THE ELEMENTS OF AN INSTALLED ECSOM SYSTEM

A PRELIMINARY OUTLINE Tuesday, May 16, 2006

1. DEFINED UNIT OF ORGANIZATION, MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION, ACCOUNTING, PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY:

a. Territory defined as a unit ecosystem with systemic properties specified

and imperatives for sustained maintenance and sustainable use defined. b. Identified stakeholders with accredited domiciles and claims to territorial

priority defined

c. Appropriate hierarchy of subdivisions of stakeholders and their respective territories synchronized with political subdivisions, e.g. purok, sitio, barangay, municipality, district (group of municipalities), province, region.

d. Defined scopes of powers and responsibilities of different juridical entities

in the areas Local and national government and their instrumentalities, Churches, cooperatives, associations, business firms corporate and non-corporate, peoples organizations, civic associations, etc.

e. Statutory and Customary ground rules to serve as basis for organization

structure, differentiation of roles, authorities, rules, sanctions, contractual agreements, planning and budgeting processes, implementation and operations, such as the 1987 Constitution, Local Government Code, Fisheries Act, Comprehensive Agrarian Reform, etc. and their respective Implementing Rules and Regulations.

2. Organization:

a. The Stakeholders

i. Basic unit: the household

ii. The Cluster: 5 to 20 households in a purok/neihborhood

iii. Clusters of clusters: purok, sitio, municipality, district

b. Governance:

i. Memorandum of Agreement among municipal governments in the District, invoking Sec 33 Chapter 3 of the Local Government Code of 1991, through appropriate ordinances to group themselves. Consolidate, or coordinate their efforts, services, resources for purposes beneficial to them. In support of such undertakings, upon approval by the sanggunian concerned after a public hearing conducted for the purpose, contribute funds, real estate, equipment, and other kinds of property and appoint or assign personnel under such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the participating local units through Memoranda of Agreement.

ii. Activation of Local Special Bodies under various provisions of the

LGC and prescribed under Rule XIII Article 63 of the IRR of the Code.

iii. Formation of an actual or virtual ECSOM Center as focal point of

District organization and of a juridical personality for the COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION to which the clusters, cluster leaders, purok, barangay, municipal and district leaders will relate.

3. OPERATING THE ECSOM COMMUNITY

a. Operating Networks:

i. Organization and management network

ii. The Planning, Monitoring and Information Network

iii. The Production and Distribution Network with subsystems to meet basic needs

1. Food agriculture and fisheries, food processing, storage,

distribution 2. Clothing- textiles, garments

3. Shelter: housing & utilities

4. Health delivery network

5. Educational and human development network

6. The Trading Network

7. The Credit and Finance Network

8. The Circulatory network: Transport, communications,

waste management and recycling,

9. The Land-use planning, physical town-planning modules informed by the ECSOM perspective: New Urbanism Concepts.

b. The OPERATING LOGIC: SYSTEM OF COLLECTIVE

BARGAINING AGENTS ON BEHALF OF STAKEHOLDERS AT THEIR DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ORGANIZATIONS (Clusters, barangays, municipalities, etc.)

i. The Community Wealth and Welfare (CWW) function and the

Social Accounting Matrix:

1. As Operating logic: Household Estate Plans through the family life cycle as primary guide and management objective:

2. Time perspective: the 15 year life cycles: five 3-year plans

or three 5-year plans, whichever, over a fifteen year horizon.

3. Evolution of lifestyles and the development of

PROSUMER (OR PRODUCER/CONSUMER) households

4. Education program directed at the generations:

a. Adult education b. Primary age brackets 5-15 c. Secondary age brackets 15-20

5. The demographic evolution and the stages of town planning development

ii. Evolution of the Community economy over the life-cycle horizons:

1. First five years 2. Next Five Years

3. Third Five year period

DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURES OF PROTOTYPE FAMILIES STARTING- MID-LIFE OLDER OUT FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY Phase I Phase 2 Phase 3 HOUSEHOLD TYPES

1st 15 years 2nd 15 years 3rd 15 Years

Prototype Family Head of Family 26 TO 40 41 TO 55 56 TO 70 Wife 23 to 38 39 to 53 54 to 68 Eldest son/daughter -1 to 14 15 to 30 31 to 46 Second -3 to 12 13 to 28 29 to 44 Youngest -5 to 10 11 to 26 27 to 42 Prototype Rural Family Head of the Family 20 to 35 36 to 50 51 to 65 Wife 18 to 33 34 to 48 49 to 63 Eldest son/daughter -1 to 14 15 to 30 31 to 46 Second -3 to 12 13 to 28 29 to 44 Youngest -5 to 10 11 to 26 27 to 42 Eldest II -1 to 14 15 to 30 Second II -3 to 12 13 to 28 Youngest II -5 to 10 11 to 26