The discussion of the issues and concerns generally takes off from those identified in the Davao
City Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) and is presented using the Pressure-State-Response
or PSR model. The PSR model supports the City Government and stakeholders to not only
address challenges in relation to Responses which are existing measures to mitigate against
impacts, rehabilitate, protect and conserve the environment but also to pay attention to the
pressures (the different demands by people on the environment) and on the state or existing
conditions of the different ecosystems.

6.1 Environmental Management Goals

1.) To promote the health of the people of Davao City through the enhancement and
maintenance of good ambient air quality
2.) To ensure the health of Davao City’s watershed areas through the protection and
conservation of wildlife, wildlife habitat, groundwater recharge zones, and geologic hazard
areas, among others while ensuring the sustainability of communities upstream and
downstream through rehabilitation and community participation
3.) To ensure public health by promoting and maintaining a clean and healthy urban
environment
4.) To reduce the risk of communities from natural hazards and other calamities

Environment Management Overall Strategies

Aside from strategies that are specific to each sub-sector, the City Government will employ the
following overall strategies to achieve its objectives and targets for the environment of Davao:

 Strengthening of implementing units in particular the Anti-Smoke Belching Unit (ASBU)

and the Community Forest Protection Office by ensuring that the requisite personnel
complement and financial as well as technological resources are available for the former
and securing deputation from the Department of the Environment and Natural
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  Improve the enforcement of legislation and other policies related to the environment
such as Solid Waste City Ordinance, Anti-Smoke Belching Ordinance, Food and Pesticides
Authority (FPA) policies on chemical spraying in urban areas, PD 856 or the Sanitation
Code of the Philippines, the Joint DENR-DAR-NCIP-LRA Administrative Order 01 s. 2012,
regulation on fauna quarantine, the Davao Watershed Code, the Septage and Sewerage
Ordinance, and RA 9147 or the Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act;
 Formulation of appropriate policies on protecting, managing and rehabilitating the
environment (see Proposed Policies and Legislation);
 Conduct of studies in aid of policymaking, local legislation, and programming such as
emissions inventory study, inventory and assessment of forest cover, urban wetlands,
and status of coral reefs, sea grasses and mangroves, on payment for environmental
services (PES), groundwater geological survey or hydrology study, and waste analysis and
characterization study;
 Ensuring adherence to accepted national and international standards such as on air
quality;
 Implement key programs, projects, and services to meet City Government
accountabilities in ensuring the sustainable use and management of the different
ecosystems and address strategic areas where private sector or community response is
weak or lacking such as in the establishment and management of a hazardous waste
treatment, storage and disposal (TSD) facility;
 Strong coordination with barangay local governments and government agencies
concerned with the environment such as DENR, National Water Regulatory Board
(NWRB), and Davao City Water District (DCWD);
 Widening and deepening public knowledge through information, education and
communication initiatives on smoke nuisance, biodiversity, water pollution and
conservation, improper waste disposal and its effects on the environment and health, on
toxic wastes, and on organic farming specifically targeting schools and upstream as well
as downstream informal settlers areas and farming communities, and the popularization
of CLAYGO (Clean As You GO) and segregation as integral to Davao culture.

Environmental Management Proposed Policies and Legislation

Air Quality

1.) Conduct research on an ordinance requiring measures to ensure permeability of each lot or
property (green infrastructure)
2.) Policy research on requiring good housekeeping by contractors that are implementing
projects
3.) Policy research on requiring industries to install and use air pollution control devices
4.) Adopting internationally accepted air quality standards for Davao City

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Forest and Forestlands and Parks, Wildlife and Other Reservations

1.) An ordinance for households to participate in a greening program

2.) An ordinance designating at least 20 hectares as open green park
3.) An ordinance for easements along riverbanks, creeks, and other waterways
4.) Policy research on including annotations on specific designated uses of open spaces in titles
turned over to the LGU
5.) Policy research on Infrastructure Management/Partnership Agreement that requires DPWH
and other government agencies to acquire permits and coordinate with LGUs
6.) An ordinance on water preservation and conservation
7.) An ordinance allocating green areas per establishment and household
8.) A policy preventing introduction of invasive species
9.) A policy on green infrastructure (including permeable pavements)
10.) A policy on tax incentives for lands used for conservation
11.) Policy research on regulation of filling in wetlands
12.) A policy on land contour and level preservation
13.) An ordinance on wetlands conservation
14.) A policy recommendation to the Local School Board (LSB) to include biodiversity in school
curriculum
15.) A policy regulating operation of private zoos focusing on safety aspect
16.) An ordinance on land conservation

Water Resources and Water Quality

1.) Review of the Water Resources Management Ordinance of 2001 or the Water Code
2.) Review and refile Aerial Spray Ban to consider the parameters issued by the Supreme Court
3.) Payment for Environmental Services Ordinance

Solid Waste Management

1.) Advocate to the Department of Trade and Industry and Food and Drugs Authority the
development of a “you manufacture it, you dispose it” policy in relation to disposal of
expired food
2.) Update Solid Waste Management Ordinance
3.) An ordinance promoting reusable market bags such as “bayong”/reusable bags for markets
and supermarkets
4.) An ordinance taxing one-time use products such as straws and diapers, etc.
5.) An ordinance on electronic wastes management
6.) An ordinance designating Davao as CLean as You GO (CLAYGO) City
7.) Revenue Code and SWM Ordinance amendments to make garbage fees based on volume

Climate Change
1.) Expansion of the Rain Harvesting Ordinance

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6.2 Environmental Management Goals

Air Quality

Issues and Concerns

The protection and advancement of the right of the people to a balanced ecology in accordance
with the rhythm and harmony of nature is a fundamental principle of the Philippine Clean Air
Act of 1999.

The City Government has come to consider the following environmental issues and concerns as
priorities:
 Poor agricultural practices. Pesticide drift from agricultural plantations has been
observed. Aerial spraying near the Panabo-Lasang boundary is ongoing. There are
difficulties in transforming farming systems from chemical farming to organic farming. In
addition, chemical spraying of mango trees in residential areas is occurring;
 Poor solid waste management practices. Wastes are not being segregated. This could
lead to a situation of methane gases being produced in landfills;
 Dust pollution in construction sites. Unpaved roads and construction activities generate
dusts that pollute the air. After heavy rains, dirt accumulates that, after drying out,
compound the dust problem;
 Odor nuisance. Poultry and piggery farms and fighting cock facilities emit obnoxious
odors. Foul odors also come from foundry/stevedoring and car painting facilities.
Recycling centers and facilities also contribute to the odor problem;
 Conflicting policy specifically DAO-2000-81 (IRR of the Philippine Clean Air Act) and
reusing bunker C fuel;
 Weak enforcement and monitoring of laws. Enforcement by the Anti-Smoke Belching
Unit (ASBU) is poor. The air pollution control devices (APCD) of some plants are
inefficient. Establishments and industrial plants are emitting high amounts of dust. Solid
wastes are being openly burned. Inadequate private emission testing centers (PETC)
constrain the testing of vehicles;
 Lack of updated and detailed emissions of greenhouse gas. There are no updated and
detailed emissions of greenhouse gas. This is compounded by the use of power or
influence in emission testing centers that lead to the alteration of results.

Objectives and Targets

1.) Ensure the strict compliance of all vehicles and industries on the emission standards of the
Clean Air Act
2.) Constantly monitor air quality in all areas of the City
3.) Adopt environment-friendly technologies
4.) Reduce incidence of respiratory diseases
5.) Reduce emissions to improve air quality

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Programs and Projects
1.) Air Quality Management Program (Clean Air Davao Program)
 Air Quality Information Dissemination Project
 Toxic (Methane) Gas Management (Project)
 ASBU Capacity Enhancement Project
 Air Quality Monitoring Project
 Coordination with DENR (Air Quality Management Areas)
 Inventory of Sources of Greenhouse Gases
2.) Watershed Management Program
3.) Urban Comprehensive Greening Program
 Tree Planting/Parenting Project
4.) Solid Waste Management Program
 Strengthening Barangay SWM Project
5.) Research Agenda :
 Study on Integrated Pest Management Control;
 Policy Requiring Good Housekeeping by Contractors implementing projects;
 Requiring Industries Air Pollution Control Devices;
 Adopting Internationally Accepted Air Quality Standards for Davao City.

Services
1.) Land Use Monitoring Project – (Regular Monitoring on Land Use)

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 Table 6.1 Davao City Air Quality Issues and Concerns, Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Poor agricultural practices  Air Quality Bulletin Boards in  Air Quality Management
o Pesticide drift from agricultural or rural communities Program (Clean Air Davao
agricultural  Integrated pest management Program)
plantations control involving physical barriers,  Air Quality Information
o Ongoing aerial biological controls and genetic Dissemination Project
spraying near Panabo- modification of plants or pests  Watershed Management
Lasang boundary  Intensify organic farming scheme Program
o Difficulties in through IEC.  Research agenda: Study on
transforming farming  Coordination with the FPA on integrated pest
systems from chemical policies related to chemical management control
farming to organic spraying in urban areas
farming
o Spraying of mango
trees in residential
areas
 Poor solid waste  Strengthen implementation of  Solid Waste Management
management practices solid waste laws through Program
o Lack of segregation involvement of barangays in  Strengthening Barangay
leads to the enforcement and monitoring SWM Project
production of  Utilize generated methane gas for  Toxic (Methane) Gas
methane in landfill electricity or for LPG Management Project

