Bureaucratic Reform
and
Public Administration
in the Future
Reported by:
GINA T. TORRILLA
SHIELA B. DEMAFELIZ
RUCELL ANN T. GONZALES
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Public Administration as a Developing Discipline
PARADIGM DISCIPLINE PERIOD
1 Politics/Administration Dichotomy 1900-1926
2 The Principles of Administration 1926-1937
3 PA as a Political Science 1950-1970
4 PA as Management 1956-1970
5 PA as New Public Administration 1970
6 PA from Government to Governance 1990s to the present
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Public Administration in the
Philippines
◈ The Organizational Structure of Philippine Public Administration
◈ The issues, problems and policy decisions of GOCCs,
◈ The current issues and trends in PA,
◈ Public Service Modernization,
◈ Current Issues/Globalization Trends in the Public Administration.
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Controversies in Public
Administration:
Enduring Issues and
Questions
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TWO BASIC ISSUES OF PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION TODAY:
Policy Issues Organization Issues
- involves the core role - Which are
public administrators instrumental aspects
of management or
factors involved in
internal administration
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POLICY ISSUES
The range of policy issues the public
administrator has to deal with includes
the following:
1. Welfare Policy
2. Economic Issues
3. Labor Policy
4. Resource Policy
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ORGANIZATION ISSUES
Planning of Policies and Programs:
- with the use of plans, the consciousness of
those responsible for making decisions may
be modified and necessary changes identified
and implemented
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- Centralization
- Lateral and Horizontal Allocation of
responsibilities and programs
- Lack of coordination
- Decision making and program management
- Confronting public management is how to
deal with negative bureaucratic behavior,
abuse of discretion and over indulgence, red
tape, graft and corruption.
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OTHER SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
- More public interest groups will pursue collective and
community oriented goals demanding environmental
conservation, clean air, eradication of poverty, equitable
allocation of goods and services and these groups
completed by citizen awareness of the responsibilities of
government and will be more critical of government
policies.
- The environment of society is fast changing, the
challenges are constant; there are no permanent
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Bureaucratic
Reform
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“People are attracted to the bureaucracy primarily because of the
perceived power of bureaucrats. [But] public service is not about
power and getting rich. It is all about suffering, either financially,
physically, psychologically. It is about attacks from all corners. But is
also joy, the joy of introducing reforms, the joy of touching people and
the joy of teaching them new ways of thinking and serving our people”
-Leonor Magtolis Briones, DEPED Secretary
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WHY GOOD GOVERNANCE?
Leadership
Good
Governance
Management
Accountability
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Reform Strategies
Reduction of government
employees Fighting Corruption
Reorganization Decentralization
Streamlining of processes Performance Management
Rationalization Reengineering
Financial and economic change Elimination of red tape 14
The Philippines: Building “A Strong Republic”
In the Philippines, the landmark of
such administrative reforms was the
introduction of the Integrated
Reorganization Plan (IRP) in 1972.
The IRP, which was the result of a two-
year effort of the Reorganization
Commission, a few trusted technocrats
of President Ferdinand Marcos,
promised the most extensive and
wrenching effort at administrative
reform in the country’s history.
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The Philippines: Building “A Strong Republic”
The restoration of government
integrity and public confidence
reorganization reform were
introduced by President Corazon
Aquino, basically with the creation
of Presidential Commission on
Public Ethics and Accountability and
the Presidential Commission on
Good Governance (PCGG).
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The Philippines: Building “A Strong Republic”
President Gloria-Macapagal-Arroyo
(GMA) continued the initiatives to
streamline the bureaucracy in the
Medium-Term Philippine Development
Plan (MTPDP) 1994-2004.
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The Philippines: Building “A Strong Republic”
President Benigno Aquino III had
adopted the “Reengineering the
Bureaucracy for Better Governance
Program”, inherited from the Estrada’s
Administration. The Presidential
Committee on Effective Governance
(PCEG) created by President Joseph
Estrada was likewise reactivated upon
the President’s assumption to office.
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Required Shift in the Paradigm
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To keep total client satisfaction, the CSC also introduced
the so-called “Mamamayan Muna, Hindi Mamaya Na”
Program or MMHM Program is essentially a client
feedback mechanism meant to improve the delivery of
public service. Launched in 1994, it is designed
purposely to minimize if not totally eradicate discourtesy,
arrogance and inefficiency in the public service.
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REFORMS IN PHILIPPINE BUREAUCRACY UNDER
DUTERTE ADMINISTRATION
The Duterte administration
accomplished several reforms that
took decades to be enacted. These
helped the country attain its lowest
poverty rate in 2018, and will pave
the way for the achievement of its
2040 vision.
2016 -2022
Administration
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REFORMS IN PHILIPPINE BUREAUCRACY UNDER
DUTERTE ADMINISTRATION
◈ Strong Economic Management
◈ Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) or National ID
Program
◈ Rice Tariffication Law (RTL)
◈ Infrastructure Program
◈ Ease of Doing Business Law
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Ferdinand Romualdes Marcos
Jr.
17th President of the Philippines
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Priority Bills:
▪ National Government ▪ Medical Reserve Corps ▪ Mandatory Reserve Officers’
Rightsizing Program (NGRP) ▪ National Disease Prevention Training Corps (ROTC) and
▪ Budget Modernization Bill National Service Training
Management Authority
Program (NSTP)
▪ Tax Package 3: Valuation ▪ Creation of the Virology
▪ Enactment of an Enabling
Reform Bill Institute of the Philippines
Law for the Natural Gas
▪ Tax Package 4: Passive Income ▪ Department of Water Industry
and Financial Intermediary Resources
▪ Amendments to the Electric
Taxation Act (PIFITA) ▪ Unified System of Power Industry Reform Act
▪ E-Government Act Separation, Retirement and or EPIRA (Republic Act No.
▪ Internet Transaction Act or E- Pension 9136)
Commerce Law ▪ National Land Use Act ▪ Amendments to the Build-
▪ National Defense Act Operate-Transfer (BOT)
Law
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Breaking
Through
Bureaucracy
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◈ Why does it feel like we are having the same
meeting and discussion, over and over again?
◈ Why don’t we just try it and see what happens?
◈ Specifically what (or who) is getting in the way
of us making a decision?
◈ When will exactly will we have a final answer
on this?
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Take note to ourselves
Instead of surrendering or stucked
up to bureaucracy we can break it
ourselves to improve our processes
but having the same output
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THANK
YOU!
