Center for Local Governance
The CLG is envisioned as a “credible center capable of providing technical assistance towards genuine participative governance through a strong and sustainable partnership with various stakeholders’.
It is attached to the Graduate School of the Ateneo de Naga University and serves as the extension arm for the Master in Public Administration degree program. Indeed, this link of the CLG to the academic life of the university is strategic as the Graduate School has a special concern for the information of competent public servants with a renewed sense of integrity and public accountability.
Framework of Operations
The Center acts on the three main functions of the university: these are Instruction, Research, and Extension.
Extension as the primary function of the CLG is relevant in enriching instruction and in developing research.
Mission
As an extension arm of the University, the Center for Local Governance provides technical assistance through its capability-building activities, consultancy services, research, and information to its partners and stakeholders both within and outside the University.
These efforts and initiatives on community service and research enrich the Instructions and Formation of competent students who are men and women for others.
Vision
Advocate people’s empowerment in governance towards the holistic transformation of the communities in Bicol along authentic economic, political, and socio-cultural dimensions of development.
Its operation is strengthened by the proactive collaboration and expertise of various units in the University and its partnership with stakeholders.
Services Offered
These were developed by the Associates in Rural Development with its LGUs and Civil Society Organizations partners during the GOLD implementation.
- TOP 1- Technology of Participation 1: Basic Group Facilitation Methods
Description: Covers the basic group facilitation methods that intend to provide highly energized, productive, and meaningful participation in processes required for truly proactive and responsive local governance.
- TOP 2 – Technology of Participation 2: Designing Participatory Events
Description: Assists TOP practitioners in designing effective and high-energy participatory events using top methods.
- Basic Customer Service Skills (BCSS
Description: Focuses on service excellence and assists in defining members’ critical role in providing excellent service in their organization
- Public Service Ethics and Accountability (PSEA)
Description: Focuses on service management and is considered as a planned change effort that yields improvement recommendations that range from internal and external customer satisfaction to crucial service improvements
- Barangay Participatory Planning and Budgeting Workshop (BPPBW)
Description: Facilitates the barangay in coming up with an annual investment plan that will serve as the basis for the budget allocation and funding - Participatory Workshop on Real Property Taxation
Description: Helps the barangay official in the administration of Real Property Taxation as provided in the Local Government Code. It will also help the LGUs identify practical approaches and strategies to supplement their collection efforts and tax information.
- Municipal Environmental Planning Workshop
Description: Facilitates the LGUs in coming up with a vision for environment & resource management for the municipality
Those developed through Gerry Roxas Foundation (GRF):
The Barangay Justice Service System (BJSS)
Katarungang Pambarangay
Description:
Trains the barangay justice implementers on the structures, procedures, and application of the KP law.
Paralegal Courses
Description: Equips the participants with the basic knowledge of three (3) interdependent subjects: bill of rights, family code, and remedial law including its practical application.
- Bill of Rights
- Remedial Law
- Family Code
Alternative Dispute Resolution & Mediation Skills
Description: Guides the participants to understand conflict and their sources at the same time sharpen their skills in solving it. It also intends to equip the participants with the basic skills for effective communication and mediation
Basic Counselling Skills
Description: Leads to create a paradigm shift, system, task, and skill learning that appreciate one’s role in promoting community and family peace
Capability-Building Courses for Local Government Officials
Basic Accounting
Description: Imparts to the Barangay Treasurer the basic steps and concepts in barangay accounting system to aid them in discharging their function properly. It also covers other technicalities under the law and existing regulations
Drafting of Resolutions & Ordinances
Description: Imparts the technical know-how in drafting and preparing resolutions and ordinances accurately as a component of the local development and governance
Documentation for Barangay & Sangguniang Kabataan Secretaries
Description: Demonstrates the basics of proper documentation, which will aid the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) secretaries in preparing and keeping the minutes of all the meetings and sessions conducted
Health Management
Description: Provides the Sangguniang Barangay with thorough information on how to promote proper health management. It will also equip the participants with the necessary skills in addressing health issues and concerns.
