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CHANGING THE GAME
CHANGING THE GAME IN LOCAL GOVERNANCE CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
CHANGING THE GAME
IN LOCAL GOVERNANCE CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
IN LOCAL GOVERNANCE CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
Outlook for 2020

The imminent implementation of The LGA will also be pushing for LGUs to
the Supreme Court ruling on the IRA come up with the capacity development
share in 2021 comes with its bigger agenda to ensure that LGUs are
challenges and opportunities for capacitated not solely through training
local governments in delivering basic activities but though a holistic approach
services to the constituents. National to institutional capacity development.
government agencies are expected to Strong partnership and collaboration
devolve additional functions to the local are expected from LGA with the leagues
governments with the SC decision, thus of local governments, the national
it is imperative upon the LGA to prepare government agencies and other local
LGUs to keep up with the additional governance stakeholders toward this end.
responsibilities.
Internal capacity building for the
For 2020, further devolution of services LGA would entail strengthening the
to LGUs calls for a deliberate assessment research and development initiaitives
of the absorptive capacity of local and knowledge management functions
governments and looking closely into through a revitalized library service,
the competency requirements using the partnership and network, and
six (6) capacity pillars as the framework performance monitoring and evaluation
for capacity development. The LGA will towards the 2030 vision of setting the
assist national governments in this aspect standards for local governance capacity
by analyzing the capacity development development.
gaps of LGUs on the following areas:
1) structure; 2) management systems;
3) competency; 4) enabling policies;
5) knowledge and learning; and 6)
leadership.

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