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Performance tracking 12 Feb. 2008 |
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President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo, through EO 564, restructured the Regional Project
Monitoring and Evaluation System (RPMES) established in 1989 by former
Pres. Corazon C. Aquino and expanded by Pres. Fidel V. Ramos under EO
93, into the Infrastructure Monitoring Task Force Projects Performance
Tracking System or the Pro-Performance System. The "Pro-Performance System," as conceptualized in the EO, has as its goal the accelerated delivery of the MTPIP (Medium Term Public Investment Program) 2006-2010, especially the SONA commitments, in terms of physical (quality) and financial performance and timeliness. In September last year, a Pro-Performance System Steering Committee was formally constituted, with the following members: Amb. Donald Dee, business representative; Dr. Vincent Fabella, NGO representative; Mr. Richard Nalupta, youth representative; Fr. Anton Pascual, religious representative; Mr. Ruperto Nicdao, Jr., media representative; and, Mayor Ramon Guico, Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines representative. The Pro-Performance System or PPS aims to provide independent and up-to-date information on the overall status of project implementation and identify areas, issues and concerns that need intervention. The PPS seeks to reinforce public-private partnership and collaboration in monitoring and to supplement current government monitoring efforts at all levels for more synergistic and independent findings. More significantly, the PPS will ensure public awareness and participation in infra projects through information campaigns and advocacy programs. To date, overall project monitoring covers 2,600 MTPIP projects, 1,900 of which are non-infrastructure, while 680 are infra. Of that number, 151 are considered priority, especially those included in the President’s State-of-the Nation-Address (SONA) commitments. As mandated, the PPS promotes transparency in project implementation, evaluates and addresses cost overruns and undertakes advocacy initiatives for priority programs and projects. At the PPS Steering Committee meetings, agencies render their reports, giving the committee a full and in-depth grasp of projects. For instance, in the report on the energy and power sectors, the strategy to tap new and renewable energy for off-grid barangays was presented, highlighted by the fact that as many as 94.5% of our 42,000 barangays are already energized. A strategy for tapping the combined capacity of microhydro plants, sustainable solar and wind power, and other new and renewable sources of electricity, is being pursued by government, through a remote area electrification subsidy scheme for coverage of the few remaining barangays. Also in the same meeting, the National Center for Health Facility Development of the Department of Health presented the status of hospital upgrades, with 35 hospitals being upgraded at a total cost of R500 M: 14 in Luzon, seven in the Visayas, and another 14 in Mindanao. The present membership of the Steering Committee is a broad representation of stakeholders in the country’s future. We hope to expand this base even further. In fact, at a meeting last year with the country’s premier contractors, the Philippine Constructors’ Association, we came to an understanding that they would help the Committee monitor the government’s infra program. We will go into similar arrangements with local business chambers and media groups. In the future, the Steering Committee hopes to institutionalize the monitoring function, so that anyone who has a stake in any and all government projects can become our project monitors. Soon enough, individuals rather than just implementing agencies and institutional partners can be reporting to the Steering Committee. |
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