GO-FAR
GO-FAR is the first project of the DILG that serves as an intervention mechanism of the DILG in its support to the government effort in institutionalizing good local governance specifically in trying to address priority Local Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and identified local governance performance condition. Basically, it deals more on the strategies in facilitating the actual exercise of the transfer of technology of specific good practice where interested LGUs would want to replicate, manage knowledge and funds for sustainable technical assistance.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF GO-FAR
The end goal of the project GO-FAR is to institutionalize nationwide the sharing and replication of sustainable good practices in local governance to enable LGUs improve their delivery of basic services to their constituencies.
Generally, it is designed to assist the local government units institutionalize the replication of good practices as an avenue in achieving excellence in local governance. Specifically, it aims to:
- Advocate the importance of replicating good practices to enable LGUs better serve their constituencies;
- Manage knowledge on good practices to be able to sustain the provision of technical assistance to the LGUs;
- Establish a revolving fund facility for the LGUs to access purposely for the replication of good practices; and
- Strengthen institutional partnerships between and among the model LGUs, recipient LGUs, institutions, academe, concerned agencies and the Civil Society Organizations for sustained and effective replication of good practices.