 Dust pollution in construction  Use of permeable pavements to  Urban Comprehensive

sites suspend dust particles and retain Greening Program
o Unpaved roads sequestration of carbon dioxide  Tree Planting/Parenting
o Accumulation of (CO2) Project
dirt/dust after heavy  Planting of trees, ornamental  Policy research agenda:
rains plants along sidewalks to provide Requiring good
o Roads and buildings buffer/protection from dust housekeeping by
construction getting into households contractors implementing
activities  Monitor and penalize projects
developments by recalling permits  Policy agenda: Green
issued by the City Government infrastructure ordinance
 Make contractors accountable for (permeable pavements)
violations
 Smoke nuisance  Engage information dissemination  Air Quality Management
through media, e.g., broadcast Program (Clean Air Davao
media (radio and TV), print and Program)
new media (website, social media)
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 Table 6.1 Davao City Air Quality Issues and Concerns, Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Odor Nuisance  Installation of Air Pollution  Air Quality Management
o Emission of obnoxious Control Devices (APCD) in paint Program (Clean Air Davao
odors from poultry shops Program)
and piggery farms, and  Monitoring of implementation of  Land Use Monitoring
fighting cock facilities the Land Use Plan Project (Regular
o Foul odor from  Strict implementation of PD 856 Monitoring on Land Use)
foundry/ stevedoring, or the Sanitation Code of the  Policy research agenda:
car painting facilities Philippines Requiring air pollution
o Odor from recycling  Review of City ordinance control devices from
centers and facilities regarding odor nuisance industries
 Strengthen monitoring of
possible odor nuisance sources
 Conflicting Policy DAO-2000-  Review and assess memo circular  Air Quality Management
81 (IRR of the Philippine regarding conditions Program (Clean Air Davao
Clean Air Act)  Recommend to the DENR Central Program)
o Reuse of bunker C fuel Office a review of the policy on  Coordinative meetings with
dirty fuel usage DENR-EMB on dirty fuel
usage
 Weak enforcement and  Strengthen the Anti-Smoke  Air Quality Management
monitoring of laws Belching Unit (ASBU) (personnel, Program (Clean Air Davao
o Poor enforcement by equipment and operating Program)
the Anti-Smoke budget)  ASBU Capacity
Belching Unit (ASBU)  Establishment and Enhancement Project
o Inadequate private implementation of the Motor
emission testing Vehicle Inspection System (MVIS)
centers (PETC)  Massive information campaign
o Open burning of solid  Enforcement of Solid Waste City
wastes Ordinance penal provisions,
o Dust emission from including open burning
establishments and
industrial plants
o Inefficiency of the air
pollution control
devices (APCD) of
some plants

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 Table 6.1 Davao City Air Quality Issues and Concerns, Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Lack of updated and detailed  Detailed and updated emissions  Air Quality Management
emissions or greenhouse gas inventory study to facilitate Program (Clean Air Davao
inventory crafting of policies and measures Program)
o Lack of updated and that will address specifically the  Inventory of Sources of
detailed emissions source and types of pollutants Greenhouse Gases
inventory/  Strict monitoring of the practices  Air Quality Monitoring
greenhouse gas of emission testing centers Project
inventory  Adoption of internationally  Research agenda:
o Use of power or accepted standards in air quality Adopting internationally
influence or the accepted air quality
“palakasan” system standards for Davao City
in emission testing
centers that result to
the alteration of
results

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Forests and Forestlands

Issues and Concerns

Eight (8) major watersheds1 intersect in Davao City, three of which (Matina, Talomo, and
Lipadas) are completely within the City. Conserving the upland areas of the watersheds is
important for the health of the communities within the watershed. A total of 43,147 hectares
have been declared as Conservation/Forest Zone in the approved Davao City land use for 1996-
2021.

There is a total of 60,136 hectares declared as Conservation Area in the City’s Comprehensive
Land Use Plan (CLUP). This is based on the Terrain Analysis study of the Mines and Geosciences
Bureau (MGB), which considers these areas of having serious environmental constraints and are
extremely important to maintaining environmental balance. These areas are either highly prone
to mass movements, important to maintaining surface water supply, or are important recharge
areas for groundwater.

There is a total of 32,035 hectares of land within the declared Conservation Areas that needs
rehabilitation. The encroachment of occupants and expansion of plantations in these areas that
have remained unchecked are pressing concerns. Around 119,325 hectares of land are still
underdeveloped lands (grasslands/shrublands/brushlands). These are mostly located in the
districts of Marilog, Paquibato, and Baguio, which can either be rehabilitated or become
productive.

There are 147,548 hectares of timberland in Davao City that are under the jurisdiction of the
DENR. In 2007, an estimated 63,580 hectares of timberland are considered
grasslands/shrublands/brushlands within timberland areas. Timberland areas are managed by
the DENR or with private entities through management agreements. There are currently 24
management agreements covering 66,036 hectares but a number have less than desirable
impacts.

There are areas in the northern portion of the City covered by Certificates of Ancestral Domain
Titles (CADTs) that are managed by indigenous people’s (IPs). A total of 70,160 hectares under
Certificate of Ancestral Domain Titles (CADTs) of the Matigsalog-Manobo, Bagobo-Tagabawa
and Obu-Manuvu fall within Davao City. Some of the areas covered by the CADTs intersect with
Timberland areas and are considered as conflict areas but could be potential areas of co-
management between the NCIP, DENR, and the IPs.

While there remains a lot of areas to be rehabilitated, reforestation rate has been on a positive
trend. There were 39,365 hectares of open and closed canopy forest in 2007, larger than the
34,753 hectares recorded in 2002.

1 A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place. It
is a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course
and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community.

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Since the time of the CLUP preparation and the terrain analysis, the following issues and
concerns have been regarded by the City Government and stakeholders as needing attention
within the planning period:
 Encroachment in forestlands. Agricultural plantations and small farms are encroaching
into forestlands. The destructive way of kaingin or slash and burn farming is damaging
forest areas. Residential sites are being set up in forestlands and illegal structures exist
within CADT areas.
 Illegal logging.
 Occupied and inaccessible river easements. River easements have become part of
private properties. All easement including those in urban lands have to be reclaimed.
Public access way and environmental enjoyment along rivers are constrained.
 Rapid urbanization. Coastal areas are high density but have no open public spaces.
Development projects are largely horizontal, therefore requiring large tracts of land.
Housing subdivisions and condos are mushrooming. Developers are maximizing land for
housing and restricting natural drain creeks.
 Insufficient Green Spaces in Urban Area and Lack of Forest Cover. Green spaces have to
be earmarked in subdivisions, industrial and commercial sites, and coastal barangays. In
particular, industrial development areas should have open green spaces and trees.
 Undeveloped area in Eden, Toril. There is a Reservation Area of 105 ha in Eden, Toril and
there are issues about selling of rights
 Siltation. The Davao River, from Generoso Bridge up to the silted portion of Bucana, and
all creeks need dredging.
 Problems of permeability resulting in large volumes of water runoff in urban area.
Legislation is needed to ensure permeability of the City grounds. Permeable pavements
are needed in buildings and parking spaces.
 Absence of Forest Land Use Plan (FLUP). It is high time for the City to prepare a Forest
Land Use Plan (FLUP).
 Lack of Coordination between Agencies. There is lack of coordination between the City
Government and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) regarding
development on the slopes of Shrine Hills. Boundary conflicts involving NCIP, DENR, and
DAR areas exist. There is need for harmonization between the DENR NGP and NCIP
ADSDPP Programs.
 Production forest in DENR tenurial arrangements within Agicultural Non-Tillage areas.

Objectives and Targets

1.) Declare and develop at least 20 hectares as open green park
2.) Strictly implement the Watershed Code of Davao City
3.) Promote the survival of endemic flora and fauna in the City
4.) Promote sustainable and environment-friendly economic activities

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 Table 6.2 Davao City Forests and Forestlands Issues and Concerns, Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Encroachment in forestlands  Impose requirements and clear-  Forest Land Use Plan
o Expansion of agricultural cut policy on issuance of building Formulation
plantation permits to existing structures  Management Agreements
o Encroachment of within ancestral domains areas between DENR, NCIP, IPs,
agriculture into  Minimal alteration for building and LGUs
forestlands development (10%)  Research agenda;
o Kaingin or slash and burn Regulation on
system of farming CADT/Timberland areas
o Encroachment of
residential sites
o Illegal structures existing
within CADT areas
 Illegal logging  Strong coordination between  Watershed Management
BLGU and the CENRO/ DENR Program
 Strengthening of Community  Bantay-Bukid
Forest Protection Officer through
deputation by DENR
 Occupied and inaccessible  Develop the Davao riverbank  River Easement Protection
river easements  Reclaim the easement for Program
o Need to reclaim all greening program  Davao Riverbank
easement including those  Strong coordination between Development Project
in urban lands barangay LGU and land owner  Relocation Site
o Easement have become Development
part of private properties
o Public access way and
environmental enjoyment
along rivers are
constrained
 Rapid urbanization  Enforcement of regulations to  River Easement Protection
o Coastal areas are high protect the environment Program
density but lack open  Enactment and enforcement of  Water Preservation and
public spaces City ordinance for easements Conservation Program
o Vertical building/housing along riverbanks, creeks, and  Policy agenda: Water
to give way to green open other water ways preservation and
spaces conservation ordinance
o Development projects are
largely horizontal,
therefore requiring large
tracts of land
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 Table 6.2 Davao City Forests and Forestlands Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
o Mushrooming of housing
subdivisions and condos
o Developers are
maximizing land for
housing and restricting
natural drain creeks
 Insufficient green spaces in  Draw up an ordinance  Urban Comprehensive
urban areas; lack of forest formulating the Urban Greening Program
cover Comprehensive Greening  Idle Land Inventory
o No open green spaces in Program (CGP) Project
industrial sites; industrial  Intensify massive tree  Tree Planting/Parenting
development areas planting/parenting in vacant Project
should have trees spaces or lots within urban and  Sustainable Forest
o Need for urban greening: rural areas to avoid flooding Management Program
Green spaces for  Formulate City ordinance for  Sustainable Reforestation
subdivisions, industrial households to engage in a Program for Upland Tribes
and commercial sites, greening program (1 person shall  Tree Planting/Parenting
and coastal barangays plant, grow and maintain 12 hills Project
of trees)  Forest Land Use
 Annotation of titles of open Formulation
spaces/roads in subdivisions  Land Cover Inventory
 Involve communities in forest (satellite imagery)
protection  Land Use Monitoring
 Conduct inventory/assessment of (Enforcement of 10%
forest cover Greening Area)
 Research agenda:
Requiring households and
students to plant and
grow trees
 Policy agenda: Include
annotation on specific
uses of open spaces in
titles turned over to LGU

