DATE | 17 August 2022
 

CLRG launches online course for LCEs,
​LGU executive staff

The Center for Local and Regional Governance (CLRG) held the first rollout of “Introducing Local Executives to Administration and Development” (iLEAD), June 11-15. 

More than 40 city and municipal mayors, as well as LGU department heads and executive staff, including local legislators and barangay officials, attended the iLEAD online. 

iLEAD Participants answering guide questions for the Day 3 of peer tutoring session headed by Ms. Cris Delos Santos.

Specifically designed for local chief executives and their executive team, the course featured topics on fundamentals of good local governance and covered key points for the newly elected officials in their first 100 days in office.

Resource persons, which included local governance practitioners, lawyers and academicians, national government officials,

and CLRG’s affiliate experts, discussed the essential LGU management functions, sustainable local planning and development, sound local fiscal administration, as well as ethics and accountability in local governance. The course also featured a special session on local governance issues, including disaster risk reduction and management, welfare and protection of refugees, stateless persons, and internally displaced persons, and implementation of the full devolution and the Mandanas-Garcia ruling.  

The 47 participants together with the guest speaker, Dr. Erwin Gaspar Alampay (Top-2nd from L) on the second day of iLEAD Batch 1, June 14. 

As part of the learning process, the participants served as peer mentors as they shared their learning and experiences in small group sessions. They developed an action plan based on their proposed executive agenda which they presented to reactors from the NCPAG faculty and research and extension specialists.
 
Michelle Castillo, iLEAD’s Course Manager, said that the first batch of iLEAD was a success based on the number and feedback of the participants. 

“They especially appreciated the learning as well as how the course was managed. The latter was noteworthy considering that the course was fully online, hence activities that require group  

interactions such as the peer mentoring sessions were relatively more difficult to handle compared with a face-to-face setup,” Castillo said. CLRG will hold a second batch of iLEAD  on Sept. 5-9, 2022.  Interested participants may reach the Center at (2) 928.3914 (2) 925.7422 or clrgcourses@gmail.com. 

CLRG Director, Prof. Alice Celestino (top-left) and Atty. Enrique V. Dela Cruz Jr. (top-right) during the open forum in which the event’s moderator, Mr. Raphael Montes (bottom-middle), reads the questions from the participants of iLEAD.