Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
Third Regular Session 
House Bill No. ___________ 
Introduced by Honorable Ma. Alana Samanta Taliño Santos 
AN ACT INSTITUTIONALIZING THE COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT 
APPROACH AS A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND 
SOCIAL PROTECTION, MANDATING ALL NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 
AND DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING THEIR ATTACHED AGENCIES, OFFICES AND 
BUREAUS, LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS, AND OTHER GOVERNMENT 
INSTRUMENTALITIES TO IMPLEMENT THEIR COMMUNITY-BASED 
PROGRAMS, ACTIVITIES, AND PROJECTS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The Community Driven Development (CDD) approach is an award winning and globally recognized 
strategy for participatory governance, treating the community members as part of the local development 
process. This empowers the marginalized and disadvantaged residents, giving them an active role in the 
implementation, operation, budgeting, and maintenance of community-based programs, activities, and 
projects (PAPs). The constructive partnership aims to foster transparency and accountability at the local 
level, making the process sustainable. 
Implemented and conceptualized in 2003, the CDD has become the standard approach of the DSWD’s 
Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan - Comprehensive and integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-
CIDSS) Program. The Community Driven Development Act institutionalizes, among others, the CDD 
approach as the national strategy and the Kalahi-CIDSS as the government’s CDD program.  
Today, community participation is limited to representation in local development councils and local special 
bodies, following the provisions in the Local Government Code (LGC). As a result, civil society 
organizations, the academe, marginalized groups and people's organizations are underrepresented. The 
institutionalization of this bill aims to fill the gap by the LGC, mandating a whole of government approach: 
national government agencies, local government units, and other related entities in enabling policies and 
national strategies for community empowerment.  
In view of the foregoing, the passage of this bill is earnestly sought. 
MA. ALANA SAMANTHA TALIÑO SANTOS 
Representative 
3rd District, Cotabato Province 
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October 7, 2024
9:48 am


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
Third Regular Session 
House Bill No. ___________ 
Introduced by Honorable Ma. Alana Samanta Taliño Santos 
AN ACT INSTITUTIONALIZING THE COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT 
APPROACH AS A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND 
SOCIAL PROTECTION, MANDATING ALL NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 
AND DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING THEIR ATTACHED AGENCIES, OFFICES AND 
BUREAUS, LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS, AND OTHER GOVERNMENT 
INSTRUMENTALITIES TO IMPLEMENT THEIR COMMUNITY-BASED 
PROGRAMS, ACTIVITIES, AND PROJECTS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SEC. 1 Short Title. This Act shall be known as the Community-Driven Development 
(CDD) Institutionalization Act of 2024.
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policies. The 1987 Constitution establishes the right of the people
and their organizations to effective and reasonable participation at all levels of social, political, 
and economic decision-making shall not be abridged. The State shall, by law, facilitate the 
establishment of adequate consultation mechanisms (Article XIII, Section 16). Towards this end, 
and in pursuit of inclusive growth, social protection, community empowerment, and poverty 
reduction, the State shall enact programs that provide capacities and opportunities for community 
members — particularly the poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged — to effectively participate in the 
design, planning, budgeting, and implementation of community identified programs, plans, and 
projects.  
SEC. 3. Definition of Terms. For the purpose of this Act, the following terms are defined, 
as follows:  
1. Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan (ADSDPP) refers to a
long-term plan that embodies the goals and objectives, policies and strategies as well as
programs, projects of Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICCs)/Indigenous Peoples (IPs)
for the sustainable development and management of their ancestral domain and all
resources therein including human and cultural resources such as their indigenous
knowledge, systems and practices (NCIP AO No. 01, Series of 2014).
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2. Barangay Assembly (BA) refers to a gathering of barangay residents who are Filipino, at 
least 15 years old and above, and listed in the barangay records as members of the BA (RA 
7160). 
 
3. CDD Community of Practice (CDD CoP) refers to a community of CDD practitioners, 
which is comprised of agencies, non-governmental organizations, academic and research 
institutions, and individuals, that share the commitment and passion for CDD, and together 
strive to advance its practice through regular and purposive interaction. 
 
4. Community refers to a group of people living in a particular locality or geographical area, 
the location in which interventions are implemented. It may be a barangay, ancestral 
domain, or specific subsets thereof.  
 