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 Table 6.2 Davao City Forests and Forestlands Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Undeveloped area (105 ha)  Designation of a big area for open  Eden Master Development
in Eden, Toril green park Plan Formulation
o Reservation area of 105  Formulation of a master plan like  REPTAF Program
ha in Eden, Toril and the one for People’s Park  Process titling of all real
selling of rights properties owned by the
City Government and
recovery of those
properties occupied by
another person within the
City
 Siltation  Allocation of budget for  Flood Mitigation and
o Davao River, from downstream dredging Davao River Control Program
Generoso Bridge up to  Enforcement to remove  River Dredging Program
the silted portion of encroachments and dredge  River Easement Protection
Bucana, and all creeks  Application of sloping agricultural Program
need dredging technology to mitigate soil erosion  Sustainable Agriculture
 Proactive approach in addressing Development Program
siltation  Sloping Agricultural Land
Technology
 Problems of permeability  Consider an ordinance on  Policy agenda: Green
resulting to large volumes of requiring permeability in each lot infrastructure ordinance
water runoff in urban areas or property
o Legislation needed to
ensure permeability of
the city grounds
o Permeable pavements
needed in buildings and
parking spaces
 Absence of Forest Land Use  Prepare the Forest Land Use Plan  Forest Land Use Plan
Plan (FLUP) or FLUP; zoning of the forestland Formulation
o Need for the City to into Production and Protection
undergo Forest Land Use zones
Planning

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 Table 6.2 Davao City Forests and Forestlands Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Lack of coordination between  Coordination management  Policy agenda:
agencies between DPWH and City Infrastructure
o Lack of coordination regarding road expansion (e.g. Management/Partnership
regarding development Diversion Road, Magtuod) Agreement (Require DPWH
on the slopes of Shrine  Implementation of the JAO of to acquire permits and
Hills DENR, DAR, NCIP, LRA through a coordinate with LGU)
o Boundary conflicts MOA  Forest Land Use Plan
involving NCIP, DENR, and Formulation
DAR areas  Management Agreements
o Need for harmonization between DENR, NCIP, IPs,
between DENR NGP and and LGUs
NCIP ADSDPP Programs
 Production forest in DENR  Ensure harmonization in FLUP  Forest Land Use Plan
tenurial arrangements within Formulation
ANT areas

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Parks, Wildlife and Other Reservations

Issues and Concerns

Acquiring biodiversity data has always been a challenge. The City has a vast forested area as
well as uninhabited regions. Many flora and fauna have not been recorded in remote areas.

However, in the 235-hectare Malagos Protected Landscape, the DENR has made classifications
for its flora and fauna. Based on their monitoring as of April 2016, (Flora) Species Evenness is
high but the (Flora) Species Diversity is low. For fauna, diversity is measured by animal classes.

Conservation of wildlife and its habitats are essential to the survival of the local ecosystem as
well as the interaction with other ecosystems that ultimately affect human survival.

The issues that contribute to the difficulty in ensuring the sustainability of ecosystems are:
 Land conversion. Bird habitats in the City Proper are being subjected to land conversion.
There is need to identify wildlife habitats in the City Proper to identify protection
mechanisms. Land conversion is also occurring in identified watershed areas;
 Livelihood and recreation activities that extract wildlife. Trees are cut for charcoal.
Flora and fauna resources from critical watersheds are extracted for livelihood or
recreational purposes that further fuel wildlife hunting and illegal pet trade;
 Biological safety. There are poultry farms near watershed areas. There is also existing
concern whether bio-safety is being observed by petting zoos. The number of introduced
species (such as rock doves) that may affect local biodiversity and biological safety is
increasing;
 Private zoos. Private zoos operate without DENR permit and feature threatened species;
 Lack of green spaces and public parks. Green spaces/forest areas have decreased due to
development activities. There are not enough public parks and green spaces for citizens
as population increases. There are also many unutilized open spaces in residential,
commercial, and industrial areas;
 Few mangrove areas. The coastal areas from Binugao to Lasang have to be replanted
with mangroves;
 Reduction of wetlands. Natural ponds and creeks are being converted and privatized. In
some cases, natural waterways such as creeks are being converted into drainage canals
of establishments;
 Water pollution. Solid waste problems such as open dumping on vacant lots persist and
the existing sewerage and septage system is insufficient. As a result, deteriorated water
quality affects marine life;
 Introduction of invasive species which are not right for the place. Planting introduced
species that dominate over the indigenous ones. There is need for guiding principles in
tree planting activities and for parks and public places: not all shade and ornamental
trees and palms are safe; and consider planting fruit trees for birds;
 Lack of sustainable or green infrastructure;
 Inadequate awareness of youth about biodiversity.

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Objectives and Targets
1.) Declare and develop 20 hectares as open green park
2.) Stop encroachment in Timberland Areas
3.) Enhance urban greening
4.) Increase mangrove forest cover
5.) Ensure participation of all sectors in biodiversity conservation
6.) Conserve natural waterways, wetlands and wildlife habitat
7.) Reduce water pollution

Programs and Projects

1.) Biodiversity Conservation Program
 Biodiversity Index Development
 Information, Education Campaign on Biodiversity
2.) Watershed Protection and Management Program
 Bantay Bukid
3.) Mangrove Rehabilitation Program (Mangrove Replenishment Program)
 Species Specific Mangrove Tree Planting Project
 Mangrove Nursery Development Project
 Coastal Ecosystem Protection Program
4.) Coastal Easement Conservation Program
5.) Urban Comprehensive Greening Program
 Open Space Inventory Project
6.) Land Use Plan Updating
7.) Wet Land Conservation Program
8.) Water Quality Management Program
9.) Flood Mitigation and Control Program
10.) Septage Management Program
11.) Riverbank Development Project
12.) Drainage Master Planning
13.) Implementing Rules and Regulations
 Building Height Limits
 Shrine Hills
14.) Research Agenda:
 Policy Encouraging Planting of Right Species
 Policy Preventing introduction of Invasive Species
 Policy on Biological Safety / Quarantine
 Regulate or Prohibiting landfill in wetlands

Services
1.) Intensify Building Permit Inspection (regular function)
2.) Land Use Monitoring Project - (Regular Monitoring on Land Use)

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 Table 6.3 Davao City Parks, Wildlife and Other Reservations Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Land conversion  Tax incentives allocating private  Land Use Plan Updating
o Land conversion of bird lands for conservation  Land Use Monitoring
habitats in the city  Draw clear guidance for Project (regular monitoring
proper (need to identify sustainable development of land use)
wildlife habitats in the  Strictly follow land use plan of the  Policy agenda: Land
City Proper to identify City (have M&E for land use) conservation ordinance
protection mechanism)  Enforcement of IRR of Watershed  Policy agenda: Tax
o Land conversion in Code of Davao City to regulate Incentives for lands used
identified watershed land conversion for conservation
areas
 Livelihood and recreation  Strengthen implementation of RA  Watershed Protection and
that extract wildlife 9147 or Wildlife Resources Management Program
o Extraction of flora and Conservation and Protection Act  Bantay-Bukid
fauna resources from  Recognize biodiversity-friendly
critical watersheds for schools/ communities
livelihood or  Allocate budget for indigenous
recreational purposes forest guards
o Presence of wildlife  Provide assistance to concerned
hunting and illegal pet individuals/parties for alternative
trade livelihood/ opportunities
o Cutting of trees for
charcoal
 Biological safety  Fauna quarantine should be  Biodiversity Conservation
o Presence of poultry stricter; penalize violators Program
farms near watershed  Control/minimize population of  Watershed Protection and
areas feral doves especially in Management Program
o Concern whether bio- watershed areas or facilities with  Land Use Monitoring
safety is being observed endangered or threatened bird Project (regular monitoring
by petting zoos species of land use)
o Increasing number of  Review biosafety protocols of  Policy research agenda:
introduced species (such petting zoos and ensure that Policy on biological safety
as rock doves) that may biosafety procedures are followed
affect local biodiversity  Regulate the approval of poultry
and biological safety and piggery farms

