DILG PRESENTATION DURING THE CBR CONGRESS 2014

1. Grassroots
Participatory Budgeting
2nd Philippine Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Congress
September 30-October 2, 2014
The Heritage Hotel, Roxas Blvd, Manila

2. Grassroots Participatory Budgeting
• It is a process where the people at the grassroots are provided with
the opportunity to be involved, in deciding how and where public
funds should be spent especially to address their poverty situation,
• The people shall be involved particularly in the drafting of the national
government agencies’ budget.
• Formerly known as the “Bottom-Up Budgeting Process”, it is the
opposite of the top –down approach, where only the leaders and
officials at the top decide where the public funds should go.

3. OBJECTIVES
– Promote people’s participation
– Strengthen government’s accountability and transparency
– make governance and public resources allocation more responsive to
local needs
• It also hopes to
o break the monopoly where only a few decide where the public funds should
be spent,
o curb corrupt practices where funds are mismanaged to benefit a few and
o prevent patronage politics or using the project as a reward to the followers of
political leaders for their electoral support.

4. COVERAGE
2013:
609
2014:
1,233
2015:
1,634
2016:
1,634
Cities & Municipalities

5. AGENCIES INVOLVED
Participating Agencies:
• (for FY 2014 and 2015)
• DA, DAR, DEPED, DOE, DENR, DOH, DILG, DOLE,
DSWD, DOT, DTI, TESDA and NEA
Oversight Agencies:
• DBM, DILG, DSWD, NAPC and NEDA

6. OVERVIEW
• Local governments and local CSOs jointly identify
P15M to P50M worth of priority projects
• LGUs required to provide counterpart funding
• Priority projects incorporated in budgets of regular
programs of agencies

7. GPB PROCESS
• 1. CSOs analyze their poverty situation, identify
possible projects and select their representatives to
the LPRAT
• 2. LPRAT composed of equal number of government
and CSO representatives meets to finalize projects for
submission to the National Government
• 3. Proposed projects are reviewed / validated by
national government
• 4. Funding is provided in the national budget

8. MAKING GOVERNANCE PARTICIPATORY,
TRANSPARENT, ACCOUNTABLE,
RESPONSIVE AND CORRUPT FREE