5. Community action plan refers to plans formulated by community members as a result of a 
participatory activity where communities identify their key problems and development 
challenges and identify solutions that can be implemented to address these challenges.  
 
6. Community-based financial management refers to the management and direct control by 
the community members or groups of funds associated with a community identified and 
managed project. 
 
7. Community-based procurement refers to an approach in implementing Negotiated 
Procurement-Community Participation modality whereby the Barangay Local Government 
Unit (BLGU) and/or the community group(s) directly and/or jointly manage the planning, 
procurement, implementation and monitoring of community-based projects. This can be 
used interchangeably with the community-based procurement  
 
8. Community-Based Programs refers to programs, activities, or projects that are organized 
and implemented locally. By design, community-based programs invite community 
members or groups to actively design, plan, and implement intervention strategies to 
address community-identified plans and needs. 
 
9. Community control of resources refers to the utilization and management of the resources 
by the community members or groups based on community-identified plans and needs.  
 
10. Community-Driven Development refers to a development approach that gives control of 
the development process, decisions-making, and resources to community members or 
groups in the locality. It treats people as assets and partners in the development process, 
building on their institutions and resources. 
 
11. Community Empowerment refers to a process of enabling community members and groups 
to increase control over the factors and decisions that shape their lives. It is the process by 
which they increase their assets and attributes, and build capacities to gain access, partners, 
networks, and voice, in order to gain control. It is more than the involvement, participation 
or engagement of communities. It implies community ownership and collective action 
towards a specific objective, in this case local development. 


 
12. Community focus refers to programs, activities, or projects that put primacy on the whole 
community. 
 
13. Community grants refers to the financial assistance provided to communities implementing 
the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social 
Sen/ices (Kalahi-CIDSS) program. It can be in a form of planning or investment grant and 
will be used to fund community project proposals.  
 
14. Community-managed implementation refers to execution, implementation, monitoring, and 
contract management of community-identified projects by community members or groups, 
with assistance from the Local Government Units (LGUs) and other local partners. 
 
15. Community members refers to all the residents of the locality, the barangay, ancestral 
domain, or specific subsets thereof.  
 
16. Community Organizing refers to a longer-term engagement and empowerment process by 
which members of communities are brought together to act collectively on their shared 
interests, to identify community problems and solutions, and to take action. The long-term 
objectives of community organizing are to develop the internal capabilities and to increase 
decision-making power and influence of underrepresented groups in the community. 
 
17. Community Project Management Committee (CPMC) refers to a group of community 
volunteers elected by the community members to provide overall management of the 
community-based projects and oversee implementation, monitoring, completion, 
maintenance, and sustainability. 
 
18. Displaced population refers to people being forcefully moved from their locality or 
environment and occupational activities. It is a form of social change caused by a number 
of factors such as armed conflict, natural disaster, famine, development and economic 
changes (DSWD MC No. 10, Series of 2017).  
 
19. Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDA) refers to communities with 
marginalized population physically and socioeconomically separated from the mainstream 
society and characterized by physical factors (isolated due to distance, weather conditions 
and transportation difficulties - island, upland, lowland, landlocked, hard-to-reach and 
unserved/underserved communities) and socio-economic factors (high poverty incidence, 
presence of vulnerable sector, communities in or recovering from situation of crisis or 
armed conflict) (Bureau of Local Health Development, DOH).  
 
20. Graduation Year refers to the final year wherein the Kalahi-CIDSS program is committed 
to provide formal programmatic support to a community because it will transition to a fully 
LGU-led implementation of community driven development programs.  
 
21. Horizontal and vertical linkages refers to the alignment of funding allocation and technical 
support of national government sector agencies with the identified needs of communities, 


as integrated in various local development plans, and the ability of the community members 
and groups to access funding resources and technical support from various agencies and 
institutions. The aim is to ensure the complementation of plans and strategies by different 
agencies and institutions that is anchored on evidence-based and participatory planning. 
 
22. One Social Preparation refers to the harmonized social preparation process of various 
Social Welfare Development programs. It refers to the conduct of common activities at the 
community level for community assessment, identification of needs and interventions, and 
the preparation of community action plans, which will be the basis for funding by different 
development stakeholders. 
 
