The Newly Elected

Officials Program

“Maximizing Opportunities
and Enhancing Resiliency as Platform
for Global Competitiveness”
 Program Objective

The NEO Program aims to capacitate elected

officials that were given the fresh mandate to
be able to translate their own vision and agenda
for their LGU into a feasible plan that they can
implement over the course of their term and to
maximize development challenges and
opportunities to become globally and regionally
competitive.
 NEWLY ELECTED OFFICIALS PROGRAM
COMPONENT 1: COMPONENT 3: LOOKING COMPONENT 5:
COMPONENT 2: JUMPSTARTING COMPONENT 4:
ENSURING SMOOTH FORWARD TO BETTER ENHANCING LGU
LOCAL GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE
SHARPENING THE SAW
TRANSITION PERFORMANCE

Creation of Transition
Teams Performance
Basic Orientation: Formu-
 Organize Data LGU Guide
 Prepare Transition
First 100 Days in
to Action lation Webinar
Alliance
Competency Assessment
Office – Executive Enhancement
Documents (Plans, (Webinar of LGU Building
Residential (Peer Sessions
Budget, Inventory of Series) Plans
to Peer Learning)
Assets etc.)
 SGLG Report
 Develop briefing
Schedules Decentralization and Formulation Business Friendly and
Localizing the Specialized Conduct of Audits
 LGU Scorecard Governance of LGU Competitive LGUs
Social Contract Topics (Balance Score
Plans Provincial
of the New Card, SGLG etc. )
Duties and Functions Alliance Environment Protective,
Administration
Financing Building: Climate Change
Common Pitfalls your ELA Provincial Adaptive and Disaster Incentive and
Governance - Resilient LGUs Awards
Challenges 101 City/Muni (conferment of
(Modules Crafting of cipality Socially Protective LGUs Seals, LGU Awards
1 to 10) Capacity for Innovations)
Dev’t
Strategic Agenda Accountable, Transparent,
Management
Participative and Effective
• City Dev’t
Local Governance
• First 100 Strategy
Provincial
Days Agenda
Baseline Localizing Physical
• Social
Profile Social Framework
Contract of
Contract on Plan
the LCE
the Ground

Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation

DILG, DILG,LGA,
DILG LGA, Leagues, DILG DILG LGA NGAs, LRIs, DILG
RDCs
CSOs
December September- January January
April – July July-October
May to October 2016 2016 October 2017 2017
2016 2016 onwards 2016 onwards onwards
Component 1: Ensuring Smooth Transition
Turnover
1. A venue which aims to assist incoming local officials ensure
smooth transition in their respective LGUs.
2. A transition team in the LGU will be created to organize data,
prepare transition documents, develop briefing schedules to
facilitate smooth transition in the LGU operations.
3. Presentation of the State of
Good Local Governance will be
done to give local officials an
idea of the state of governance
in the LGU.

DILG shall facilitate

transition proceedings
Component 2: Jumpstarting Local Governance
Provides a foundation that will help local officials to understand and think
critically about the organizational, political, and constitutional environment
of public service especially that in local governments. It is divided into two
(2) main parts:
A. Basic Orientation: First 100 Days
 Decentralization and Governance
 Duties and Functions (this includes concerns
on Police Deputation and Drugs)
 Common Pitfalls in Governance
 Dialogue with Peers and select Government
Agencies

B. LGU Guide to Action

 Localizing the Social Contract of the New
Administration
 Governance Challenges 101
 Strategic Management – City Development
Strategy
Component 2: Jumpstarting Local Governance

A. Basic Orientation: First 100 Days

• A venue where elected officials will be groomed as
development managers and empowered world class leaders
• Local officials will be oriented on the
Philippines governance system;
discussion on their duties and
responsibilities, common pitfalls in
LGU management and; the
opportunity to have a dialogue with
peers
• It is a peer-based sharing of realistic,
practical and innovative ways of
doing their job
Component 2: Jumpstarting Local Governance

• This gives newly minted officials opportunity to

interface with more seasoned colleagues.