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 Table 6.3 Davao City Parks, Wildlife and Other Reservations Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Private zoos  Inspect private collections for  Biodiversity Conservation
o Private zoos operate permits and compliance Program
without DENR permit  Private zoo operations have to be  Policy agenda: Regulating
and have threatened approved by the Public Safety operation of private zoos
species Office focusing on safety aspect
 Lack of green spaces and  Create more parks  Urban Comprehensive
public parks  Identify and allocate areas for Greening Program
o Reduction of green urban forests. Identify sites and  Open Space Inventory
spaces/forest areas due plan for greening activities Project
to development  Separate public parks and open  Land Use Plan Updating
o Not enough of public public spaces from cemeteries,  IRR : Building height limits,
parks and green spaces and golf courses resorts from Shrine Hills
for citizens as population parks and recreation zone  Policy agenda: Green
increases  Expropriate idle lands when infrastructure ordinance
o Unutilized open spaces necessary
(Residential,  Utilize and develop barren lots as
Commercial, and parks in the barangays
Industrial areas)  Growing trees in roadsides serves
as carbon-sink areas especially in
urban areas
 Ordinance allocating green areas
per establishment and household
 Few mangrove areas  Strict enforcement of coastal  Biodiversity Index
o Coastal areas from easement Development
Binugao to Lasang have  Identify potential mangrove areas  Mangrove Rehabilitation
to be replanted with (private and government) Program (Mangrove
mangroves  Develop a timetable for Replenishment Program)
reforesting the shores with  Species-Specific Mangrove
mangroves Tree Planting Project
 Encourage residents living along  Coastal Easement
coastal areas to plant mangroves Conservation Program
 Reduction of wetlands  Conduct inventory and  Wetlands Conservation
o Conversion and assessment of urban wetlands Program
privatization of natural  Prohibit landfilling or conversion  Watershed Protection and
ponds and creeks of urban wetlands Management Program
o Conversion of natural  Strict easement regulations of  IRR: Shrine Hills
waterways (creeks) into establishments near urban
drainage canals wetlands
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 Table 6.3 Davao City Parks, Wildlife and Other Reservations Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Prioritize importance of ponds in  Policy research agenda:
UEE (i.e., Shrine Hills: Royal Pines Regulation of filling in of
Pond and Langub Pond) wetlands
 Develop incentives for private  Policy agenda: Land
landowners regarding wetlands contour and level
conservation preservation
 Set up a proper drainage system  Policy agenda: Wetlands
to fully utilize and conserve conservation ordinance
wetlands
 Water pollution  Strict enforcement of Septage and  Water Quality
o Solid waste problems Sewerage Ordinance Management Program
such as open dumping  Strict implementation of Solid  Flood Mitigation and
on vacant lots Waste Management Ordinance Control Program
o Deterioration of water  Strengthen implementation of  Septage Management
quality affecting marine proper solid waste management Program
life through sustainable involvement  Intensify building permit
o Insufficient City-wide of barangays inspection (regular
sewerage and septage  Implement the 3-chamber septic function)
system tank approach  Riverbank Development
 Strict guidelines for waste disposal Project
for poultry farms or factories (i.e.,
no dumping of waste in river
systems)
 Construction of sewerage
treatment facilities in markets,
particularly public ones
 Develop catchment area for water
treatment before disposal
 Intensify the planting of
Indigenous trees along riverbanks
 Introduction of invasive  Produce a recommended list or  Biodiversity Conservation
species; species are not right manual of native tree species that Program
for the place are allowed for planting in urban  Biodiversity Index
o Planting introduced areas Development
species that dominate  Conduct Biodiversity Inventory  Policy research agenda:
the indigenous ones Encouraging planting of
right species

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 Table 6.3 Davao City Parks, Wildlife and Other Reservations Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
o Need for guiding  A Policy preventing
principles in tree introduction of invasive
planting activities and species
for parks and public
places: not all shade and
ornamental trees and
palms are safe; consider
planting fruit trees for
birds
 Lack of sustainable or green  Formulate policy on green  Flood Mitigation and
infrastructure infrastructure Control Program
 Use appropriate technologies  Riverbank Protection
such as permeable approaches (Infrastructure)
(e.g., gabions, fiber/coco net) and  Drainage Projects
riprap in riverbank management; (Infrastructure)
identify creeks and canals that  Drainage Master Planning
need stabilization  Policy agenda: Green
 Urban greening in high-rise infrastructure ordinance
buildings and vegetation farming
 Permeable paving systems to be
used in public parks pedestrians
and parking spaces
 Prioritize sustainable drainage
systems; develop more retention
ponds and trenches
 Inadequate Awareness of  Conduct IEC on the importance of  Biodiversity Conservation
Youth about Biodiversity flora and fauna; provide posters Program
and signages  Information and education
 Promote biodiversity awareness in campaign on biodiversity
all schools in Davao City;  Policy agenda: Recommend
revitalization of Youth for to LSB to include
Environment in School biodiversity in school
Organization (YES-O) curriculum
programs/clubs in schools
 Review DepEd programs on
teaching biodiversity
 Conduct scheduled urban bird-
watching in identified bird habitat
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Water Resources and Water Quality

Issues and Concerns

There are six (6) rivers in Davao City being monitored by the DENR-EMB: Davao, Talomo,
Lipadas, Matina, Bunawan and Lasang. During the monitoring period from 2011-2015, all the
rivers monitored have annual averages for Dissolved Oxygen (DO) and Biochemical Oxygen
Demand (BOD) within the normal standards of the DENR. However, the levels of total coliform
are quite noteworthy, especially in the downstream portions of these rivers. These can be
attributed to both solid waste and wastewater from the urban settlement areas of the City.
Heavy rains also cause erosion, which contribute to the accumulation of suspended solids in the
rivers.

The quality of water has been a source of pride of the City, where it recognized the following
issues and concerns in the aim of achieving clean water throughout the City:
 Clarity on buffer zone and easement. The buffer zone is poorly implemented. There is a
need for a common definition and measurements to guide actual implementation. Illegal
quarrying on riverbanks also occurs;
 Pollution from agricultural activities. Measures to mitigate agricultural runoffs such as
chemical fertilizers and pesticides are inadequate. Soil erosion from inappropriate
agricultural activities contributes siltation;
 Water resource zone sites. Aquifer locations or water resource zone sites have to be
identified. Detailed scientific data on aquifers is lacking;
 Unmonitored and unregulated extraction of ground water (e.g., Dumoy).
 Illegal fishing. Illegal and destructive fishing activities are causing damages;
 Deteriorating water quality of surface water. Open defecation along riverbank has
been noted in areas dominated by informal settlers. Backyard hog farming has also been
observed. The lack of septage and sewerage treatment facilities, partial implementation
of the Septage and Sewerage Ordinance, and waste water disposal by vactor trucks
account for the increase in fecal coliform;
 Enforcement of Watershed Code. Ground delineation in relation to the Watershed Code
implementation needs to resume;
 Lack of fish sanctuary or MPA in Davao City. There is need for fish sanctuaries or marine
protected areas (MPAs) to rehabilitate marine resources in the City;
 Limited resources in environmental enforcement. The LGU and government agencies
have limited resources to enforce laws and implement programs. Although the
Environmental Tax could potentially be a source, Utilization Guidelines need to be
developed by the Watershed Management Council;
 Weak information and education campaign on water pollution and conservation;
 Poor monitoring and regulation of pesticide use in agriculture activities, particularly in
plantations;
 No facility and laboratory for water analysis. The City lacks the capability to conduct
water analysis. Laboratory facilities for water analysis are absent;
 Lack of technical qualitative and quantitative data on groundwater sources.

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Objectives and Targets
1.) Ensure the strict compliance of all industries on the provisions of the Clean Water Act
2.) Adopt mechanisms that are consistent with the National Sewerage and Septage
Management Program of national government.
3.) Ensure the strict compliance of all stakeholders on the provisions of the Septage and
Sewerage Ordinance
4.) Ensure treatment of wastewater
5.) Conserve and protect the city’s groundwater and its recharge areas
6.) Constantly monitor water quality of all rivers of the city
7.) Improve quality of surface water
8.) Promote equitable / rational use of coastal waters
9.) Protect and conserve marine life
10.) Increase mangrove forest cover
11.) Preserve river and coastal easement areas
12.) Promote sustainable and environment-friendly economic activities

Programs and Projects

1.) Management Agreement - (NWRB, DENR, LGU,DCWD)
2.) Integrated Water Resources Management Program
3.) Watershed Management Program
 Capacity Building
 Monitoring of Activities in Watershed Areas
 Ground Delineation Project
 Watershed Management Plan Formulation(per WS)
4.) Small Water Impounding System Development
5.) Riverbank Development Project
6.) River Easement Protection Program
 Seminar/Writeshop on Buffer Zones & Easements
7.) Coastal Easement Conservation Program
8.) Coastal Zoning
9.) Coastal Resource Management Program
 Fishery Law Enforcement Program
 Enforcement, Surveillance, Patrol (regular function)
 Bantay-Dagat
 Establishment of Artificial Reefs
 Coastal Pollution Control & Monitoring Program
10.) MPA Management Plan Formulation
11.) Fishery Law Enforcement Program

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12.) Water Quality Management Program
 Natural Filtration Sewerage System
 Bantay Suba Project
 IEC on Water Quality
 Communication Plan Formulation
 Water Quality Monitoring Project
 Water Analysis Laboratory/ Facility
13.) Septage Management Program
 Desludgers Monitoring
 Septage / Sewerage Treatment Plants
 Community Waste Water Treatment Systems
14.) Resettlement/ Relocation Program
 Land Acquisition
 Development
15.) Mangrove Rehabilitation Program (Mangrove Replenishment Program)
 Species Specific Mangrove Tree Planting Project
 Mangrove Nursery Development Project
 Coastal Ecosystem Protection Program
16.) Water Sources Inventory (Level I and II)
17.) Lobby for Davao Gulf Management Body
18.) IRR / Guidelines for Environmental Tax Usage
19.) Land Use Plan Updating
20.) Research Agenda:
 Soil and Water Conservation Technologies in Farming
 Hydrologic Study / Hydro-geologic Study
 Wastewater Management Research

Services
1.) Land Use Monitoring Project - (Regular Monitoring on Land Use)

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 Table 6.4 Davao City Water Resources and Water Quality Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Clarity on buffer zone and  Writeshops and consultations on  Seminar/Writeshop on
easement (definition and the definition and distance of buffer zones and
distance) buffer zones easements
o Illegal quarrying on  Organize and capacitate Bantay-  Riverbank Development
riverbanks Suba Project
o Poor implementation  Improve coordination between  Water Quality
of buffer zone BLGU and CENRO on quarrying Management Program
o Buffer zone  Bantay-Suba Project
implementation issues
include common
definition,
measurements, actual
implementation
 Pollution from agricultural  Adoption of LGU compliance  Water Quality
activities scheme on Water Quality Management Program
o Lack of mitigation Management Area (WQMA)  Small Water Impounding
measures  Strict implementation of good System Development
 Agricultural agricultural practice (GAP) and  Sustainable Agriculture
runoff promotion of organic farming Development Program
(pesticides)  Introduction of rainwater  High Value Crop
o Soil erosion and harvesting/micro-catchment in Development
siltation agricultural farming  Watershed Management
 Review/Refile the Ban Aerial Spray Program
ordinance and consider  Research agenda: Soil and
parameters issued by the water conservation
Supreme Court technologies in farming
 Use of bioremediation by  Policy agenda: Review and
introducing microorganisms into refile Aerial Spray Ban
the soil that break down taking into consideration
contaminants the parameters issued by
the Supreme Court

