THE ELEMENTS OF AN INSTALLED ECSOM SYSTEM

A PRELIMINARY OUTLINE
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
1. DEFINED UNIT OF ORGANIZATION, MANAGEMENT &
ADMINISTRATION, ACCOUNTING, PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF A
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY:
a. Territory defined as a unit ecosystem with systemic properties specified
and imperatives for sustained maintenance and sustainable use defined.
b. Identified stakeholders with accredited domiciles and claims to territorial
priority defined
c. Appropriate hierarchy of subdivisions of stakeholders and their respective
territories synchronized with political subdivisions, e.g. purok, sitio,
barangay, municipality, district (group of municipalities), province,
region.
d. Defined scopes of powers and responsibilities of different juridical entities
in the areas Local and national government and their instrumentalities,
Churches, cooperatives, associations, business firms corporate and noncorporate, peoples organizations, civic associations, etc.
e. Statutory and Customary ground rules to serve as basis for organization
structure, differentiation of roles, authorities, rules, sanctions, contractual
agreements, planning and budgeting processes, implementation and
operations, such as the 1987 Constitution, Local Government Code,
Fisheries Act, Comprehensive Agrarian Reform, etc. and their respective
Implementing Rules and Regulations.
2. Organization:
a. The Stakeholders
i. Basic unit: the household
ii. The Cluster: 5 to 20 households in a purok/neihborhood
iii. Clusters of clusters: purok, sitio, municipality, district
b. Governance:

i. Memorandum of Agreement among municipal governments in the

District, invoking Sec 33 Chapter 3 of the Local Government
Code of 1991, through appropriate ordinances to group
themselves. Consolidate, or coordinate their efforts, services,
resources for purposes beneficial to them. In support of such
undertakings, upon approval by the sanggunian concerned after
a public hearing conducted for the purpose, contribute funds, real
estate, equipment, and other kinds of property and appoint or
assign personnel under such terms and conditions as may be agreed
upon by the participating local units through Memoranda of
Agreement.
ii. Activation of Local Special Bodies under various provisions of the
LGC and prescribed under Rule XIII Article 63 of the IRR of the
Code.
iii. Formation of an actual or virtual ECSOM Center as focal point of
District organization and of a juridical personality for the
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION to which the clusters, cluster
leaders, purok, barangay, municipal and district leaders will relate.
3. OPERATING THE ECSOM COMMUNITY
a. Operating Networks:
i. Organization and management network
ii. The Planning, Monitoring and Information Network
iii. The Production and Distribution Network with subsystems to meet
basic needs
1. Food agriculture and fisheries, food processing, storage,
distribution
2. Clothing- textiles, garments
3. Shelter: housing & utilities
4. Health delivery network
5. Educational and human development network
6. The Trading Network
7. The Credit and Finance Network

8. The Circulatory network: Transport, communications,

waste management and recycling,
9. The Land-use planning, physical town-planning modules
informed by the ECSOM perspective: New Urbanism
Concepts.
b. The OPERATING LOGIC: SYSTEM OF COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING AGENTS ON BEHALF OF STAKEHOLDERS AT
THEIR DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ORGANIZATIONS (Clusters,
barangays, municipalities, etc.)
i. The Community Wealth and Welfare (CWW) function and the
Social Accounting Matrix:
1. As Operating logic: Household Estate Plans through the
family life cycle as primary guide and management
objective:
2. Time perspective: the 15 year life cycles: five 3-year plans
or three 5-year plans, whichever, over a fifteen year
horizon.
3. Evolution of lifestyles and the development of
PROSUMER (OR PRODUCER/CONSUMER)
households
4. Education program directed at the generations:
a. Adult education
b. Primary age brackets 5-15
c. Secondary age brackets 15-20
5. The demographic evolution and the stages of town planning
development
ii. Evolution of the Community economy over the life-cycle horizons:
1. First five years
2. Next Five Years
3. Third Five year period

DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURES OF PROTOTYPE FAMILIES

STARTINGMID-LIFE
OUT FAMILY
FAMILY
Phase I
Phase 2
HOUSEHOLD TYPES

1st 15 years
Prototype Family
Head of Family
Wife
Eldest son/daughter
Second
Youngest
Prototype Rural Family
Head of the Family
Wife
Eldest son/daughter
Second
Youngest
Eldest II
Second II
Youngest II

2nd 15 years

OLDER
FAMILY
Phase 3

3rd 15
Years

26 TO 40
23 to 38
-1 to 14
-3 to 12
-5 to 10

41
39
15
13
11

TO 55
to 53
to 30
to 28
to 26

56
54
31
29
27

TO 70
to 68
to 46
to 44
to 42

20 to 35
18 to 33
-1 to 14
-3 to 12
-5 to 10

36 to 50
34 to 48
15 to 30
13 to 28
11 to 26
-1 to 14
-3 to 12
-5 to 10

51
49
31
29
27
15
13
11

to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to

65
63
46
44
42
30
28
26