23. Participatory monitoring and evaluation refers to a process through which stakeholders at 
various levels of the community engage in monitoring and evaluation of a project, program, 
or policy, share control over the content, the process and the results of the monitoring and 
evaluation activity, and engage in taking or identifying corrective actions. Systematically, 
it relies on the active engagement of the primary internal stakeholders as the actors that 
accomplish the systematic recording and periodic analysis of information that they 
themselves have chosen and recorded. The primary stakeholders shall be the community 
members. 
 
24. Participatory planning refers to a planning process that directly involves the community 
members, leaders, and other stakeholders in diagnosing local problems and designing a 
course of action to resolve those problems. The process aims to harmonize views among 
all of its participants and to provide opportunities for participation especially for the 
marginalized groups in the community. 
 
25. Social Preparation refers to a process to prepare and fully capacitate the community to 
become ready and responsible implementers of programs, projects and activities. It must 
include activities to (i) identify, analyze and prioritize needs, and identify solutions to 
address needs; (ii) prepare proposals, studies, and technical designs and financial plans; 
(Hi) form committees and task groups; and (iv) build capacity and capability to undertake 
the project activities (DSWD MC No. 04, Series of 2016). 
 
26. Social Protection refers to a set of policies and programs that seek to reduce poverty and 
vulnerability to risks and enhance the social status and rights of the marginalized by 
promoting and protecting livelihood and employment, protecting against hazards and 
sudden loss of income, and improving people's capacity to manage risks (NEDA-SDC 
Cabinet Resolution No. 1, series of 2007). 
 
27. Whole-of-Government Approach (WGA) refers to a strategy where all instrumentalities of 
the government are taking unified and integrated action in order to provide a common 
solution to a particular problem or issue. For CDD Institutionalization, the WGA is a 
logical and systematic convergence of efforts of government agencies and local 
government units to respond to the identified community needs, issues, concerns, and 
priorities  
 


SEC. 4. Elements of CDD. A CDD approach is a strategy where local communities take 
control in the planning, implementing and resource investments for their local development. CDD 
ensures that programs integrate the principles of local empowerment, participatory governance, 
demand-responsiveness, administrative autonomy, greater downward accountability and enhanced 
local capacity. Based on the ASEAN Regional Program for Capacity Development to Enhance 
Accountability of Local Governance in delivering Social Protection Programs through CDD, the 
CDD process happens when all of these elements are present: (1) community focus, (2) 
participatory planning, (3) community control of resources, (4) community-managed projects, and 
(5) participatory monitoring and evaluation. CDD includes but is not limited to the following 
processes and activities:  
 
a) Community empowerment process - a defined and ordered set of community development 
activities that enable communities to have control over decision-making and resource 
allocation to meet their priority needs and allow local governments to provide effective and 
quick response to such needs. 
 
b) Delivery mechanisms - a set of project implementation and procurement systems that 
facilitate delivery of services to local communities. 
 
c) Intergovernmental fiscal transfers - existence of legally mandated regulations that 
authorize fiscal transfers from the national government to barangay-level governments and 
local communities. 
 
d) Governance mechanisms - presence of formal arrangements for structural mechanisms and 
policy reforms for greater participation, rule of law, transparency, responsiveness, 
inclusiveness, and accountability of local governments in performing their mandated 
functions, and allowing community members, particularly those most vulnerable, 
disadvantaged, and marginalized, to have access to the systems of local governance  
 
Article I.  
Institutionalization of the CDD Approach in government programs, activities, and projects 
 
SEC. 5. Institutionalization of the CDD Approach in all community based programs, 
activities and projects of government. All National Government Agencies (NGAs) and 
Departments, including their Attached Agencies, Offices and Bureaus, Local Government Units, 
and other government instrumentalities shall adopt the CDD approach in implementing their 
community-based programs, activities, and projects to promote participation and empowerment of 
poor, vulnerable, disadvantaged, and marginalized communities and groups within communities.  
 
