Members of the PH-OGP Delegation shares the co-creation experiences in the Philippines to the Afghanistan Delegation. The Philippines is among the six countries who attended the Open Government Partnership (OGP) MDTF Peer Learning Workshop at Fairmont Hotel Dubai, United Arab Emirates on September 22-27, 2019. The PH-OGP delegation is represented by DBM’s Assistant Secretary Rolando U. Toledo, Mr. Robin T. Gumasing and Non-Government representatives Ms. Jennifer De Belen and Ms. Mhafe Del Mundo from Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO). The objective of the workshop is to provide just-in-time technical and peer assistance to country actors in the development and implementation planning of their OGP Action Plans. It also provides an opportunity to all MDTF awardees to converge, share experiences and learn from other participating countries on how they go about each co-creation stage including expert advices from the OGP International Support Unit. From L-R: DBM Assistant...

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)....

Members of the PH-OGP Secretariat and the International OGP Support Unit take a group photo with the workshop participants   Anchored on the global celebration of the Open Government Week, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), as the Philippine Open Government Partnership (PH-OGP) Chair and Secretariat, led the conduct of a workshop entitled, “From Potential to Concrete Transformative Impact: a PH-OGP Orientation and Co-Creation Workshop,” on March 15 at the DBM Central Office.   The workshop aimed to provide an avenue to deepen the PH-OGP Co-Creation dialogue and workshop with different stakeholders from government and non-government sectors towards fulfilling commitments to enhance transparency, accountability, and citizen engagement in governance.   Assistant Secretary Rolando Toledo of the Fiscal Planning and Reforms Bureau of the DBM officially opened the event and, at the same time, introduced the new PH-OGP website: http://ogp.dbm.gov.ph.   DBM Assistant Secretary Rolando...