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From
“Philippine shoe capital” Marikina City to former “lahar country”
San Fernando, Pampanga. From Tagbilaran City in Bohol, the land
of the Chocolate Hills, to the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio
City. More and more cities, sectors and institutions are taking
the Governance Pathway to raise their standards of governance practices.
“This just shows the very serious commitment in the Philippines
to improve the level of public governance,” said John Callebaut,
senior program officer for Asia of the Washington, D.C.-based Center
for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) at the Mahal Ko Ang
Pilipinas Public Governance Forum (MKAP Forum) on Aug. 30 at the
Sofitel Philippine Plaza.
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To
help transform cities’ and sectors’ “field of dreams” into “fields
of outcomes,” the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA) has institutionalized
the MKAP Forum as a regular venue for reporting on progress made
in improving public governance practices. “Since the Forum is held
every six months, it should be easy to check whether the commitments
made have been honored, and steps have been taken,” said Dr. Jesus
P. Estanislao, ISA founder and chair. “This is typical governance
discipline, and we shall be observing it religiously through the
MKAP Forum.”
See
Pathway, back page
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