Communications Plan: Reaching Local Government Local Government Advisory Committee.
Local Government
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L L OCAL OCAL G G OVERNMENT OVERNMENT
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Lecture slide deck on Local Government. This was for a class on Philippine Politics and Governance that I taught between 2003-2005. http://brianbelen.blogspot.com
Transcript of Local Government
- 1. L OCALG OVERNMENT
2. OVERVIEW
- What do we mean by local government(s)?
- What is the rationale behind local governance?
3. REVIEW
- Governments are eitherunitaryorfederal
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- Unitary = Centralized under a national government
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- Federal = Both an overriding national federal govt and autonomous local govts
4. REVIEW
- The Philippines is a unitary state
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- Power emanates from a central Executive, Legislature and Judiciary
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- Nevertheless, there are still local governments under this national government
5. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
- Local governments are subordinate entities to national governments that enjoy the legal authority to exercise political power over a fixed territory
6. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
- Local governments aresubordinate entitiesto national governments that enjoy the legal authority to exercise political power over a fixed territory
7. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
- Local governments are subordinate entities to national governments that enjoy thelegal authority to exercise political powerover a fixed territory
8. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
- Local governments are subordinate entities to national governments that enjoy the legal authority to exercise political power over afixed territory
9. CHARACTERISTICS
- Tiers of local authority
- Different from field organizations
- General purpose authorities
- Municipal corporations
10. DECENTRALIZATION
- Deconcentration
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- Administrative in nature
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- Transfer of function to regional/local institutions
- Devolution
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- Political in nature
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- Transfer of power to regional/local institutions
11. RATIONALE
- Debureaucratization
- Subsidiarity
- Stakeholdership and Participatory Governance
- Identity
- Accountability
12. RA7160
- Decentralization in the Philippines was effected by RA7160
- The local government code is the framework for local governance in the Philippines