VISION, MISSION & GOALS
The LGRRC Vision
The Local Governance Regional Resource Center (LGRRC) 13 is a highly competent resource center in the region operating as a centralized knowledge builder and provider of relevant, reliable and readily available data and information and serving as linkage facilitator promoting innovative and sustainable service for effective local governance.
The LGRRC Mission
The LGRRC 13 shall be the convergent point of collaborators providing and sharing information and facilitating knowledge exchanges and utilization for the promotion and enhancement of responsive, efficient and effective local governance.
The LGRRC Goals
Ensuring the attainment of the vision, the LGRRC shall:
- Institutionalize knowledge creation, acquisition, sharing, utilization and evaluation among collaborators/partners;
- Increase and strengthen the number of Collaborators/partners that will converge knowledge towards building effective local governance;
- Heighten awareness through knowledge sharing of local governance best/good practices;
- Contribute to the development/enhancement of capacities of local government units along the areas social, economic, environmental, governance.
OBJECTIVES
OBJECTIVES
To support attainment of the goals, the LGRRC's four (4) core services shall have the following objectives:
Public Education on Good Governance and Citizen Development
- To develop partnership with quad-media, CSOs, Academe, and other sectors for public education;
- To promote tools and systems that facilitate capacity development enhancement among LGUs; and
- To conduct citizen education for trainings, dialogues and others.
Capacity Development Services
- To provide technical assistance and referral services;
- To disseminate and promote knowledge exchange through application of appropriate communication channels and capacity development tools;
- To develop capacity development materials and modules; and
- To monitor and evaluate impact of knowledge shared.
Linkage and Networking
- To establish database of service providers and knowledge products and services among collaborators and stakeholders;
- To maintain good relationship with stakeholders;
- To decentralize and share different learning areas; and
- To provide easy access of data and knowledge to clients.
Multimedia Knowledge and Information
- To serve as repository of data generated by various sources, i.e. knowledge centers
- To process data into useful information;
- To package information to knowledge products;
- To ensure availability/accessibility of the knowledge products to varying clients;
- To popularize/promote LGRRC products and services; and
- To capacitate clients to use LGRRC multi-media facilities.
FRAMEWORK
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
The Local Governance Regional Resource Center under the Department of the Interior and Local Government has four major core services in its pursuit to become a leading knowledge center in the region. This section discusses the LGRRC’s core services and its component services.
Public Education on Good Governance and Citizen Development
The Public Education on Good Governance and Citizen Development promotes good local governance practices by providing an avenue for dialogue on current issues and concerns, presentation of exemplary practices, providing cases, tools, and processes in good local governance and showcasing of thesis and dissertations related to good governance and citizen development. It builds citizen’s awareness through partnership with media, the academe and the private sector.
Specifically, Public Education on Good Governance and Citizen Development service provides the following component services:
- Information, Education and Communication Materials and Module Development
- Technical assistance on Communication Planning
- Event organizing services (e.g. Governance Forum, conventions, Talakayan and others) Knowledge Sharing through quad media, CSOs and Academe
- To support the service, the LGRRC shall prepare a Communication Plan to determine/identify the appropriate medium of communication on any public education/advocacy activities.
Capacity Development
The Capacity Development service promotes quality, strategic and responsive capacity development interventions. Capacity development initiatives are focused on social, economic, environmental, governance sectors.
Capacity development includes the following component services: Capacity Development Agenda Preparation
- Training Needs Assessment Tool Development and Designing
- Training Program Designing
- Technical Assistance services through in-center and on-site coaching and knowledge sharing
- Training Services along local governance
- Training Manual/Module and Material Development Services
To support the service, a directory of experts shall be maintained at the LGRRC. It shall likewise develop a capacity development agenda based on the results of the Local Governance Performance Management System (LGPMS), TNA on Project Development and Management, ARTA- Report Card Survey, Seal of Disaster Preparedness Report, Seal of Good Housekeeping Report and others.
Linkage and Networking
The Linkage and Networking service is responsible for creating and engaging in knowledge partnerships between the Local Governance Regional Resource Center and the National Line Agencies, Civil Society Organizations, the Academe, Knowledge Players, and other Local, National, and International stakeholders to name a few.
As such, Linkage and Networking include the following component services:
- Brokering Services
- Referral Services
- Partnership and Linkages Services
- Partnership Agreements Assistance
To support the service, the LGRRC shall maintain a database of service providers and collaborators.
Multimedia Knowledge and Information
The Multimedia Knowledge and Information service serves as the knowledge epicenter of the Local Governance Regional Resource Center. It manages the accumulation of the different knowledge products of the center. The multimedia knowledge and information service also deals with data processing of its knowledge databank, distribution of knowledge products and KP production support of the other services in the center.
The Multimedia Knowledge and Information include the following component services:
- Library Services
- Database and Knowledge Inventory Management
- Web Administration
- Quad-media Publications (in coordination with Public Education on Good Governance and Citizens Development)
- Knowledge Products Development
- LGRRC Marketing
- Multimedia Support Services