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Anti-Corruption and Transparency Project
Re: LGU Vehicle Monitoring

Paul Pastrano Gangoso
Executive Director, ECOLINK
www.ecolink-asia.org


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Issues the project hopes to address:
•Lavish/ corrupt expenditures in gasoline &
lubricants, repairs & maintenance

•Rampant misuse of red-plated vehicles
•Weak compliance of LGU to GPRA
•Minimal citizen participation in anti-graft drives


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Intervention Framework


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Part I:
Mobilizing Citizens in the Drive to
Curb Government Corruption


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A. Popular Media : “Bantay Kurapsyon”
Radio Program
(As of September, 2007)
• 1,197 Text Responses
• 179 Calls
• 55 Letters
• 19 Well-known Guests
• 48 Weekly Episodes
• High Listener Rating
• 63 issues addressed


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B. Arts and the Youth
Reaching thousands through Poster-making,
Photojournalism & Short-play Competitions


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C. Citizen’s Coalition Against Corruption
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Procurement Monitoring through CSO
Representation in City and Brgy.-level B.A.C.’s

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LGU Projects Monitoring

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Policy Advocacy

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Citizen’s Hotline

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71 PO’s/NGO’s

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Link with
Ombudsman/
City Mayor/ SP
DILG/ Line Agencies


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Part II:
Reducing expenditures on gasoline and
lubricants, repairs and maintenance


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Strategies in reducing expenditures on
gasoline and lubricants, repairs and
maintenance
• Monthly Expenditures Monitoring
• Quarterly Expenditures Analysis Workshops
 Case Studies of Specific LGU Vehicles
 Measure Corruption Rate of Every Vehicle
 Review costs of procured vehicles & supplies
• Monitoring retail stations of gasoline and
lubricants
• Reporting and investigating citizen’s reports


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Case Study 1:
SBE 219 KIA Pick-up assigned to a
City Councilor
Total Cost of Gasoline Consumption
per Week during his assignment :
P 1,720.00 / week
Total Cost of Gasoline Consumption
Per Week after re-assignment :
P 559.00/ week
@ Average Corruption Rate : P 197.80 / day

Total Corruption in 3 Years
(Gasoline and Lubricants Only): P 154,707.86


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Local Government Expenditures have reduced by 1.9
million, 47 Barangays’ expenditures reduced by .1million,
Expenses lost to misuse amounts .25million and Gasoline
reselling by .06 million


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Part III:
Eradicating Vehicle Misuse Practices


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Most common forms of misuse
Sending family members to and from the school
Personal business, beach picnics and family
recreations
 Going to church and market at weekends
 Evening recreations at KTV bars and night clubs
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Strategies in Eradicating Vehicle Misuse
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Tapping students, teachers, security guards, waiters,
bartenders, employees, drivers as volunteer monitors

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Using popular media like SMS, Bantay Kurapsyon Radio
Program, Posters

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Pushing for policy reforms and precedent punitive
actions in the LGU


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A. Tapping students,
teachers, security
guards, waiters,
bartenders,
employees, drivers
as volunteer
monitors
B. Using popular
media like SMS,
Newsletter,
Bantay Kurapsyon
Radio Program &
Posters
97% of photos and text reports come from students, teachers and
anonymous sources


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C. Pushing for policy reforms and precedent
punitive actions in the LGU
- dismissal of employee caught in misuse
- principal relieved from duty
- placement of LGU logos in vehicles

- inventory of non- roadworthy LGU vehicles
- new plate numbers
- Draft Barangay Ordinance
- Draft City LGU Ordinance

- Complaint at Ombudsman

Average monthly vehicle misuse practices reduced from 67 to 3 and a
record O by June-July


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Part IV:

Strengthening LGU’s Compliance to
Government Procurement Reform Act (GPRA)
or R.A. 9184


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A. CSO Representation in BAC’s
 21 Actual Observation on Biddings in the
City LGU, National Line Agencies like
DepED, and Barangay LGU’s
 Regular Membership in the City, Line
Agencies and Barangay BAC’s

B. Posting/ Publication of Bids
 Improved posting and publication of bids
 No on-line access yet

C. Accessibility of Bid Documents
 Improved accessibility of documents in the
National Line Agencies but minimal City
and Barangay LGU’s compliance
 No on-line access
 No Communications Plan/ Information
System


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D. Strengthen appreciation of BAC
members and observers towards GPRA
through Scoping
and Short-term
HRD training


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Part IV:

Sustainability, Replicability & Future
Perspectives


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Sustainability
 PURSUING THE PASSAGE OF A CITY ORDINANCE
DEFINING THE GUIDELINES ON THE USE OF
LOCAL GOVERNMENT VEHICLES, FUEL
CONSUMPTION AND AVIALMENT OF
AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES
 PURSUING THE PASSAGE OF BARANGAY
ORDINANCE SETTING THE GUIDELINES ON THE
USE OF BARANGAY VEHICLE
 ESTABLISHING A CITIZEN’S COALITION AGAINST
CORRUPTION LINKING ALL CSO’S AND
GOVERNMENT OFFICES
 INTEGRATING ARTS ACTIVITIES IN ANNUAL CITY
EVENTS


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Replicability
 CSO’S CAN UTILIZE COMMON TOOLS FOR MEASURING
AND MONITORING CORRUPTION IN LGU EXPENDITURES
ON GASOLINE AND LUBRICANTS
 ORDINANCE CAN BE APPLIED TO OTHER CITIES ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY AS WELL
 CITIZEN-BASED VEHICLE MISUSE MONITORING AND
DOCUMENTATION TOOLS CAN IMPROVE THE OFFICE OF
THE OMBUDSMAN’S OPLAN RED PLATE
 CSO’S CAN UTILIZE INFORMATION AND EDUCATION
CAMPAIGN TOOLS IN PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY
 PROCUREMENT MONITORS CAN USE ECOLINK’S
APPROACH


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Future Perspectives
• Strengthening the Oroquieta City Coalition
Against Corruption and Similar Networks and
Promoting a Comprehensive Citizen-based
Anti-Corruption Framework for Local
Government
• Replicating the project in other cities in the
Philippines
• Sharing the Oroquieta City experience across
the country


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Before I end this presentation, we at
ECOLINK wish to share a very important
lesson we learned from our project:
Transparency in the public office including the
Local Government is not something given
freely by those in power even, if procurement
and other similar laws exist;
It is something that a vigilant and active
citizenry should continuously fight for.


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Thank You
Very Much . . .
Have A Nice Day . . .

Thanks to
Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF)
and Asian Development Bank
As well as to
the Department of Education- Oroquieta City Interim Division,
DILG Oroquieta CLGOO
and City Government of Oroquieta