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 Table 6.4 Davao City Water Resources and Water Quality Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Water resource zone sites  Review and implement Water  Management Agreement
o Aquifer location - water Resources Management among NWRB, DENR, LGU,
resource zone sites Ordinance of 2001 (Water Code) and DCWD
o Lack of detailed  Conduct coordination meetings to  Policy agenda: Water Code
scientific data on harmonize water resource policies of 2001 review and
aquifers (NWRB, DENR, LGU and DCWD) amendment
 Obtain information from DCWD or  Research agenda:
NWRB on the major aquifers in Hydrologic study/Hydro-
Davao City geologic study
 Unmonitored/Unregulated  Conduct inspection and  Water Sources Inventory
extraction of ground water evaluation and submit report to (Level I and II)
(e.g., Dumoy) concerned agencies  Management Agreement
 Coordination meeting of among NWRB, DENR, LGU,
government agencies and discuss and DCWD
concerns (DENR, EMB, DA, FPA
and LGU)
 Coordination between BLGU and
CEO on springs
 Illegal fishing  Strengthen law enforcement  Coastal zoning
o Destructive fishing activities  Coastal Resource
activities  Strengthen IEC activities on laws, Management Program
importance of marine and coastal  Fishery Law Enforcement
ecosystem/habitats Program
 Capacitate and support Bantay-  Enforcement, surveillance
Dagat and patrol (regular
 Identify fishing and non-fishing function)
zones  Bantay-Dagat
 Use of modern technology in
patrolling waters
 Deteriorating water quality of  Strictly implement Septage and  Resettlement/Relocation
surface water Sewerage Ordinance (e.g., Program : Land Acquisition
o Presence of informal communal toilets, septage and Development
settlers treatment facility, and compliance  Water Quality
o Increase fecal coliform desludgers) Management Program
o Open defecation along  Relocation of informal settlers  Bantay-Suba Program
riverbank   Natural Filtration Sewerage
o Septage and sewerage System
system  IEC
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 Table 6.4 Davao City Water Resources and Water Quality Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
o Partial implementation of  Provision of community based  Septage Management
Septage and Sewerage technologies for Domestic Program
Ordinance Wastewater Treatment (DOST  Desludgers Monitoring
o Backyard hog farming Helophyte Filtration Sewerage  Septage and Sewerage
o Domestic wastewater System) Treatment Plants
o Lack of septage and  Adoption of LGU compliance  Community wastewater
sewerage treatment scheme (WQMA) treatment systems
facilities from various  Strict monitoring of desludgers in
sources proper management of collected
o Waste disposal waste
o Waste water disposal by  Educate informal settlers about
vactor trucks the improper waste disposal and
its effects on the environment
that could affect their health
 Enforcement of Watershed  Ensure continued capacity  Watershed Management
Code building of WMC by conducting Program
o Resumption of Ground monitoring research, annual  Capacity building
Delineation learning, etc.  Monitoring of activities in
 Coordinate with watershed watershed areas
stakeholders for implementation  Ground Delineation Project
and monitoring of Watershed  Watershed Management
Code Plan Formulation (per
watershed)
 Lack of fish sanctuary or  Conduct assessment on status of  Fishery Law Enforcement
marine protected areas coral reefs, seagrasses, and Program
(MPAs) in Davao City mangroves  Coastal Resource
 Declare suitable areas intended Management Program
for fish sanctuary/ marine  Establishment of Artificial
protected area (MPAs) Reefs
 Capacitate fisherfolk/other  MPA Management Plan
stakeholder in the management of Formulation
fish sanctuary/MPA  Re-constitute Davao Gulf
 Develop comprehensive MPA Management Council
Management Plans
 Establishment of artificial reefs

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 Table 6.4 Davao City Water Resources and Water Quality Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Limited resources in  Utilize environmental tax and  Watershed Management
environmental enforcement access other sources of funds for Program
o LGU and government WMC programs and projects  IRR/Guidelines for
agencies have limited  Conduct study on payment for Environmental Tax Usage
resources to enforce laws environmental services (PES)  Policy agenda: Payment for
and implement programs  Craft rules and implement same environmental services
o Need for Environmental regarding penalty/violation fees ordinance
Tax Utilization Guidelines  EPIRA provision IR 94
from the Watershed
Management Council
 Weak information and  Adoption of LGU compliance  Coastal Resource
education campaign on water scheme Management Program
pollution and conservation  Integration of environmental  Water Quality
education in academic curricula Management Program
 Production of IEC material (video  IEC on water quality
and print ads)  Communication plan
 Develop communication plan and formulation
provide budget
 Poor monitoring and  Incorporate role of monitoring  Watershed Management
regulation of pesticide use in pesticide use to assigned Program
plantation/ agriculture Multipartite Monitoring Team  Land Use Plan Updating
(MMT) for agricultural  Land Use Monitoring
plantations Project (regular monitoring
 Establish monitoring mechanisms of land use)
for land use
 Monitor and inspect plantations
and farming activities near water
bodies
 No facility and laboratory for  Establish laboratory facilities for  Water Quality
water analysis water analysis (endorse the need Management Program
o Absence of laboratory for a laboratory facility to the SP  Water Analysis Laboratory
facilities for water for appropriation) and Facility
analysis
o Lack of capability for
the City to conduct
water analysis

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 Table 6.4 Davao City Water Resources and Water Quality Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Lack of technical  Conduct groundwater/geological  Research agenda:
groundwater sources (quality survey/hydrology study Hydrologic or hydro-
and quantity) geologic study

Solid Waste Management (SWM)

Issues and Concerns

In 2015, there was an average of 1,733 cubic meters of solid waste collected and disposed by
the City. This is a significant increase of 36.15% from 2014. This is attributed to the growing
number of residents in Davao City and the increase in tourist arrivals with an average stay of 3.5
days to four (4) days.

In terms of solid waste characterization, majority of the wastes are biodegradable (63%).
Recyclable wastes account for 16% of all wastes generated while residuals account for 20%. The
City is currently operating a Sanitary Landfill Facility, where all solid wastes are disposed.

A total of 32,000 garbage bins distributed throughout the City are collected by 28 trucks
alongside private haulers. Biodegradable waste is also processed by the City through the
operation of a composting facility that can process five (5) tons of biodegradable waste every
month. For recyclable wastes, there are 14 barangays that have established material recovery
facilities.

The City considers solid waste management as a priority, not only in compliance to R.A. 9003
but also to protect the constituents from the harmful health effects of doing otherwise. Below
are the issues and concerns that contribute to the potential harm to people:
 Weak appreciation of solid waste management. There is a weak appreciation of solid
waste management in part due to lack of information and education campaigns. There is
little understanding of special wastes and increased wastes from schools have been
noted.
 Generation of excess food. Buffet or eat-all-you-can restaurants and other
establishments generate a lot of food wastes.
 Poor waste segregation. Wastes are generally not segregated. There is a mountain of
unsegregated waste at landfill site.
 Disposal of expired food. The City has noted that voluminous expired food is being
disposed as part of regular wastes.

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  Outdated Solid Waste Management Plan. There is need to align the 10-year Solid Waste
Management Plan of Davao with the Comprehensive Development Plan
 Weak enforcement and monitoring at the barangay level. SWM is poorly implemented
at the barangay level. Many subdivisions and institutions lack materials for recovery
facilities (MRFs).
 Budget issues. There is a need for bigger budget for SWM equipment, particularly for
wastes disposal operations.
 Lack of recycling and no upcycling. Recycling facilities are lacking and there are no
upcycling industries.
 Lack of composting facilities. Composting facilities are limited and cannot accommodate
all wastes collected.
 Mismanagement of sanitary landfill. Open dumping is being practiced at the Davao City
Sanitary Landfill, which is already full and receiving mixed waste. MRFs are intended to
reduce the volume of wastes disposed in the landfill but there are not enough MRFs and
many are not functional.
 Lack of hazardous wastes treatment, storage and disposal facility. Special wastes are
not handled appropriately and not tracked. There are no local treatment service
providers for hazardous wastes.
 Policy-related Issues. The establishment of a Waste Management Zone for TSD, SLF,
MRF and compositing facilities has been recommended. The influx of imported products
in Styrofoam/PPE packaging and generation of plastics from establishments have been
noted, and has to be addressed via a campaign to ban plastics. Concern has been raised
about the disposal of diapers, sachets, and unsold ukay-ukay or second-hand goods, and
the ill-effects on marine life of released rubber balloons. Electronic wastes and
biowastes management also require local policy action. Opposition has also been
expressed to waste-to-energy initiatives.

Objectives and Targets

1.) Increase awareness on solid waste management principles and practices to constituents
2.) Strengthen capacity of communities (at the barangay level) in solid waste management
3.) Maximize or extend the use/life of the sanitary landfill
4.) Adopt new technologies on solid waste management
5.) Fully and strongly implement the Davao City Ecological Solid Waste Management
Ordinance
6.) Identify and reduce accordingly the amount of toxic waste disposed by industrial entities
7.) Reduce waste disposed at source, particularly residual waste
8.) Maximize use of SWM equipment and facilities through rational utilization
9.) Recognize and promote recycling as a means of livelihood

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 Programs and Projects
1.) Solidwaste Management Program:
 Strengthening of Barangay Solidwaste Management;
 Barangay MRF Establishment;
 Livelihood Program – Recycling through handicraft making;
 Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility for Hazardous Waste;
 Expired Food Management;
2.) Solidwaste Management Plan Updating;
3.) Waste Characterization Project;
4.) Materials Recovery Facility Program;
 Junkshop Registration;
 (New) Central Materials Recovery Facility Project;
5.) Coastal Clean-up Program;
6.) (New) Sanitary Landfill Project;
7.) Sanitary Landfill Facility Rehabilitation;
 Enhancement of SLF Wastewater Treatment Facility;
 Procurement of Equipment;
8.) Waste-to-Energy Project;
9.) Sewerage and Septage Management Program;
10.) Updating of Land Use Plan.
11.) Research Agenda:
 Disposal of Biodegradable waste at HH level;
 Manufacturer Buy-Back Scheme.

