DILG VI sets Barangay, SK officials training
The Department of Interior and Local Government, Region 6 (DILG 6) will conduct a training for the newly elected Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataang officials in order to empower them and pursue excellence in governance.
This was disclosed by DILG VI Director Evelyn Trompeta during the PIA-CATV program, recently.
"We need to capacitate them so that they will know their duties and responsibilities based on the Local Government Code of 1991," Director Trompeta said as she stressed that our Barangay officials should also know that if they are negligent or dereliction of duties, they can be charged of administrative sanctions.
On November 5 to 7, 2007 a regional Coaches' Training will be held and then this will be echoed down to the provincial level, Trompeta said.
"And considering that there are thousands of our newly elected officials in the region, the DILG plans to conduct the trainings by province, but for bigger provinces like Negros Occidental which has seven districts, and Iloilo having five districts, most likely we will have to cluster it by district so that with a regulated number, the participants will efficiently absorb what has been taken up during the training," she said.
The DILG VI Director emphasized during the PIA-CATV program that "first and foremost our barangay officials should know what are the visions of our national government, the Regional Council and with that they will be able to identify their strength and weaknesses."
"One of the major deliverables expected from them is to come up with a three-year development plans," Trompeta said.
For the SK, Trompeta said that the training modules are still being prepared and that is handled by the National Federation of SK.
"It is important that there should be some kind of re-direction for our SK officials because they are influence by several factors. There must be values orientation for them in order to focus their mind-set towards working for development," Trompeta concluded. (T.Villavert/PIA)