• This will be delivered thru blended

learning mode using face-to-face
and actual site visits
Component 2: Jumpstarting Local Governance

B. LGU Guide to Action (Webinar Series)

The Governance Challenges 101 that is delivered through

Webinar Series has 10 modules and is being categorized as:

1. Foundation Modules – New

Administration’s Social Contract on the
Ground; Strategic Management (City
Development Strategy)

2. Elective Modules – Health Governance,

Local Economic Development, Education
Governance, Regulatory Simplification
Component 2: Jumpstarting Local Governance
B. LGU Guide to Action (Webinar Series)
2. Elective Modules – Health Governance, Environmental Governance, Strategic
Management, Public Safety, Resource Mobilization and Financial
Management and Analysis, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management,
Bridging Leadership and Urban Governance

• As part of the requirement, participating local

officials will be coming up with a plan to
localize the social contract of the new
administration to their respective
communities.

This will be co-managed by the

Academy and the LGRRCs
Component 3: Looking Forward to Better Governance

 This will immerse local officials on the challenges confronted by the

local community in terms of governance, climate change and disaster
resiliency, competitiveness and social protection.

 A venue to prepare development plans

of the LGU – CDP, CLUP, the Executive-
Legislative Agenda that is based on the
challenges confronted by the LGU and a
Competency Based CapDev Agenda that
will serve as blueprint for capacity
enhancement.

One on one and on-site management

of DILG with individual LGUs
Component 3: Looking Forward to Better Governance

 Series of Executive Sessions on

select/specialized topics to be delivered by
renowned governance practitioners will be
conducted to continuously keep local
officials be abreast on the latest trends in
governance.

 A workshop on Building Alliances between

the province and its component cities and
municipalities will be held to ensure
synergy of actions and define its common
development priorities.

 Avenue for the province to come up with

Provincial Physical Framework Plan that
reflects the priorities of component cities
and municipalities within the province.
 Component 4: Sharpening the Saw

• This part will provide for the training

and capacity development
interventions mapped out from the
LGUs Capacity Development Agenda
that is Competency Based.

• It is market – driven phase of the

program where LGUs match their
requirements with the existing capacity
development services and training
packages available.
 Component 4: Sharpening the Saw
It also allows LGUs to negotiate and work in
partnership with Local Resource Institutions,
NGAs, NGOs and CSOs in the delivery of
capacity development services.

• Focus of interventions are along the areas

of Business Friendly and Competitiveness;
Environment Protective, Climate Change;
Social Protection, Accountable,
Transparent, Participative and Effective
Local Governance.
 Component 5: Enhancing LGU Performance

• The Department will embark on

performance management as a
mechanism to monitor and
evaluate governance at the local
level.

• This component will be

composed of LGU Profiling
Audits and the conferment of
incentives and awards in the
form of Seals of the
Department.
 Component 5: Enhancing LGU Performance

• The metric-centered approach of

evaluation and recognition of
LGUs, aims to standardize and
instill a more disciplined approach
in encouraging increased LGU
performance.
• Assessment tools such as Seal of
Good House Keeping, Balance
Score Card etc. will be used to
assess performance of LGUs.
 Major Inputs per Component
Ensuring Smooth • Reiteration of the Policy in the Creation of LGU Transition Teams
• Preparation of ToR of the LGU Transition Team
Transition • Identitification of prescribed documents

• Updating of Platform for webinar series

Jump Starting Local
Monitoring and Evaluation

• Development/updating of materials and other knowledge

products for blended learning
Governance • CapDev Mapping
• Program Manager's Orientation (LGRRCs)

Looking Forward to • Conduct of CapDev Expo cum Workshop on Alliance Building

• Reiteration of DILG policy guidelines on LGU Plan formulations
Better Governance and crafting of Capacity Development Agenda

• Accreditation of Service Providers

Sharpening the Saw • Facilitating Access of Local Governments to Service Providers
and Capacity Development Resources

Enhancing LGU • LGU Profiling

Performance • Incentives and Awards