HOW TO BUILD POLITICAL WILL FOR PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE

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HOW TO BUILD POLITICAL WILL FOR PARTICIPATORY
GOVERNANCE

• PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE
• A CROSSOVER AGENDA
• CORAZON DINKY JULIANO-SOLIMAN
• INCITEGov
• Caledonian University Campus
• Glasgow, Scotland

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THE REFORM AGENDA

• Enhance the social development program of the
  ministry
• Improve the performance management system of the
  ministry
• Encourage the social workers to give
  compassionate and joyful service

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CROSSING OVER

• Knowledge and experience based intervention in
  participatory development
• Reform agenda
• Bias against the bureaucracy
• Belief and trust of shared values and methods of
  work in the leadership of the governing power

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KALAHI CIDSS

• Provinces with highest incidence of poverty
• Participatory problem solving process- resource
  mapping, analysis of the issues, solution
  generation including project identification,
  implementation, evaluation and institutionalizatio
  n Community Empowerment Activity Cycle
• National and local government as facilitators of
  the process of participatory development

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KALAHI CIDSS

• People driven development
• Open menu of projects
• Competitive process of fund allocation by the
  representatives of the villages in a municipality
• Fund goes directly to a community account
• Open and transparent process of fund management
  including community managed procurement and a
  grievance process mechanism at village and town
  level

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KALAHI CIDSS

• Involves 12 regions, 42 provinces
• 184 municipalities and 4229 villages
• 3,587 community projects water system, road
  repair/construction, schools and health centers
• 700,000 people benefit from the community
  projects
• Total cost of the projects approx. US93,024,000
• GOP/WB US 63,953,000
• LOCAL COUNTERPART US 30,233,000

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LESSONS LEARNED

• Not a champion but a core group of reformers
  inside the bureaucracy
• People owned and managed processes deliver
  development outcomes
• Participation is a political process
• Dialogue and negotiation is determined by the
  power equation

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LESSONS LEARNED

• Social accountability can be practiced and
  implemented with peoples will and concerted
  action
• Sustainability and replicability of participatory
  governance challenges political patronage

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CROSSING BACK

• Failed in influencing the leadership of the
  governing power to do sustained reform
• No belief, trust and shared values with the
  leadership of the governing power
• KALAHI CIDSS continues through the core group of
  reformers
• Build democratic politics to be able do good
  governance and achieve sustainable development
  outcomes

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HOW TO BUILD POLITICAL WILL FOR PARTICIPATORY
GOVERNANCE

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• HAVE AN EMPOWERING DAY!