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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Capturing the lessons of experience -- Report organization -- Chapter 2: The local EPM project: overview -- The project: brief description -- Major components -- Project concepts and strategic approaches -- Implementation phases -- Implementation agencies, management and coordinating mechanisms -- L-EPM project institutional arrangement -- Budgetary commitments -- Chapter 3: Selecting the cities -- The selection process: as planned -- Proposed selection criteria -- The actual selection -- On-site validation -- Chapter 4: The Cagayan de Oro experience -- Key demographical data on Cagayan de Oro -- The process of implementation: highlights -- As i saw it all -- Start-up and assessment phase -- The CDO-EPM team -- The job matrix The local EPM process -- Selecting the stakeholders -- Selling the idea: strategies -- Meetings, consultations, briefings, and seminars -- Stakeholders' response -- The key issues -- Prioritizing issues and concerns -- Promoting the EPM project -- The CEP -- Setting up the grounds for engagement -- Buckling down to work -- Presenting the CEP -- Strengthening the team -- Life with EPM: the lean year -- Miracles along the way -- Introspection -- Confusions and solutions -- The city consultation -- Readying the EPM team, organizing the COT -- The final moment - the city con -- The final words -- A stakeholder's account -- A local EPM staff report -- Chapter 5: Epilogue -- Lessons and insights on the experience -- On goals and objectives -- On local/national politics and development -- On resources commitment -- A few good men -- Our recommendations