LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE

• Provides for a more responsive local

government structures instituted through a
system of decentralization and local
autonomy
 LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
General Welfare

... Local government units shall ensure and support, among other things,
the preservation and enrichment of culture, promote health and safety
enhance the right of the people to a balanced ecology, encourage and
support the development of appropriate and self-reliant scientific and
technological capabilities, improve public morals, enhance economic
prosperity and social justice, promote full employment among their
residents, maintain peace and order, and preserve the comfort and
convenience of their inhabitants.
 LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE

Local Government serves a two-fold purpose:

1. The administrative purpose of supplying goods and

services

2. To represent and involves citizens in determining

specific local public needs and how these local needs
can be met
 LGU MANDATE TO ITS PEOPLE

 PROTECTION

Section 447
(iv) Adopt measures to protect the inhabitants of the
municipality from the harmful effects of man-made or
natural disasters and calamities and to provide relief
services and assistance for victims during and in the
aftermath of said disasters or calamities and their return
to productive livelihood following said events
 LGU MANDATE ON ITS PEOPLE

PARTICIPATION

Encourage people’s participation by educating

and providing venues to discuss
community problems, e.g. health,
nutrition, literacy, sanitation

Promote people participation in the development planning

 POLICIES FOR LGUs:
•DILG Issuance of
directives based on the
LGC of 1991 and other
existing laws.
Policies and procedures are
an essential component of
any organization.

Adhering to policies
and procedures
protects
its people from any
kind of harm
IMPORTANCE OF POLICIES AND ISSUANCE
RESPONSIBILITY OF FIELD OFFICERS:

1. Work as partners in the LGUs

2. Supervision and monitoring activities
of LGUs to combat dengue
3. Document LGU good practices for
replication
Thank you!!!!

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