Activities
1.) Information, Education Campaign-IEC (barangays, communities)
2.) IEC on Toxic Waste
3.) Enjoin Food Association in Self-Policing on Excess Waste

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 Table 6.5 Davao City Solid Waste Management Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Weak appreciation of solid  Activate the network of eco-  Solid Waste Management
waste management schools and conduct training for Program
o Lack of IEC especially on the barangay and purok level  Barangay IEC
special wastes  Yearly IECs at the purok level  Community IEC
o Increased waste from  Regular IEC for schools,  IEC on Toxic Waste
schools subdivisions and informal settlers’
areas
 Regular IEC especially on toxic
waste
 Generation of food wastes  Weight or volume-dependent  Solid Waste Management
from buffet or eat-all-you-can garbage fees Program
restaurants and other  Encourage local food and  Enjoin food and restaurant
establishments restaurant associations to address associations to self-police
issues on food waste about excess waste
 Solid Waste Management
Plan Updating
 Policy agenda: Revenue
Code and SWM Ordinance
amendments so that
garbage fees would be
based on weight or
volume
 Poor waste segregation  Strengthen implementation of  Solid Waste Management
o Generally no waste segregation at source and Program
segregation segregation collection;  IEC
o Mountain of implement the “No Segregation,  Strengthening of Barangay
unsegregated waste at No Collection” policy Solid Waste Management
landfill site  Popularize/Make CLAYGO (CLean  Policy agenda: CLean as
as You GO) and segregation a You GO (CLAYGO)
part of Davao culture Ordinance
 Organization and reorganization
of barangay IEC and deputized
enforcers; barangay officials to
ensure proper segregation

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 Table 6.5 Davao City Solid Waste Management Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Disposal of voluminous  Formulation and implementation  Solid Waste Management
expired food of expired food management Program
 Recommend to DOH BFAD and DTI  Expired Food Management
the development and  Solid Waste Management
implementation of a “You Plan Updating
manufacture it, you dispose it”  Policy agenda: Revenue
policy Code and SWM Ordinance
 Require companies to make their amendments so that
own composting or disposal sites garbage fees would be
 Explore a weight or volume- based on weight or volume
dependent garbage fees; special
waste
 Outdated Solid Waste  Waste analysis and  Waste Characterization
Management Plan characterization study every 2 Project
o Need to align the 10- years  Solid Waste Management
year Solid Waste  Updating of Solid Waste Plan Updating
Management Plan of Management Plan regularly
Davao with the
Comprehensive
Development Plan
 Lack of enforcement and  Barangay officials to strictly  Solid Waste Management
monitoring at the barangay implement proper segregation Program: Strengthening of
level and disposal of wastes Barangay Solid Waste
o Non-implementation  Require each barangay or a cluster Management and Barangay
of SWM at barangay of barangays to have their own MRF Establishment
level MRFs (Material Recovery Facility)  Livelihood Program
o Weak enforcement  Establish Community Solid Waste (Recycling through
and monitoring Enforcers and Educators Teams handicraft making)
o Institutionalize  Build citizen’s monitoring of  Coastal Clean-up Program
Barangay Solid Waste garbage
Management  Provision of incentives for citizens
Committee and barangays that perform well
o Lack of MRFs in in solid waste management
subdivisions and  Strong coordination between
institutions BLGU and CENRO
 Pursue regular coastal clean-up
 Functional composting facilities to
address market waste
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 Table 6.5 Davao City Solid Waste Management Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Budget issues  Prioritize SWM equipment in the  Solid Waste Management
o Lack of Solid Waste budgets Program
Management (SWM)  Implement a sticker/bag  Solid Waste Management
equipment collection-based approach to Plan Updating
o Need for bigger budget garbage fee
for solid waste  Allocate budget per barangay for
management solid waste management, possibly
from disaster funds
 Lack of recycling facilities and  Require manufacturer/producers  Solid Waste Management
no upcycling industries to have a buy-back or collection Program
scheme, especially for bottles and  Materials Recovery Facility
sachets Program
 Implement a Junkshop  Junkshop Registration
Registration System  Research agenda:
Manufacturer buy-back
scheme
 Limited composting facilities,  Ensure functionality of  Solid Waste Management
which cannot accommodate composting facility to cater to Program
all wastes collected market wastes  Solid Waste Management
 CENRO should increase Plan Updating
composting sites  Research agenda: Disposal
 Promote at-source segregation or of biodegradable waste at
disposal household level
 Establish partnership with private
firms that have organic farming
practices
 Develop marketing strategy for
compost products
 Mismanagement of Sanitary  Rehabilitation of existing SLF  Sanitary Landfill Facility
Landfill  Find new location of SLF with MRF Rehabilitation
o Open dumping at the (away from water bodies)  Enhancement of SLF
Davao City Sanitary  Issuance of citation ticket for Wastewater Treatment
Landfill (SLF) mixed wastes deposited at SLF Facility
o SLF is already full and  Pollution control officer should be  Procurement of Equipment
receiving mixed wastes present at the SLF site to address  (New) Sanitary Landfill
problems immediately Project

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 Table 6.5 Davao City Solid Waste Management Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
o Lack of equipment for  Redesign and implementation of  (New) Central Materials
operation in wastes integrated waste management Recovery Facility Project
disposal  Waste-to-Energy Project  Waste-to-Energy Project
o Lack of MRF to reduce  Sewer system for toxins where  Sewerage and Septage
volume disposed in SLF they can be retained, incinerated Management Program
or converted into fertilizer
 Lack of hazardous wastes  Build a treatment, storage, and  Solid Waste Management
treatment, storage and disposal (TSD) facility for Program: Treatment,
disposal facility hazardous waste owned and Storage and Disposal
o Zero handling/trucking managed by Davao City Facility for Hazardous
of special wastes Waste
o Lack of local treatment
service provider for
hazardous wastes
 Policy-related issues  Establish Waste Management  Update Land Use Plan
o Waste Management Zone in strategic places outside  Land Use Monitoring
Zone for TSD, SLF, MRF SLF site Project - (regular
& composting  Tax one-time use products (e.g., monitoring on land use)
o Influx of imported straws, diapers, sachets)  Policy agenda: Solid Waste
products in  Regulate the use of disposable Ordinance updating,
Styrofoam/PPE materials in dine-in restaurants reusable market bags, tax
packaging  Declare Davao City a CLAYGO City on one-time use products,
o Ban plastics  Promote “bayong” for markets electronic waste
o Disposal of diapers & and supermarkets; discourage the management, and CLean as
sachets use of plastic bags You Go (CLAYGO)
o Release of balloons  Formulation and implementation Ordinance
o How are unsold ukay- of toxic hazardous waste (THW)
ukay/second-hand Ordinance
goods disposed?  Encourage electronic
o Generation of plastics manufacturers to collect used/old
from establishments cellphones, etc.
o Lack of e-wastes
management
o Policy issue of biowaste
management
o Restaurants should not
use disposables
o No to waste-to-energy
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Mineral Lands

Issues and Concerns

The City has an ordinance banning the mining of metallic minerals like gold and copper.
However, non-metallic minerals like limestone, sand and gravel are exempted from the
ordinance.

Large scale production is registered with the DENR-MGB while extraction is regulated by the
City Mining Regulatory Board. From 2010-2015, there was a registered 20% increase in
production of sand and gravel and 24% for earthfill.

But even though mining activities in the City are smaller in volume, there are still issues and
concerns needed to be addressed:
 Illegal quarrying activities continue to exist. There are no permits or activities
conducted outside of permit area;
 Deteriorating condition of the environment after mining activities are conducted.

Objectives and Targets

1.) Ensure rehabilitation of mined lands
2.) Ensure constant monitoring of quarried lands

Programs and Projects

1.) Riverbank Development Project
2.) Watershed Management Program
3.) Information-Education Campaign on Impacts of Excessive Quarrying
4.) Mining Operations Monitoring
5.) Monitoring of implementation of the Mine Rehabilitation and Decommissioning Plan of
Mineral Production Sharing Agreements

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 Table 6.6 Davao City Mineral Lands Issues and Concerns, Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies, Programs/Projects,

Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Illegal quarrying (no permits  Enhance monitoring mechanism  Riverbank Development
or outside of permit area) (with barangays) Project
 Improve coordination between  Mining Operations
BLGU and CENRO on quarrying Monitoring
 Intensify IEC on areas where  Watershed Management
quarrying in prohibited Program
 IEC
 Deteriorating condition after  Rehabilitation of mined lands by  Monitoring of
mining of lands proponent/miner implementation of the
Mine Rehabilitation and
Decommissioning Plan of
MPSAs

