LOCAL ADMINISTRATION

& INTERGOVERNMENTAL
RELATIONS, INTERLOCAL
RELATIONS
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LOCAL ADMINISTRATION

People who reside in a specific

administrative division form their local
government, and they deal with their local
issues on their own or by selecting their
representatives.
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• Local governments can initiate a community's

economic planning efforts, to build on their
official community plan and role of shaping
ROLE OF LOCAL community growth and determining land
ADMINISTRATION use. Local government functions that influence
economic development and planning include:
Planning and zoning bylaws. Taxation.
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LOCAL

GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL ADMINISTRATION
• Local administration is the governing of a local area by local agents who are
appointed by, and responsible to, the central (state) government. In a local
government, it is the people themselves who elect the councilors that administer the
council on their behalf.
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TYPES OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF

LOCAL LOCAL ADMINISTRATION
• GOVERNMENTS
Municipalities. • The chief characteristics of local
• Regional Municipalities. government, which may be studied by
• Rural Communities (RC) comparison of the United Kingdom,
• Local Service Districts Germany, the U.S., and Russia, are (1)
(LSD) constitutional status, (2) areas and
authorities, (3) powers, (4) finance and
local freedom, (5) organization, and (6)
central controls.
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Intergovernmental Relations

• Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) is broadly defined as the

coming together of different orders of government through formal
or informal processes, for the achievement of common goals.
• IGR is a vital component of good governance.
• IGR is traditionally associated with federal systems.
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PRINCIPLES OF
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
co-operate with one another in mutual trust and good faith by— (i) fostering friendly
relations; (ii) assisting and supporting one another; (iii) informing one another of, and
consulting one another on, matters of common interest; (iv) co-ordinating their
actions and legislation with one another; (v) adhering to agreed procedures; and (vi)
avoiding legal proceedings against one another
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
• Article One. - National Government and Local Government Units

• SECTION 25. National Supervision over Local Government Units. -(a) Consistent with the basic policy on local
autonomy, the President shall exercise general supervision over local government units to ensure that their acts are
within the scope of their prescribed powers and functions. The President shall exercise supervisory authority
directly over provinces, highly urbanized cities, and independent component cities; through the province with
respect to component cities and municipalities; and through the city and municipality with respect to Barangays
• (b) National agencies and offices with project implementation functions shall coordinate with one another and with
the local government units concerned in the discharge of these functions. They shall ensure the participation of
local government units both in the planning and implementation of said national projects. (c) The President may,
upon request of the local government unit concerned, direct the appropriate national agency to provide financial,
technical, or other forms of assistance to the local government unit. Such assistance shall be extended at no extra
cost to the local government unit concerned. 18 (d) National agencies and offices including government-owned or -
controlled corporations with field units or branches in a province, city, or municipality shall furnish the local chief
executive concerned, for his information and guidance, monthly reports including duly certified budgetary
allocations and expenditures.
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INTERLOCAL RELATIONS
• interlocal relations include city-city, county-county, and city-county
relationships, as well as relations among cities or counties and special
local districts such as for schools, fire departments, water and sewer
services, and economic development.

• Examples of Interlocal Agreements

Local governments enter into interlocal agreements for provision of all types of
services, including purchasing, library services, water quality management,
solid waste management, law enforcement, fire and emergency services,
education, land management and more.
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Local governance in the country is constantly changing since the passage of the Local Government Code.
Inter-local government cooperation (ILGC) is an innovative form of local governance which is being adopted
by an increasing number of local government units in the urban and rural areas of the country. Entering into
an ILGC may help the local government units to enhance their service provision through economies of scale
improved their planning and governance by pooling and complementing their resources resolve cross-
boundary problems and address their shared local problems together. Different forms of inter-local
government cooperation may display unique characteristics in terms of scope and nature and in terms of the
services and programs that they provide. One thing that is constant is that these arrangements are about
relationships between political entities and its creation and functions involve political processes among
LGUs, national officials and different local stakeholders. ILGC in the country, however, is still in its infant
stages of development. There is still much to learn about the motives and the factors that are involved in the
creation and function of such kind of governmental arrangement. Furthermore, it is yet to learn how ILGC
relates to other form of governments such as the LGUs, provincial governments, and the national
government. This study has looked at the cases of Metro Naga Development Council, the Metro Manila
Development Authority and the BLIST. It focused on the description of the creation of ILGC and how it
performs its services and programs. This study is also concerned in identifying the different motives and
factors that may enable or constrain the ILGC. Based on the cases examined, ILGC is created to address the
common needs of the LGUs. The cases also highlighted the important roles of leadership, enabling laws,
national government support, and the sense of ownership, in the creation and functions of the 3 ILGC cases.
 COMMUNITY
PARTICIPATION
IN LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
Community participation in Local Government

ABSTRACT
This article addresses community participation in local government, a controversial issue in the era of
governance. Under the context of decentralisation reform in particular, active participation of the
community in local governance has been expected, where as a range of critical arguments has been
made on its concepts, ideas and feasibilities. Despite the significance of the issue, practices of
community participation at the local level are academically under-examined, even in developed
countries, let alone in developing countries. Given such situations, empirical observations from local
governments of the Philippines and Uganda are introduced and comparatively analysed with in a
specific analytical framework of participation. By doing so, the artide leads us to some keys to success
for community participation schemes in the development context, which include the local leadership,
functions of the central government and enhancing awareness of values of community participation
both in the public and the local government.
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• ARTICLE II, X AND XIII OF THE 1987 CONSTITUTION PUT EMPHASIS TO

THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE
AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AND PLATFORMS FOR
“EFFECTIVE AND REASONABLE PARTICIPATION AT ALL LEVELS OF
SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DECISION-MAKING.”
THANK YOU
Mirjam Nilsson​
mirjam@contoso.com
www.contoso.com