Republic of the Philippines National Economic and Development Authority PHILIPPINE NATIONAL VOLUNTEER SERVICE COORDINATING AGENCY

UPDATED 2011-2016 FOREIGN VOLUNTEER DEPLOYMENT FRAMEWORK

(FVDF)

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ACRONYMS

ARBs Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries

ARCs Agrarian Reform Communities

ARMM Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao

CAR Cordillera Administrative Region

CBFM Community-Based Forest Management

CCA Climate Change Adaptation

CRM Coastal Resource Management

DENR Department of Environment and Natural Resources

DRRM Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

DSWD Department of Social Welfare and Development

FVDF Foreign Volunteer Deployment Framework

ICT Information Communication Technology

IEC information education and communication

IPs Indigenous people

IVSOs International Volunteer Service Organizations

IVSP International Volunteer Service Program

LPI Local partner institution

MDG Millennium Development Goals

NEDA National Economic and Development Authority

OSY Out-of-school youth

PNVSCA Philippine National Volunteer Service Coordinating Agency

PDP Philippine development Plan

PSA Philippine Statistics Authority

PWDs Persons with disabilities

TVET Technical Vocational Education

VCA Value Chain Analysis

WEDC Women in Especially Difficult Circumstances

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I. BACKGROUND In 2007, the Foreign Volunteer Deployment Framework (FVDF) for 2007-2010 was developed to guide partner International Volunteer Service Organizations (IVSOs) in deploying volunteers to ensure that the scope and nature of “the international volunteer service program is responsive to the objectives of technical cooperation and socio-cultural exchange.”1 The Medium Term Philippine Development Plan 2004-2010, including the targets to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), served as the basis of the FVDF. With the change in national leadership in 2011, implementation of the 2007-2010 FVDF was reviewed and updated to focus on the priorities of the Aquino Administration; hence the formulation of a new 2011-2016 FVDF. The 2011-2016 FVDF provided a clear set of objectives and priorities (both geographic and sector-based) for the international volunteer service to respond to the development needs of the country. In 2013, a mid-term review of the 2011-2016 Philippine Development Plan was done to make the necessary adjustments in policies, strategies, measures and programs based on updated information, and lessons learned during the first half of the Plan’s implementation since its launch in 2011. Secretary of Economic Planning and NEDA Director General Arsenio M. Balisacan emphasized that updating of the PDP was made “to ensure that there is greater alignment and synchronization of government efforts to focus on sectors and areas where poor and vulnerable are concentrated, so that they too may reap the gains of progress.” Given the Philippine Government’s call for immediate collaborative action towards the attainment of the national development goals, the Philippine National Volunteer Service Coordinating Agency (PNVSCA) deemed it necessary to update the 2011-2016 FVDF to ensure alignment of the international volunteer service assistance to the objectives of the PDP Midterm Update.

II. LOGIC MODEL OF THE UPDATED 2011-2016 FVDF The updated FVDF serves as the principal operational guideline in the identification, assessment, programming and deployment of foreign volunteers in the country. The main revision in the FVDF is the adoption of the current national development priorities and geographic areas in the PDP. The foreign or international volunteer service program aims to contribute to the national goal of rapid and inclusive growth which is defined as poverty in multiple dimensions reduced and massive quality employment created as defined in the PDP Midterm Update. The PDP goal was further clarified as achieving rapid and sustained economic growth and equal development opportunities achieved. Equal means considering poverty magnitude, poverty incidence and vulnerability of provinces to natural disaster in development programming and implementation.2 The objective of ensuring that equal development opportunities are shared by all is apparently the major precursor to spatial consideration in the framework update.

1 RA 9418 or “Volunteer Act of 2007” 2 Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016 Midterm Update

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Figure 1. Logic Model of the Updated Foreign Volunteer Deployment Framework 2011-2016

GOAL

Poverty in multiple dimensions reduced and massive quality employment created

Rapid and sustained economic growth Equal development opportunities achieved

SECTORAL OUTCOMES

Globally competitive and innovative industry and

services sectors achieved

Competitive and sustainable agriculture

and fisheries sector achieved

Human capabilities improved and

vulnerabilities reduced

Sustainable and climate-resilient environment and natural resources

achieved

Stable national security achieved

Cross-cutting Themes: Good Governance, Climate Change Adaptation, Gender and Development

INTERMEDIATE OUTCOME

Strengthened3 local partner institutions to empower disadvantaged and marginalized sectors

