PROMOTING LEADERSHIP AND MITGATING THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF HIV AND AIDS ON HUMAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (HIV-AIDS PROJECT-2009 TO 2011)
Component 1: Leadership for Effective and Effective Responses to HIV and AIDS
Implementing Partners
- Department of Labor and Employment
- Department of Social Welfare and Development
- Health Action Information Network
- Philippine National AIDS Council
General Objective
- It seeks to harmonize with the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) and the UN Joint Team on AIDS (UNJTA) to strengthen sustainable local AIDS responses through the development of leadership capacities of local government units (LGUs) and the Regional AIDS Assistance Teams
- It is envisioned to establish institutional mechanism within LGA to strengthen the local government capacity to implement a sustained, coordinated and multi-sectoral AIDS response
Specific Objective
- To create a pool of HIV-AIDS champions supporting or engaged in AIDS awareness and increased in prevention activities
- Increased in a number of local institutions and coordinating bodies supporting and implementing local AIDS responses
- To strengthen and institutionalized technical support mechanisms on AIDS responses to LGUs
Strategies
- Issued a Joint Memorandum Circular between the three concerned agencies: Guidelines on the Formation and Operation of Regional AIDS Assistance Teams (RAATs)
- Strengthened the capacity of the Regional AIDS Assistance Teams through a series of leadership training
- Conducted cross learning activties for champions and RAATs on effective local response
- Implementation of Action Plans
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STRENGTHENING LOCAL GOVERNANCE RESOURCE CENTERS AS HARMONIZING MECHANISM FOR EFFECTIVE LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN THE PHILIPPINES (2009-2011)
The Local Governance Resource Center (LGRC) is a dynamic, interactive and virtual program that contributes to building the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) as a knowledge centric organization (KCO) and builds learning communities that pursue local governance excellence through sharing and innovation. It is envisioned as a mechanism to harmonize effective local governance in the Philippines and not merely a physical facility, library or simply a repository of knowledge products. LGRCs have already been organized in the seventeen regions nationwide.
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STRENGTHENING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN THE PHILIPPINES (SLGP)
The program's general objective is the creation of a business-friendly environment that fosters sustainable climate for financing and investment in local government units.
Specifically, the program aims to:
- Enhance institutional capactiy of the Local Government Academy and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (implementing agencies)
- Enhancement and implementation of local planning mechanisms to encourage broader sectoral participation, and
- Improve service delivery capacity of local government units
Duration
- PHASE I - January 2008 - November 2009
- PHASE II - November 2009 - January 2010
- PHASE III - Janaury 2010 - April 2011 (proposed)
Partners
- Spanish Office for Technical Cooperation (AECID) - donor agency
- Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) - implementing partner for the Sorsogon Initiative, a capacity building and infrastructure development project for select local government units in Sorsogon. A component activity of Phase 3 of SLGP
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STRENGTHENING THE CAPACITY OF LGA TO COORDINATE AND OVERSEE LOCAL GOVERNMENT TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING (September 2008-September 2011)
The partnership of the Local Government Academy with the World Bank on the project "Strengthening the Capacity of LGA to Coordinate and Oversee Local Government Training and Capacity Building" started on September 2008. This project is driven by the need to develop a common framework to better coordinate and harmonize LGU Capacity Building (CB) programs and strengthen the institutional arrangements for implementation as presently, these CB activities are characterized by fragmentation, duplication and lack of coordination between providers, funding sources and target beneficiaries. Rather than creating a new institution to coordinate LGU training activities, LGA is seen as the one that should take on this role as it is already mandated to coordinate, synchronize, rationalize and deliver training programs.
This project has 3 components to strengthen this coordinating and oversight role: (1) Developing a New Business Model for LGA will identify the Academy's key business processes; (2) Strengthen LGA's Knowledge Management System to support the oversight role; and (3) Study institutional requirements for Certification Program of key LGU positions linked to career system and therefore to civil service reform.
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RELATED LINKS
- LGA Program and Project Updates (as of October 2010)
- LGA Briefing Folio
- LGA Program updates as of June 2011
- Transparency at Work
