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CHANGING THE GAME IN LOCAL GOVERNANCE CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

Barangay Newly-Elected Officials (BNEO) Program
Towards Grassroots Renewal and Empowerment for
Accountable and Transparent (GREAT) Barangays Program

The barangays play a pivotal role in Like the NEO Program, the GREAT
good local governance being the one Barangay Program is a term-based
closest to the people and able to bridge capacity development program anchored
the gap between the government and on the basic tenets of good governance
communities in communicating public offered to barangay officials.
policies and bringing down the needed
government interventions at the local Under the Program, LGA has implemented
level. various capacity development
interventions for our barangay officials in
Understanding the strategic role that giving them a head start at good barangay
our barangays play in the dynamics of governance by enhancing their
good local governance, the LGA for 2019 competencies essential for service
through its Barangay Newly-Elected delivery at the local level which involves
Officials (BNEO) Program Towards development planning, strengthening
Grassroots Renewal and Empowerment of barangay-based institutions, good
for Accountable and Transparent resource mobilization, barangay
(GREAT) Barangays Program, capacitated budgeting, and procurement, and
608 barangay officials in guiding them effective alternative dispute resolution.
to perform their mandated task and
responsibilities.

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