Network Infrastructure Development Plan Connecting All Barangay Offices in Santa Rosa

Nueva Ecija

Capstone Project and Research 1

By:

Atacador, Daisy R

Evangelista, Rizalie A.

Lazatin, Jonnalyn D.
 Chapter I

Introduction
 Chapter II

Research Literature/Systems

Santa Rosa, officially the Municipality of Santa Rosa is 1st class Municipality in the

province of Nueva Ecija Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 69,467

people. Santa Rosa is politically subdivided into 33 Barangays The following are the Barangay

of Santa Rosa: Aguinaldo Berang Burgos Cojuangco (Poblacion) Del Pilar Gomez Inspector Isla

La Fuente Liwayway Lourdes Luna Mabini Malacañang Maliolio Mapalad (Fort Magsaysay)

Rajal Centro Rajal Norte Rajal Sur Rizal (Poblacion) San Gregorio San Isidro San Josep San

Mariano San Pedro Santa Teresita Santo Rosario Sapsap Soledad Tagpos Tramo Chua

Valenzuela (Poblacion) Zamora (Poblacion) Originally, Santa Rosa had 3 Barangays or Barrios

during the Spanish period. Soledad, La Fuente and Rajal. In 1903, the number of Barrios became

4 with the addition of Poblacion. Later on, the number of barrios increased to 17 namely.

Cojuangco, La Fuente, , Liwayway, Malacanang, Maliolio, Mapalad, Rizal, Rajal Centro, Rajal

Norte, Rajal Sur, San Gregorio, San Mariano, San Pedro, Santo Rosario, Soledad, Valenzuela

and Zamora. During the term of Mayor Juanito Bernardo (1988-1998), the 17 Barangays became

33 Barangays.

Central to this concept of governance is the development of the barangay. Each one of the

thirty three (33) barangays comprising this humble town is considered equally important as

another. Each, being a building block of a larger community, benefits a responsive and

stimulating local government for what the barangay is mere reflection of the kind of regimen and
bureaucracy a town has. For many years past, common recurring problems were encountered by

the disadvantaged population-lack of knowledge, disrespectful employees, biases, and payment

challenges-as a result of poor bureaucracy and administration far from and insensitive to the

clamour of the people. These probably constrained them to avail of the services of the LGU

unless badly needed. It mobilizes and makes lead offices of the LGU converge with the barangay

government in order to ensure a much more accessible, potent and operative delivery of basic

services guaranteeing higher number of beneficiaries while minimizing the cost that people may

incur as they go along the process. Furthermore, the program also serves a proper ground where

the citizens are able to directly voice out their comments, suggestions, and aspirations to the

local officials and employees concerned which lay the foundation on policy formation and

decision-making toward the betterment of the bureaucracy and the development of the

community.

The research project aims to further enhance the connection and communication of all

barangays in Santa Rosa Municipal Hall by the use of technology. It will help the community to

have an easy access to municipal hall in terms of their needs e.g. Health and social welfare

services which include maintenance of barangay health center and day-care center; Information

and help services that will help citizens for their personal data; Disaster Risk in case of flooding,

and calamities that can enhance the city’s DRRM plan since the gathered information, which

includes data on identified hazards and risks in specific communities or locations and the

subsequent vulnerability assessments by the residents themselves, can help the city develop more

proactive ways of responding to disasters. Community members and local LGU’s are expected to

be involved in the project. Agencies and offices are expected to consult with appropriate local

government units and community organizations before any project or program is implemented in
their jurisdiction. This may be formally accomplished through a Barangay Assembly (BA),

which is composed of “all persons who are actual residents of the barangay”, and its resolutions

express the will of the people in the community (2011). SECTION 427. Meetings of the

Sangguniang Kabataan. - The Sangguniang Kabataan shall meet regularly once a month on the

date, time, and place to be fixed by the said sanggunian. Special meetings may be called by the

Sangguniang Kabataan chairman or any three (3) of its members by giving written notice to all

members of the date, time, place, and agenda of the meeting at least one (1) day in advance.

Notices of regular or special meetings shall be furnished the Punong Barangay and the

Sangguniang Barangay. However meetings and gatherings are not possible in this time because

of the pandemic, one of the research aiming is to make safe by the use of technology.

Communities at present encounter the threat of surviving without risking the potential for people

in the future to meet their needs. They face challenges and struggle to take hold of their

sustainable developments and projects. Communities are challenged by their ability or capacity

to be maintained or even sustain themselves. (www.landlearnnsw.org.au/). Since not all

barangays are capable of delivering development-enhancing services, particularly education and

health, why not opt to relegate this all-important devolved function to the higher LGUs such as

the city or municipality which are deemed to be capable of delivering better services. From a

development perspective, the pros outweigh the cons for this option (2010) with the help of this

study we can be able to make it easier at this period of time. Decentralization has been in

existence for almost two decades in the Philippines. Yet, barangays mostly in the rural areas are

still stuck into the quagmire of incompetence and inefficiency, unable to deliver better basic

services, if at all, and being complacent on the status quo because of policy, institutional,

financial binding constraints undergirded by political, economic, social, and cultural factors.
Unless and until barangays perform better in the provision of basic services, decentralization

defeats its very purpose – that is, devolving powers to barangays in order to empower them, and

in turn, deliver goods and services and empower the people. And as evidenced by the findings of

this paper, most barangays are falling short of expectations, mainly because of financial

constraints. Policy interventions, therefore, are an imperative.