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Climate Change

Issues and Concerns

 Contamination of Water Resources and Water Shortage. The changes in climate

conditions threaten the quality and supply of water resource in the City. Contamination
of fresh water resources can be possible with salt water intrusion as a result of
increasing sea surface temperature and sea level rise. Garbage disposal in water bodies
aggravates this situation especially with the encroachment of informal settlements in
the protected buffer zones. Moreover, increasing risks to the source of water supply is
attributed to seepage of polluted water into groundwater reservoirs which not only
affects source of drinking water but also agricultural production. Meanwhile, severe
erosion and surface run-off from upland will pollute the freshwater resources such as
rivers and lakes.
 Ground Water Depletion. Threat to ground water depletion is also present due to over-
extraction of ground water resources and salt water intrusion to aquifers and water
reservoirs. Unregulated ground water extraction that can also be attributed to rampant
illegally operating deep wells and poor enforcement of the Water Code predominantly
in some communities in District II and III, affects the supply of water for the whole City.
Groundwater depletion increases the risk to land subsidence, with low elevation coastal
zones being the most vulnerable areas.
 Decreased Forest Cover and Vegetation. More intense rainfall is expected to trigger
heavy soil erosion in the upland areas of Davao and Lasang Watershed, which has been
identified to be very sensitive to these changing climate conditions due to unhealthy
state of its environment. With the head waters of Davao River spanning from Marilog up
to Bukidnon, encroachment into protected watersheds and the forest denudation in
Bukidnon increases the risk to flash flood in the City. The decreasing forest cover implies
a reduced capacity of the forest ecosystem, which serves as the carbon sink, to
sequester greenhouse gas emissions.
 Severe Erosion and Heavy Siltation. Impacts of climate change to land use are relative
to local planning changes or development which shall respond to the trans-boundary
nature of climate change. Severe and frequent soil erosion and river siltation shall lead
to river backflow and more intense riverine flooding events. Barangays in the districts of
Marilog, Baguio, Toril, and Calinan are among the landslide prone watershed/protected
areas.
 Increased Incidence of Forest Fires. As a result of increased temperature or long, severe
and frequent droughts, there can be increased incidence of forest fires particularly in
upland areas of the City. All these challenges will result to disruption or loss of habitat
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 Objectives and Targets
1.) Minimize saltwater intrusion and increase water yield to ensure water security
2.) Increase resilience of marine resources to climate change impacts
3.) Enhance capacity to monitor sea level rise
4.) Improve air quality and promote renewable energy
5.) Enhance, increase vegetation or forest cover
6.) Enhance solid waste management

Programs and Projects

1.) Integrated Water Resources Management
2.) Watershed Management Program
3.) Coastal Resource Management Program
4.) Environmental Management Program
5.) Water Quality Management Program
6.) Mangrove Rehabilitation Program (Mangrove Replenishment Program)
7.) Disaster Risk Reduction Program
8.) DRR Community Planning
9.) Community-Based Monitoring System
10.) Relocation of informal settlers
11.) Early Warning System Project
12.) Coastal Easement Conservation Program
13.) Biodiversity Conservation Program
14.) Clean Energy Program
15.) Water Conservation Management Program
16.) Small Water Impounding System Project (SWIS)
17.) Community-based monitoring system of saltwater intrusion
18.) Coastal Pollution Control and Monitoring Program
19.) CLUP with Coastal Water Use
20.) Identification and declaration of additional Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
21.) Sea-level Rise Monitoring Program

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INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Institutional Development Plan is concerned with strengthening the capability of the City
Government to plan and manage the development of the local government unit.

It covers the following sub-sectors: organization and management, fiscal management, LGU-
NGO-PO linkages and legislative output.

7.1 Institutional Development Goal

To accelerate the City Government’s level of responsiveness in exercising its mandate with the
convergence of competent bureaucracy, committed leadership and active citizenry capable of
generating appropriate public financial resources for rational and effective utilization in all
aspects of administration and development.

Institutional Development Overall Strategies

Aside from sub-sector specific measures, the City Government will employ the following overall
strategies to strengthen public administration and local governance:
 Strengthen and improve LGU systems and processes such as payroll, document tracking,
collection, planning, and monitoring, among others;
 Forge partnership agreements and collaborative linkages with civil society and the
private sector that would enable the LGU to improve on its delivery of services;
 Effectively exercise its regulatory powers through appropriate policy instruments that
are prepared with inputs from the public and experts.

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7.2 Sub-Sector Priorities

Organization and Management

Issues and Concerns

 Core values of the City Government have not yet been formulated.
 Need to improve LGU competency in human resource (HR) management practices.
 There is increasing demand for better public service.
 Personnel benefits issues. Personnel benefits are inadequate, particularly those in
barangays. The need for health insurance, medical and dental assistance of the
workforce have to be met. The amount of cash award given to departments/offices and
employees who are recipients of national, regional and local awards is perceived as
minimal, so as the amount provided to recipients of service awards for retirees.
 Facilities and equipment are Inadequate or outdated.
 There is need for office spaces to rehabilitate existing offices spaces.
 An efficient monitoring system has to be set in place.
 The document/records management system must be made efficient.
 Government-owned real properties and assets have to be managed better.

Objectives and Targets

1.) To ensure a functional organizational structure and pattern in the local government.
2.) To continuously improve the skills and competence of the City Government’s human
resources and its working conditions.
3.) To establish resiliency among the City Government work force.
4.) To bring the City Government’s administrative and development activities closer to the
communities, thus, broadening the scope of the City’s engagement.
Programs and Projects
 Creation of a special body to draft the Core Values of the City Government.
 Human Resource Management Development Plan
 Competency profiling for all positions.
 Competency-based learning and development
 Capability Building Program
 Re-engineering/Reorganization of the organizational structure
 Personnel Benefits Program to include health insurance/medical and dental assistance
 Innovative Incentives Program
 Equipment Modernization Program
 Work Space Optimization Program
 Establishment of a Government Complex/Center
 Building Permit Monitoring Activity
 Document Tracking System
 Inventory of government-owned land/real properties

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 Table 7.1 Davao City Organization and Management Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Core values of the City  Draft and finalize the Core Values  Creation of a special body
Government not yet of the City Government to draft the Core Values of
formulated the City Government
 Improve competency in  Integrate competency-based  Human Resource
human resource (HR) human resource management Management Development
management practices practices in all HR components Plan
 Competency Profiling for
all positions
 Competency-Based
Learning and Development
 Capability Building
Program
 Increasing demand for better  Create new plantilla positions and  Reengineering or
public service collapse outdated or irrelevant Reorganization of the City
positions to address the gap Government organizational
 Strengthen mechanism on structure
monitoring relative to
department/office compliance to
the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA)
requirements and
implementation
 Creation of new
departments/sections
 Properly define functions and
responsibilities of offices
 Establish balance between
workload vs. workforce
 Payroll System must be integrated
in the functions of the Human
Resource Management Office and
other concerned offices
 Simplify process flow of
documents (payrolls to be
handled by HRMO, procurement
to be handled by the City General
Services Office, and the like)
 Lean and mean staffing pattern
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 Table 7.1 Davao City Organization and Management Issues and Concerns,
Strategies, and PPSAs, Cont.

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Personnel benefits issues  Increase budgetary allocation for  Personnel Benefits
o Inadequate personnel Personnel Benefits Program Program to include Health
benefits, including those  Conduct benchmarking to other insurance/medical and
City-paid assigned in the LGUs dental assistance (Health
barangays  Awards/Incentives for Barangay Maintenance Organization)
o Need for health Workers to be charged against  Innovative Incentives
insurance or medical barangay funds Program
and dental assistance
o Minimal amount of cash
award given to
departments/offices and
individual employees
who are recipients of
national, regional and
local awards
o Minimal amount of
service awards for
retirees
 Inadequate facilities and  Increase budgetary allocation for  Equipment Modernization
outdated equipment additional equipment and Program
facilities
 Need for office spaces to  Evaluation of space requirements  Work Space Optimization
rehabilitate existing offices of offices to improve working Program
spaces conditions  Establishment of a
 Actual need for workspace of the Government
human resource Complex/Center
 Need for efficient monitoring  Evaluate existing monitoring  Building Permit Monitoring
system in place systems and processes in place to Activity
increase efficiency
 Institutionalize Barangay
Monitoring System
 Need for efficient  Evaluate and improve document  Document tracking system
document/records tracking system in place
management
 Need for government-owned  Evaluate uses of existing  Inventory of government-
assets management government-owned properties owned properties

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Fiscal Management

Issues and Concerns

There are issues and concerns that are affecting the ability of the LGU to generate local revenue
and resources and cater to the requirements of its internal clients, the Barangay LGUs and City
Hall employees, which include:
 Insufficient number of collection stations limiting access of the paying public;
 Insufficient mobility in the monitoring of the implementation of the Local Revenue
Code;
 Need for a data integration system to generate real-time information online;
 Need to improve the Barangay Finance System;
 Need to improve services to employees.

Objectives and Targets

1.) To draw extensive support from the public for the City Government’s resource generation
activities
2.) To increase resource generation of the City Government and rationalize the allocation of
funds

Programs and Projects

1.) Electronic Real Property Tax Payment System
2.) Electronic Payment System for other taxes, fees, charges and impositions due to the
City Government
3.) Partnership agreement with established collection and payment centers (e.g., SM, Western
Union, 7-11, and banks, among others)
4.) Efficiency Monitoring Program
5.) Comprehensive Connectivity Program including capability building for personnel assigned to
operate the system
6.) Executive Information System
7.) Barangay Accounting Information System Strengthening Program
8.) Barangay Budget Monitoring System
9.) Improve existing programs/systems in place

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 Table 7.2 Davao City Fiscal Management Issues and Concerns, Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Insufficient number of  Forge partnership agreement with  Electronic Real Property
collection stations limiting established collection outlets (e.g. Tax Payment System
access of the paying public SM malls, bayad centers),  Electronic Payment System
government and private banks to for other taxes, fees,
facilitate online payments charges and impositions
 Evaluation of existing collection due to the City
system Government
 Partnership agreement
with established collection
and payment centers (e.g.,
SM, Western Union, 7-11,
and banks, among others)
 Insufficient mobility in the  Increase efficiency of the  Efficiency Monitoring
monitoring of the monitoring team in district office Program
implementation of the Local thru aggressive and regular
Revenue Code monitoring
 Need for a data integration  Installation of a comprehensive  Comprehensive
system to generate real-time connectivity system among Connectivity Program
information online concerned offices/collection  To include capability
stations linking the same for building for personnel
faster and more reliable retrieval assigned to operate the
of information, particularly, daily system
collection summary  Executive Information
System
 Need to improve the  Full automation of the Barangay  Barangay Accounting
Barangay Finance System Accounting System to fast track Information System
recording of barangay Strengthening Program
transactions and to provide timely  Barangay Budget
financial statements to significant Monitoring System
users
 Need to improve services to  Automation of system to cater  Improve existing
employees employee’s requests such as pay programs/systems in place
slips, certifications, and the like

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LGU-NGO-PO Linkages

Issues and Concerns

Civil society organizations (CSOs) are involved in the Davao City Development Council and other
local governance mechanisms and processes. However, there is need to improve their
participation in the planning process.

