The Department of Interior and Local Government is targeting new measures that can help local government units’ better address the needs of its constituents, and more importantly these new measures are also targeted to help maintain peace and order in communities. According to Secretary Ronnie Puno, all these measures and initiatives have one thing in common- to ensure that the streets are safe thus attracting the attention of foreign investors.
In order to concretize these proposed initiatives, Secretary Ronnie Puno has called for additional budget for the department which includes the Philippine National Police, the Bureau of Fire Protection and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. These moves to enhance the services of the department were made during the stint of Secretary Ronnie Puno. The secretary believes that by enhancing the budget of the department then it would be better equipped to handle and to protect the people it is mandated to serve.
There were a number of initiatives planned and implemented by the department under the leadership of Secretary Ronnie Puno. One initiative of the department is to identify the many ways and measures that can empower the local chief executives. Empower in a sense that the local chief executives will be given a better say in the decision-making process in the government. Secretary Puno targets a more active role for local chief executives and he envisions local chief executives that have a say on country side development and peace and order. He believes that by empowering these local chief executives then the department accomplishes that true grassroots empowerment. By making sure that these local chief executives are given a participatory role in decision-making processes, potential mismatches in development projects and actual needs can be avoided. This is true because the needs and the wants of the LGUs can be better understood since these LGUs will now have representatives on the negotiating table. Secretary Ronnie Puno also noted the need to overhaul public governance in the local level. And this is done by empowering the local chief executives and by making sure that they have a voice in developmental planning.
There were a number of initiatives planned and implemented by the department under the leadership of Secretary Ronnie Puno. One initiative of the department is to identify the many ways and measures that can empower the local chief executives. Empower in a sense that the local chief executives will be given a better say in the decision-making process in the government. Secretary Puno targets a more active role for local chief executives and he envisions local chief executives that have a say on country side development and peace and order. He believes that by empowering these local chief executives then the department accomplishes that true grassroots empowerment. By making sure that these local chief executives are given a participatory role in decision-making processes, potential mismatches in development projects and actual needs can be avoided. This is true because the needs and the wants of the LGUs can be better understood since these LGUs will now have representatives on the negotiating table. Secretary Ronnie Puno also noted the need to overhaul public governance in the local level. And this is done by empowering the local chief executives and by making sure that they have a voice in developmental planning.
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