The document discusses strategies for social development in the Philippines. It outlines key concepts in social development theory, including improving well-being, removing barriers, and investing in people. It also summarizes the Philippine Development Plan for 2017-2022 and discusses game-changing reforms passed in the previous administration, including policies around competition, taxation, foreign investment, and retail trade liberalization. The upcoming 2023-2028 Development Plan aims to provide an inclusive roadmap for sustained growth.

1. Strategies in Social
Development Practice
DANICE SHINE M. EBORA, LPT, MAED

2. Report Outline
• What is social development?
• Social Development Strategy as a Theoretical Framework (Definition,
Theories and CTC System)
• Philippine Development Plan (2017-2022)
• PHILIPPINE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2028 TO PROVIDE ROADMAP
TOWARDS SUSTAINED AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH — NEDA (August 3,
2022)

3. What is social development?
• Social development is about improving the well-being of
every individual in society so they can reach their full
potential. The success of society is linked to the well-being
of each and every citizen.
Social development means investing in people. It requires
the removal of barriers so that all citizens can journey
toward their dreams with confidence and dignity. It is about
refusing to accept that people who live in poverty will
always be poor. It is about helping people so they can
move forward on their path to self-sufficiency

4. Social Development Strategy as
a Theoretical Framework

5. Social Development Strategy (SDS)
a theoretical framework for preventing problem
behavior and promoting healthy youth
development.
 The SDS organizes the role of systemic inequities
by defining two key constructs:
(1) position in the social structure based on race,
socioeconomic status, age, and gender; and (2)
external constraints, including neighborhood factors
such as safety and informal social controls.

6. Perspectives from 3
Developmental
Theories that SDS is
Based

7. Social control theory
suggests that antisocial behavior is a function
of weak bonding with prosocial groups such as
family and school. Hirschi (1969) hypothesized
that prosocial bonds include four
components—attachment, commitment,
involvement, and belief—and provide strong
protection against antisocial behaviors.

8. Social learning theory
argues that antisocial behavior is learned
through the reinforcement and punishment of
such behavior (Akers, 1977;
Bandura, 1973, 1977; Conger, 1976). The theory
hypothesizes that antisocial behavior is primarily
learned in those groups or contexts that
comprise the individual’s major source of
reinforcements (Dishion, Patterson, Stoolmiller,
& Skinner, 1991; Fagan & Wexler, 1987).

9. Differential Association Theory
(Cressey, 1953; Matsueda, 1982, 1988; Sutherland, 1973)
hypothesizes that antisocial behaviors are learned in
interaction with other people in a process of
communication within intimate personal groups. A person
is more likely to become antisocial if they are exposed to
people who are favorable to violations of the law relative to
those who are not. Substantial evidence exists for the
effects of delinquent peers on delinquent behavior during
adolescence (Agnew, 1991; Benda & Whiteside, 1995;
Reinarman & Fagan, 1988; Thornberry, Lizotte, Krohn,
Farnworth, & Jang, 1994).

10. SDS-Guided
Communities That
Care (CTC) System

11. Communities that Care
is underpinned by the Social Development Strategy
- an evidence-based framework which organizes
protective factors into a simple strategy for action
to promote positive youth development.
The Social Development Strategy identifies the
following key components to increase protective
factors for young people in your community:

12. • Healthy beliefs and clear standards for
behaviour: Young people are more likely to engage in
healthy, socially responsible behaviour when parents,
teachers and the community around them communicate
healthy beliefs and clear standards.

13. • Bonding: Strong, attached relationships with those who
hold healthy beliefs and clear standards are an important
protective influence. To create these bonds, young people
need

14. • Opportunities: Provide opportunities for active
participation and meaningful involvement with prosocial
others, including families, schools, communities and peer
groups.

15. • Skills: Teach young people the skills they need to succeed.

16. • Recognition: Provide consistent recognition and praise for
their effort, improvement and accomplishments.

17. Philippine
Development
Plan

18. Looking Back at the PDP 2017-2022
Let’s watch a video 
NEDA HQ. ( 26 January 2021)Updated Philippine
Development Plan 2017-2022
(Short).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDjDW
6NBNT0

20. AmBisyon Natin
2040
• AmBisyon Natin 2040 represents the collective long-
term vision and aspirations of the Filipino people for
themselves and for the country in the next 25 years. It
describes the kind of life that people want to live, and
how the country will be by 2040. As such, it is an anchor
for development planning across at least four
administrations.

