SIXTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES. )
FIRST REGULAR SESSION )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr. and
Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez

House Bill No__3103

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to establish the Northern Mindanao Institute for Good
Governance.

Good governance calls for a new breed of dynamic and pro-active leaders
and managers in the government bureaucracy who will steer their respective
organization towards growth and progress. However, many of our local officials
have very limited training on managerial skills, relying mainly on practical ways and
common practices of dealing with bureaucracy as they try to achieve their program
These local officials are faced with the challenge of satisfying various demands
form their constituents while performing their official duties. Thus, they are expected
to transform the visions, goals and objectives of their regions into useful and
productive programs, projects and activities. Hence, they should be trained and
equipped with b-sic managerial and supervisory skills in order to fulfill and deliver
the duties and functions of their respective offices, and enhance their capabilities in
exercising good governance over their constituents.

The Northern Mindanao Institute for Good Governance seeks to become the
leading training center. for regions directors and managers of different government
agencies, local officials and chief executives, chief executive officer and senior staff
of government-owned and controlled corporations as well as heads of financial and
educational institutions. It will provide short-term courses on management and good
governance that will include various approaches in dealing with system, resources,
Strategies and people. Likewise, it will be a repository of information, data, and
other materials on good governance to be used as references by researchers,
policy-makers, planners and the public.

In view of the foregoing, the approval of this bill is highly recommended.

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MAXIMO'B. RODRIGUEZ, JR.

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RUFUS B/ RODRIGUEZ


SIXTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES. )
FIRST REGULAR SESSION )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr. and
Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez

House Bill No._ 3103

AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISMENT OF THE NORTHERN MINDANAO
INSTITUTE FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE ‘AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
THEREFOR

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled: ~

SECTION 1. Short Title - This Act shall be known as the “Northern Mindanao
Institute for Good Governance Act.

SEC. 2, Declaration of Policy. — |t is hereby declared policy of the State to provide
local government officials in Northern Mindanao with quality training on good
governance and make such training accessible to all of them with a goal of
providing them skills, knowledge and values they need to become self-reliant,
productive, effective and efficient local officials and regional officers.

SEC. 3. Northern Mindanao Institute for Good Governance. -. There is hereby
established in Jagayan de Oro the Northern Mindanao Institute for Good
Governance, herein referred to as Institute, which shall provide short-term courses
and training in management and good governance to directors and managers of
different agencies, local chief executives and local government officials, chief
executive officers and senior staffs of government-owned and controlled
corporations, heads of educational and financial institutions in Northern Mindanao.

SEC. 4. Function. - The following are the functions of the Institute

a) Provide a sustainable program that will instill excellence among local
managers in Northern Mindanao through innovation, transformation and
education leading to good governance
Set up a training facility that will cater to the capability-building and skills
enhancing needs of local officials, heads of offices and chief executive
officers in Northern Mindanao;
Serve as a venue to share best practices on good governance and major
development initiatives for matters relating to local government units project
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d) Establish a research arm that will provide training modules, undertake
evaluation and impact researches, document case studies, and updates on
emerging approaches and methodologies on good governance; and

) Serve as a repository of information, data and other reference materials for
se of res 2archers, policy-makers, planners and public, in general, on good
governance.

SEC. 5, Board of Trustees — The governance and policy making powers of the
Institute shall be vested in, and its powers exercised by, a Board of Trustees,
hereinafter referred to as the Board, which shall be composed of seven (7)
members. As follows:

a) The Regional Director of the Commission ob Higher Education;

b) The Regional Director of the Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA)

cc) The Regional Director of the National Economic and Development
Authority;

d) The President of the Governor's League of Northern Mindanao:

e) One member coming from non-governmental organization:

f) One member from the Autonomous Regions for Muslim Mindanoa; and

g) The chief executive officer of the Institute. The members of the Board
coming form the NGO and ARMM shall be Bppointed by the President of the
Philippines from among the nominees of their respective organizations

SEC. 6. Power and Duties. — The Board shall exercise the following power and
duties E

a) Prepare and adopt such rule and regulations as it considers
necessary for the effective discharge of its responsibilities,

b) Constitute the Executive Committee and appoint its chief executive
officer and assistant executive officer.

¢) __ Review periodically the administration and the programs of the
Institute; and

d) Receive donations from local or international donors, in cash or in
kind, and appropriate such sum as maybe provided by law for the support of the
Institute.

Sec, 7. Meetings. - The Board shall meet, preferably at its principal office, at least
‘once a month te discharge to its duties and responsibilities, The Board shall be
convoked by the Chairman or upon written request of majority of its members. The
Votes of the majority of the members consisting a quorum shall be sufficient for the
adoption of any rule, resolution, decision or any act of the Board

SEC. 8. Executive Committee. — There shall be an Executive Committee which
shall consist of not less that three (3) but not more than five (5) members to be
elected by the Board of Trustees from among themselves except the chief
executive officer. Member of the Executive Committee shall hold office for a term of
two (2) years and shall be eligible for re-election,


SEC. 9. Functions ‘of the Executive Committee. - The Committee shall
administer the affairs of the Institute in accordance with such functions, powers and
responsibilities as may be delegated by the Board of Trustees. In the exercise of
such functions, powers and responsibilities, the Committee shall have all the
powers of the Board, except the power to fill up a vacancy in the Board and to
amend the rules and regulations of the Institute.

SEC. 10. Chief Executive Officer. — The Institute shall be headed by chief
executive officer who shall be appointed by the Board and receive such
compensation and remuneration to be fixed by the Board. He shall hold office for a
term of five (6) years.

The chief executive officer must be a graduate of a four (4) year course and
a holder of a master's Degree in Public Administration

SEC. 11, Functions of the Chief Executive Officer. - The chief Executive Officer
shall

a) Recommend, coordinate and administer the programs and projects of the
Institute;

b) Develop training modules that will enable local officials sustain a broad
and dynamic movement for participatory democracy and good governance;

¢) Provide research and consulting service and facilitate leaning on local
autonomy and devolution on regional governance and urban and metropolitan
management;

d) Collaborate with local and international institutions in the publication of
materials for the benefit of local government and regional units;

) Submit to the Board the policies and measure which he believes are
necessary to carry out objectives of the Institute}

f) Conduct basis and applied research to improve knowledge and practices
in local governm.nt and regional administration,

g) Submit annual report to the Board of all accomplishments of the Institute
during the year, its financial operations and status, and a program and budget for
the following year;

h) Provide technical assistance and consultancy on organization and
management, personnel administration, local finance, development planning, and
project development and management to local and regional governments; and

i) Exercise such other powers and discharge such other functions as may
vested in him by the Board and the Executive Committee.

SEC. 12. Organization Structure. - The Board shall determine the organization
structure, staffing pattern and pay of the Institute and the officers and employees
thereof conformably to that of existing government-owned and controlled
corporations and subject to the evaluation or screening by the Civil Service
Commission and of the Organization Position Classification and Compensation
Bureau of the Department of Budget and Management.

SEC. 13. Appropriations. - The amount of One Hundred Eleven Million Pesos
(P111,000,000.00) is hereby appropriated for the establishment of the Institute out
of the general fund of the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Thereafter,



such sum a maybe needed for the continued operation of the Institute shall be
included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC. 14. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The Secretary of Education
shall, in coordination with the Secretary of Interior and Local Government, issue the
necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act.

SEC. 15. Repealing Clause. — All laws, decrees, executives orders, proclamations,
rules and regulations, and issuances, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with
the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.

SEC. 16. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after publication
in the Official Gazette or two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.