As of December 10, 2018 , 1,513 barangays in over 60 municipalities have already undergone roll-out training for Makilahok or also known as Strengthening Community Participation in Local Development. Makilahok is a Capability Building initiative implemented under the Department of Social Welfare and Development in partnership with the (Department of Interior and Local Government) and ADB (Asian Development Bank).

Only 58 municipalities comprising of 1,452 barangays are funded by ADB and the original actual target for roll-out. The other 2 municipalities are Calbiga and Arteche with 41 and 20 barangays respectively also undergone Makilahok since these municipalities expressed interest and willingness to fund all the resources needed for the Roll-Out.

Objectives of the training entail the review of the Barangay Development Planning and Budgeting process and its interface with the Community Empowerment Activity Cycle, Draw-out and consolidate CDD lessons learned (that enhance participation, transparency, and accountability in barangay development process), determine CDD activities, techniques and other implementation arrangements that can be applied in local development planning and budgeting, and draft an Action Plan for integrating CDD elements in local development planning, including required support from provincial, municipal government units, national government agencies, civil society organizations, and other development stakeholders.

Service providers were hired to facilitate the said training but Kalahi CIDSS Regional Program Management Office (RPMO) assisted for the prupose of monitoring and ensuring quality training management and output.  Resource Persons for the roll-out training were Municipal Budget Officer (MBO) and Municipal Local Government Operations Officer of DILG.

To date, 23 of these 60 municipalities are implementing back-to-back with their CDD-LPP Harmonization implementation which also recently completed their Municipal Development Council (MDC) Prioritization Resource Allocation (PRA). Next year’s target for these 23 LGU-led municipalities is the sub-project completion of their choice.

Kalahi-CIDSS National Community- Driven Development Program (KC-NCDDP) through the Community Empowerment Activity Cycle (CEAC) demonstrates that community-driven development (CDD) approach enabled more inclusiveness, broader community participation, greater transparency, and accountability in all stages of barangay development process. With CDD reinforcing good governance values as mandated by RA 7160 of the 1991 Local Government Code, this makes it essential to integrate and adopt CDD elements in barangay development planning and budgeting process anchored on the important learning’s gained from several years of KC-NCDDP implementation using the participatory process, tools, and techniques learned in CEAC.#