The Accountability System in

Local Governance
A. Seal of Local Governance
B. The Disclosure Policy for Local Government
C. The Citizens Charter of Local Government

Unit

Brief Description
Conferment of a Seal to LGUs that adheres

to performance criteria on any of the

following areas: good financial
housekeeping, disaster preparedness,
social protection for the basic sector,
business-friendliness and competitiveness,
environmental management, and law and
order and public safety

Seal of Local Governance

The Department of the Interior and Local

Government (DILG) launches the Seal of

Good Local Governance (SGLG) orPagkilala
sa Katapatan at Kahusayan ng
Pamahalaang Lokal today (January 15,
2014) during the Good Governance Summit
at the PICC in Manila.

Purpose
originated from the program in 2010, is

introduced to provide greater challenge to our

local governments to continue good governance
practices while providing better services.
For an LGU to become an SGLG recipient, an LGU

needs to pass all the three core assessment

areasGood Financial Housekeeping, Social
Protection and DisasterPreparedness, and at
least one from the essential assessment areas
Business-Friendliness and Competitiveness,
Peace & Order or Environmental Management.

LGUs meeting the minimum criteria shall

not only be conferred with the SGLG, but

will also entitle them to a package of
incentives, such as the Performance
Challenge Fund and access to other
national performance-based programs.
The SGLG symbolizes integrity and good
performance of local governments and it is
continuing challenge for provincial, city and
municipal governments to do better today
and in the years to come,

Major Activities Conducted

Developed Seal of Good Local

Governance (SGLG) Consultation on SGLG

indicators Issued implementing guidelines
(Joint Memo Circular No. 2014-39)
Launching of the SGLG Orientation on
implementing guidelines to regional and
sub-regional oces

Coverage
the SGLG will cover all provinces, cities and

municipalities.The DILG with partner

organizations shall select qualified LGUs
starting on the third quarter, while the
awarding shall take place in October of
each year.

17 Bicol LGUs get DILG Seal of

Good Local
Out of 120 local government units (LGUs) across Bicol, only

17 would get the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) from

the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).
Only 14 percent or 17 of the 120 LGUs in Bicol have passed
the yearly SGLG assessment based on the criteria laid by the
agencys regional and national selection committees.
The 17 LGUs have passed and were given Green scorecards
in the three Basic Core Seal (Social protection, Disaster
preparedness and good financial house keeping). An
additional criteria where the LGU can excel in one or all
includes business friendliness and competitiveness,
environmental management and peace and order.

THE DISCLOSURE POLICY FOR

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
FULL DISCLOSURE POLICY

TheFULL DISCLOSURE POLICY page

enables the public to view, download, and
print the City Governments financial
documents to allow all constituents to
understand how the local government
budgets and spends for public services.

WHAT IS FULL DISCLOSURE POLICY?

The Full Disclosure Policy is a governments

policy that requires local officials of

provinces, cities, and municipalities to fully
disclose particular financial transactions of
the LGU to keep their constituents informed
of how the LGU budget is managed,
disbursed and used.

WHY IS THE FDP IMPORTANT?

a) It promotes honest, transparent, and

orderly management of public funds

b) It helps minimize, if not totally prevent
corruption and misuse of public funds
c) It increase the peoples awareness of the
available public funds and the allocated
amount for development projects in their
localities.

WHAT LAWS REQUIRE FDP?

Section 352, Republic Act No. 7160,

otherwise known as the Local Government

Code of 1991: ..posting within 30 days
from end of each fiscal year in at least
three publicly accessible and conspicuous
places in the local government unit, a
summary of all revenues collected and
funds received, including the appropriations
and disbursements of such funds during
the preceding fiscal year.

Republic Act No. 9184, also known as the

Government Procurement Reform Act:

posting of the Invitation to Bid, Notice to
Proceed at Approved Contract in procuring
entitys premises, in newspapers of general
circulation, the Philippine Government
Electric Procurement System (PhilGEPS)
and the website of the procuring entity.

