The 6 point agenda

1. MEDIUM TERM PHILIPPINE
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
2004-2010
Redchest M. Yumol
MAEd - TLE

2. Dear Lord and Father of all,
Thank you for today.
Thank you for ways in which you provide for us all.
For Your protection and love we thank you.
Help us to focus our hearts and minds now on what we are
about to acquire.
Inspire us by Your Holy Spirit as we listen and write.
Guide us by your eternal light as we discover more about
life.
We ask all this in the name of Jesus.
Amen.

3. Thought to Ponder
“Planning without action
is futile,
action without planning
is fatal. “
Cornelius Fichtner

4. MEDIUM TERM PHILIPPINE
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
2004-2010
Redchest M. Yumol
MAEd - TLE

5. THE BASIC TASKS
“The basic task of our Medium-Term Philippine Development
Plan for 2004-2010 is to fight poverty and build prosperity for
the greatest number of Filipino people. We must open up
economic opportunities, maintain socio-political stability, and
promote good stewardship --- all to ensure a better quality of
life for all our citizens. We will focus on strategic measures and
activities that will spur economic growth and create jobs. This
can only be done with a common purpose to put our economic
house back in working order.”
-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

6. Economic Growth
& Job Creation
Energy
Social Justice &
Basic Needs
Education & Youth
Opportunity
Anti-Corruption &
Good Governance
Fight poverty and build prosperity
for the greatest number
Trade & Investment
Agribusiness
Environment &
Natural Resources
Housing Construction
Tourism
Infrastructure
Fiscal Strength
The Financial Sector
Labor
Energy
Independence
Power Sector
Reforms
Responding to Basic
Needs of the Poor
National Harmony:
Automated Elections
National Harmony:
The Peace Process
National Harmony:
Healing the Wounds of EDSA
Basic Needs:
Peace and Order
Rule of Law
Education
Science &
Technology
Anti-Corruption
Bureaucratic
Reforms
Culture
Responsive
Foreign Policy
Constitutional
Reforms
Defense Against
Threats to
National Security

7. THE BASIC TASKS
(10-POINT AGENDA)
1. Creation of ten million jobs (including support for 3
million entrepreneurs and development of 2 million new
agribusiness land)
2. Education for all of school age (including putting a
computer in every high school)
3. Budget Balance
4. Decentralization of development through network of
transport and digital infrastructure
5. Power and water supply throughout the country
6. Decongestion of Metro Manila
7. Development of Clark and Subic as the most competitive
service and logistics center in Southeast Asian region
8. Automated elections
9. Peace to Mindanao and all insurgency areas
10. Just closure of divisive issues from EDSA 1,2 and 3

8. Chapter 18
EARLY CHILDHOOD
AND
BASIC EDUCATION
GOALS, STRATEGIES AND ACTION PLANS

9. A. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION (ECE)
- the first crucial step in enhancing pupil
learning and school retention, especially in the early
grade of elementary education.
- Republic Act 8980 known as ECCD Act

10. For the medium term the following
shall be fulfilled:
 Preschool as a prerequisite to Grade 1;
 Provide ECE services to barangay day care centers;
 Expand the coverage of ECCD programs to reach all five-year-
old children;
 LGUs and NGOs develop an effective standardized day care
instruction;
 Adopt ECCD Checklist and School Readiness Tool;
 ECCD Law to be further reviewed and amended;
 ECE in Teachers Education curriculum; and
 Expand health and nutrition programs in the public day care
center.

11. B. Closing the Classroom Gap
1. Enhanced School Building Program
2. Adoption of Double Shift Classes
3. Expansion Of Educational Subcontracting
Program and Provision of Scholarship and
Financial Assistance program for High
Students
4. Upgrading Mathematics, Science, and
English Teaching and Learning in Formal
Basic Education

12. For the next six years, efforts shall be
focused on the following:
a. Upgrade the Formal Basic education
Curriculum
b. Upgrade the Quality of Science, Math and
English Teachers
c. Utilize existing good practices/models

13. 5. Institutionalization of a More Focused
Values Formation Program in Basic
Education
The following strategies shall be pursued:
a. Values formation in Day care, Pre-
school, Elementary and Secondary
b. Values Formation as core content of
teacher education and training
c. Values Formation Utilizing Media and
Sports

14. 6. Providing and Connecting Computers in Every Public
High School for Teaching and Learning
7. Continuing the Implementation of the Optional High
School Bridge Program
8. Strengthening Madrasah Education
9. Strengthening Indigenous People Education

15. 10. Promoting School-Based Management
11. Upgrading the Quality of Pre-service
teacher Education and Providing Continuum
With In-service Training
12. Rationalization of the Basic Education
Budget

16. 6. Providing and Connecting Computers in
Every Public High School for Teaching and
Learning
7. Continuing the Implementation of the
Optional High School Bridge Program
8. Strengthening Madrasah Education
9. Strengthening Indigenous peoples
Education

17. EDUCATION
GOALS, STRATEGIES AND ACTION PLANS
B. TECHINICAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND
TRAINING (TVET)
• Ladderized interface between TVI and higher
education
• Scholarship and assistance programs
• Improving TVET curricula and skill matching
• Tapping private sector, LGUs. NGOs in TVET
education

18. EDUCATION
GOALS, STRATEGIES AND ACTION PLANS
C. HIGHER EDUCATION
• Provide scholarships/financial assistance to
disadvantaged sectors
• Distance learning
• Introduce the pre-baccalaureate program as a
remedial scheme
• Develop centers of excellence which will have links
with industry
• Curriculum upgrading/faculty development
• Rationalize creation and funding of SUCs

19.  The Plan’s specific programs shall also be fleshed out in
more detail with the publication of Strategic Planning
Matrices which shall define the responsible agencies and
targets, the rolling medium-term public investment program,
beginning with the 2005-2007 MTPIP which is a listing of the
projects and their costs, and the Regional Development
Plans/Investment Programs.
 The successful implementation of the Plan rests on the
support of all sectors of society - the Legislative, the
Judiciary, the local government units, the business
community, responsive civil organizations, the media, and all
sectors of society. The government urges everyone to share
responsibility in moving this Plan and the country forward.

20. Thank You.