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Work Plan for CY 2011-2012Work Plan for CY 2011-2012

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Philippine Development Forum

primary mechanism of the Government for facilitating substantive policy dialogue among stakeholders on the country’s development agenda

serves as a process for developing consensus and generating commitments among different stakeholders toward critical actionable items of the Government’s reform agenda


Working Working Group on MDGs Group on MDGs

and and Social ProgressSocial Progress

Working GroupWorking Groupon Mindanaoon Mindanao

Working Group Working Group on Growth &on Growth &InvestmentInvestment

ClimateClimate

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& Anti-Corruption& Anti-Corruption

Working Group Working Group on Infrastructureon Infrastructure

Working Group Working Group on Sustainableon Sustainable

Rural Rural DevelopmentDevelopment

Working Group on Decentralization & Local Government

Working Group on Decentralization & Local Government

Working Group Working Group on Economic &on Economic &Fiscal ReformsFiscal Reforms

Each WG facilitates wide consultations across a broad range of stakeholders on these specific themes; each is led by a Government agency as lead convener with a development partner as co-lead convener.


PDF Working Group on Decentralization and Local Government (WG- DLG)

serves as a venue for discussing substantive policy issues related to governance at the local government unit (LGU) level

an important forum for achieving consensus on a policy agenda and set of priorities actions identified by it’s members

DILG acts as the Lead Convener World Bank acts as a Co-Convener


Current Thematic AreasCurrent Thematic Areas

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LOCAL GOVERNMENTFINANCE

CAPACITYBUILDING

PERFORMANCEBENCHMARKING

POLICY REFORMS ONDEVOLUTION

Accelerate revenue mobilization, improve expenditure management and increase access to financing by LGUs for better service delivery and growth promotion

Harmonize capacity building programs for LGUs and other key institutions to improve capacity of LGUs in core governance functions

Increase use of local government performance measurement systems to benchmark performance and create incentives for better performance

Improve decentralization policy framework reflected in updated legal and institutional arrangements to strengthen local governance



LOCAL GOVERNMENTFINANCE

CAPACITYBUILDING

PERFORMANCEBENCHMARKING

POLICY REFORMS ONDEVOLUTION

PROMOTING GOOD LOCAL GOVERNANCE

IMPROVING FISCAL CAPACITY FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

ACCELERATING LOCAL ECONOMIC AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Proposed Development Agenda(from Thematic Areas)



Improved local fiscal capacity towards greater local government autonomy

Accountable LGUs exercising transparent and participatory local governance

Effective delivery of basic services and enabling environment for local economic growth and sustainable development



ACCELERATING LOCAL ECONOMIC AND

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Development Agenda with Outcome Statement


Development Agenda and Development Agenda and Types of Projects/ActivitiesTypes of Projects/Activities




ACCELERATING LOCAL ECONOMIC AND

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Analytical

Studies

Policy Reform

s

Capacity

Building

PDF WG-DLG PDF WG-DLG List of Priority Projects and List of Priority Projects and

ActivitiesActivitiesfor CY 2011-2012for CY 2011-2012


Development Agenda 1:ImImproving Fiscal Capacity for Local proving Fiscal Capacity for Local Development Development

Stepping-Up Own Source Revenue• Rationalization of Fiscal Incentives• Development of a Local Business Taxpayer Database• Institutionalization of a Competency Certification System (CCS) for

Treasurers• Use of Presumptive Gross Sales Figures to Calculate Business Tax Liability• Reform of Inter-Governmental Fiscal relations (revenue assignments)

among LGUs level• Review of decentralization-laws and policies specially those affecting fiscal operations

of LGUs (draft Amendments to LGC submitted)

Enhancing National Government Transfers to LGUs• Streamlining procedures in the release of LGU shares in forest charges,

energy resources and mining royalties (on-going)• Enhancing the system for implementing changes in the IRA due to changes

in population and land area


Development Agenda 1:Improving Fiscal Capacity for Local Improving Fiscal Capacity for Local Development Development

Improving Management of Expenditures• Development of Electronic System (e-system) for Financial Transactions• Development of an improved Personnel Expenditure Policy (study

completed)• Improvement on the policy on the utilization of Special Education Fund

(policy drafted)

Improving LGUs Access to Financing• Improving LGU Access to and monitoring of Official Development Assistance

(ODA) (study completed)• Enhancement of the e-Statement of Receipts and Expenditure (SRE)

System to include 1)Fiscal Capacity Modeling and Forecasting, 2) Financing Modalities, 3) Debt Management, and 4)Creditworthiness and Debt Certification

• Review of the local finance framework and implementation of the identified key reforms areas


Development Agenda 2:Promoting Good Local GovernancePromoting Good Local Governance

Implementing Performance Incentive Sytsesm

Institutionalizing Incentive Systems for Local Governance and Performanceo Implementation of DILG’s LGU Performance Challenge Fund (PCF)

Program in 2011o Developing a National Strategy for Incentives Systems for Local

Governance and Performanceo Rapid Assessment of DILG’s LGU Performance Challenge Fund (PCF)

Programo Knowledge Sharing/Advocacy

Improving LGPMS thru a 3rd party validation and linking with the seal of good housekeeping


Development Agenda 2:Promoting Good Local GovernancePromoting Good Local Governance

Improving efficiency and transparency of LGU Operations

Promotion of inter-local governance reforms (on-going) Intensifying partnership with People Organization (Pos),Civil Society

Organizations (CSOs), and Private Sector (PS) Institutionalization of Public Disclosures in LGUs

Improving system for providing capacity building for LGUs Continuation of NEO Program 2010 (on-going) Continue the implementation of the JMC including the capacity-building of

LGUs on core operations (planning, budgeting, investment programming, revenue generation)


Development Agenda 3:Accelerating Local Economic and Sustainable Accelerating Local Economic and Sustainable DevelopmentDevelopment

Up-scaling Business Permit and Licensing System (BPLS) (on-going) Development of capacity-building programs on special topics (e.g.

financing options available for LGUs, management and coordination of ODA, DRRM and climate change adaption, Amended Fire Code)

Development of Service Standards per service sector and per LGU level Encouraging Public Private Partnership (PPP) in service delivery Improving Management and Operations of Local Economic Enterprises

(LEEs) Enhance LGU Exercise of their Corporate Powers Mainstreaming DRR/CCA in local governance

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