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Saturday, September 17, 2005
Barangay officials taught how to tap volunteers
Barangay officials have failed to live up to their roles and lack discipline in using a systematic approach in doing their jobs, according to the Liga ng mga Barangay sa Pilipinas.
To address these problems and encourage community participation in governance, the Liga has crafted a pamphlet detailing how barangays could tap the ranks of volunteers in their communities.
Called Badigos, for Barangay Development and Governance System, it guides barangay captains how to come up with a core group whose members, the councilors, can identify focal persons.
Legwork
The focal persons will do the legwork in identifying those who are willing to lend a hand in different aspects of barangay service such as peace and order, mediation, health and sanitation.
The Badigos also outlines how sectors and nongovernment organizations can help the barangay.
“This guide has an illustration, an organization chart on how to use the different working forces of the barangay,” said Cebu City Association of Barangay Councils (ABC) president Eugenio Faelnar.
A brainchild of Liga president James Marty Lim, Badigos identified failures and flaws that explain “why barangay government and management have not changed or improved much.”
Discipline
Among others, the Liga mentioned the lack of discipline in using a systematic process in management, failure to find ways to assess what they are doing, and failure to be role models.
Likewise, barangays “lacked a clear vision of what kind of barangay we want to live in and what kind of barangay officials we want to become.”
Lack of logistical support, which is a perennial problem in government, also contributed to the problem.
However, ABC administrative officer Tessa Cang said that following the tenets of Badigos will help them because at no expense, more hands will help barangays deliver what are expected of them.
She said capable and willing individuals in each barangay are just waiting to be tapped, and Lim’s project provides a process on how to reach out to them. (RHM)
(September 17, 2005 issue)
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