DILG Annual Report CY 2015 - LML final

Data to be generated in support of the
Performance Scorecard will then be used to
enhance or further beef up the training
intervention being prepared for the incoming
newly elected local officials (governors down to
barangays), as well as to be incorporated in the
SGLG which is being scaled up yearly, so that its
criteria will be expansive and focus on the actual
realities on the ground and performance of LGUs
in addressing them. Likewise, with the Bottom
Up Budgeting to be cascaded down the barangay
level, in an effort to ensure that “no one gets left
behind” in the country’s continuing drive for
inclusive growth, the Scorecard will actually help
in determining the kinds and types of projects
that they will implement for their constituents.
In all the training packages that the Local
Government Academy (LGA), the Department’s
training arm, the SILG wants such to be a
combination of technology and experience, with
current or former local chief executives sharing
their experiences and best practices with their
peers, as “lessons are found not only in books,
but in the wealth of experience of those who
actually handled and performed local governance
functions.”
The Secretary emphasized that one of the
best ways to advocate and make people believe
in the necessity of being prepared at all times
during disasters is to focus such efforts on those
who are actually vulnerable. Hence, he initiated
a partnership with the Department of Social
Welfare and Development (DSWD) that will
include the DILG’s advocacy programs on disaster
preparedness in the latter’s Family Development
Sessions with the beneficiaries of the
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) as these are
thoroughly vulnerable to the impacts of
disasters. Likewise, other capacity building
interventions of the DILG will now become
barangay- and family-centered so that
awareness, preparedness and action will
commence right at the household level, with
everyone, not only government, moving to
secure lives and properties during such events.
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