Problem: Local Government Units play a critical role in a locality’s pursuit of all-inclusive growth and self-reliance. It is mandated to protect and empower communities by building an enabling and sustainable environment where the citizenry would thrive and flourish. The same mandate is shared by the Local Government Unit of Bongao Municipality. It plays a key part in building local development linkages at the provincial and regional levels since it is the de-facto municipality of the province of Tawi-Tawi. However, LGU-Bongao is challenged with influences that call for outright solutions. These situations include growing population, proximity to neighboring countries, environmental delineation, devolution conflicts, and poor socio-economic situations. On top of these, the LGU is internally struggling with heavy dependency on Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) funds. Approach: This study adopted a case study approach and utilized the Problem Tree Analysis (PTA), Objective Tree Analysis (OTA), Decision Tree Analysis (DTA), and Stakeholder Analysis (SA) as analytical tools. Findings: This study derived three potential development approaches such as Local Development, Product or Service Development, and Organization Development. DTA was used to evaluate the profitability of these approaches. The Organization Development (OD) yielded the highest profitability with over 100M NPV and 511% IRR. As compared to Local Development with over 74M NPV and 384% IRR and Product or Service Development with over 5M NPV and 43% IRR. Conclusion: This study concludes that the LGU-Bongao shall employ the Organization Development approach as the primary modality in addressing the overarching issues and problems gauged from the environmental scanning. The adoption of Organization Development approach shall lead the LGU-Bongao to the institutionalization of LEE department and operationalize income generating facilities and service deliveries. Thus, the LGU-Bongao shall will be meeting the needs of the community while improving its financial health as an institution.