Dagupan being molded as ‘dream city’
DAGUPAN City has been selected as one among twenty-one cities that could be developed into a “dream city”.
This possibility arose after the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA) started a series of consultative and working sessions on public governance system (PGS) in the city.
A second consultative meeting on PGS was staged last June 26 at the City Museum which highlighted the significance of good governance and responsible citizenship in order to further attain the visions for the city.
ISA is a center of and for citizens committed to ethics, social responsibility and good governance in all aspects of life. It aims to contribute to raising the standards of public governance in the community and in the country.
City Administrator Rafael Baraan led the department heads and city executives in the consultative session facilitated by the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA).
“Good governance is a shared responsibility between public officials and responsible citizens,” said ISA executive director Christian Zaens even as he noted that ISA’s approach is improving local governance.
PGS is a governance process and a system that is used to highlight the performance functions of strategy and policy formulation and at the same time connects those functions directly with monitoring and accountability. It uses scorecards to monitor and track progress, mainly as a positive instrument to improve governance.
Zaens noted that it is important for the departments in the city hall to be linked to the roadmap of the city because each contribution of the department can be translated into a scorecard.
Nick Fontanilla of ISA explained that PGS translates strategy into measures that communicate the vision to stakeholders even as he stated that through PGS Dagupan can be a dream city that scorecard links vision and strategy into action.
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