Dean's Message

Dean's Message (May 2011)

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Last Updated (Monday, 11 July 2011 20:45) Written by Erwin Alampay Thursday, 26 May 2011 08:45

The Senator Trillanes Scholarship Grant

The UP NCPAG is fortunate to be a beneficiary of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s Scholarship Grant.

The scholarship grant is intended to provide support for both graduate and undergraduate students to pursue their degrees in public administration. Just like the previous scholarship programs placed under the NCPAG, the Trillanes’ Scholarship program follows a set of criteria that define the qualifications of potential scholars and recipients of the grant. For more details see: http://www.up-ncpag.org/main/component/content/article/43-announcements/153-sen-antonio-trillanes-iv-scholarship-grant-guidelines.html

For enquiry and other information about the program, please contact the Center for Public Administration and Governance Education (CPAGE) email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it / Tel. (63-2) 927 9085/ 925 3851/ 981 8500 loc. 4154

POLICY BRIEF

The UPNCPAG takes pride and pleasure in putting out a new platform for dissemination and discourse on various policy issues and concerns that reach out to public administration scholars and practitioners. The “POLICY BRIEF” is coming out this June 2011. The launching of “Policy Brief” is a way of celebrating the NCPAG’s 59th anniversary which falls on the 15th of June 2011. It is a tribute to the institution’s contributions to policy discussions and policy studies, and a form of NCPAG’s extension service to policy making in the Philippines.

The maiden issue of “Policy Brief” coincides with a policy forum that will be held on the last week of June. The policy forum will cover a thorough discussion on Philippine water and sanitation. The UP-NCPAG helped convene an executive-legislative dialogue on water last March 2011 as part of the World Water Day celebration. It was jointly organized with the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), the UN’s MDGF1919, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the National Water Resources Board (NWRB). From the dialogue, the NCPAG was able to produce a policy paper on water and sanitation.

The “Policy Brief” is available at the Publications Office of the UP NCPAG and could be reached through email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it / Tel. (63-2) 926 1443/ 981 8500 loc. 4160

Expect more policy discussions and dissemination through the “Policy Brief”.

IDEA Asia-Pacific Seminar-Workshop on Citizens' Democracy Assessment Methodology

We are pleased and proud to announce that the UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES NATIONAL COLLEGE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (UP NCPAG) is hosting an Asia-Pacific seminar-workshop on “Citizens’ Democracy Assessment Methodology” FROM 29-31 March 2011. The workshop is jointly sponsored by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (international IDEA) and the UP NCPAG. The seminar-workshop is held at the UP NCPAG Assembly Hall , Diliman, Quezon City Philippines.

NCPAG 3-year Plans and Programs

EDNA ESTIFANIA A. CO,DPA
Professor and Dean

My term as dean of the UP NCPAG officially began in August 2010 and shall end in July 2013. The three-year term challenges the dean to be a brilliant academic leader as well as an effective administrator and resource mobilizer. Such dual responsibility packs the deanship with enormous challenges.

I am trying to respond to the twin challenges of the deanship, and therefore, in the three-year plan (2010-2013) of the UP NCPAG, the college tries to collectively define the mission of an academic institution that parallels its avowed vision, namely:

“The NCPAG envisions a public service founded on competence and compassion, integrity and leadership, and on values of public interest and high ethical standard. It commits itself to serve the nation by initiating and promoting the requisite reforms in governance. To these ends, it seeks to build and maintain a highly qualified faculty and staff and a well-equipped, pro-active organization.”

My idea of the 3 years of the NCPAG in 2010 thru 2013 is that the college continues to hone its proficiency in the academic function of public administration, as it also significantly contributes to the changing political environment of the nation and of the world. I hope to see NCPAG sail on as the leading academic institution in the country in the field of public administration. As it does so, I hope that the college could also engage in the life of the nation, the community, and the world by contributing to the practice of public administrators, policy makers, and citizens as leaders.

The three-year plan and program of the college is called, “Public Administration as Intellectual Tradition and as Engagement in the Life of the Community and of the Nation," which you will find below.

I hope our alumni, friends, and the public would identify with and support us as we journey in these three years.

Download 3 year plans and programs CLICK HERE

Rule of Law and Access to Justice Book Launching Message

EDNA ESTIFANIA A. CO, DPA
Professor and Dean

Good morning esteemed guests, colleagues, friends, and fellow democrats!

Today, we are launching the 4th in a series of the Philippine democracy assessment. This time, the assessment is on “the rule of law and access to justice”, a work that is co-published by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) based in Sweden and the action for economic reforms in the Philippines. The National College Of Public Administration And Governance (NCPAG) of the University of the Philippines Diliman is pleased to host and co-sponsor this event as the NCPAG hopes to be associated with the democracy assessment now and in the future through the IDEA Asia-Pacific Programme.

I am very pleased and honoured to have embarked on this project, namely, the democracy assessment, since 2003, which is a side result of my fellowship at the University of Manchester, Institute for Policy and Development Management. Through this democracy assessment, a new horizon of an intellectual journey opened. I do not primarily refer to this project as an academic undertaking alone, although it certainly is – rather, I consider this as a “public intellectual” contribution. Through the democracy assessment project, my path crossed with political foundations, the practitioners in the field of electoral governance and advocates including constitutional commissioners, legislators, party list representatives, political parties, corruption watchdogs, economic and social development workers, activists, planners, bureaucrats, young leaders, justices of the courts, lawyers, media practitioners, and academics. All of them help and continue to contribute to our understanding of democracy in this country.