SEC. 6. Operationalization of the CDD approach in NGAs. The CDD approach shall 
be operationalized in government programs, activities and projects (PAPs) using the following 
methods and strategies, or a combination thereof, but not limited to:  
 
a. Government agencies shall develop policies and programs, provide information on 
government intervention, and provide technical assistance and support to the partner local 
government units and communities for more effective community-driven planning and 


implementation, in consultation with Advisory Council, provided in Chapter III, Section 
15 of this Act; 
b. Government PAPs that have elements of local planning, budgeting, and development
process shall ensure that majority of the community members actively participate in said
process;
c.
Government agencies shall regularly align community action plans, as discussed in Chapter
II, Section 14 of this Act, to agency PAPs, and ensure that identified community priorities
are sufficiently funded;
d. Government agencies shall use mechanisms for community-managed implementation, as
defined in Chapter III, Section 18-19 of this Act, in the implementation of projects funded
under the government PAPs;
e.
Government agencies shall ensure that community members are prioritized, to the extent
possible, in receiving employment opportunities brought about by project implementation
at the communities;
f.
Government agencies shall include in their annual budget proposals and multi-year plans
funds for CDD implementation such as but not limited to capacity building, staffing, and
project management; and
g. Government agencies shall accredit Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) as partners in
organizing and strengthening communities, and implementation of community-based
PPAs.
SEC. 7. Localization of the CDD approach in LGUs. Under the guidance of the
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), the LGUs shall be primarily 
responsible for:  
a.
Developing policies for enhancing participatory local governance practices, improving
local development planning process, giving space to community organizations, and
responding to community needs;
b. Providing information on government intervention, technical assistance, and support to
communities for more effective community-driven planning and implementation;
c.
Ensuring that community priorities and action plans are integrated in the barangay and
municipal development plans and Annual Investment Programs (AIP), and ensure that
identified community priorities are sufficiently funded, which may be sourced from the
Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) and/or other funds to which they may have access to;
d. Including in their AIP and multi-year plans funds for CDD implementation such as but not
limited to staffing, community empowerment activities, and resources to initiate and
sustain CDD projects;


 
e. Supporting the engaged residents and subsequent organizations formed to sustain the CDD 
projects as well as their gains, and impact; f. Accrediting and ensuring participation of 
CSOs as partners in organizing and strengthening communities, and implementation of 
community-based projects;  
 
f. Ensuring that engaged and accredited service providers under their supervision shall be 
justly compensated, that adequate funds are made available, and their working conditions 
are conducive to fulfill national quality standards; and  
 
g. Conducting monitoring, and evaluation activities and enabling community members to 
meaningfully participate in data gathering, processing and analysis, and especially in data 
utilization for their own development.  
 
In accordance with the Local Government Code, local governments shall adhere to the 
layers of local authority and supervision, from provinces, to component cities and municipalities, 
and to barangays, in implementing LGU-led CDD programs. 
 
SEC. 8. Role of Civil Society Organization and the Academe. Accredited CSOs and 
academic institutions with experience in the CDD approach shall be encouraged to participate in 
community activities, specifically:  
 
a. Partner with communities/LGUs/NGAs in facilitation of community empowerment 
processes;  
 
b. Provide additional funding or collaborate with partners/donors to implement community-
identified projects;  
 
c. Continuous capacity building and technology transfer to LGUs and communities; and  
 
d. Conduct third party monitoring and evaluation together with communities and LGUs. 
 
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in coordination with the 
Department of Budget Management (DBM) and Commission on Audit (COA), and in consultation 
with other relevant national government agencies and the local government concerned, shall 
implement a simplified set of guidelines for CSO accreditation and for providing an enabling 
environment for communities to participate in CDD implementation.  
 
Article II.  
Institutionalization of Kalahi-CIDSS Program  
 
SEC. 9. Kalahi-CIDSS as a CDD program of the government for community 
empowerment. Kalahi-CIDSS is hereby institutionalized as a CDD program of the government 
for community empowerment. Its mandate is to ensure that communities become empowered to 
achieve increased access to basic social services and improved resilience to disaster and other 


shocks, and to participate in more inclusive local planning, budgeting, implementation, and 
monitoring and evaluation of local development activities.  
 
SEC. 10. DSWD as implementing agency. The DSWD shall implement the Kalahi-
CIDSS program, using the CDD approach in targeted poor, vulnerable, disadvantaged, and 
marginalized communities. It shall establish a working mechanism for convergence of social 
welfare and development (SWD) programs at the local level by ensuring a single harmonized, 
comprehensive social preparation process, that emphasizes identification of needs and defining 
vulnerabilities at the grassroots through a participatory action process and its contribution to 
increasing resiliency of poor communities.  
 
SEC. 11. Coverage and Phasing. The Kalahi-CIDSS Program will focus on the poor 
communities, and gradually expand coverage to all cities, municipalities, and special communities. 
The phasing of the implementation and expansion will be based on the approval of the Advisory 
Council.  
 
