DECENTRALIZATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVELS OF THE PHILIPPINE LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Region

Decentralization Push - A sub-national administrative unit comprising of

Post-Marcos Dictatorship/ People Power Revolution
Local
Autonomy
• “self-governing”
• The granting of more powers, authority,
responsibilities and resources by the national
government to local government units in order to be
self-reliant and active partners
Decentralization
several provinces having more or less homogenous
characteristics, such as ethnic origin of inhabitants,
dialect spoken, agricultural produce, etc.
Province
- The largest unit in the political structure of the
Philippines. It consists, in varying numbers, of
municipalities and, in some cases, of component cities.
-Its functions and duties in relation to its component
cities and municipalities are generally coordinative and
supervisory.

• transfer of power and authority from central *Sanguniang Panlalawigan

institution to lower or local levels of a government
City
system
There are three classes of cities in the Philippines:
• according to Raul P. De Guzman, generally refers to the
systematic and rational dispersal of power, authority 1. the highly urbanized
and responsibility from the center to the periphery,
2. the independent component cities which are
from top to lower levels, or from national to local
independent of the province
governments
3. the component cities which are part of the provinces
3 Forms of Decentralization:
where they are located and subject to their
1. DEVOLUTION administrative supervision.

- transfer of power and authority from the national *Sanguniang Panlungsod

government to local government units (LGUs); political
and territorial.
2. DECONCENTRATION
- transfer of power, authority or responsibility or the
discretion to plan, decide and manage from central to
local levels; administrative and sectoral.
3. DEBUREAUCRATIZATION
- transfer of some public functions and responsibilities,
which government may perform, to private entities or
NGOs.
Municipality
- Is a political corporate body which is endowed with the
facilities of a municipal corporation, exercised by and
through the municipal government in conformity with
law.
- It is a subsidiary of the province which consists of a
number of barangays within its territorial boundaries,
one of which is the seat of government found at the
town proper (poblacion).
*Sanguniang Bayan

THE LOCAL GOVERNANCE OF THE PHILIPPINES Barangay

Government - The smallest political unit into which cities and

municipalities in the Philippines are divided.
- Republican form
- It is the basic unit of the Philippine political system.
- Executive, Legislative (Bicameral), Judiciary
- It consists of less than 1,000 inhabitants residing
 80 PROVINCES
within the territorial limit of a city or municipality and
 143 CITIES
administered by a set of elective officials, headed by a
 1,491 MUNICIPALITIES barangay chairman (punong barangay).
 42,028 BARANGAYS
* Sanguniang Barangay
What is local government?
* Sanguniang Kabataan
Local Government

• It pertains to the activity by which local officials, both

elected and appointed, implement the goals and
manage the resources of the local government unit
Evolution of Philippine Local Government

THEN NOW
CABEZA DE
BARANGAY KAPITAN
BARANGAY
ALKALDE CITY ALKALDE
ALKALDE
PROVINCE GOBERNADOR
MAYOR

Criteria for Creation, Merger and Division Of Local

Government
LAND AREA POPULATION INCOME

PROVINCE 2,000 sq.km 250,000 20 million

HIGHLY 100 sq. km 200,000 50 million

URBAIZED CITY
INDEPENDENT 100 sq. km 150,000 100 million
CITY
COMPONENT 100 sq. km 150,000 100 million
CITY

ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Aims of the Local Government Code 1991 (RA 7160)

Purpose: transform LGUs into self-reliant communities and

active partners in nation building by giving them more
powers, authority, responsibilities and resources

• Hopes to achieve economic development at the regional

and local levels by giving LCE more freedom in carrying out
their programs that are suitable in their areas

DEVOLVED FUNCTIONS TO LGU’s

1. AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION

2. COMMUNITY BASED FORESTRY

3. FIELD HEALTH AND HOSPITAL SERVICES

4. PUBLIC WORKS

5. TOURISM

6. SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAM

7. TELECOMMUNICATIONS

8. SEOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES

9. HOUSING

10. OTHERS LIKE INVESTMENT SUPPORT

SOME EFFECTS OF DECENTRALIZATION IN GOVERNANCE

 Improved delivery of basic services such as providing

medicines,
 equipments and other essential supplies in
government hospitals
 The people will be closer to government
 Improved receptiveness of the government to the
people’s needs