PDPB Operations Manual Writeshop Documentation Report

The Policy Development and Planning Bureau (PDPB) is the Department’s lead Office in the formulation of policies and plans, as well as in monitoring and evaluating programs that are focused principally on social protection. PDPB is composed of the following four divisions: (1) Planning Division (PD), (2) Policy and Research Division (PRD), (3) External Affairs Division (EAD) and (4) Monitoring and Evaluation Division (MED).

Recognizing the need to harmonize the procedures and outputs to identify the points of complementation and the interoperability of the divisions, the PDPB conducted a three-day writeshop in order to develop the business process maps (BPMs) for each of the Bureau’s Key Results Area (KRA) and to draft the PDPB Operations Manual (PDPB-OM). This was conducted in Ridgewood Hotel and Residences in Baguio last June 05-09, 2016. Mr. Louie M. Destacamento and Dr. Editha Venus – Maslang served as the over-all facilitators. The Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Mr. Aljo Quintans and Ms. Millete Santos, served as the over-all secretariat of the activity. Asec. Noel Macalalad of the Policy and Plans Group (PPG) also joined the activity to serve as the resource person.