The special communities shall refer to areas with characteristics that would make it difficult 
to meet graduation requirements, such as but not limited to communities with historically high 
magnitude and incidence of poverty, marginalization, and vulnerability, needing special 
intervention from DSWD which include, among others, GIDA areas, marginalized, and vulnerable 
sectors. The limitation of the areas to be covered under the special communities shall be based on 
the criteria approved by the Advisory Council. 
 
All target municipalities shall be provided with capacity building, facilitation, and 
community grants. The entire implementation process will follow the regular planning and 
budgeting cycle of the local government. The Advisory Council, upon recommendations of 
DSWD, shall approve the criteria for assessing whether a municipality will need another round of 
intervention or will be endorsed for gradual withdrawal of the complete package of intervention, 
ensuring that mechanisms for sustainability are in place, until graduation year.  
 
SEC. 12. Funding and Resource Mobilization. Kalahi-CIDSS will provide community 
grants to poor, vulnerable, disadvantaged, and marginalized communities to fund community 
project proposals selected through a criteria based prioritization process by the expanded Local 
Development Council (LDC). The Program will employ a menu that allows the community to 
choose any activity that it considers to be important for its development, provided that support for 
projects with adverse environmental and social impacts shall not be allowed. Kalahi-CIDSS will 
also provide technical support to communities and local government units in mobilizing resources 
from Provincial LGUs, Civil Society Organizations, People's Organizations, and National 
Government Agencies for unaddressed priorities in the Local Development Plans specifically for 
big ticket PAPs which cannot be funded through local resources. The DSWD is directed to include 
resource requirements for nationwide implementation of Kalahi-CIDSS, and ensure it is included 
in its annual budget priority and such other appropriate funding sources as the DBM may identify. 
The LGU shall put up counterpart funds in the form of cash and/or in-kind which may be sourced 
from the IRA of the government unit. Members of the community and private 
individuals/institutions including foreign organizations may also contribute to the project.  
 


SEC. 13. Community Project Management Committee (CPMC). The committee shall 
take care of the overall management of projects funded under Kalahi-CIDSS following the 
mechanisms for community-managed implementation. This is composed of smaller project 
implementation committees where members are elected through the Barangay Assembly. Under 
the guidance of the Barangay Development Council (BDC), it shall also formulate policies and 
make decisions for the project. It shall oversee project implementation, monitoring, maintenance 
and sustainability after project completion.  
SEC. 14. Community Empowerment Process. The DSWD, through Kalahi-CIDSS, will 
provide facilitation support to empower community members to participate in the local 
development process:  
a.
Social Preparation. DSWD will employ the One Social Preparation approach to
complement with other SWD processes and interventions and provide a platform for other
SWD social preparation needs. The comprehensive social preparation process and
community action plan development shall be a venue for validation and reporting of SWD
interventions, which shall be used as input to the local development planning, and as basis
for NGA targeting mechanisms and interventions. DSWD will ensure strategic solutions
are arrived by community members by employing participatory tools and technologies.
Communities will be oriented towards better planning, and proposing more strategic
solutions that ensure efficient use of scarce resources and reduce vulnerability. The
Municipal Local Government Operations Officer (MLGOO) shall oversee and provide
technical support and guidance to LGUs to ensure the quality of citizens' participation in
the local decision making processes.
b. Community Planning, Project Proposal Development and Appraisal. The DSWD, in
partnership with DILG, shall ensure that community action plans will be incorporated into
the local development plans and ensure the integration of local development plans to the
national development plans ensuring that programs, activities, and projects prioritized for
funding are responsive to community-identified needs. It shall closely coordinate with
LDCs, namely the Barangay, City, Municipal, and Provincial Development Councils as
stipulated in the Republic Act 7160 or the Local Government Code of 1991, to ensure that
the annual plans are harmonized and operationalized for proper and timely implementation;
and
c.
Community-Based Organization (CBO) Formation and Strengthening. DSWD will ensure
at the onset of social preparation, that community based organizations will be formed,
strengthened, and recognized as beneficiaries to enable them to have control over future
resources.
Article III.  
Implementing Mechanisms 
SEC. 15. Creation of an Inter-agency Advisory Council. An Advisory Council on CDD 
Institutionalization shall be created at the national level to develop policies relative to the 
implementation of this Act. It shall be chaired by the DSWD and co-chaired by DILG.  