IMMEDIATE OUTCOME

Enhanced knowledge and skills

of LPI staff

Increased knowledge and skills of of community partners/beneficiaries4

VO

LUN

TEER

OUTPUTS Services, Products/Resources

STRATEGIES Capacity Development/Enhancement, Resource Sharing/Collaboration, Partnership Building

ACTIVITIES Project Cycle Management, Policy Review and Advocacy, IEC, Instruction/Teaching, Production, Research & Development,

Technology Extension and Services , Market Linkaging, Systems development/enhancement

INPUTS Tools, Skills, Experiences and Approaches

3 Better systems & processes = improved governance 4 Direct assistance to ultimate beneficiaries

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The FVDF logic model (Figure 1) shows how foreign volunteer assistance contributes to the achievement of the sectoral outcomes and ultimately, the PDP goal. The immediate or short-term outcomes and outputs become specific to foreign volunteer assistance recognizing that it is at these levels that local partner institutions and volunteers have control or influence. Guided by the principles of technical cooperation namely, ownership, alignment and harmonization, short-term or immediate outcomes will focus on building or enhancing capacities both at the organizational and individual levels. These capacity needs or gaps were identified by the requesting local partner institutions (LPI) so that from the onset of engagement, there is ownership of the volunteer-assisted development projects. Foreign volunteers will contribute their tools, knowledge and skills, experiences and approaches in the areas of project cycle management, policy review and advocacy, information education and communication (IEC), instruction/teaching, production, research & development, technology extension and services. Together with their respective counterpart workers and supervisors at the LPI, volunteers shall produce significant outputs in the forms of services, products and resources. In the process, individual and organizational capacities shall be developed and/or enhanced through partnerships and linkages, resource sharing and collaboration—which is in essence harmonization. Volunteer assistance directly benefits not only the intermediaries or the LPIs but also the ultimate beneficiaries because of the nature of project that requires direct intervention to the community as in the case of volunteers who co-teach students in schools, volunteers who provide training for farmers and fisherfolks in the community, volunteers who coach the micro-entrepreneurs, among others. Thus, the FVDF logic model reflects that increased knowledge and skills of community partners will directly contribute to the achievement of sectoral outcomes and ultimate goal. As a medium-term outcome or result, volunteer assistance shall strengthen local partner institutions manifested by improvement of systems, processes and/or installation of mechanisms to ensure alignment of efforts to national and international development goals including empowerment of the marginalized and disadvantaged sectors in the community. Achievement of these development results at the level of partner institutions (intermediaries) shall contribute to sectoral goals and eventually to the long term goal, “Poverty in multiple dimensions reduced and massive quality employment created.”

III. STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS FOR FOREIGN VOLUNTEER ASSISTANCE A. GEOGRAPHIC AND SECTORAL PRIORITY INTERVENTIONS To maximize foreign volunteer assistance that would contribute to the achievement of national development goals, foreign volunteer deployment shall adopt the priority geographic categories and intervention areas of the PDP Midterm Update. Figures 2 to 4 below show the three (3) geographic categories with corresponding interventions. Provinces in these categories were chosen based on (i) number or magnitude of poor households in the province, (ii) the provincial poverty incidence, or the proportion of poor individuals to the provincial population, and (iii) the province’s vulnerability to natural disasters (particularly floods and landslides). Significant to achieving equal development opportunities for all is the provision of volunteer assistance to marginalized and disadvantaged sectors (IPs, PWDs, Senior citizens, women and children in difficult circumstances, OSY) wherever they are located.

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Category 1 Priority: 5th and 6th Class Municipalities of the 10 Provinces Province-wide for vulnerable sectors (PWDs, IPs, Senior Citizens, OSY, women5 and children6 in difficult circumstances) Strategies: More investments to create more employment opportunities Improve human capital, flexible work arrangements, continually upgrade social services

Sectoral Interventions: Industry and services – manufacturing, tourism (Primary Interventions) Agriculture Social services and Social protection

5 "Women in Especially Difficult Circumstances" (WEDC) shall refer to victims and survivors of sexual and physical abuse, illegal recruitment, prostitution, trafficking, armed conflict, women in detention, victims and survivors of rape and incest, and such other related circumstances which have incapacitated them functionally (RA 9710, Magna Carta of Women, Section 30; http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2009/ra_9710_2009.html); retrieved 08 Dec 2014

6 Children who experience all forms of abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation and discrimination, and other conditions

prejudicial to their development (RA 7610 or Child Abuse Act); retrieved 08 December 2014

