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The School Board is the Key
Things changed when the project “Reinventing the Naga City School
Board” was conceived. The project’s aim was to make the school board
the vehicle for enhancing local participation in the provision of quality
education through administrative and organizational reforms. The project
aimed to: (a) enhance pupil development; (b) facilitate professional
teacher development; and (c) increase community involvement and build
local stakeholdership.
Specifically, the program sought to:
(a) strengthen the board’s organizational structure to ensure quality
multisectoral representation of the community;
(b) develop the capability of the NCSB Secretariat and staff to assist
the board;
(c) institutionalize a transparent, participative education planning and
budgeting system to promote accountability and greater involvement of
the local community;
(d) identify alternative ways of financing the local education plan
beyond the traditional means, especially by mobilizing internal and
external sources;
(e) design and institutionalize a transparent financial management
and procurement system for the board;
(f) build up and sustain stakeholdership by effectively communicating
the plan and institutionalizing a feedback mechanism for the general
public; and
(g) develop policy recommendations to strengthen local school
boards in the Philippines as a step in continuing the decentralization
process.
Perspective, Participation, Partnership
Anchored on the award-winning Naga Governance Model, the strategies
and activities brought about by the project were built around three
elements that form the foundation of good governance, namely: (a)
progressive perspective that seeks to build prosperity for the community
at large; (b) functional partnership that enables the city to tap community
resources for priority undertakings, in the process multiplying its capacity
to overcome resource constraints; and (c) participation that ensures
long-term sustainability by generating broad-based stakeholdership and
community ownership over local undertakings.
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