DILG Annual Report CY 2015 - LML final

Where We Are and What We Should Do
Good local governance must be understood as the platform or foundation of any and all policies,
programs or projects that profess commitment to public welfare.
As the national government agency mandated by law to assist the President in the exercise of the
power of general supervision over local governments, the Department must be in a position to challenge
local agencies to value good local governance.
The Department must continuously strive to effectively engage in LG Capacity Development Services and
Performance Oversight cum Awards and Incentives. Agency initiatives aimed at building a culture of performance,
accountability, transparency and inclusivity must be regularly base-lined. This is a necessary strategy to scale up the
focus and content of intervention, and thereby avoiding the pitfall of one size fits all. The idea is to cause an eventual
transformation of local governments as juridical public exemplars.
Suffice it to say, that if the DILG were to succeed in leading the transformation process, it must internally
reinvent itself continuously, and must rebuild its image continuously.
Internal Governance Outcome -
Strengthened Internal
Organizational Capacity
This is all about overall administrative competence.
It is a condition where officials and employees possess the necessary technical capacities, where internal
and external administrative systems function as designed and where institutional value facilitates rather than
hinders.
Failing this, it is highly unlikely that we can move forward and succeed in carrying out our legal mandate.
In the context of the multiple challenges that the Department is faced with, the question “are we equal to
the tasks?” finds greater relevance and urgency. The business as usual mindset does not fit. Internal administrative
systems must come to age, managerial and technical competencies must be assuring, and employee welfare must
not be let to the employee alone but must now be acknowledged as a primary obligation of the Agency.
D e p a r t m e n t o f t h e I n t e r i o r a n d L o c a l G o v e r n m e n t
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