EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 12 SERIES OF 2018

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 12 SERIES OF 2018

"AN ORDER EXPANDING THE ROLE OF THE DAVAO CITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT (DC PEACE-DEV), THROUGH THE CREATION OF TASK FORCE PEACE 911 OF DAVAO CITY (PEACE 911) AS ITS IMPLEMENTING ARM FOR ALL PROGRAMS UNDER PEACEBUILDING PROCESS WITHIN ITS JURISDICTION, IDENTIFYING THE COMPOSITION OF PEACE 911, DEFINING ITS DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES"

Executive Order No. 45 constituted the Davao City Advisory Committee on Peace and Development (DC PEACE-DEV) to serve as the recommendatory body in all matters involving peace promotion in Davao City. Through the promulgation of this Executive Order, the DC PEACE-DEV is hereby tasked anew to supervise and spearhead the implementation of all programs embodied in the peace-building process within this jurisdiction through an implementing arm which shall be organized as PEACE 911.

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 11 SERIES OF 2018

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 11 SERIES OF 2018

"AN ORDER CREATING THE CITY AUDIT AND TRANSITION TEAM (CATT) FOR BARANGAYS IN ACCORDANCE WITH DILG MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR 
NO. 2018-12, DATED FEBRUARY 1, 2018, AND DEFINING THE RESPECTIVE POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND 
DUTIES THEREOF"

The DILG in accordance with existing laws, issued Memorandum Circular No. 2018-12 dated February 1, 2018 stipulating the guidelines for the proper conduct of inventory and turnover of all Barangay Properties, Financial Records, Documents (BPFRDs) and Money Accountabilities by all incumbent Barangay Officials. Also, the Memorandum Circular further provides that the City Mayor shall create through an Executive Order a City Audit and Transition Team (CATT) for Barangays, hence the promulgation of this Executive Order.

MEMORANDUM FROM OFFICE OF THE CITY MAYOR

MEMORANDUM FROM OFFICE OF THE CITY MAYOR

PARTICIPATION TO THE 
BLOOD LETTING ACTIVITY

All Officials and Employees of the City Government of Davao are encourage to participate and support Mercantile Corporation of Davao's (MERCO) "Centing's Annual Blood Donation Drive" on June 8, 2018 (Friday), from 10AM-8PM at the Activity Center of Abreeza Mall, Bajada, Davao City.

PROCLAMATION NO. 05 SERIES OF 2018

PROCLAMATION NO. 05 SERIES OF 2018

"DECLARING MAY 21 TO MAY 27, 2018 AS PHILIPPINE-AUSTRALIA FRIENDSHIP WEEK IN THE CITY OF DAVAO"

The Office of the City Mayor declared May 21 to May 27, 2018 as Philippine-Australia Friendship Week in the City of Davao, in conjunction with Presidential Proclamation No. 1282 s 2016, and in recognition of the enduring friendship between the Commonwealth of Australia and the City of Davao.

PROCLAMATION NO. 04 SERIES OF 2018

PROCLAMATION NO. 04 SERIES OF 2018

"DECLARING 2018 AS THE CENTENNIAL YEAR OF FREEMASONRY
IN DAVAO CITY"

The fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons under the grand jurisdiction of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the Philippines was established in Davao City last November 1918. Since then, the fraternity has been an active partner of the City Government in various community affairs and civic activities which greatly contributed to the City's development.

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Araw ng Dabaw 2011 Schedule

74th ARAW NG DABAW SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

DATE/TIME ACTIVITY VENUE

14-Mar-11/7:30am Opening Ceremonies Quezon Park

14-Mar-11 Pakonsiyerto ni Mayor Rizal Park

14-Mar-11 Kaon ta Day, Lingaw ta Bai Bolton St

15-Mar-11/1-6pm Sayawan sa Da’n

City Hall Drive-San Pedro-Legazpi-Rizal-Bolton

15-Mar-11/8pm Mutya ng Dabaw (Finals) Davao City Recreation Center

15-Mar-11 Pakonsiyerto ni Mayor Rizal Park

15-Mar-11 Kaon ta Day, Lingaw ta Bai Bolton St

16-Mar-11/6am Thanksgiving Mass San Pedro Church

16-Mar-11/7:30am Parada Dabawenyo/Banda Hudyaka

City Government's Full Support to GSP

Mayor Sara Z. Duterte & Vice Mayor Rody Duterte

together with the members of the 16th City Council

pledged their support to the 27th Girl Scout Encampment

to be held on April 11 to 16, 2011 at

GSP Camp Corazon, Bankas Heights, Toril Davao City

Mayor Rody formally endorsed Mabel Sunga Acosta as an official candidate of Hugpong for 1st District Congress

One of the Best!

“Muslims, Christians and Lumads converge in Mindanao. Peace and stability in that region rests on the people’s ability to live in harmony. Local School Boards know the local situation best and are critical to building this peace through better education. Davao City, through Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and City Councilor Mabel Acosta, chairman of the council committee on education, has built a strong Local School Board over the past decade that could serve as a model for other cities.”

