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CLRG Timeline


YEAR                                                                     MILESTONES

1960s
Local Government Research Project (LGRP) started

Local Government Center (LGC) established by U.P. Board of Regents with offices at Rizal Hall, UP Manila

Republic Act 4223 enacted to provide corporate and financial support to the LGC

Raul P. De Guzman appointed as Founding Director

Establishment of the Local Administration and Development Program (LADP)

The Local Government Bulletin publication began

1970s
LGC worked with the UP Law Center’s Constitutional Revision Project and the Commission on Reorganization

LGC undertook pioneering studies on:
  • local government aspect of the Integrated Reorganization Plan
  • creation of the Department of Local Government and Community Development (DLGCD)
  • feasibility of establishing a Metropolitan Manila Authority
  • the first Local Government Code

Felipe V. Oamar appointed as Director

Raul de Guzman becomes Dean of UP College of Public Administration (UP CPA)

Partnerships with DLGCD, USAID and Metro Manila Commission strengthened

International Union of Local Authorities (IULA) Congress held in the Philippines


1980s
1986 People Power Revolution

Rural development becomes focus of LGC projects

Local Resource Management (LRM) research project undertaken

LGC involved in the evaluation of rural roads

Three-year term for LGC directorship began

Directors: Ledivina Cariño, Romeo Ocampo and Perfecto Padilla

Cariño and Ocampo become Dean of UP CPA

Partnerships with The Asia Foundation, PIDS and the Ministry of Human Settlements

LGC transfers to UP Diliman campus together with the UP CPA 

1990s
Republic Act 7160 - Local Government Code was enacted

DLGCD remade into the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)

10-year cooperation program with German Foundation for International Development (DSE) started

LADP becomes a joint program between LGC and the DILG’s Local Government Academy

LGC renamed as the Center for Local and Regional Governance (CLRG); College of Public Administration renamed as National College of Public Administration and Governance

LGC Directors: Alex Brillantes Jr., Nestor Pilar and Perla Legaspi

Tapales becomes dean of UP CPA

Brillantes appointed as Executive Director of Local Government Academy (LGA)-DILG

Proserpina Tapales appointed as first CLRG Director

Ledivina Cariño becomes first Dean of UP NCPAG

2000s
CLRG convenes 2nd and 3rd International Conference on Decentralization

CLRG helps establish the Philippine Network for Local Government Training and Research Institutes in Asia and the Pacific (LOGOTRI-PhilNet)

CLRG also becomes the Asian Resource Center for Decentralization

Courses for local legislation open

Programs for NGOs and the private sector begins

CLRG helps develop the first generation of indicators for the Local Government Performance Measurement System (LGPMS)

Quezon City Government inks with CLRG a continuing capacity building program for its barangay officials (SBDC)

President Arroyo convenes constitutional commission to study federalism

CLRG convenes International Conference on Federalism and Multiculturalism

CLRG partners with Institute of Federalism-University of Fribourg, Switzerland for three years

CLRG provides inputs to Inter-Agency Panel on Federalism

Directors: Alex Brillantes Jr. and Simeon Ilago

Alex Brillantes Jr. becomes Dean of UP NCPAG

2010s
CLRG develops tools for Streamlining BPLS, Integrity Development Review for LGUs and development, sustaining inter-local cooperation and citizen satisfaction surveys/assessments

Continuation of capacity building for barangay officials of Quezon City (HBDC)

More long-term and strategic partnerships with the local government associations (board members, vice mayors, young legislators)

Past Director: Remigio Ocenar (2011-2014)

2014-2019
Conducts researches on various local government concerns including climate change, risk reduction, inclusive local governance, youth and development, environmental management, protected area management, etc.

CLRG, representing the UP National College of Public Administration and Governance (UP-NCPAG), sits as member of the SK National Steering Committee based at the National Youth Commission

​Pilots mandatory training programs for Sangguniang Kabataan

Continuation of capacity building programs on local legislation, executive development, barangay governance, etc.

​Key member and contributor to LOGIN ASIA

Hosting of international programs with participants from Bhutan and Laos

Immediate Past Director: Erwin Gaspar Alampay (2014-2019)

Click here to see more activities of the Center for this period.



2020s
Past Director: Prof. Alicia B. Celestino (2020-2023)

Continues to be part of the SK National Steering Committee

Pilots e-learning through webinars as a mechanism in lieu of face-to-face learning in view of the COVID-19 pandemic

Conducts researches on risk communication, children at risk, women, drug prevention among youth, etc.

​Current Director: Asst. Prof. Reginald G. Ugaddan (2023-present)
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