Ateneo School of Government

Good Governance Framework

Presented in
Airlangga University
Surabaya, East Java
14 to 15 June 2006
 What is Good Governance?

GOOD (from GOVERNANCE (from

Merriam-Webster) Merriam-Webster)
- Something that - the exercise of
is desirable and sovereign authority
beneficial +
- sovereign authority is
- Right Thing power coming from the
people through elections

GOOD GOVERNANCE
- the exercise of sovereign authority that
= is desirable and beneficial to the people

- the right way of exercising sovereign

authority (power from the people)
 Why Good Governance

Sovereign = Power from the

Authority people

FOR

PUBLIC GOOD/ VALUE (not for self)

THAT IS WHY WE ARE CALLED

PUBLIC SERVANTS
Not public bosses
 Good Governance Framework and Principles

TRANSPARENT AND
LEADERSHIP ACCOUNTABLE T S
STYLE R U
CIVIC PARTICIPATION A S
INNOVATIVE N T
And
S A
F I
EFFECTIVE E& N
MANAGEMENT
EFFICIENT EFFECTIVE R A
Service Delivery A B
B L
L E
For
E
PUBLIC TOWARDS POVERTY ALLEVIATION
SERVICE

Note: This framework has been used by the Ateneo School of Government in
judging the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) Best Practices Awards
 Why TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE
GOVERNANCE?
Why What is it Examples

Because it  Public well informed about the project from  Billboards

is public inception to implementation with accurate
TRANSPA- resources project
RENCY you have implementa-
 Availability of accurate and up to date
tion info
information about project implementation
AND (Marikina)
Because
you are  Public knows were to access information
ACCOUNT- trusted to Text
ABILITY take care of hotlines
it  Criteria used for selection of beneficiaries are (Metro Manila
disseminated to the public Cities)
Because it
prevents  Information on the selection of beneficiaries is Webpage
corruption disseminated to the public (Naga)

 Access to financial reports by the public

 Regular progress reports on the projects

Presence of feedback and/ or built-in corrective

mechanisms to obtain inputs from stakeholders
 Why the Need for CIVIC PARTICIPATION?
Why What is it Examples

Because you do  Presence of functional mechanisms to Citizen’s Board

not know encourage participation and obtain (Naga)
everything feedback from stakeholders
 CBDSS (Bago)
CIVIC Because people Involvement of citizens and/ or target
PARTICI- know their needs beneficiaries in the projects of Samal Cultural
PATION from the ground government from situational analysis, Heritage Revival
design, implementation, monitoring,
and evaluation
Because people  Samal LSB
are resources
that can help you Ownership of community or target
beneficiaries of the project Participation is
not
Because it ATTENDANCE
empowers SHEET only
people
 Why INNOVATION?

Why What is it Examples

Because the  Able to aggressively pursue non-  Mauswag na

traditional traditional sources of income and Ciudad
INNOVAT- way is not resources (Sorsogon)
ION enough or
does not  Able to introduce a new way of doing  One Stop Shops
work things to be more responsive and with in cities in the
anymore positive results early days

Because the  Creative/ imaginative use of available  Municipal bonds

problem of resources to address concrete problems
poverty is a
daunting  Some LGUs risk
challenge to a point of
being hailed to
court (e.g.
Bulacan)
 Why EFFICIENT GOVERNANCE?
Why What is it Examples

Because  Best practical solution and use of resources  Mauswag na

resources to address the problem ciudad
are scarce (Sorsogon)
Well-defined objectives with clear targets,
Because outputs and steps to achieve them Samal
EFFIC- public Mariculture
IENCY resources  Maximum/optimal use of local resources Park
have been
entrusted  Is cost/
to you  Activities implemented according to schedule
beneficiary
ratio a good
Presence of functional corrective measure of
mechanisms to address implementation lags efficiency?

 Implementation lags solved on time  The problem

of Caloocan
Expected reach of the project (number of bonds?
beneficiaries) and intended outcome
commensurable with cost of project
 Why EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE?
Why What is it Examples

Because  Presence of clear and consistent vision and mission  Nueva

it is articulated by the LGU leadership Viscaya and
EFFECT- public  Presence of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms its MBN
IVITY resource indicators
to track the effectiveness of the project.
s you  Strengthens community collaboration and (Gov.
Impact have Agbayani)
cooperation
of your  Strengthens partnership between LGUs and
actions Because Naga and
community 

you are  Increased income of LGU and or community its Local

-Social trusted Boards
members
- Econo- to take
 Improvements in service delivery felt by the
mic care of it Marinduque
community 

 Active development of network and linkages with copper

Envir- Because mining
other local, national and international institutions
onment people tragedy
 Environment friendly and/ or no adverse effects on
are
hoping the environment
 From 5th
on you class to a
higher class.
 But Why POVERTY ALLEVIATION?
Why What is it Examples

Because it Concrete benefits by the poor and  Nueva

POV- is the main vulnerable sectors of community Vizcaya and
problem of its MBN
ERTY the indicators
 Does not disenfranchise the poor sector
country
ALLEV- Stopping the
IATION  Addresses the needs of the poor
Because it poor from
distributes getting
wealth to Poor are well-targeted as beneficiaries poorer, rich
all and not of the project getting richer!
to a few
Inclusion of impact of project on the
poor considered in the design and
implementation of the project

Where do the other themes come in?

SECURITY?
HUMAN RIGHTS?
HEALTH?
EDUCATION?
LIVELIHOOD?
ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
DILEMMA?

CAN ONE BE AN ETHICAL LEADER

AND PROVIDE
BAD GOVERNANCE?

OR

CAN ONE BE AN UNETHICAL LEADER

AND PROVIDE
GOOD GOVERNANCE?