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Guided LGU Self_Assessment on the State of Environmental Governance PracticesL Report on Baseline 2005 Governance Indices

The Guided Self-Assessment (GSA) is a simple management tool that enables an LGU, along with representatives of its constituents, inclusively-defined, to determine for itself what “best practices” it has already adopted, or has yet to adopt, in order to enhance governance and thereby more effectively address actual or potential threats to the environment. This report presents the results of an initial survey on governance practices, against which the results of similar future efforts will be analyzed. Two follow-up self-assessments are planned for the project’s mid-term (2007), and final year (2009) – so that changes in governance practices over time can be linked to EcoGov 2 interventions. The GSA does not grade LGU performance; rather, it generates a fairly reliable picture of local practices. There is no claim to a high degree of statistical precision of results.

The Guided Self-Assessment spanned the universe of EcoGov’s 79 city and municipal LGUs distributed across four regions (Northern Luzon, Central Visayas, Southern Mindanao and Western Mindanao), and 15 provinces. Eventually, one LGU (Labangan in Zamboanga del Sur) could not be covered because of its political situation. Of the 78 LGUs, 14 (18%) were cities. A total of 1,237 key informants was involved, for an average of 15-16 participants per LGU. Sixty two percent of the key informants came from offices within the LGU; the rest were representatives of NGOs/POs, and other institutions including national agencies, provincial and barangay governments, Indigenous People (IP) groups, the academe and local public schools, and religious organizations. The surveys were completed during the second quarter of 2005, i.e., from March 30 through June 10, 2005.

Subject: 
Environmental governance
File: 
PDF icon Report on Baseline 2005 Governance Indices_FINAL.pdf
Project Title: 
The Philippine Environmental Governance Project (EcoGov2)
Publication Type: 
Book