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BY IKE SEĆERES
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(Continued from Nov. 17, 2017)
It is good that the Philippine Council for NGO Certification (PCNC) is doing its part in filtering out the bad eggs, but there is also a need to support the certification of all other NGOs that are good to go but do not have the resources to do so. For all intents and purposes, it could be said that some NGOs are doing their work independent from the government, while the others are doing so in partnership with the government.
It does not really matter whether NGOs are working independently or in partnership with the government, as long as they are doing their part in the process of governance. What does that process entail?
As I see it, good governance has four basic components, namely policies, programs, plans and projects.
By definition, a project needs to have a beginning and an end; otherwise it is not a project. Before a project could be started however, it needs to have a plan. Without a plan, it could also not be a proper project. By expectation however, all plans should be derived from programs, and all programs should be based on policies.
You might wonder why I am giving importance to this sequence, but needless to say, there are many projects that are not in line with programs and policies, and some do not even have proper plans.
In theory, it could be said that the more NGOs that are doing their share in the process of governance, the less work the formal government has to do.
As a case in point, there are many government agencies that are supposed to be providing livelihood services, just as there are also many NGOs that are also doing the same. That being the case, there ought to be many households that are already liberated from poverty because of these services.
That may be so, but there seems to be no data about this. As another case in point, there are many government agencies that are supposed to be providing housing services, just as there are also many NGOs that are also doing the same also. Just the same, no data is available.
In some literature about this subject, it is implied that the formal government and the ācivil societyā are supposed to work together by way of public and private partnerships (PPP). While that could be done at the national level, it would be very difficult to gather the data, and therefore it would be difficult to measure success or failure.
As an alternative, it would be a better option to implement PPP at the level of the local government units (LGUs). That way it would be easier to gather the benchmark data at the outset, and then also gather the resulting data thereafter, regardless of success or failure.
Although the local efforts may just be small steps, everything could add up, and the national data gathered thereafter would show its effects.Ā (iseneres@yahoo.com)/PN
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