Figure 2. Category 1: Ten provinces with highest magnitude of poor households, DSWD 2010

Ilocos Region

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Figure 3. Category 2: Ten provinces with highest poverty incidence based on population, PSA 2012

PROVINCE REGION Poverty

Incidence (%)

Lanao del Sur ARMM 73.8

Maguindanao ARMM 63.7

Eastern Samar Eastern Visayas 63.7

Apayao Cordillera 61.4

Zamboanga del Norte

Western Mindanao 54.4

Camiguin Northern Mindanao 53.6

Saranggani SOCCSKSARGEN 53.2

North Cotabato SOCCSKSARGEN 52.4

Masbate Bicol 51.3

Northern Samar Eastern Visayas 50.2

Category 2 Expansion Areas (provinces with at least 30% Poverty Incidence)

REGION PROVINCE % Poverty Incidence

Cordillera

1 Abra 37.4

2 Ifugao 42.4

3 Mt. Province 37.6

Cagayan Valley

4 Batanes 33.3

Central Luzon

5 Aurora 30.8

MIMAROPA

6 Marinduque 32.9

7 Occidental Mindoro 38.1

8 Romblon 40.5

Bicol

9 Albay 41

10 Camarines Sur 41.2

11 Catanduanes 33.8

12 Sorsogon 40.7

Western Visayas

13 Antique 30.9

14 Negros Oriental 50.1

15 Negros Occidental 32.3

Central Visayas

16 Bohol 36.8

17 Siquijor 32.6

REGION

PROVINCE % PI

Eastern Visayas

18 Leyte 39.2

19 Southern Leyte 43.3

20 Western Samar 50

Western Mindanao

21 Zamboanga del Sur 32.0

22 Zamboanga Sibugay 44.8

Northern Mindanao

23 Bukidnon 49

24 Misamis Occidental 42.8

25 Lanao del Norte 49.1

Davao Region

26 Compostela Valley 36.7

27 Davao Oriental 45.8

28 Davao del Norte 33.4

SOCCSKSARGEN

29 Cotabato City 44.3

30 South Cotabato 32.0

31 Sultan Kudarat 53.2

CARAGA

32 Agusan del Norte 34.7

33 Agusan del Sur 48.1

34 Surigao del Norte 41.8

35 Surigao Del Sur 36.0

ARMM 36 Basilan 41.2

37 Sulu 45.8

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Strategies: Basic social services that promote economic and physical mobility while creating economic

opportunities Link small agri-based enterprises to the supply chain of product or service providers in more

developed areas Peace-building efforts

Sectoral Interventions: Social development: education, health, social services (Primary Interventions) Agriculture Agri-based enterprise/industry Peace and security

Figure 4. Category 3: Provinces exposed to multiple hazards, DOST and DENR (2012)

Region Province

1 Ilocos Norte

Ilocos Sur

CAR Abra

Benguet

2

Cagayan

Isabela

Nueva Viscaya

Quirino

3

Aurora

Pampanga

Zambales

4A

Cavite

Laguna

Rizal

5 Catanduanes

6 Antique

Iloilo

7 Bohol

8

Eastern Samar

Leyte

Northern Samar

Southern Leyte

9 Zamboanga del Sur

Zamboanga Sibugay

13

Dinagat Island

Agusan del Sur

Surigao del Norte

Surigao del Sur

Category 3 Primary Interventions:

DRRM & Natural Resources Management (province-wide)

Strategies: Risk reduction and mitigation, disaster-risk

management

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The updated FVDF recognizes the need for collaboration and concerted effort of stakeholders to help achieve inclusive growth in the country. Hence, expansion areas were considered to:

(1) provide continuity of program assistance in some geographic areas; (2) align the framework with the Country Strategy of the program partners; and (3) to respond more appropriately to the identification of volunteer assistance as being project-based and

demand-driven.

B. MENU OF INTERVENTIONS

Based on previous experience in FVDF implementation, and per consultation with key national government agencies, a set of interventions are listed below for quick reference of Program partners.

