MARAWI
CITY, Lanao del Sur, June 1 (PIA) --- For the first time in the
region’s history, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has
passed the national government’s Good Governance Conditions (GGC)
reflecting a revitalized and reformed autonomous region.
Laisa
Alamia, ARMM executive secretary, said passing the GCC under the
Results-Based Performance Management System is proof that the reforms in
the ARMM are working.
“We have the autonomous region that was
touted to be a failed experiment, additional to that is the people’s
hopeless mindset of its progressive change. But with this perfect
compliance with the six GGC criteria, it shows our reforms work,” Alamia
said.
The Results-Based Performance Management System
monitors the performance of government agencies, in line with the Aquino
administration’s commitment to good governance by encouraging exemplary
performance and effective service delivery to the people.
The
six criteria under the GGC are Performance-Based Bonus Targets,
Transparency Seal, Philippine General Electronic Procurement System
(PhilGEPS) Posting, Liquidation of All Cash Advances, Citizen’s Charter,
and Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN).
Despite
the challenges of complying with the requirements because of ARMM’s
unique government structure, Alamia said the regional government managed
to pass the conditions because of the hard work of the region’s
officials and employees.
Alamia added that the efforts for the
ARMM’s success started with the leadership of Governor Mujiv Hataman
even when he was still an officer-in-charge governor on December 2011.
Hataman was later elected as governor on May 2013.
“When
Hataman came in as an OIC Governor, a series of assessments about the
region’s problems and issues were conducted. When he was elected,
development plans like the Regional Development Plan (RDP) and the
three-year Strategic Convergence Plan for 2013-2015 that serve as a
transition plan for the Bangsamoro were drafted,” Alamia said.
She
said hands-on management of ARMM’s different line agencies was
conducted and they were directed to stick with their plans and targets
for the Performance-Based Bonus Targets.
“We have strengthened
our database management system for all ARMM line agencies, and the
monitoring and evaluation of our projects and programsas well as
required all agencies to create websites and post their financial
transactions and budget expenses beginning 2012 for the Transparency
Seal that would signify the message of open governance,” Alamia further
said.
In addition, all agencies of ARMM are registered in the
PhilGEPS, which requires the agencies to post public procurements in the
PhilGEPS website as a government’s tool for procurement reforms and
transparency.
Offices in the region have also complied with the
Citizen’s Charter – a government’s tool to present systematic commitment
to the people.
“Once we transition to the Bangsamoro, we will
be turning-over a government that has leveled-up when it comes to good
governance,” Alamia said.
According to her, the professionalism
of officials and employees of the region brought about by good
governance compliance will be a challenge for the Bangsamoro.
“It’s
either the Bangsamoro government will maintain or exceed the level of
professionalism of the present bureaucracy,” Alamia said
Having
passed the GGC, the ARMM is 100% ready for the transition to the
Bangsamoro. This compliance is first in the 25-year history of ARMM
(Bureau of Public Information/APB/PIA-10)
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