Livelihood Development
Description: Articulates and explain the concepts, features, and requirements for developing livelihood projects for the barangays.
Parliamentary Procedure
Description: The course covers the different processes involved in the conduct of a meeting or session. The areas include parliamentary rules, principles, and practices. Understanding these rules and procedures shall ensure orderly discussions, enable the main laws of the Sanggunian to articulate their thoughts, reconcile their conflicts, determine the will of the majority, and take united action for transactions and the LGU.
It is a systematic procedure that facilitates the work of any deliberative body and helps carry out its objectives effectively
Project Development & Management
Description: Articulates and explains the concepts, features and requirements of project development. The skills in effective participation, namely: coordination, communication, negotiation, lobbying, consensus building, and other basic tools in management as applied in projects will be presented.
Project Proposal Writing
Description: Provides the basic principles and concepts to enhance the skill in preparing and writing project proposals, which will help them to leverage funding for its development projects
Transition to Digital Era
With the demands of a rapid transition to the digital era ignited by the pandemic, ADNU-CLG has been utilizing the digital platform for the delivery of capability-building trainings, organizing webinars and online certificate courses true to the Center’s mandate in continuously thriving to provide technical assistance towards genuine participative governance through a strong and sustainable partnership with various stakeholders.
Certificate Courses and Training offered:
Online Certificate Courses on Digital Knowledge Development
- ‘StarThink’
Topic: The Basics of Computer and Internet Skills
Description: This course will cover basic technical skills relative to the use of computers and the internet in the workplace. Specifically, it will walk-through participants to the efficient use of word processing, managing computer files, creating presentations, and the effective utilization of search engines and other internet functions.
- ‘ConnecThink’
Topic: Digital Applications for Effective Communication
Description: This course will cover the use of the wide variety of digital/web applications needed for effective communication both with the internal and external clients of an organization. The tools to be used for synchronous and asynchronous modes of delivery of information for collaboration, networking, and productivity platforms will be presented and discussed thoroughly.
- ‘CreaThink’
Topic: Virtual Information Materials
Description: This course will cover the designing and preparation of virtual information templates and materials. This includes infographics, e-posters, and other marketing slides and video clips for easy transmission and access of information to the target recipients/clients of the organization.
Online Certificate Courses on Business
- ‘CONCEIVE’
Topic: Business Prospects and Opportunities in the Digital Economy
Description: This course will present and discuss business prospects and opportunities which are thriving in this new normal and which are in place in this digital economy. Specifically, it will highlight how businesses including Micro, Small, and Medium Sized-Enterprises (MSMEs) can maximize the use of e-commerce, app stores, online advertising, networked platforms, online payment services, and other online tools.
- ‘CONVERT’
Topic: Remaking Business in the Digital Economy
Description: This course will cover the process of how the “brick-and-mortar” Micro and Small Medium Sized-Enterprises (MSMEs) can transform into a digital businesses. Specifically, it will present how digital technologies can support or reinvent business operations management for purposes of efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
- ‘CONVEY’
Topic: Virtual Information Materials
Description: This course will discuss effective marketing strategies which are becoming very significant in our digital economy. Specifically, it will cover the marketing process and will elaborate on its impact on the important decisions that businesses and Micro and Small Medium Sized-Enterprises (MSMEs) can consider in their operations. The latest trends in the digital market relative to the appropriate target consumers of the organization will be discussed.
Online Certificate Courses on Bridging Leadership
- The Societal Inequities and My Personal and Our Shared Response
Description: The course will allow participants to understand social inequities and the relevance of one’s personal and shared responsibility to these societal concerns using Bridging Leadership.