 
It shall be composed of representatives from the agency members of Department of Budget 
and Management, National Anti-Poverty Commission, National Economic and Development 
Authority, Department of Agriculture, Department of Agrarian Reform, Department of 
Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Health, Department of Human Settlements 
and Urban Development, and Department of Education. Representatives shall include the 
Secretary of the agencies as the officially designated permanent member and a designated 
Undersecretary as an alternate representative. Representatives of non-governmental organizations 
shall constitute not less than one-fourth (1/4) of the members of the Advisory Council, which shall 
be appointed by the Council during the first three years of the effectivity of this Act, after which 
the representatives shall be selected from and appointed by the CDD Community of Practice.  
 
The Advisory Council may create committees and invite other agencies as the need arises. 
The Advisory Council shall meet at least quarterly. It shall recommend to the President measures 
and policies for the responsive delivery of commitments under this Act and integration with the 
general poverty reduction strategy of the Government.  
 
The CDD Knowledge and Resource Institute (CDD KRI) shall provide secretariat support 
services for the coordination and monitoring of the implementation of policies and plans 
formulated by the Council. 
 
SEC. 16. Creation of a CDD Knowledge and Resource Institute. There shall be 
established a non-stock, non-profit government owned and controlled corporation with its own 
charter, to be attached to DSWD. The CDD KRI is a policy, research and training arm of the 
Advisory Council, which shall provide support for continuing research and technology 
development, partnership development, policy advocacy, resource mobilization, capacity-building 
of communities, CBOs, LGUs, NGAs and other development stakeholders, and monitoring and 
evaluation, to ensure effective institutionalization and operationalization of the CDD framework.  
 
a. Functions and powers of the Institute. The functions of the Institute shall include, but is 
not limited to: 
1. Learning and Development interventions on program implementation and 
sustainability;  
a. Development of CDD Resource Pool, a group of experts on CDD principles 
and implementation who possess expertise in CDD to co-develop the 
certification and accreditation programs and other learning and 
development requirements of the staff, partners, and other stakeholders; 
b. Certification of CDD organizations, institutions, and individual 
practitioners who shall either be partners of the program or part of its human 
resources;  and 
c. Continuing 
professional 
development 
through 
partner 
academic 
institutions;  
2. Resource Mobilization 
a. Partnership and Linkages; and 
b. Convergence  
3. Knowledge management and technology development  


4. Regular Monitoring and Evaluation; and  
5. Policy Advocacy  
 
To fulfill its purposes, the KRI shall have the following powers:  
1. To collect, receive and maintain funds, donations, and other forms of assistance and 
to apply the income and principal thereof to the promotion of its aims and purposes 
hereinbefore set out; 
2. To contract any obligation, or enter into any agreement necessary or incidental to 
the proper management of its powers;  
3. In general, to carry on any activity and exercise all of the powers conferred by the 
laws upon private or government-owned or controlled corporations; and to do any 
and all of the acts and things herein set forth to the same extent as juridical persons 
could do, and in any part of the world, as principal, factor, agent or otherwise, alone 
or in syndicate or otherwise in conjunction with any person, entity, partnership; 
association or corporation, domestic or foreign.  
 
b. Composition of the Board of Directors. The Institute shall be under the direct supervision 
of a Board of Directors composed of the Secretary of DSWD as Chairman and at least five 
(5) other members:  
i. Secretary of the Department of the Interior Local Government;  
ii. Secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority;  
iii. Secretary of the National Anti-Poverty Commission; and 
iv. Representatives of the Civil Society Organization and the Academe, to be 
appointed by the President upon recommendation of the Secretary.  
 
The structure and staffing pattern shall be prescribed and approved by the Secretary. 
 
c. Socialized Fees. All applications for certifications, training, and other services of the 
CDD KRI shall be charged with corresponding socialized fees to be determined by the 
Advisory Council.  
 
