This Eastern Visayas Updated Regional Development Investment Program (RDIP) 2014-2016 is a companion document of the Eastern Visayas Updated Regional Development Plan (RDP) 2014-2016. As it is, the RDP is just a framework plan, but the clamor for more specificity of the RDP is addressed by this RDIP. The main RDP document embodies broad strokes on where the region wants to go as described in the stated development vision, goals and objectives, as well as general strategies on how to get there. This RDIP translates those strategies into specific programs, projects and activities (PPAs) in order to realize the vision, goals and objectives. The RDIP is an essential document as it serves as a guide for implementing entities to do what is necessary to put the RDP into a living document.
The set of PPAs is the minimum gamut of interventions that need to be implemented to attain the desired results or targets spelled out in the other companion of the Updated RDP, which is the Updated Results Matrices (RM) 2014-2016. As such, it captures the list of the major PPAs for implementation in the remaining half of the Plan period (2014-2016) and the corresponding investment requirements and funding sources.
The total public investment requirement of Php94.546 billion pegged in this RDIP was programmed before the occurrence of Super Typhoon Yolanda on November 8, 2013. In the light of the devastation wrought by the disaster, the priorities set in this document and the sufficiency of the investments may call for certain adjustments. Although priorities in investments will still be within the international and national framework, at the regional level, investments will have to shift to recovery and rehabilitation as provided for in the SULHOG: Eastern Visayas Yolanda Reconstruction Plan. Likewise, the influx of investments from international and national agencies would greatly affect the whole investment scenario in the region.
Along with the formulation of the Updated RDP and RM, this RDIP was mandated by Memorandum Circular No. 43 issued by the President on February 4, 2014, which directed the midterm updating of the 2011-2016 Philippine Development Plan (PDP), the Results Matrices (RMs), and the Public Investment Program (PIP). Accordingly, on February 7, 2013 the Regional Development Council (RDC) VIII issued RDC Resolution No. 6, series 2013 approving the guidelines on the updating of the Eastern Visayas Regional Development Plan (RDP). Thereon, planning task forces were created and a series of consultative workshops among government and private stakeholders was conducted to produce the Updated RDP, RM, and RDIP. By August 23, 2013, the RDC VIII passed Resolution No. 44, series 2013, approving the RDP and the RDIP.