Section 84, Republic Act No. 10155

(General Appropriations Act): ..Strict

compliance with Sections 288 and 354 of
RA No. 7160 and DILG Memorandum
Circular No. 2011-134, entitled Full
Disclosure Policy relative to the posting of
Local Budget and Finances, Bids and Public
Offerings and Status of Programs and
Projects, is hereby mandated: Such
required documents shall be posted on
billboards in all publicly accessible and
conspicuous places in the local government
unit, in the LGU website and/or in print

Article III, Section 7 of the 1987 Philippine

Constitution: The right of the people to

information on matters of public concern
shall be recognized. Access to official
records, and to documents and papers
pertaining to official acts, transactions, or
decisions, as well as to government
research data used as basis for policy
development, shall be afforded the citizen,
subject to such limitations as may be
provided by law.

WHAT ARE THE DOCUMENTS THAT NEED TO BE

POSTED?
a. Annual Budget Report
b. Statement of Debt Service
c. Statement of Receipts and Expenditures
d. Quarterly Statement of Cash Flow
e. Annual Procurement Plan or Procurement List
f. Items to Bid
g. Bid Results on Civil Works, Goods and Services, and Consulting
Services
h. Abstract of Bids as Calculated
i. Supplemental Procurement Plan, if any
j. SEF Income and Expenditure Estimates
k. Report of SEF Utilization
l. Annual GAD Accomplishment Report
m. Trust Fund (PDAF) Utilization
n. 20% Component of the IRA Utilization
o. Report of Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund
(LDRRMF) Utilization

The Citizens Charter of Local

Government Unit
The Origins of Citizens Charter

The birth of the citizens charter marked a

paradigm shift in doing the business of the
government. The charters serve as a
contract between the public and state on
how services are to be provided. It is a shift
towards a business-like managerial model of
underscoring the clients needs and
demands. Charters serve as official
document that outlines the publics
entitlements

Pre-RA 9485 Citizens Charter

Initiatives in the Philippines
In the Philippines, the local governments

picked up the trend of creating citizens

charter. Prior to the enactment of the ARTA,
the Naga City Government published a
guidebook on key government services in
2001, which laid the ground for the
issuance of its citizens charter. The
initiative was due partly to a USAID-funded
project that began in 1997. More than four
editions of the charters have been
published since then.

On the national government front, Memorandum Circular 35

issued in 2003 mandated all departments and agencies to

develop and publish service guides in the form of brochures
or handbooks as well as workflow charts
The service guides shall include the
a) brief information about the agency, its mandate and
functions including all the services the agency provides to the
public,
b) procedure or sequence of steps to be followed,
c) documents required relative to the service,
d) amount of fees to be paid and corresponding legal bases,
e) service standard such as maximum processing time,
f) service pledge of the agency,
g) rights and responsibilities of persons availing of the service,
h) procedure for filing complaints and providing suggestions
and feedback, and
i) other such information as the head of the agency may deem
necessary to improve the delivery of services.

Anti-Red Tape Program & Citizens

Charter Initiative in the Philippines:
Using the ARTA as springboard, the Civil

Service Commission (CSC) launched a

program that to ensure the immediate,
swift and effective implementation of the
law. An oversight committee headed by
CSC was created by virtue of ARTA with the
Office of the Ombudsman, the Presidential
Anti-Graft Commission, and the
Development Academy of the Philippines as
members.

LGUs observance of the Citizens charter are

significantly lower that their national

counterparts. This could provide possible
indication of lower effectiveness of the citizens
charter in local governance.
An additional component to the ARTA initiative is
the ARTA Watch. ARTA Watch is a spot checking
mechanism to determine agency compliance to
ARTA provisions. Conducted by the CSC, it was
brought about by complaints received by the
Commission on alleged violations of ARTA and
incidents of fixing. It aims to emphasize the no
noon break policy and serves an information
and advocacy drive for the other programs of
the CSC.