SEC. 17. Implementing Agencies. Using the Whole-of-Government approach, various 
government agencies shall be involved in the implementation of this Act.  
 
a. DSWD as lead agency. Pursuant to the herein declared policy, the DSWD shall serve as 
the lead agency for the implementation of this Act. The DSWD shall integrate in their 
regular operations the following functions: 
i. Provide facilitation support to empower community members to participate in the 
local development process and to strengthen community capabilities to engage 
LGUs, NGAs, and other stakeholders to support community-identified priorities:  
ii. Integrate the CDD approach into the local planning and budgeting process, for 
more systematized community participation in the local development processes and 
activities;  
iii. Institutionalize capacity-building and learning on CDD for NGAs, Non-
Government Organizations (NGOs), CSOs, private sector institutions, and other 
partners to enable them to do CDD; and  


iv. Support integration of the role of provincial LGUs in local development 
planning and budgeting and CDD implementation. Specifically, the provision of 
technical assistance and resource augmentation by ensuring integration of 
municipal development plans to provincial development plans  
 
b. DILG as a key partner in strengthening participatory local governance. The DILG shall 
be a key partner agency in the development of policies and technologies for LGUs, to 
strengthen participatory local governance, institute policy and structural reforms to ensure 
horizontal and vertical alignment and linkages of barangay and municipal development 
plans and AIP to community-based plans. It shall also initiate the crafting priorities. of 
PAPs aligned with community-identified needs and  
 
c. NAPC as a key partner in mobilizing the basic sectors. The NAPC shall be a key partner 
agency in the development of policies and measures to ensure meaningful representation 
and active participation of the basic sectors in their local development.  
 
d. Support from relevant government agencies. All relevant bureaus, offices, agencies and 
instrumentalities of the government shall render the necessary support to the 
implementation of this Act.  
 
SEC. 18. Community-Management Implementation as Delivery Mechanism. All 
National Government Agencies and Local Government Units shall use mechanisms for 
community-managed implementation of community based projects. The community members, 
with the assistance of LGU and other local partners, shall participate in project implementation, 
monitoring, and management. Community-based organizations shall be formed to operate, 
manage, and maintain community projects. For projects that are employing community-managed 
implementation, guidelines of the Revised Community Participation in Procurement Manual as 
approved by the Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB) shall apply. The community shall 
be involved as members of the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), BAC Secretariat, Technical 
Working Group and observers of the procurement process.  
 
 
 
SEC. 19. Intergovernmental fiscal transfers. For projects that are employing 
community-managed implementation, guidelines for community-based financial management 
shall apply which includes but is not limited to community participation in the management and 
control of funds, bookkeeping and reporting, and closing of accounts.  
 
The implementing agency shall enter Into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the 
concerned LGUs with provisions such as, but is not limited to, prompt delivery of local counterpart 
contributions (LCC) and the opening and maintaining of a Trust Account.  
 
The implementation shall be made in accordance with the community based finance 
guidelines and policies which shall ensure that government funds are safeguarded. Financial 
transactions shall be supported by established disbursement processes, reporting mechanisms and 
internal control systems to ensure that management and utilization of funds promotes the principles 


on the use of government public funds. This is relative to the Manual on Barangay Financial 
Management of Barangays prescribed by the Commission on Audit relative to the Republic Act 
7160.  
 
The key partner agencies and other relevant government agencies shall help the DSWD in 
the strict implementation of the financial management system at the local government unit, and 
impose sanctions for any violation in these guidelines and applicable regulations. 
 
Article IV.  
Miscellaneous Provisions 
 
 SEC. 20. Special Intervention for Indigenous Peoples. To address the unique needs of 
the Indigenous Peoples and to reinforce the state policy recognizing their rights and protecting 
their ancestral domains, preserving their cultural integrity and ensuring that they are in equal 
footing from rights and opportunities, the local government units, government agencies, and other 
instrumentalities of the government, in coordination with National Commission on Indigenous 
Peoples, shall ensure the following: 
 
a. Automatic representation of Indigenous Peoples in decision making within the BDC 
regardless of land tenurial ownership and number of IP population, as long as it is identified 
or recognized that IPs are present in the community; 
 
b. Utilization of the Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan as the 
major reference and consideration in addressing needs and providing interventions in IP 
areas and integration of the ADSDPP in the Local Development Plan of the B/LGU;  
 
c. Fund allocation for the conduct validation in IP areas and implementation of identified 
needs of IP communities; and 
 
d. IP areas as priority in terms of the delivery of basic social services as these communities 
are located in Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDA).  
 
SEC. 21. CDD Approach in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and 
Management (DRRM). To reduce the disaster risk, prepare communities for disasters, and 
address the needs of communities affected by disasters, the CDD approach shall be adopted as a 
strategy for community-based DRRM.  
 