- Leading Change
Description: The course will allow participants to recognize the value of leading others through change as a key leadership capability. The approach enables organizations to accelerate change initiatives and involve the entire organization in identifying, implementing, and sustaining important change initiatives that will ensure the organization’s long-term success.
- Partnerships for Convergence
Description: The course will allow participants to appreciate the need to synergize and establish collaborative work with other groups and institutions to foster response towards societal concerns.
Online Training on
- Project Proposal Writing
Description: The course will introduce the participants to the basic principles and concepts of proposal writing that are helpful in enhancing skills relevant to leveraging funding sources for future projects.
- Project Development and Management
Description: The course will allow participants to recognize the value of leading others through change as a key leadership capability. The approach enables organizations to accelerate change initiatives and involve the entire organization in identifying, implementing, and sustaining important change initiatives that will ensure the organization’s long-term success.
Online Certificate Courses on Data Communication
- Communication and Persuasion: From the Familiar to the Digital
Description: The certificate course is designed to reintroduce participants to the present communication realities and challenges, empirical studies on digital communication and persuasion, and different communication modes and strategies. Further, the course will highlight workshops on managing persuasive communication and developing effective communication strategies essential in many professional settings today.
- Effective Data Visualization and Design
Description: The certificate course will introduce the significance and relevance of Data Visualization and Effective Digital storytelling in the current trend of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Further, the course will highlight workshops on Infographics-Making, Data Visualization, and developing compelling communication strategies that are essential and crucial in many professional settings today.
Online Certificate Course on
- Topic: Data-Driven Storytelling
Description: This certificate course will introduce the basics of information design and data visualization with the goal of better-communicating knowledge gathered from data both to the public and experts.
Online Training Courses on Local Legislation
- Training on Parliamentary Procedure
Description: The training covers the different processes involved in the conduct of a meeting or session. The areas include parliamentary rules, principles, and practices. Understanding these rules and procedures shall ensure orderly discussions, enable the main laws of the Sanggunian to articulate their thoughts, reconcile their conflicts, determine the will of the majority, and take united action for transactions and the LGU.
- Training on Drafting of Resolutions and Ordinances
Description: The training aims to impart the technical know-how in drafting and preparing resolutions and ordinances accurately as a component of local development and governance.
Online Certificate Course
- Project Proposal Writing
Description: The course will introduce the participants to the basic principles and concepts of proposal writing that are helpful in enhancing skills relevant to leveraging funding sources for future projects.
- Project Development and Management
Description: The course will allow participants to recognize the value of leading others through change as a key leadership capability. The approach enables organizations to accelerate change initiatives and involve the entire organization in identifying, implementing, and sustaining important change initiatives that will ensure the organization’s long-term success.
Other Services
- CLG can also be tapped to package technical assistance programs to answer specific concerns of client LGUs
- Design & facilitate training modules, workshops, and or participatory activities or events, Visioning with Strategic Planning, Project Implementation, Monitoring, and Assessment, Focus Group Discussion, and Assemblies among others.
The Consortium of Centers for Local Governance
The CLG network organized as the Consortium of Centers for Local Governance or the CCLGs consisted of the following:
– Ateneo de Naga University
– Ateneo de Davao University
– Bulacan State University, Bulacan
– Holy Name University, Tagbilaran City
– Gerry Roxas Foundation, Roxas City
– Mindanao State University-Iligan City
– Mindanao State University-Marawi City
– University of Southern Philippines, Cebu City
Other CLG’s affiliations
- Local Governance Training and Research Institutes – Philippine Network (LoGoTRI-PhilNet)
- Association of Schools of Public Administration, Inc. (ASPAP, Inc.)
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Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/adnuclg2022
Facebook Account: https://www.facebook.com/ateneo.clg/
YouTube channel: Ateneo CLG
For inquires and other concerns:
Please contact the through these numbers (054) 881.2368 local 2066, 09506938680, and 09928742563, or send an e-mail at clginquiry@gbox.adnu.edu.ph
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