Philippine Local Government Reports

The Philippine Local Government Reports is a monthly publication and shall feature outstanding local government units, local officials and their best practices; commentaries on social justice in action; role of LGUs from citizens’ point of view; analysis of Supreme Court decisions affecting local government units. It will also contain the laws and circulars affecting the local governments issued by the Department of Interior and Local Government, Department of Finance, Department of Budget and Management, Government Procurement Policy Board, Department of Education, Presidential Commission on Urban Affairs, National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Civil Service Commission, and other appropriate national government agencies.

To expand our collaboration with civic-minded members of our society, the Philippine Social Justice Foundation, Inc. welcomes your suggestions, comments and complaints to which we will take action, if necessary, to bring about the desired changes and reforms we Filipinos deserve.

Welcome!

On March 9, 2010, Philippine Social Justice Foundation, Inc. was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It was organized by a group of law professors from various law schools and civic-minded individuals who share a common ideology of bridging our people through proper information when and where our government and holders of powers escaped to mind. As its name suggests, it will carry the torch of that long time disregarded reality of social justice in our society.

As part of its mission and vision, the foundation decided to publish the Philippine Local Government Reports to bring the message of social justice to all Filipinos, through the grassroots leaders of our country.  After all, a right or privilege is always said to be coupled with an obligation and the bedrock of all expectations is that our local government units should be the frontrunners in delivering basic social services to our people, which in itself is promotion of social justice. Indeed, the general welfare provision of the Local Government Code mandates as a duty for LGUs to promote economic prosperity and enhance social justice.