22. Looking Back at the PDP 2017-2022
Additional video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc9nRC8MJig

30. PHILIPPINE DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2023-2028
TO PROVIDE ROADMAP TOWARDS
SUSTAINED AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH —
NEDA (August 3, 2022)

31. • “We will be coming up with
strategies that are forward-looking
yet relevant to present issues as well.
To reduce food inflation, we need to
ensure an adequate supply of food
at affordable prices. In the short
term, with rising fuel and fertilizer
costs, the strategy is to provide
subsidies for fertilizers and fuel
inputs to the producers of food. We
will also push for productivity-
enhancing infrastructure, research
and development, as well as
extension services,”
NEDA Undersecretary for the Policy
and Planning Group Rosemarie G.
Edillo

32. To reduce the vulnerabilities of certain segments of
the Filipino population, she added that there will be
continual enhancement of the nation’s health sector
and social protection programs. Programs and
projects related to re-tooling and re-skilling
opportunities will be implemented to increase the
employability of Filipino workers.

33. • Edillon also noted that these initiatives will rely on
the Plan’s thrust toward digitalization, which
President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. highlighted in his
first State of the Nation Address (SONA).

34. GAME-CHANGING REFORMS AND
POLICIES PASSED OR
INITIATED IN THE PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATION
• National Competition
Policy
• Corporate Recovery and
Tax Incentives for
Enterprises (CREATE Law)
• Amendments to the Public
Service Act
• Foreign Investments Act

35. National Competition Policy
Administrative Order (AO) No. 44 (s. 2021) by the Office of the President
directing government agencies to adopt and implement the National
Competition Policy (NCP), marking a milestone in mainstreaming competition
policy across the public sector.
Under AO 44, all national government agencies, government-owned or -
controlled corporations (GOCCs), and local government units (LGUs) are
directed to comply with the NCP by 1) adopting pro-competitive policies
and interventions, 2) fostering a level playing field between public and
private sector businesses, and 3) assisting the Philippine Competition
Commission (PCC) in enforcing the competition law.

36. Corporate Recovery and Tax
Incentives for Enterprises
(CREATE Law)

37. Amendments to the Public
Service Act

38. Foreign Investments Act
AN ACT TO PROMOTE FOREIGN INVESTMENTS, PRESCRIBE THE
PROCEDURES FOR REGISTERING ENTERPRISES DOING BUSINESS IN THE
PHILIPPINES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
As a general rule, there are no restrictions on extent of foreign ownership of
export enterprises. In domestic market enterprises, foreigners can invest as
much as one hundred percent (100%) equity except in areas included in the
negative list. Foreign owned firms catering mainly to the domestic market
shall be encouraged to undertake measures that will gradually increase
Filipino participation in their businesses by taking in Filipino partners,
electing Filipinos to the board of directors, implementing transfer of
technology to Filipinos, generating more employment for the economy and
enhancing skills of Filipino workers.

39. Retail Trade Liberalization
Act
On 10 December 2021, President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law Republic Act No. 11595
(“RA 11595“), otherwise known as “An Act amending Republic Act No. 8762 or the Retail
Trade Liberalization Act of 2000 (RTLA), by lowering the paid-up capital requirement for
foreign retail enterprises and other purposes.”
RA 11595 removes the requirement for a Certificate of Prequalification and the need to
show compliance with the criteria for prequalification under the RTLA to the Philippine
Board of Investments (BOI), before a foreign retailer can invest in or engage in a retail
trade business in the Philippines.
RA 11595 also sets a single minimum paid-up capital requirement of PHP 25 million for all
foreign-owned retail trade enterprises, and lowers the minimum investment requirement
per store to PHP 10 million.
RA 11595 was published in the Official Gazette on 6 January 2022, and will take effect
fifteen (15) days after its publication or on 21 January 2022.

40. Not yet final

41. References
• https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/esic/overview/content/what_is_s
ocial_development.html
• https://www.communitiesthatcare.org.au/how-it-works/social-development-strategy
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• https://pdp.neda.gov.ph/philippine-development-plan-2011-2016/chapter-8-social-
development/
• https://doh.gov.ph/node/6750
• https://2040.neda.gov.ph/about-ambisyon-natin-2040/
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towards-sustained-and-inclusive-growth-neda/
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the-retail-trade-liberalization-act-passed-into-law110122/