DECENTRALIZATION

AND LOCAL
GOVERNANCE
CHAPTER 4
OBJECTIVES
• Identify the different levels of the Philippine Local
Government
• Explain the roles and functions of Local Government Unit
• Examine how decentralization affects governance
• Conduct an interview with barangay officials on community
programs
• Evaluate the performance of a local government unit.
DECENTRALIZATION PUSH
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
• Transfer of power and authority from central institution to
lower or local levels of a government system.
• According to Raul P. De Guzman, generally refers to the
systematic and rational dispersal of power, authority and
responsibility from the center to the periphery, from top to
lower levels, or from national to local governments.
3 FORMS OF DECENTRALIZATION
1. DEVOLUTION – transfer of power and authority from the
national 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 NGO’s.
THE LOCAL GOVERNANCE OF THE
PHILIPPINES
WHAT IS LOCAL GOVERNMENT?
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.
LEVELS OF THE PHILIPPINES
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
REGION
A Sub-national administrative unit
comprising of 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
consist, 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. Sanguniang
Panlalawigan
CITY
There are three classes of cities in the
Philippines: the highly urbanized, the
independent component cities which are
independent of the province, and the
component cities which are part of the
provinces where they are located and
subject to their administrative
supervision. Sanguniang Panglungsod.
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.
BARANGAY
The smallest political unit into which cities and
municipalities in the Philippines are divided. It is
the basic unit of the Philippines political system. It
consists of less than 1,000 inhabitants residing
within the territorial limit of a city or municipality
and administered by a set of elective officials,
headed by a barangay chairman(punong barangay).
• Sanguniang Barangay
• Sanguniang Kabataan
EVOLUTION OF PHILIPPINE
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
CRITERIA FOR CREATION, MERGER AND DIVISION OF LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF LOCAL
GOVERNMENT UNIT
AIMS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE 1991
DEVOLVED FUNCTIONS TO LGU
SOME EFFECTS OF
DECENTRALIZATION IN
GOVERNANCE
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
THANKS
FOR