Pres. Aquino's Platform and Policy Pronouncement on Budget and Management

The new President's Platform of Government has been translated into specific policy pronouncement for each major agency of the bureaucracy. Here's the one for the DBM:

OVERARCHING GOAL:

In line with the principle of zero-based budgeting, the DBM Organizational Performance Indicator Framework (OPIF) will be linked with the Civil Service Commission (CSC) Performance Management system-Office Performance Evaluation System (PMS-OPES). The qualitative and quantitative measures of agency performance as well as compliance with findings of the Commission on Audit (COA) shall determine succeeding budget allocations.

1.Create a program plan for a zero-based budgeting for all national government agencies.
2.Determine the present state of the budget to see how much of the FY 2010 GAA is left.
3.Ensure that all employees and officials of the department will have their Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) available and accessible to the public.
4.Ensure that government agencies and offices will be streamlined to have clear-cut and distinct mandates in order to spur greater efficiency and accountability.
5.Work with the CSC to ensure that performances of government agencies and civil servants will be evaluated rationally and systematically through an effective and measurable performance management system to be approved by the CSC.
6.Ensure that qualification standards will be strictly followed, and at least half of the positions of Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries will be filled with honest and competent career civil servants to ensure continuity and sustainability of effective policies and programs.
7.Work with government agencies to organize, package and disseminate all budgets to the media regularly and posted in the internet for public consumption.
8.Ensure transparency in budget processes through an open information system and formation flow by:
• Posting details of all lump sum disbursements in the DBM web site
• Immediately formulating a self-imposed set of conditions for the release of appropriations charged against “unprogrammed” funds so as to eliminate abuse
9.Create a Presidential Select Committee to provide oversight over all lump sum disbursements (PDAF), contingency, calamity, AFMA, intelligence and confidential funds). This Committee should be composed of bi-partisan members of the legislature, the private sector and civil society members who shall be bound by an Oath of Confidentiality.
10.Regularly package and disseminate information on agency budgets, bidding and procurement documents and SLANs of senior government officials, to ensure transparency and accountability.
11.Ensure that the Department of Budget and Management is streamlined and rationalized to have clear-cut and distinct mandates and that qualification standards, especially on eligibility, will be strictly followed.
12.Work with the CSC to ensure that performance of government agencies and civil servants will be evaluated rationally and systematically through an effective and measurable performance management system to be approved by the CSC.