REPRESENTATIVES from the national government of the Philippines and the local government of Pasig City visited Sweden and ...

MANILA: The Office of Civil Defence (OCD) has alerted local government units (LGUs ... enhance earthquake preparedness significantly. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology ...

the project partners and Local Government Associations presented the first time the results in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Out of a pool of 27 proposed best practice examples from Cambodia, Indonesia, the ...

is collaborating with the House of Representatives to review the Philippines’ Local Government Code, with a focus on identifying areas for legislative reform. “We aim to emphasize the importance of ...

October 10, 2016 marks 25 years since the Local Government Code – the bible of local governance – was enacted in the Philippines. It is undergoing a comprehensive review. MANILA, Philippines ...

Philippines – The integration of local health systems, a key provision in the landmark Universal Health Care (UHC) law, will not hinder local government control of municipal health facilities ...

increasing the share of national government tax revenue transferred to local governments. These are among the recommendations of the Philippines Economic Update released recently by the World Bank. As ...

There is a lack of manpower to do the monitoring, not just across local government units but in national agencies like the Climate Change Commission, because of the scale of inventory for the whole of ...

A mayor in the Philippines has ordered civil servants to smile or risk being fined as he tries to improve the level of service provided by the local government. Aristotle Aguirre said the policy ...