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DILG - LOCAL GOVERNMENT SECTOR OUTCOME FRAMEWORK
The DILG LG Sector Outcome Framework calls attention to the question of relevance. More than a
hundred years in existence, is the Department still relevant in the face of modern-day challenges in public
administration and development? Do our commitments have meaning and significance in the overall design of
things in our society – directly or otherwise?
Being the primary agency tasked to scale up the capacities of the less able local governments, perform
oversight function and incentivize exemplary performance, we need to position ourselves in a way that we can
really influence local authorities to model the transformation process, be it social, economic or environmental,
under conditions of self-reliance, law and order and public safety.
Both the Department and local governments need to be robust to meet their respective mandates, with
the former needing to strengthen its internal governance capacity to shepherd and nurture a local government
to become accountable, transparent, participative and effective. On the other hand, local authorities are
expected to observe the tenets of good governance as they pursue social development and protection, economic
development and environmental management amid the imperatives of climate change and natural disasters.
Whatever the Department engages itself, it must be guided by the primacy of designed and destined local
development. Everyone in the Department, from the highest official to the lowest employee, must understand
that rooted development is only possible where local governance is really understood and sustainably practiced,
beyond mere rhetoric and public discourse.
The agency is not a work output producer for the sake of producing it. Any output must be clearly linked
to, and help bring about, a desirable outcome. Local government contribution in the realization of inclusive
growth and poverty reduction is better assured of success where desirable outcome-orientation is the norm.
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