The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is set to implement capacity development programs for all barangay officials through the Barangay Newly Elected Officials for Grassroots Renewal and Empowerment for Accountable and Transparent Barangays (BNEO for GREAT Barangays) to attain good leadership for the elected officials and contribute to the betterment of the country.
During the DILG IV-A and the Philippine Information Agency IV-A’s online series, Sulong CALABARZON, Assistant Regional Director (ARD) Elias Fernandez shared his priorities as new ARD. Fernandez said the program aims to promote participative governance to increase awareness of both barangay officials and their constituents.
BNEO, he said, would be a training program for first termers, re-electionists, and third termers to gain improvements for their mandated task and responsibilities.
According to Fernandez, there are many factors to be taught to new barangay officials including the improvement of their skills, preparedness for their positions, and the establishment of volunteerism or “bayanihan” to prevent corruption.
BNEO for GREAT Barangays consists of five components namely: Ensuring Smooth Transition, Jumpstarting Local Governance, Sharpening the Saw, Looking Forward to Better Governance through Citizenship Building, and Enhancing Barangay Performance.
Ensuring Smooth Transition promotes transparency and accountability, it also emphasizes the responsibilities of barangay officials to maintain proper documentation; Jumpstarting Local Governance involves a complete Barangay Agenda for Governance and Development (BAGAD) which will serve as an initial action plan for the first 100 days in office; Sharpening the Saw refers to the flexible and demand-driven component guided by the Capacity Development Agenda to help improve barangay officials skill sets;
Looking Forward to Better Governance through Citizenship Building seeks to promote volunteerism, deliberation and partnerships between the barangay government, citizens groups and people’s/civil society organizations; While the Barangay Seal of Good Local Governance (BSGLG) aims to help operationalize the enhancement of barangay performances along with other success indicators and incentives.
Fernandez said he expects the compliance of all barangay levels to attain good governance.
He also encouraged all elected and appointed barangay officials to participate in the implementation of BNEO to ensure the smooth transition of power and authority from the old to new barangay officials based on the recent guidelines issued by the DILG. (Charmaine Odong, PIA4A)
Source: Philippine Information Agency. Photo credit: bacoor.gov.ph
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