Strengthening the Integrity of the Judiciary

With funding support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), ROLE with CPED and the Centre for Human Resource Strategies Asia, Inc. as proponents, implemented a Judicial Reform Activity. The Activity focuses on a comprehensive diagnostic to address the perceived declining public confidence on the judiciary. By systematically identifying areas and practices that are vulnerable to corruption, the Supreme Court of the Philippines will have adequate basis for approaching the problems. This activity will contribute to ROLE's goal of reducing corruption opportunities. It seeks to support the efforts in reducing corruption in the judiciary by providing the tools for diagnosing the problem and installing effective corruption reform measures.

This activity was implemented from September 2007 – January 2008.

Impact Assessment of the Self-Employment Assistance Kaunlaran (SEA-K) for the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)

This study seeks to determine the extent to which SEA-K program realized its desired outputs, outcomes, and impact. Specifically, it looks into the following aspects of SEA-K: (a) program design; (b) policy support mechanisms; (c) implementation arrangements; and (d) individual capacities of program managers and implementers. The study will also identify lessons which can be fed back to policy decisions, improvement of the existing program, and design of future programs and initiatives. The project will be implemented from 15 June to 15 October 2007.

Asian Development Bank’s Citizen Report Card (CRC) Methodology and Continuous Improvement and Benchmarking (CIB) Techniques

On CRC-QC

A Pilot CRC study was carried out in Quezon City to assess access, usage, quality and satisfaction with public services provided by the Quezon City government on building permit, business permit and health services. As part of the research design, a survey was conducted from April to May 2007 to over 800 sampled respondents in the four districts in Quezon City. The survey for all the three (3) services has been completed and analysis of data is underway. The CRC Team has tentatively scheduled the public presentation of the CRC findings in July 2007. The CRC Team is composed of Simeon Ilago, Ebinezer Florano, Emalyn Sodusta and John Francisco.

On CIB Techniques

The CIB Makati is undertaking the service improvement of the materials recovery facility in Barangay Valenzuela. The service consists of three sub-services, namely: conduct of IEC dissemination activities, waste segregation at source and garbage collection. It started in January 2007 with the first phase of the process of improvement when the steering committee identified the service that they thought most relevant given six months to conduct the service improvement. From February to April, the project team planned the CIB project, defined the service to improve, understood the service, measured the service and formulated the customer survey instrument.

Public Sector Reform: Development of Governance

Innovative Approaches-Leadership Philippines

With support from the Fostering Democratic Governance (FDG) of the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP), CPED completed the project on Public Sector Reform: Development of Governance Innovative Approaches-Leadership Philippines.

CPED organized the Board of Advisers and drafted the curriculum to launch a continuing program on leadership development program? Leadership Philippines . The key purpose of the program is to provide a demand-driven, responsive, high quality, continuous, and sustainable leadership training for executives in government, private sector, and civil society. The Board of Advisers is comprised of RCBC Chair and former Prime Minister Cesar E.A. Virata, UP President Emerlinda Roman, DBP Chair Patricia A. Sto. Tomas, Gawad Kalinga Executive Director Tony Meloto, Former CSC Chair and DSWD Secretary Corazon Alma de Leon, and CSC Chair Karina David.