Decision-Making:

Major Group Involvement

 What is Decision-Making?
• It is the action or process of making decisions, especially important ones.
• The thought process of selecting a logical choice from the available options.
• When trying to make a good decision, a person must weight the positives
and negatives of each option, and consider all the alternatives. For effective
decision making, a person must be able to forecast the outcome of each
option as well, and based on all these items, determine which option is the
best for that particular situation.
 Seven Dimensions of Development
I. Spiritual Development – Unless the people see and explicitly
acknowledge the spiritual in nature, human beings and society in the
framework of development, the Filipinos can never do justice to strong
is a global
sense of Philippine spirituality permeates Philippine Agenda 21
action plan for sustainable development into the 21st century.
Sustainable development is a process that aims to meets the needs of the
present generation without harming the ability of future generations to
meet their needs.
 Seven Dimensions of Development
I. Spiritual Development – Unless the people see and explicitly
acknowledge the spiritual in nature, human beings and society in the
framework of development, the Filipinos can never do justice to strong
sense of Philippine spirituality permeates Philippine Agenda 21.
II. Human Development – Existing measures of human development, such
as the Human Development Index (HDI), which are limited to health,
education and income, indicate some improvement over time. This
improvement has in part been achieved through greater
empowerment of the populace.
III. Social and Cultural Development
a) Promoting resource access and upholding property rights.
b) Promoting environment awareness, inculcating environment
ethics and supporting environment management action.

IV. Political Development

a) Empowering the people.
b) Maintaining peace and order.
V. Economic Development
a) Maintaining a sustainable population.
b) Maintaining productivity and profitability of environment and
natural resources.

VI. Ecological Development

a) Adopting environmental management weapons in policy and
decision making.
b) Protecting the environment and conserving natural resources.
 Principles of Sustainable Development
Hereunder are the different principles of sustainable development under Philippine Agenda
21:

a. Primacy of Developing Full Human Potential. This puts man at the center
of all development efforts.
b. Holistic Science and Appropriate Technology. Implies development of
appropriate technology to solve development problems with due
consideration to its impact to society and ecology.
c. Cultural, Moral and Spiritual Sensitivity. Considers the inherit strengths
of local and indigenous knowledge, practices and beliefs, while respecting
cultural diversity, moral standards and the spiritual nature of the Filipino
society.
d. National Sovereignty. Self-determination at the national level to pursue
social and ecological concerns in its governance to achieve human,
environmental and food security.
e. Gender Sensitivity. Recognize the importance of complementary roles
and empowerment of both women and men in development.
f. Peace, Order and National Unity. Make sure that the right of everyone
to a peaceful and secure existence is respected.
g. Social Justice, Inter- and Intra-Generational Equity and Spatial
Equity. Equal distribution of resources to everyone (including future
generations) and the provision of equal access to development
opportunities and benefits to all.
h. Participatory Democracy. Puts values and support to the
participation of all in the decision-making process.
i. Institutional Viability. Since SD is everyone’s concern,
institutional structures should promote joint responsibility,
unity, and partnership among all.
j. Viable, Sound and Broad-based Economic Development.
Requires working for development that is based on stable
economy, where everyone equally shares the benefits of
progress.
k. Sustainable Population. Needs to maintain a number of
people that can be supported by the limited capacity of our
natural resources.
l. Ecological Soundness. Requires that we recognize the earth
as a common heritage that belongs to all of us, and everyone
should care for its capacity to support us and the future
generations.
m. Bio-geographical Equity and Community-Based Resource
Management. Means entrusting to the people residing near or
within an ecosystem the primary right to manage its
resources.
n. Global Cooperation. Requires international solidarity of
every nation’s effort to build a better life and safer
environment.
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