Department of the Interior and Local Government

NAME POSITION
Roberto S. Petingco MLGOO
Mark Twain A. Saloma DILG STAFF
Renly A. Jalandoni DILG STAFF
   
   

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VISION 

            The DILG is the primary catalyst for excellence in local governance that nurtures self-reliant, progressive, orderly, safe and globally-competitive communities sustained by god-centered and empowered citizenry.

MISSION

            “To promote peace and order, ensure public safety, strengthen local government capability and institutionalized people empowerment to establish peaceful, self-reliant and progessive communities within a just social order”.

Goals

  • Peaceful, safe, self-reliant and development-dominated communities;
  • Improve performance of local governments in governance, administration, social and economic development and environmental management;
  • Sustain peace and order condition and ensure public safety.

Objectives

  • Reduce crime incidents and improve crime solution efficiency
  • Improve jail management and penology services
  • Improve fire protection services
  • Continue professionalization of PNP, BFP and BJMP personnel and services
  • Enhance LGU capacities to improve their performance and enable them to effectively and efficiently deliver services to their constituents
  • Continue to initiate policy reforms in support of local autonomy


Powers & Functions

  • Assist the President in the exercise of general supervision over local governments;
  • Advise the President in the promulgation of policies, rules, regulations and other issuances on the general supervision over local governments and on public order and safety;
  • Establish and prescribe rules, regulations and other issuances implementing laws on public order and safety, the general supervision over local governments and the promotion of local autonomy and community empowerment and monitor compliance thereof;
  • Provide assistance towards legislation regarding local governments, law enforcement and public safety; 
    Establish and prescribe plans, policies, programs and projects to promote peace and order, ensure public safety and further strengthen the administrative, technical and fiscal capabilities of local government offices and personnel;
  • Formulate plans, policies and programs which will meet local emergencies arising from natural and man-made disasters; 
    Establish a system of coordination and cooperation among the citizenry, local executives and the Department, to ensure effective and efficient delivery of basic services to the public;
  • Organize, train and equip primarily for the performance of police functions, a police force that is national in scope and civilian in character.

Who we are

The present Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) traces its roots from the Philippine Revolution of 1897. On March 22, 1897, the Katipunan Government established the first Department of Interior at the Tejeros Convention.

A revolutionary government was also established at that time and the new government elected General Emilio Aguinaldo as President and Andres Bonifacio as Director of Interior, although Bonifacio did not assume the post. At the Naic Assembly held on April 17, 1897, President Aguinaldo appointed General Pascual Alvarez as Secretary of the Interior.

The Department of Interior was enshrined in the Biak-na-Bato Constitution signed on November 1, 1897. Article XV of the said Constitution defined the powers and functions of the Department that included statistics, roads and bridges, agriculture, public information and posts, and public order.

As the years of struggle for independence and self-government continued, the Interior Department became the premier office of the government tasked with various functions ranging from supervision over local units, forest conservation, public instructions, control and supervision over the police, counter-insurgency, rehabilitation, community development and cooperatives development programs.

In 1950, the Department was abolished and its functions were transferred to the Office of Local Government (later renamed Local Government and Civil Affairs Office) under the Office of the President. On January 6, 1956, President Ramon Magsaysay created the Presidential Assistant on Community Development (PACD) to implement the Philippine Community Development Program that will coordinate and integrate on a national scale the efforts of various governmental and civic agencies to improve the living conditions in the barrio residents nationwide and make them self-reliant.

In 1972, Presidential Decree No. 1 created the Department of Local Government and Community Development (DLGCD) through Letter of Implementation No. 7 on November 1, 1972. Ten years later or in 1982, the DLGCD was reorganized and renamed Ministry of Local Government (MLG) by virtue of Executive Order No. 777; and in 1987, it was further reorganized and this time, renamed Department of Local Government (DLG) by virtue of Executive Order No. 262.

Again, on December 13, 1990, the DLG underwent reorganization into what is now known as the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) by virtue of Republic Act No. 6975. The law also created the Philippine National Police (PNP) out of the Philippine Constabulary-Integrated National Police (PC-INP), which, together with the National Police Commission, was integrated under the new DILG, the Bureau of Fire Protection, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology and the Philippine Public Safety College; and absorbed the National Action Committee on Anti-Hijacking from the Department of National Defense (DND).

The passage of RA 6975 paved the way for the union of the local governments and the police force after more than 40 years of separation.

Today, the Department faces a new era of meeting the challenges of local autonomy, peace and order, and public safety.


PROGRAM AND SERVICES

Assistance to Municipalities (AM)

Assistance to Municipalities (AM) Program seeks to equitably assist all municipalities in the delivery of basic services by providing financial subsidy to municipalities for the implementation of their priority programs and projects.

Barangay Governance Performance Management System (BGPMS)

This is a tool for assessing barangay performance in terms of service delivery and compliance to the provisions of the 1991 Local Government Code and other issuances.  Through the system, city and municipal governments, which exercise supervision over their component barangays and the barangays themselves, will be provided with a clear picture of the performance of barangays, particularly in the areas of Administration, Social Services, Economic Development and Environmental Management.

Under BGPMS, barangays are expected to come up with their State of Barangay Governance Report or SGBR whose content serves as basis for the city and municipal governments and the DILG in coming up with the necessary interventions and/or assistance to them.  The System was field-tested in 4,798 barangays in the middle of 2011.

Office Commitments:

Provide all barangays with technical assistance in preparation of SGBRs and Analysis Report, Barangay Development Plans based on BGPMS results to improve barangay performance rating.

Bottom-up-Budgeting (BUB)

The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and the Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGAC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BuB) exercise in 2012. The strategy hopes to empower civil society organizations and citizen’s groups to engage local government and national government agencies and make them more responsive to the people’s needs.

  • For the FY2013 round, the HDPRC identifies 609 municipalities/cities for the initial phase of BuB of which 595 responded and submitted Local Poverty Reduction Action Plans (LPRAPs).
  • For the FY2014 round, the exercise was expanded to cover 1,233 municipalities/cities.
  • For FY2015 round, GPB was extended to all municipalities/cities across the country.

The Empowerment of the Poor Program (EPP) developed by the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) in cooperation with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) complemented the BuB initiative by strengthening civil society organizations (CSO) capacity to engage with the local government units for BuB.