Municipal recipients of the national government’s Assistance to Municipalities and Sagana at Ligtas na Tubig para sa Lahat (SALINTUBIG) programs in Region XII will now have to establish and operate a functional website, according to the programs’ 2020 guidelines.
Representatives from the DILG – Office of Project Development Services (OPDS) explained that the requirement was included in the 2020 guidelines of both locally-funded programs, consistent with the Department’s Full Disclosure Policy.
Under the said guidelines, municipal LGUs will have to provide quarterly updates of their projects’ physical and financial accomplishments through their established website “20 days from the end of each quarter”, which would include the LGUs’ received, spent, liquidated, remaining, and reverted project funds.
Municipal governments are further mandated to post the same information “in at least three conspicuous public places in the locality” every quarter, the guidelines further stated.
Meanwhile, LGUs will no longer have to submit their projects’ accomplishment reports to both Houses of Congress. Rather, a Certificate which shows that said reports have been uploaded to their websites will be submitted.
This is in addition to other “reportorial and posting requirements” of the programs which include the publication of the projects’ Notice to Proceed (NTPs), approved contracts, and other policies set by the Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB).
Municipal LGUs have until the end of the year to establish their websites, OPDS said.
AM and SALINTUBIG have been a great help in the improvement of local communities in the region, DILG XII Regional Director Josephine Cabrido-Leysa, CESO III said during the virtual orientation.
“The Assistance to Municipalities and SALINTUBIG programs have greatly helped our local government units achieve their respective priority plans and projects, especially in completing local access roads, strengthening disaster responses, and providing potable water to waterless communities, among others. I believe that the close coordination and partnership between the Department and LGUs paved way to this success,” she said.
AM and SALINTUBIG are support programs of the national government facilitated by DILG-OPDS, that provides financial subsidy to LGUs to help implement its priority projects. AM supports local access roads, disaster response, and water system projects, while SALINTUBIG only caters potable water system projects of the LGUs.
This 2020, at least 59 projects from 45 municipal LGUs were funded under the AM Program worth Php 438, 305, 000.00, while 41 potable water system projects from 15 LGUs worth Php 161, 9595, 114.98 were funded under SALINTUBIG program.
Municipal governments are given a year to complete their AM and SALTINTUBIG projects.
