Metamorphosis_Kalahi-CIDSS Compendium 2015

Under the Mango Tree. Bucay Community Volunteers show that they do not need halls
or covered courts to hold barangay assemblies. Development does not need to be
complicated, all they need is a tree to shade them from the sun’s heat*
development),” he added.
With the Kalahi-CIDSS Area Coordinating Team (ACT), the people of Bucay was able
to gather primary information on their respective communities, evaluate their current
situation, and identify possible solutions for their problems and through these, the
community was able to identify sub-projects that would be implemented in their barangays.
Kalahi-CIDSS follows the community-driven development (CDD) process through the
Community Empowerment Activity Cycle (CEAC), the 5-stage cycle which involves the
community in local planning, budgeting, implementing, and project monitoring.
“Idi, haan mi kayat nga mamati iti Kalahi-CIDSS, ta adda iti pammati mi ditoy nga ‘Diak
pati, diak kita’. Ngem gapu ta nakita mi iti naaramid iti Kalahi-CIDSS iti dadduma nga
barangay ditoy Bucay, kinayat mi nga mairaman kami met ita programa. (Before, we have
doubts on Kalahi-CIDSS because we have an expression here, “to see is to believe”. Then we
saw what Kalahi-CIDSS has done to other barangays here in Bucay, and we have wanted to
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