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Published: 28 November 2012

   DILG Region III, under the leadership of Regional Director Florida M. Dijan, had undergone an assessment of its Local Governance Regional Resource Center (LGRRC) on September 25-26, 2012.  The team of assessors composed of two personnel from DILG Region and one LGA Officer.  

   The LGRRC assessment aims to reiew the performance of LGRCs towards making the DILG a knowledge-centric organization.  Asst. Regional Director Abraham Pascua, LGRRC-3 program manager, together with all the members participated in the two-day activity.

  RD Florida Dijan, in her message, said that the result of the assessment will be very constructive in further improving the existing LGRRC operations both at the region and field level.

   During the assessment, the team of assessors validated the present Knowledge Management (KM) strategies being employed in the LGRRC as well as systems and procedures in place which are contributory factors to its institutional development.  Workshops on Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats (SWOT) on people, technology, process, knowledge assets, social network and the LGRRC-3 team were also done.   

   The site validation is the second phase of the assessment process being conducted by LGA with the involvement of LGRRC members in different regions.  This is a follow-through activity of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Forum held in Cebu City last July 2012 which oriented the participants on the tools for assessing LGRC operations to prepare them as assessors.

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Published: 28 November 2012

The Department of the Interior and Local Government Region III conducted a Trainers’ Training of the Good Practices in Local Governance: Facility for Adaptation and Replication   (GO-FAR) on September 19-20, 2012 at the DILG Regional Office III Conference Room.

DILG R-3 Regional Director Florida M. Dijan in her message encouraged the participants to come up with documented good practices of their respective Local Government Units for replication of other LGUs.  She likewise mentioned the importance of informing the public of what the DILG is doing.    

On the other hand, DILG R-3 Assistant Regional Director Abraham A. Pascua said that it is important to seriously implement the GO-FAR project considering the benefits that it may give to the LGUs.  Furthermore, he stated that Central Luzon has many good practices which only need to be documented for others to replicate.  

Regional and provincial GO-FAR teams of this region together with the representatives from San Luis, Aurora attended the training which was facilitated by BLGD-LADD Division Chief Susita G. Bulawit.  The two-day training aims to provide the teams with new knowledge on GO-FAR, criteria of a good practice, replication concepts, processes/guidelines, and additional skills in writing replicable good practices in local governance. 

Five modules were presented through a lecture/discussion. Each module helped the trainers develop their skills on how to replicate and/or document the good practices of LGUs. After which the participants had undergone workshops, wherein each team were tasked to write a good practice of an LGU in their respective areas. Likewise, they were tasked to create advocacy materials for social marketing. This activity empowers the capacities of LGUs to replicate good practices and become models for other LGUs. Lastly, each GO-FAR team went through action planning for the full-blown documentation of their LGU good practice. 

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   The Department of the Interior and Local Government Region 3 conducted an Orientation-Briefing for Provincial/City Full Disclosure Focal Persons on FDP Portal on September 25, 2012 at the Regional Office Conference Room, Maimpis, City of San Fernando, Pampanga.

   The activity is in consonance with DILG MC No. 2010-83 entitled, “Full Disclosure of Local Budget and Finances, Bids and Offerings”, as amended through the DIALOG Trust Fund which designed the FDP Portal. 

   DILG R3 Director Florida M. Dijan, a proponent of Full Disclosure Policy, stressed that FDP is one of the Department’s priority programs and legacies of the late SILG Jesse M. Robredo.  On the other hand, OIC-MED Chief Lerrie S. Hernandez, concurrent LGPMS Regional Focal Person explained the features of the portal and the process of uploading the required financial documents by the LGPMS encoder at the municipal, city and provincial government levels.  She said that it is a subset of the Local Governance Performance Measurement System (LGPMS), thus enabling the public to view, download, and print local government financial documents on-line. 

   Ms. Gracela A. Ortiz and Mr. Reymon L. Romero of the Department of Budget and Management were also invited to address questions encountered by Field Offices on the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System or PHILGEPS.  Queries raised were in relation to PHILGEPS posting which is also one of the requirements in the Seal of Good Housekeeping Program of DILG in addition to FDP.

   The last part of the activity was a  hands-on workshop on actual uploading, viewing and downloading of documents and posting of comments to specific FDP documents.

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   DILG Region 3 Management Team, spearheaded by Regional Director Florida M. Dijan, has organized field visitations in the 7 Provincial Offices of the Department in the region.  

   This strategy is generally aimed to enhance LGU capacities to improve on their performance and enable them to effectively and efficiently deliver basic services.  Specifically, the field officers including cluster team leaders are expected to appreciate and be able to implement the programs, projects and activities (PPAs) under the four DILG program outcomes coined as the ABCD of DILG Region III.  These include Accountable and empowered LGUs, Business-friendly and competitive LGUs, Conflict-free and safe communities and Disaster resilient LGUs.  They shall also commit to set and accomplish their remaining targets for the year.

   Process of the field visitation includes presentation of PPAs by the Planning Officer of each division and unit under the Office of the Regional Director focusing on the minimum targets of fieldmen and cluster team, target setting workshop by cluster, assessment of administrative operations and an open forum as a venue to ventilate administrative and operational issues.  

  The field visitations are scheduled to be conducted starting September until October of this year.  

  To date, the team had undergone the activity in the province of Aurora on September 16-17, 2012.

   During the field visitation in Aurora, Field Officers commented positive feedbacks about the activity.  They said that is a good strategy in improving the field operations for it had built their awareness both on the technical and administrative performance gaps encountered in the first semester and identify actions needed to be undertaken to address such gaps as well as attainable targets to be achieved for the remaining quarter of the year.  They further hope that the field visit will result to improved performance of the province which will redound to the attainment of the fifth program outcome of the Department, that is, strengthened internal governance.