Roadmap up on Metro Iloilo-Guimaras tourism, infra plan
Clear targets have now been established as tourism strategies and corresponding action plans and infrastructure plans for Metro Iloilo and Guimaras begin to shape.
In a recent workshop held with project proponents, a roadmap was drawn expected to bring a shared understanding of the project concepts. Shared understanding that will translate to better management of the project and ultimately, attainment of the deliverables or expected project results.
Participants from various government agencies, local government units and partners in the private sector worked on getting firsthand knowledge on tourism strategic directions and infrastructure strategic directions as strategy maps were then validated.
The Metro Iloilo-Guimaras integrated tourism action plan project and Metro Iloilo-Guimaras infrastructure plan is an Australian Government AusAID initiative under the Philippines-Australia Local Governance Development Program (LGDP).
The workshop as attended by working committees and technical groups involved laid down the system for better understanding of the teams involved. Validation was thereafter made on the earlier inputs gathered as targets were set alongside the introduction of LGDP functions in monitoring and evaluation.
The LGDP monitoring and evaluation component provides a system for establishing and aligning the performance measures of its multiple stakeholders. The workshop further provided the system that will ensure realization of what is envisioned by the local area development partnerships.
Monitoring and evaluation the LGDP-way is a four-step process that starts with target-setting then proceeds with monitoring, evaluating and rewarding.
Partnership Adviser Francis Gentoral explained that the workshop gave the participants the opportunity to be oriented with the "tools" needed in the said monitoring and evaluation process. From strategy maps to scorecards and measure dictionary, the roadmapping workshop pave the way for easier understanding of the project's components.
"Strategy maps" translates the vision and mission of local area development partnership sites into inter-related objectives. "Scorecards" on the other hand translates the strategy maps into measurable objectives and are the basis for tracking and measuring performance of the various stakeholders. While the "measure dictionary" serves as added reference document containing more detailed information on each measure as included in the scorecard.