Public Governance Forum inspires citizens, communities, and institutions to contribute to responsible public governance

The March 2013 Public Governance Forum, with the theme “KICKOFF: The
Race to 2015”, highlighted practitioners in the public sector who are
eager to work together towards a shared vision for 2015, a milestone
and highlight year for the Philippines because the Country will be
host to the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) Summit, among
others.

Done every March and September, the forum is a venue for local
government units, national government agencies, uniformed services,
and sectoral associations to report on their gains in public
governance, using ISA’s (Institute for Solidarity in Asia)
Performance Governance System (PGS) – the official Philippine
adaptation of the Harvard Business School’s Balanced Scorecard.

For the 2013 forum, held recently in Mandaluyong City, the Philippine
National Police was  conferred with the Silver Governance Trailblazer
Award by ISA and National Competitiveness Council (NCC) and the Center
for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Police Director General
Alan La Madrid Purisima received the award in behalf of the PNP after
garnering an average rating of 8.5 out of 10 from a panel of local and
international Performance Governance System (PS) experts who evaluated
the PNP Performance Governance Report delivered by the  PNP chief
himself.

In his report, PDG Purisima cited the 2012 accomplishments of the PNP
P.A.T.R.O.L. Plan 2030, particularly on financial and logistical
management, human resources management and police operations. He also
emphasized his strategic focus “CODE-P: 2013 and Beyond” which will
serve as the PNP’s blueprint towards the realization of the PNP
P.A.T.R.O.L. Plan 2030 by enhancing individual and unit Competencies,
restructuring the Organization, instilling Discipline, promoting
culture of Excellence and institutionalizing Professionalism at all
levels of the organization.

One of the highlights of the event was the commitment ceremony which
underscores 2015 as a milestone year as the Philippines will be
hosting 3 international events, specifically the World Bank
International Monetary Fund Annual Meeting, Full Integration of the
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) under the ASEAN Free
Trade Area (AFTA) and Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit.

Realizing the economic and developmental implications of these events,
PDG Purisima committed to bring breakthrough results by improving
crime resolution through the 3 percent annual increase of Crime
Clearance and Crime Solution Efficiency. He further vowed to decrease
by 50 percent  the incidents of theft/robbery, snatching, salisi and
bukas-kotse in major urban centers of Metro Manila, particularly in
Monumento, Cubao University Belt, Kalentong and Baclaran, and other
regional centers of the country.

The PNP has received the Trailblazer Award for 3 consecutive times,
dating back to the March 2012 and September 2012 Public Governance
Forums.

Institute for Solidarity in Asia

The Institute for Solidarity in Asia is a non-government organization
advocate of making governance a shared responsibility. It was founded
on December 2000 by a group of fellows headed by Dr. Jesus P.
Estanislao with the aim of uplifting the level of governance in public
organizations. Estanislao, a former finance minister of the country,
is a leader in the corporate and national governance movement in the
Philippines and throughout East Asia.

Hinged on the Harvard Business School’s Balanced Scorecard technology,
ISA uses the Performance Governance System as the tool for
transformation. The PGS is a performance management framework that
builds on potential: it allows public sector institutions to create
their future through strategies that will allow them to achieve and
sustain their big, hairy, audacious goals.

Aside from the PNP, the PGS has helped sectoral institutions and national
departments like the Philippine Army, Department of Health and the Department
of Social Welfare and Development, and local government units like the, City of
Mandaue, City of Balanga, City of Calapan and Municipality of Bani.
Two of its original dream cities – Iloilo and San Fernando Pampanga –
have been inducted into the Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame
for Executing Strategy.

In 2011, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) received the Governance
Trailblazer seal with a chart-topping 9.03/10 score. CSC Chairman Dr.
Francisco Duque III was pivotal in developing developing the agency's
Roadmap for development and reforms for 2010-2015, which spelled out
CSC's priority programs for the country's 1.4 million civil servants.
Duque steered the CSC to adopting the PGS towards setting the agency's
vision of becoming "Asia's leading Center of Excellence for Strategic
Human Resource and Organization Development by 2013."

The 2013 forum also featured reports from the Armed Forces of the
Philippines, Philippine Army, Department of Trade and Industry,
Philippine HeArt Center, Philippine International Trading Corporation,
and the Accounting profession, as well as reports from the cities of
Calbayog, Mandaue, and Masbate.

Today, over 40 PGS Partners are travelling the Governance Pathway. ISA
is the recognized institutional partner of the Palladium Group, the
consulting firm of the Balanced Scorecard creators.

"More than featuring the transformations and governance gains of their
partners, ISA takes this forum as an opportunity to facilitate real
and lasting transformation for the betterment of the Filipino nation
in the years to come, Estanislao said.