Table 1. Menu of Interventions, Updated FVDF 2011-2016

SECTOR Scope/Menu of Interventions

1. AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES

Production of high value commercial crops (HVCC) and industrial crops Livestock and fisheries Farming systems/crop diversification/agro-forestry Agri-processing and product standards: quality and safety Agri-tourism Value Chain Approach Information, Education and Communication Rural infrastructure

2. INDUSTRY & SERVICES Business Research and Development (agro-industry, manufacturing & food processing, product & service improvement/ value-adding, Value Chain Management, market linkaging/ expansion, tourism, mining and minerals processing)

Technical-vocational skills enhancement Consumer welfare, ISO standards compliance Cooperative development (including ARCs and ARBs)

3. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

3.1 Education Curriculum and materials development: English, Science & Technology, Math, entrepreneurship, TVET (ICT, agri-fishery, alternative fuel technology, green skills and gender, language and culture), life skills

Strengthening management system across DepEd School facility improvement (except IT systems) Special Education Support to ALS and preschool education program Competency-based training programs for school heads/teachers Special Program for Foreign Language (e.g. German, Japanese, Spanish)

3.2 Health Family planning, maternal and child care services Prevention and Control of TB, HIV/AIDS and Malaria Reproductive Health Public healthcare services including nutrition and nutrition-related services

and facilities enhancement

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SECTOR Scope/Menu of Interventions

3.3 Social Protection/ Services

Organizational Development Service delivery to vulnerable sectors (e.g. IPs, PWDs, Senior citizens, women

and children in difficult circumstances, OSY) Children and youth development Poverty reduction convergence programs (e.g. CCT or 4Ps) Support to housing assistance focusing on vulnerable households

4. ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

DRRM mainstreaming Natural Resource Management (CRM, CBFM) Solid Waste Management Water and Sanitation Renewable Energy

5. PEACE AND SECURITY

Livelihood in conflict-affected areas Peace Building Conflict Transformation Diversified livelihood opportunities Emotional Recovery Human Rights

CROSS-CUTTING THEMES Good Governance, Climate Change Adaptation, Gender and Development

Good Governance Institutional development/strengthening including Information Technology (e.g. GIS, e-library system, MIS), resource mobilization, planning, human resource development, gender mainstreaming, M&E