One of the best

By Roger M. Balanza

Education is a major focus of the administration of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. Without fanfare, Davao City has established basic foundations in collaboration with the Department of Education (DepEd), other national government agencies and private educational institutions to make the city’s educational system one of the best in the country.

At the core of this initiative is the Local School Board which links with DepEd to provide scholarship, infrastructures, salaries for teachers and other basic needs of the local public school system.

Outside of the public school system, the city government locks arms with private institutions to support their programs and projects and establish conditions for students to pursue their education in a safe community.

This article, from an outsider who has extensive background on the Philippine educational system, should place Davao City on top of the heap among local government units in terms of seriousness and dedication to provide for the education of children.

The author, Juan Miguel Luz, is the associate dean of the Center for Development Management at the Asian Institute of Management. He can be reached at juanmiguel.luz@gmail.com and www.mikeluz.net.

Source: DURIANBURGDAVAO

Davao City Education Program Praised - On Education

Education

A key driver of growth

By Juan Miguel Luz

FOR SCHOOLS in Mindanao, Manila is too far away to be responsive to local situations. Concerns are likely to get lost in the competition for attention in the Department of Education (DepEd).

Local School Boards (LSB) are the key to making local decisions that meet local needs. LSBs were created by the Local Government Code to help fund public school needs through the Special Education Fund. But LSBs can do much more than that.

The Davao City LSB is a case in point. More than just funding shortfalls, it has focused on interventions that, in my view, provide system-wide solutions for the entire system.

Over the past nine years, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who sees education as a key driver of growth, and councilor Mabel Sunga Acosta, who has managed the city’s education agenda as chair of the committee on education, have led the Davao City LSB.

Three very able superintendents have co-chaired the LSB in that period: Dr. Susana Estigoy (now regional director for Southern Mindanao), Dr. Gloria Labor (who retired mid-2007) and Dr. Helen Paguican. Other members include the city treasurer, the president of the Sangguniang Kabataan, the president of the city federation of Parents-Teachers Associations, the representative of teachers’ organizations and the representative of non-academic personnel of public schools.

Davao City has a significant Muslim population, both indigenous (Kalagan and Sama) and from across Mindanao (Maguindanaoan, Maranao, Badjao), a sizeable indigenous Lumad populace and migrants from the Visayas and Luzon. As the largest city in Mindanao, Davao City has 286 public elementary and 69 public high schools with over 250,000 students and 6,671 teachers (SY 2009-2010). Because of the city’s ethno-linguistic diversity, it is one of the most complex school systems in the country.

Over the past two years, the Davao City LSB has worked with an annual budget of P177 million (2008) and P204 million (2009) to fund:

Salaries of locally funded public school teachers (123 elementary and 178 secondary) to help fill the teacher shortage;

School health and nutrition, including bio-intensive gardens in 50 elementary schools for school feeding;

School-building construction and furniture;

Workbooks, materials and supplies;

Payment of water and electricity for public schools;

School sports.

These expenditures are common for LSBs nationwide. However, the Davao City LSB has pioneered in four specific areas where the potential of LSBs can best be realized.

First, it has become the venue for reviewing school and teacher performance. To succeed, these reviews have to be fair and critical. The Davao City LSB has taken politics out of teacher appointments and promotions by subjecting these to a multi-stakeholder process.

Second, in late 2002, Acosta (in her first term) brought to the attention of DepEd the issue of teacher payroll as a teacher welfare concern. With salaries paid by central office checks, she argued that because of the distance, local teachers found it very difficult to deal with the DepEd central office regarding salary discrepancies like underpayment and over-deduction. The LSB solution: regional payroll servicing.

In 2004, Region XI was the first region to decentralize teacher payroll. All teacher payroll was subsequently decentralized to regional offices nationwide by 2005.

Third, in early 2005, Davao City became one of the first three cities to set up a Library Hub to provide public schools more access to books as a way to bring up the low reading rates of elementary pupils. This was a partnership between Dole Asia, a private company that provided the seed fund, the city government which helped with the venue (an old warehouse near city hall), and DepEd. Today, over 200 Library Hubs have been set up nationwide.

The most innovative program of the Davao City LSB, however, has been its support for Madaris education as far back as 2001, even before the DepEd moved on this. An ALIVE (Arabic Language and Islamic Values Education) curriculum was developed with the DepEd to help Muslim Filipino children acquire a deeper appreciation of their culture as well as give them better learning opportunities in English, science and math.

Today, the Davao City LSB supports ALIVE in 30 public elementary schools and funds an ALIVE coordinator who supervises 104 asatidz (learned teachers) who handle the two subjects.

Finally, under the management of Acosta and Paguican, the LSB has set up a Davao City School Board Data Bank System that tracks school-by-school performance, a GIS-based school location map (to locate high schools and feeder elementary schools and match this with schooling indicators) and a joint program with the Institute of Indigenous People’s Education (IIPE) to provide a more responsive education experience for the city’s Lumad population.

Muslims, Christians and Lumads converge in Mindanao. Peace and stability in that region rests on the people’s ability to live in harmony. Local School Boards know the local situation best and are critical to building this peace through better education. Davao City, through Duterte and Acosta, has built a strong Local School Board over the past decade that could serve as a model for other cities.