SEC. 22. Particular consideration for needs of marginalized sectors. CDD 
implementation shall ensure that marginalized sectors including IP members of the community, 
women, children, people of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and expression 
(SOGIE), youth, older persons, internally displaced persons, rebel returnees, recovering drug 
dependents, and persons with disability will be represented in decision-making activities in the 
community.  
 


SEC. 23. Incentives. The CDD elements or implementation status shall be included as 
additional criteria for the recognition given to LGUs such as but not limited to Seal of Good Local 
Governance (SGLG) and other awards by NGAs.  
 
Article V.  
Final Provisions 
 
 SEC. 24. Joint Congressional Oversight Committee. Upon effectivity of this Act, a 
Congressional Oversight Committee, hereafter referred to as CDD Oversight Committee, is hereby 
constituted. The Committee shall set the overall framework to review the implementation of this 
Act. It shall likewise determine the inherent weaknesses in the law and recommend the necessary 
remedial legislation or executive measures. 
 
The CDD Oversight Committee shall be composed of twelve (12) members, with the 
chairpersons of the Committee on People's Participation of the House of Representatives, and 
Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development of the Senate as Co-Chairpersons; 
and two members from each House from the Committees on Good Government and Public 
Accountability and People's Participation.  
 
The CDD Oversight Committee shall conduct a review of this Act, which shall include a 
systematic evaluation of the impact of this Act, accomplishments of the program, and performance 
of its implementing Agencies, every three (3) years. The committee shall also perform such other 
duties and functions as may be necessary to attain the objectives of this Act.  
 
SEC. 25. Regular Monitoring and Reporting. The CDD KRI shall monitor the 
implementation of this Act and submit an annual report of its status to the oversight agencies and 
the joint congressional oversight committee. The said report shall also be regularly posted and 
updated for the public's information. A process assessment shall be conducted by DSWD once 
every three years, the results of which shall be utilized to stimulate more program lessons 
exchange, experience sharing, public dialogues, policy discussions and generating inputs for 
program design works on CDD. Mechanisms for promoting third-party monitoring and evaluation 
of the Act by NGOs and CSOs, together with community members and LGUs, shall also be 
established.  
 
SEC. 26. Grievance Mechanism. A Grievance Redress Mechanism shall be established 
to address complaints and concerns raised by any stakeholder or concerned citizen relating to the 
implementation of this Act. An appointed representative of the DSWD shall head the Grievance 
Committee present at the regional and national level tasked to accept, investigate, and facilitate 
resolution of complaints and grievances.  
 
SEC. 27. Penalty. Upon finding that a department, agency, or instrumentality of 
government, government-owned and -controlled corporation, or local government unit has 
violated any provision of this Act and its implementing rules and regulations, the sanctions under 
administrative law, civil service, or other appropriate laws shall be recommended to the Civil 
Service Commission and/or the Department of the Interior and Local Government. The person 
directly responsible for the violation, as well as the head of the agency or local chief executive 


shall be held liable under this Act. Filing a complaint under this Act shall not preclude the offended 
party from pursuing other remedies available under the law and to invoke any of the provisions of 
existing laws, including the Civil Service Code and the Local Government Code.  
Any public officer or private person committing any graft and corrupt practices in the 
implementation of this Act, including but not limited to mismanagement of public funds, shall be 
punished based on the penal provisions of existing laws.  
SEC. 28. Appropriations. The amount needed for the implementation of this Act shall be 
charged against the appropriations of concerned government agencies in the current and 
subsequent General Appropriations Act. Donations and other forms of assistance may also be 
accepted in accordance with applicable laws and issuances for purposes relevant to the 
implementation of this Act. 
SEC. 29. Implementing Rules and Regulations. Within six (6) months from the 
effectivity of this Act, the DSWD shall, in coordination with national government agency members 
of the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC), in consultation with league 
of barangays, cities, municipalities, and provinces and relevant stakeholders, promulgate the rules 
and regulations necessary for the effective implementation of the provisions of this Act.  
SEC. 30. Separability Clause. If any provision of this Act or the application of such 
provision to any instrumentalities or entities or circumstances is declared invalid or 
unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected thereby shall remain valid and subsisting.  
SEC. 31. Repealing Clause. All laws, decrees, executive orders, administrative orders or 
parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, amended, or modified 
accordingly.  
SEC. 32. Effectivity Clause. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines. 
Approved,