1. On July 27, 2011, Typhoon Juaning struck Polangui, Albay in the Philippines, causing landslides, mud flooding, and two casualties. 2. The Polangui Flood Watch involves citizens, NGOs, and local government officials working together through information sharing, community monitoring, and participatory budgeting to improve flood prevention, infrastructure, and emergency response. 3. Mechanisms like an online flood alert system, mobile updates, and community forums help facilitate two-way communication between residents and local planners to gather data and ensure timely response during flood events in Polangui.

1. 1. July 27, 2011 Polangui Albay Philippines hit by TYPHOON JUANING wit signal number 1 . heavy rain causes
Landslide, Mud Flooding and left ,two casualities.
Polangui Flood Watch is two-way interaction between citizens ,which include organized civil society and
the private sector.
The citizens affective is 100% motivated to speak-up, be open without fear of expressing his/her
feelings towards an occurrence of flood in the place where flood control projects initiated and
he/she is DIRECTLY AFFECTED.
Polangui Flood Watch is an instrumental to achieve a developmental goals to improved public
service delivery, to better and maintained infrastructure, to social cohesion, to improved
government accountability.
2. The Key Players are NGO’S-MUBIA Inc (Magurang ,Ubaliw,Basud Irrigators association) Maharlika Civicum
Rural Improvement Club of Napo Maynaga Womens Club and the GASULABIDA Inc. This is a “thick”
engagement, which enables large groups of
people, working in small groups (usually about 10 per group), to learn, decide,
and act.Polangui Flood Watch is intensive, informed, and deliberative. Organizers assemble large and
diverse numbers of people; give participants chances to share their experiences; present them with a
range of views or policy options; and encourage action and change at multiple levels. Large-scale public
deliberation projects the work of budget delegates in Participatory Budgeting are all examples of thick
engagement.
3. ICT and non-ICT accountability-enhancing approaches.
aimed at improving the delivery of services flood prevention program & projects. ICT mechanisms
included an 1) online Rain Alert and Advisories Information System Portal and a hourly updates of water
level & weather updates and 2) mobile phone-based initiative was characterized by an upward flow of
information from the household level to Local planning, while the demand for information to flow back
down to the village level for data gatherer. For this two-way flow Non-ICT mechanisms included the
establishment Polangui Flood Watch HEADQUARTER OFFICE near the riverbanks, where:
1) Forums for conducting 2) the community-monitoring exercises. Reinforcement of traditional decision-
making structures and ways of working that have evolved over time within the time frame.
4. Participatory Budgeting, Monitoring and timely feedback to Local Government Officials of Polangui, Albay,
Philippines.
Public expenditures are a powerful tool to guarantee access to essential goods and services for all strata of
society. However, in many cases, distortion and misallocation of public monies— rather than the lack of
resources—prevent this from happening Since my learning from this course here are points to consider to
make it work. People when it's working well, strengthens citizen’s voices and power to increase their
voice and power. it helps strengthen the capacity of groups to work together. Change doesn't happen just
by individuals expressing voice; change happens when they build their own forms of collective action. And
again, collective organizations, strong networks, aren’t created out of nowhere. They're created through
practice, are created through
engagement.
5. Tools-About the process of implementation, tools such as participatory budgeting where one actually
engages with how resources are going to be specifically allocated. Tools such as social auditing, where one
actually looks at the process by which things are being implemented are some interesting examples.
If we think about the actual evaluation, what happens from the process by which services are delivered, we
have some very, very interesting examples of tools that have been developed to monitor outcomes. Ways
of getting citizens to actually see whether the service has been delivered and met the policy goals that it
set out to do

2. The process of social audits involves citizens accessing information about various aspects of the
implementation of the JMC MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 5 (DBM-DILG-DSWD-NAPC *www.dbm.gov.ph.
this memorandum create the grassroot participatory budgeting process
This information is then cross-verified by people who participated on the work site, so if I have
worked on the work site, the social auditor will come and ask me how many days I worked on the
work site. How much payment I got, when I received my payment, and cross-verify what I say with
the data that is recorded in government documents.