Background
In the area of of good governance, replication of good practices has been considered as an effective strategy. It helps facilitate achieving LGU's goal of improving the delivery of basic services as mandated by law as well as in meeting the Millenium Development Goals (MDG), other international declarations and national directives.
The concept of replication has been adopted through the "Good Practives in Local Governance: Facilty for Adoption and Replication" (GO-FAR) Project of DILG. It establishes doable strategies and mechanisms that will help LGUs undertake the whole scope of the replication process. However, sustainability of the replication process depends greatly on the wealth of information or database on good practices available for other interested LGUs. Emerging trends show that there are a number of LGUs that have good practices that are good materials for replication. There is a need, therefore, to assist enhance the capacities of these potential/model LGUs in story writing their innovative programs/projects to supplement government's effort of institutionalizing knowledge management and promotion of good practices for replication purposes.
One major component of the replication process under GO-FAR is documenting the good practice. Replication can not proceed unless the good practice is well documented. The Reference Document which is the product of documentation serves as the basis in the preparation of the Facilitators' Guide and Generic Agenda in the conduct of Replication Inception Workshop (a structured peer-to-peer learning process). The reference document is very vital in the replication process as this will help the replicating LGU understand how the project was implemented.
The conceptualization of the project "Good Practices in Local Governance: Facility for Adaptation and Replication" (GO-FAR) is premised on the fact that there are local innovations that are worth replicating.
Source: DILG MC 2008-54 Guidelines in Documenting Good Practices and Preparing Advocacy Materials for Replication and other Relevant Purposes
