The PH-OGP Secretariat is happy to announce the Academe, Business Group, and Public Sector Union Representatives to the Philippine-OGP Steering Committee 2020-2022! They are: Get to know our Representatives! The Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance is a private research and training organization based at De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila, Philippines. JRIG promotes integrity, innovation, and inclusiveness in governance and policy through research, training, and community engagement. The Institute cooperates with government, civil society, private sector, academe, and donors in conducting programs and projects that generate data and knowledge to improve governance and policy outcomes. It manages a Knowledge Development Center as a hub for research collaboration and public dialogue. JRIG has been a Steering Committee member of the PH-OGP since 2014. As a Steering Committee member, DLSU has worked with the DILG in accomplishing the agency’s commitments under PH-OGP National...

The PH-OGP Secretariat is happy to announce the result of the online voting for CSO Representatives to the Philippine-OGP Steering Committee 2020-2022! The elected CSO Representatives are:• Unang Hakbang Foundation (UHF) – NCR CSO Steering Committee representative • Coalition for Bicol Development (CBD) - Luzon CSO Steering Committee representative• Sectoral Transparency Alliance on Natural Resource Governance in Cebu, Inc. (STANCe) - Visayas CSO Steering Committee representative• Mindanao Coalition of Development NGO Networks (MINCODE) - Mindanao CSO Steering Committee representative Get to know our CSO Representatives! Unang Hakbang Foundation (UHF) is a caring organization engaged in helping children on the street and in urban poor communities by creating sanctuaries for them. Established in 1999, UHF implements programs to help children tap their potential and become productive and responsible members of their communities. Some of these programs include Aral Kalinga which provides...

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) with support from the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) and non-government partners have launched a series of Open Government Partnership (OGP) and Participatory Governance Regional Townhall Meetings dubbed as “Dagyaw 2019”. Dagyaw is a Hiligaynon term for “Bayanihan,” which exemplifies the concept of “togetherness” that fittingly describes the very nature and value proposition of the OGP which is about bringing different stakeholders together. Resource Speakers from DOH, DA, and DPWH as they respond to the Dagyawan Open Forum during the 1st leg of Dagyaw for Region 3. Dagyawis one of the main government campaigns that serves as a platform for productive, valuable, sincere and visible engagement between senior officials of government and the citizens. This was conducted in 16 regions from June to August 2019. The government held its first leg of Dagyaw...

To further facilitate the needed conversations around fiscal openness and to finalize the commitments in the Philippine Open Government Partnership (PH-OGP) National Action Plan (NAP) 2019-2021, a dialogue between selected government agencies and key non-government stakeholders was conducted last October 28-30, 2019 at Marco Polo Hotel Ortigas, Pasig City. Participants of the OGP Culminating Workshop together with the PH-OGP Steering Committee During the first day of the back-to-back workshop, the roundtable discussion on the Budget Modernization Bill and citizen participation in Public Financial Management (PFM) was held. DBM Assistant Secretary Rolando U. Toledo opened the program and relayed that the activity aims to relay and get insights from the non-government sector representatives on the Budget Modernization Bill, specifically the Section on Transparency and Public Participation in the Budget Process, and relevant provisions of its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR)....