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Focal teams of the eight local government units (LGUs) in the seventh district of Cebu attended the orientation for the district-wide asset-based mapping held last March 8, 2018 at the session hall in Alegria town.

The asset-based mapping is a vital component the Integrated Area Development program of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI-IAD) in carrying out its objectives. The information that will be collected from the IAD focal teams will define the vision strategy roadmap, and generate an inclusive development the entire district. It will also promote community engagement, ownership, and empowerment of the stakeholders and constituents.

Based on the result of the meeting of District 7- Ad hoc Council Meeting last month, three thematic areas of asset prioritization were identified — tourism, agriculture, and infrastructure. Also identified were the key person who need to be actively involved namely, the municipal tourism officer, municipal agriculture officer, municipal engineer, municipal planning & development officer, and chairpersons of the municipal council committees on agriculture, tourism, infrastructure, and planning & development. They will be tasked with data gathering for the thematic areas, attending all asset-mapping activities and workshops, site validation of identified physical assets in the seventh district with the asset-mapping team, and compilation of gathered data and information

The program management unit (PMU) comprising the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI), representative of the seventh congressional district, and the Cebu Provincial Government–Provincial Planning Development Office were actively involved in designing the process and protocols for district-wide asset mapping.

The asset mapping tools and pre-work templates were presented and discussed by the RAFI IAD Program Team. After the presentation, an open forum was facilitated to hear feedback and critiques from the focal teams.

“As a member of the district-wide asset mapping focal team this is very important for us to know the things that we need to do for the upcoming actual asset-based mapping. It gives us a clear understanding of the steps that we need to do, appreciate the processes, and also be ready for the tasks that we will be involved in later,” said Clyde Gail Mancelita, IAD Focal Person for Dumanjug.

Aside from discussing the asset mapping, the orientation served as an avenue for the focal teams to talk about their tasks and to level-off the expected output per process. The focal teams also noted that this exercise was needed to promote better relationships with the other LGUs and to put into perspective how they can complement each other’s assets.

The focal team then agreed to hold a district-wide asset-based mapping workshop on March 16, 2018, and that pre-work for asset-based mapping tools and templates will be submitted a day earlier.

The actual asset mapping will be done between the last week of March and first week of April.

The Integrated Area Development Program of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI-IAD) provides Local Government Units (LGUs) with technical assistance towards socio-economic development.