Noli prepares transition plan for new administration

MANILA, Philippines - Vice President and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) chairman Noli De Castro has initiated the implementation of a transition management plan to ensure the smooth turnover to the incoming officials in the government housing agencies.

As early as April, De Castro already created a transition team in the housing sector, led by HUDCC, to formulate and implement a transition management plan.

“We want to ensure that the incoming officials are properly briefed about the housing sector in general as well as each shelter agency, in particular, to facilitate their assumption of these agencies,” De Castro said.

The transition plan includes preparation of reports on each shelter agency, including their mandate and functions, list of plantilla positions and nature of appointment of incumbents, programs and projects, resources, and accomplishments.

“I am also conducting meetings with the key shelter agencies to discuss unfinished and continuing business so that critical issues could be given immediate attention by the new officials,” he said.

The vice president has also been doing the rounds of major housing projects, particularly the rail resettlement sites.

The transition plan also involves preparations for the transition activities, which include a series of briefings, and formal turnover ceremonies to incoming officials.

The Office of the Vice President (OVP) is also preparing its own transition plan and will be ready with it by the end of this month.