Objectives and Targets

1.) To strengthen created local special bodies and their functionality
2.) To ensure civil society participation in local governance processes

Programs and Projects

1.) IEC on the NGO-PO accreditation process
2.) Regular sectoral meetings of the City Development Council, at least once every quarter

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 Table 7.3 Davao City LGU-NGO-PO Issues and Concerns, Strategies, and PPSAs

Issues and Concerns Strategies Policies,

Programs/Projects,
Services and Activities
(PPSAs)
 Need to improve participation  Forge collaborative linkages with  IEC on the accreditation
of civil society organizations in civil society (academe, faith- process
the planning process based, non-government,  Regular sectoral meetings
professional and people’s of the City Development
organizations) and business Council, at least once in
 Encourage accreditation of CSOs every quarter
with the Sangguniang Panlungsod

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Legislative Output of the Sangguniang Panlungsod

The total output of the 18th Sangguniang Panlungsod as of end of October 2017 is 108
ordinances and 680 resolutions.

Proposed Legislations

To be responsive to the development directions of Davao City for the period 2018 to 2023, the
following legislative agenda, categorized by sector, is recommended to the Sangguniang
Panlungsod for consideration and action:

Economic Development
1.) Ordinance/s for the adoption of effective agriculture practices and promotion of organic
farming;
2.) Ordinance establishing the guidelines on contract farming;
3.) Ordinance establishing councils for different agriculture commodities;
4.) Ordinance for the creation of a Coastal Security Council;
5.) Adoption of the Agri-Development Master Plan;
6.) Forging of more Sisterhood City Agreements to boost tourism;
7.) Ordinance identifying Agri-Tourism in Davao City;
8.) Ordinance/s for the improvement of agricultural production in the 3 rd District;
9.) Ordinance providing for the review of ecotourism standards, including community-based
tourism and farm tourism;
10.) Ordinance for the development of community- based village museum for traditions and
culture;
11.) Ordinance creating an SME Center in Davao City;

Social Development
1.) Ordinance prohibiting drivers and operators of public utility vehicles from using tinted
windows within the area of jurisdiction of the City of Davao and providing penalty for
violations thereof;
2.) Passage of Mental Health Act for drug surrenderees;
3.) Ordinance establishing a Mental Health Facility;
4.) Ordinance proposing the increase of health care insurance for all call center agents in Davao
City;
5.) An ordinance adopting DOH-NCIP- DILG Joint Memorandum Circular No. 2013-01 (April 19,
2013) entitled “Guidelines on the delivery of basic health services for Indigenous Cultural
Communities/ Indigenous People;”
6.) Proposed amendment to Ordinance No. 0336-10 “An Ordinance to Institutionalize a
Barangay Blood Donors’ Program for the City of Davao;”
7.) Ordinance Institutionalizing the Mosquito-Borne Disease Prevention and Monitoring
Program (Mosquito-Free Program);
8.) Ordinance creating City technological and vocational schools;
9.) Ordinance establishing the Davao City Cultural Center;

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10.) Proposed legislation for hearing and/or visually-impaired to access computers and the
internet;
11.) Localized version of the Anti-Human Trafficking Ordinance;
12.) Institutionalization of the Barangay Children’s Association;
13.) Ordinance for the creation of a Local Youth Development Council. Although, there is a
concern that this may result to potential conflict with the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK);
14.) Ordinance for the localization of Magna Carta for Women;
15.) Ordinance for the Preservation of Culture of the Indigenous People and Moro People
including promotion of their arts and products;
16.) Updating of the Davao City Children’s Welfare Code to integrate child protection policy in
media;
17.) Resolution encouraging the Department of Education to mainstream culture-based
education and inclusion of Filipino ethics in the curriculum;
18.) Ordinance banning the refilling of butane canisters;
19.) Resolution urging the Department of Education to integrate DRR-CCA in the new K to 12
curriculum;
20.) Resolution to develop at least One (1) public open space into plaza/playground or Tree
Park with areas for both active and passive recreation in every barangay;
21.) Amendments to the City’s pricing policy for land acquisition;

Infrastructure Development
1.) Ordinance adopting the Davao City Transport and Traffic Management Master Plan;
2.) Ordinance to improve and to add escalators/elevators to existing overpass structures;
3.) Ordinance requiring the use of energy efficient street lighting system;
4.) Localized version of the Accessibility Law;
5.) Policy on standardized underground cabling and piping system;
6.) Amendment /Updating of the Parking Ordinance. It is suggested that idle lands in the
Central Business District will be used as parking areas;
7.) Enhancement of the Traffic Code to include provisions on dealing with towing, double
parking, use of hazard lights and abandoned vehicles. The suggestion is to give power to
the barangay to deal with those concerns;
8.) Adoption of the Infrastructure Modernization for Davao (IM4Davao) Report;

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Environmental Management
1.) Creation of a Community Compost- Making Team. The CENRO will identify area per
barangay cluster;
2.) Ordinance on organic urban farming using municipal solid waste and effective
microorganisms;
3.) Green Buildings Ordinance;
4.) Ordinance requiring barangays in upland areas to protect their water source by planting
trees or rehabilitating areas around the water source;
5.) Implementing Rules and Regulations or Guidelines for the Environmental Tax Usage;
6.) Sustainable Reforestation Program legislation;
7.) Environmental Services Ordinance to be included in the Revenue Code;
8.) Institutionalization of materials recovery facilities or MRFs in all barangays;
9.) Conduct research on an ordinance requiring measures to ensure permeability of each lot or
property (green infrastructure);
10.) Policy research on requiring good housekeeping by contractors that are implementing
projects;
11.) Policy research on requiring industries to install and use air pollution control devices;
12.) Adopting Internationally Accepted Air Quality Standards for Davao City;
13.) An ordinance for households to participate in a greening program (i.e., one person shall
plant, and grow/maintain 12 hills of trees;
14.) An ordinance designating at least 20 hectares as open green park;
15.) An ordinance for easements along riverbanks, creeks, and other waterways;
16.) Policy research on including annotations on specific designated uses of open spaces in titles
turned over to the LGU;
17.) Policy research on Infrastructure Management/Partnership Agreement that requires;
DPWH and other government agencies to acquire permits and coordinate with LGUs
18.) An ordinance on water preservation and conservation;
19.) An ordinance allocating green areas per establishment and household;
20.) A policy preventing introduction of invasive species;
21.) A policy on tax incentives for lands used for conservation;
22.) Policy research on regulation of filling in wetlands;
23.) A policy on land contour and level preservation;
24.) An ordinance on wetlands conservation;
25.) A policy recommendation to the Local School Board (LSB) to include biodiversity in school
curriculum;
26.) A policy regulating operation of private zoos focusing on safety aspect;
27.) An ordinance on land conservation;
28.) Review of the Water Resources Management Ordinance of 2001 or the Water Code;
29.) Review and re-file Aerial Spray Ban taking into consideration the parameters issued by the
Supreme Court;
30.) Advocate to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Food and Drugs Authority
(FDA) the development of a “you manufacture it, you dispose it” policy in relation to
disposal of expired food;
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32.) An ordinance promoting reusable market bags such as “bayong”/reusable bags for markets
and supermarkets;
33.) An ordinance taxing one-time use products such as straws and diapers, etc.;
34.) An ordinance on electronic wastes management;
35.) An ordinance designating Davao as a CLean as You GO (CLAYGO) City;
36.) Revenue Code and SWM Ordinance amendments so that garbage fees would be based on
weight or volume;
37.) Expansion of the Rain Harvesting Ordinance;

Institutional Development (Governance, Finance and Development Planning)

1.) Updating and publishing of revised Code of Ordinances;
2.) Ordinance designating a member of the indigenous peoples and Muslim; communities as
member of the Advisory Council of DCPO;
3.) Ordinance on the re-examination of the Zoning Areas of Davao City;
4.) Ordinance for the General Revision of Schedule of Fair Market Values;
5.) Amendment of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance;
6.) Article IV, 2.4.10, Restrictions on Conservation Zones, where titled properties be allowed to
have residential structures at certain percentage of the land
7.) Small townhouse and warehouses (3 to 4 doors) to be taken out from the list of those
required to secure Preliminary Approval for Locational Clearance (PALC ) and Development
Permit (DP)
8.) Allow residential structures within the Urban Ecological Enhancement Zone
9.) Restriction on the size of building footprint up to 25% of the area of residential structures
10.) Imposition of higher tax rates for idle lands to include size, criteria in the identification
of idle lands;
11.) Proposed amendment on Ordinance No. 0407-12 to require installation of CCTV cameras
for businesses with capitalization of ₱3 million and above upon the application or renewal
of business permit. Proposed capitalization - ₱1 million and above;
12.) Legislation requiring the Office of the City Building Official to regulate building activities
in ancestral domain;
13.) Ordinance providing for the pricing of relocation projects/sites;
14.) Ordinance for the Reorganization/Re-engineering of the Organizational Structure;
15.) Ordinance to set barangay boundaries.

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