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Ombion: Depoliticize barangay unit

INSTITUTIONALLY, to prevent it from being used by local politicians and dynasties for their vested interests, and as one of the chief sources of division, discontentment and widespread violence on the ground.By institutionally, I mean, transfer it from control of ...

From 4 days ago

Ombion: CCA-DRR ready communities

IT’S high time that the national government agencies (NGAs) and the local government units (LGUs) should change their paradigm on disaster risks reduction and management.It should develop a paradigm that empowers and capacitate the people to address and mitigate the ...

From 6 days ago

Ombion: Promotion for sale

I HAVE a friend who has been in public service for more than half of his life. In fact, he is up to retire in two or three years. Despite all the difficulties he had gone through, different places in ...

From 13 days ago

Ombion: DILG to LGUs: Do your job, or else…

THIS is the tone of Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) when it issued in October 2019 the Memorandum Circular 2019-172, reminding the local government units (LGU) to finish their updated Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) and new Comprehensive ...

From 20 days ago

Ombion: Food sovereignty

THE recent news reports that Philippines is now the top global importer of rice at 3.1M metric tons (MT) this year from 1.9M MT in 2018 is chilling and like a death foretold for our agriculture.All the while our people ...

From 25 days ago

Ombion: A biography book on Duterte

ALTHOUGH I haven’t read yet Earl Parreno’s book “Beyond Will and Power”, a sort of unauthorized biography of President Duterte, except for some overviews and initial critique that came out on newspapers and social media, I think it is a ...

From 32 days ago

Ombion: Be more and be better

MY KIND words to Bacolod City Government after garnering new awards, the latest of which is an award from Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) for passing the standards good local governance.I know that the new set of ...

From 40 days ago

Ombion: National enforcement is okay

AS WHAT the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has been doing for a year now, so that local governments will be reminded of existing laws, executive orders and memorandum circulars that they should enforce.As I noted in my ...

From 46 days ago

Ombion: Stricter compliance of laws, EOs, and MCs

YES, such needs stricter enforcement by local government units (LGUs) without under-the-table “areglo” to the disadvantage of public interest. And this should have corresponding tight and right supervision of DILG.This point transpired among civil society organizations (CSOs) and circles of ...

From 48 days ago

Ombion: 5-in-one functions of DILG-LGOO

ENFORCER, enabler, coach, mentor and coordinator of the local government units (LGUs) and national line agencies and units.Without a clear and firm grasp of these functions, the local government operations officer (LGOO) will just do anything and end up anywhere ...

From 53 days ago

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