Climate Change Adaptation CCA mainstreaming, IEC, vulnerability assessment tools

Gender and Development GAD mainstreaming

Annex 1. 2015-2016 Focus Geographic Areas of the FVDF

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Region Province

PDP focus based on

(1) High Poverty Magnitude (2) High Poverty

Incidence**

(3) Vulnerability to Shocks and

Disasters

5th & 6th Class municipalities only*

# of HH Province-

wide % PI

Province-wide, DRRM & NRM only

1

Ilocos Norte 24,890 9.9 X

Ilocos Sur 34,213 17.3 X

Pangasinan X 148,601 20.4

CAR

Abra 17,544 E 37.4 X

Apayao 13,794 X 61.4

Benguet 17,947 3.7 X

Ifugao 15,936 E 42.4 X***

Mt. Province 59,186 E 37.6

2

Batanes 4,380 E 33.3

Cagayan 38,270 19.7 X

Quirino 8,492 21.2 X

Isabela 54,678 24.4 X

Nueva Viscaya 16,500 20.7 X

3

Zambales 23,804 16.0 X

Pampanga 55,328 7.6 X

Aurora 9,333 E 30.8 X***

4A

Cavite 58,536 3.4 X

Quezon X 122,139 27.5

Laguna 55,417 6.4 X

Rizal 48,360 6.1 X

4B

Marinduque 73,738 E 32.9

Occidental Mindoro 181,631 E 38.1

Romblon 104,992 E 40.5

5

Albay 102,327 E 41.0

Camarines Sur X 136,208 E 41.2

Catanduanes 16,743 E 33.8 X

Masbate 89,666 X 51.3

Sorsogon 297,931 E 40.7

6

Antique 38,157 E 30.9 X

Negros Occidental X 138,664 E 32.3

Negros Oriental 638,466 E 50.1

Iloilo X 122,770 26.2 X

7

Bohol 70,028 E 36.8 X***

Cebu X 151,425 22.7

Siquijor 27,282 E 32.6

8

Eastern Samar 38,487 X 63.7 X***

Leyte X 132,377 E 39.2 X***

Northern Samar 59,262 X 50.2 X***

Southern Leyte 23,185 E 43.3 X ***

Western Samar 361,045 E 50.0

Annex 1. 2015-2016 Focus Geographic Areas of the FVDF

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Region Province

PDP focus based on

(1) High Poverty Magnitude (2) High Poverty

Incidence**

(3) Vulnerability to Shocks and

Disasters

5th & 6th Class municipalities only*

# of HH Province-

wide % PI

Province-wide, DRRM & NRM only

9

Zamboanga del Norte

103,669 X 54.4

Zamboanga del Sur X 170,181 E 32.0 X

Zamboanga Sibugay 74,643 E 44.8 X

10

Bukidnon 664,158 E 49.0

Camiguin 9,755 X 53.6

Misamis Occidental 241,738 E 42.8

Lanao del Norte 443,271 E 49.1

11

Davao del Sur X 111,655 24.4

Compostela Valley 259,485 E 36.7

Davao Oriental 246,026 E 45.8

Davao del Norte 328,442 E 33.4

12

Cotabato City 130,477 E 44.3

South Cotabato 430,210 E 32.0

North Cotabato 89,667 X 52.4

Sarangani 141,612 X 53.2

Sultan Kudarat 357,960 E 53.2

13

Dinagat Island 12,869 n/r X

Agusan del Norte 230,721 E 34.7

Agusan del Sur 65,473 E 48.1 X

Surigao del Norte 45,343 E 41.8 X***

Surigao del Sur 59,179 E 36.0 X***

ARMM

Basilan 110,711 E 41.2

Lanao del Sur 114,245 X 73.8

Maguindanao 55,921 X 63.7

Sulu X 122,218 E 45.8 X***

*Province-wide for interventions for vulnerable sectors (PWDs, OSY, IPs, WEDC, children in difficult circumstances) **including expansion areas (E), i.e. more than 30% poverty incidence

***Top 10 most at-risk provinces (DRRM Framework by Simon O'Donnell,2013)

****Provinces in bold letters – convergence areas for priority interventions

Data Sources:

(i) Poverty incidence - NSCB, 2012

(ii) Poverty magnitude - Top 10 provinces (DSWD-NHTSPR, 2012), expansion areas (NSCB, 2012) (iii) Vulnerable to shocks and disasters - DOST and DENR/ READY Project (2010)

Annex 1. 2015-2016 Focus Geographic Areas of the FVDF

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SECTORAL INTERVENTIONS PER CATEGORY

CATEGORY INTERVENTION

1 High Poverty Magnitude

primary Industry and services (e.g. manufacturing, tourism, product development/improvement, Value Chain Management)

secondary Social development (education including TVET, health, social services), environment and natural resources management

2 High Poverty

Incidence

primary Social development (education including TVET, health, social protection--poverty reduction programs)

secondary Value chain analysis, agri-based enterprises (seaweeds, fisheries, coconut), eco-tourism, environment and natural resources management, peace and security

3 Vulnerable to

Shocks &

Disasters

primary

CCA/DRRM mainstreaming, environment and natural resources management, residual waste management

Cross cutting Themes Good Governance, Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), Gender and Development (GAD)

Annex 2. 5th and 6th Class Municipalities of PDP Category 1 - High Poverty Magnitude

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Region Province Municipality Income

Class

Region Province Municipality

Income Class

Region 1 Pangasinan Sto. Tomas 5th Region 8

Leyte Tunga 6th*

Region 4A Quezon Agdangan 5th La Paz 5th*

Alabat 5th Mayorga 5th*

Jomalig 5th Mc Arthur 5th*

Patnanungan 5th Pastrana 5th*

Perez 5th Sta. Fe 5th*

Plaridel 5th Hindang 5th

Quezon 5th Julita 5th

Sampaloc 5th Merida 5th

Region 5 Camarines Sur Bombon 5th Tabon-tabon 5th

Cabusao 5th Tolosa 5th

Camaligan 5th Region 9 Zamboanga del Sur Josefina 5th*

Gainza 5th Sominot 5th*

Region 6 Negros Occidental None Tigbao 5th*

Region 6 Iloilo Mina 5th Vincenzo Sagun 5th

San Rafael 5th Region 11 Davao del Sur None

Batad 5th ARMM Sulu Hadji P.Tahil 6th

Bingawan 5th K. Caluang 5th

Region 7 Cebu Ronda 5th* Lugus 5th

Alcantara 5th Maimbung 5th

Alcoy 5th P. Estino 5th

Boljoon 5th Pata 5th

Ginatilan 5th Tapul 5th

Malabuyoc 5th *Not re-classified under Department Order No. 23-08 due to incomplete certified

income data but the classification as stated are their income re-classification under DOF Order No. 20-05, dated July 29, 2005. Source: BUREAU OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE www.blgf.gov.ph; Updated March 27, 2013

Pilar 5th

Samboan 5th

Tudela 5th