Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDA)

For further questions/details, please contact:

Office/Bureau: Bureau of Local Health Systems Development

Section: Equity in Health

Address: 2nd Floor, Building 3, DOH, San Lazaro Compound, Sta. Cruz, Manila

Contact Number: (02) 8651-7800 loc. 1309

Email address: healthequity@doh.gov.ph

Is there any available list and data on GIDA barangays? How often is the list/data being updated?

Name of Office: Bureau of Local Health Systems Development

The list and other pertinent data on GIDA can be accessed through the GIDA information system website: https://gidais.doh.gov.ph
A mandatory barangay profiling with the use of the GIDA profiling tool is conducted every 3 years by the Local Government Units in partnership with their respective Centers for Health Development while the GIDA list is updated annually.

What are the criteria for classification as GIDA?

Name of Office: Bureau of Local Health Systems Development

  • Barangay Level and must have both Factors (Physical and Socio-economic Factors)
  • Physical Factor
  • At least 25% of sitios/puroks have no access to an RHU nor a hospital within 60 minutes of travel in any form of transport, including walking
  • Socio-Economic Factor - at least ONE of the following:
  • At least 10% of its population are IPs
  • At least 10% of its population are affected by Armed Conflict or Internally Displaced or the barangay is identified as a Communist Terrorist Group (CTG)/Local Extremist Group (LEG) area by the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA)
  • At least 50% of its population are enrolled in 4Ps/CCT
  • Performance of barangay in at least 4 indicators is less than their latest provincial data (IMR, U5MR, FIC, CPR, Adolescent Birth Rate, ANC, SBA, Access to improved water supply)

What are the current policies/issuances and other related documents?

Name of Office: Bureau of Local Health Systems Development

Administrative Order #2020-0023 dated 27 May 2020, "Guidelines on Identifying Geographically-Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas and Strengthening their Health Systems"

What are the objective/s of GIDA Health Systems Strengthening?

Name of Office: Bureau of Local Health Systems Development

a. To provide guidelines and directions for identifying GIDAs & strengthening their health systems; and

b. To improve access to quality health care through province-wide/city-wide health systems, and equitable and sustainable health care financing in GIDAs

What are the program components of GIDA?

Name of Office: Bureau of Local Health Systems Development

The program components of GIDA are:

1. Community development

  • Community organization and mobilization
  • Community needs analysis
  • Participative community planning
  • Generation and allocation of resources (resource mobilization)
  • Alliance building and multi-sectoral partnership

2. Provision of technical and financial assistance

  • Upgrading of health facilities
  • Capacity and capability building

3. Monitoring and Evaluation

  •  Documentation of best practices
  •  GIDA Indicators

What does the acronym GIDA stand for?

Geographically-Isolated and Disadvantaged Area/s

What is GIDA?

Name of Office: Bureau of Local Health Systems Development

Refers to barangays which are specifically disadvantaged due to the presence of both physical and socio-economic factors.

1. Physical Factors - refer to characteristics that limit the delivery of and/or access to basic health services to communities that are difficult to reach due to distance, weather conditions, and transportation difficulties.

2. Socio-economic Factors - refer to social, cultural, and economic characteristics of the community that limit access to and utilization of health services.

What is the goal of GIDA program?

Name of Office: Bureau of Local Health Systems Development

  Better health service delivery and health outcomes for the residents in GIDA and Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs)