23rd Annual Convention-Seminar

of the Philippine League of Local Budget Officers

Citystate Asturias
South National Highway, Tiniguiban Heights, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan

Janet B. Abuel
Officer-in-Charge, DBM
Without the efficient and transparent allocation
and use of public funds for the provision of
public services, the Filipino people will not have
the enthusiasm for good local governance.

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 Civil Society Participation

• Civil society
organizations learn
how to engage in
local budgeting

• Local government
units are prepared
to take steps in
integrating their
contributions

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 Budget Operations for LGUs

• Strengthens
participatory and
policy-based
budgeting

• Introduces
Performance-
informed Budgeting

• Streamlines local
budget forms and
accounts
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 eBudget System for LGUs

• Automates and
facilitates budget
preparation of LGUs

• Available and free of

charge for LGUs

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 Other Resources

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 Regional Inter-Agency Teams

• Conduct of technical trainings and workshops on PFM

manuals

• Provision of technical assistance during assessment of

PFM systems

• Formulation of the corresponding PFM improvement

measures
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 Participatory Governance

• Organized six (6) Open

Government and
Participatory
Governance Regional
Dialogues

• Gathered local
governments and non-
government
organizations in 78 out
of 81 provinces

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 Participatory Governance

• Legazpi City, and the provinces of Albay,

Bohol, Surigao del Norte, and South
Cotabato have committed to adopt the
following:

o the Freedom of Information

Program;
o the 8888 Hotline; and
o the Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative.

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 Participatory Governance

• The Regional Development

Councils of Regions 5 and 11
committed to support the
localization of national Open
Government Partnership
commitments and participate
in the co-creating of new
commitments for the next
action plan.

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 Participatory Governance

• In the next Philippine Open Government Partnership

National Action Plan, the first action plan will have
proposed commitments from non-government
organizations.

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Budget and Treasury Management System

• A fully-automated and integrated financial information

system to track the country’s finances in real time.

• By July 1, 2019 all transactions of all national government

agencies should be carried out under the BTMS.

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General Appropriations Act as Release Document

• More than 80% of total

funds are deemed released
to allow agencies to start
implementing their
programs and projects
immediately.

• In the past, Special

Allotment Release Orders
(SAROs) had to be issued
for every request of
agencies to release funds.

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 Annual Cash Budgeting

• Actual delivery of public services >

Obligations

• Public services, projects, and

activities must be:
o implementation-ready; and
o delivered, inspected, and
accepted within the fiscal year.

• Payment to contractors must be

done within the same fiscal year
and up to a 3-month extended
payment period.

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 Project DIME

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 Project DIME

Drones Lidar Satellites

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 Project DIME

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 Project DIME

Schools Roads Greening Projects

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 23rd Annual Convention-Seminar
of the Philippine League of Local Budget Officers

Citystate Asturias
South National Highway, Tiniguiban Heights, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan

Janet B. Abuel
Officer-in-Charge, DBM