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City hall of Baguio (File photo) MANILA - The Supreme Court's (SC) Mandanas-Garcia decision and Executive Order (EO) 138, which expand the funding and autonomy of Local Government Units (LGUs) to fulfill their roles and provide services to their residents, are now in force this year. Subsequent to the said 2019 SC ruling, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte signed EO 138 in June 2021 to mandate the national government's full transfer of certain functions and devolution of programs and projects to LGUs. The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and Department of Budget and Management (DBM) made an effort to conduct webinars and engage LGUs and various stakeholders in a comprehensive discourse about the updates, experiences, varying perspectives, and prospective impacts of these nationwide changes. Participating in Mandanas-Garcia ruling and devolution conversation is part of the national and local governments' commitment in the implementation of the devolution pol
Kalinga Governor Ferdinand Tubban (Screengrab from PCOO Network Briefing News) BAGUIO CITY - The 153 villages in seven municipalities and one component city of Kalinga province will be able to implement more programs and projects with the additional PHP400 million funds under the internal revenue allotment (IRA) resulting from the Supreme Court's (SC) Mandanas-Garcia ruling. Governor Ferdinand Tubban, during the Network Briefing News on Tuesday, said Kalinga was among the first three provinces in the country to submit its devolution plan for 2022. Tubban said the provincial government would use the amount for the different offices, office personnel, capability training, aside from infrastructure, while all villages would get a portion of the funds for their priority investment projects. In particular, he said, the funds would benefit 70 villages classified as geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas. "We have been implementing the devolved functions even without the fun
BAGUIO CITY – The 153 villages in seven municipalities and one component city of Kalinga province will be able to implement more programs and projects with the additional P400 million funds under the internal revenue allotment (IRA) resulting from the Supreme Court's (SC) Mandanas-Garcia ruling. Go
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) broke ground for a P1.3-billion irrigation project in Pangasinan which could help the irrigation of nearly 2,000 hectares of farmlands. In a statement, NIA said it has already started the construction of the Dumoloc Small Reservoir Irrigation Project (Du