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About MCCPIP
The President appointed the National Competitiveness Council’s private sector co-chairman to become the “Point of Contact” which the MCC Board agreed to. The POC will substantially bring the PPP approach towards generating relevant policy improvement projects that will meet the eligibility criteria of the MCC in the areas of Ruling Justly, Investing in People, and Economic Freedom. Specifically, it needed to hurdle the Control of Corruption indicator which is the pass-or-fail measure under the “Ruling Justly” category that the Philippine Government.
Thus, MCC invited the Philippines to participate in a Policy Improvement Process whereby the Philippines together with MCC will implement an action plan that will help the country meet eligibility indicator criteria, particularly “Control of Corruption”. The following are the three (3) primary objectives under the PIP:
• to develop an operational tool to assess, monitor, and improve performance on the eligibility criteria;
• to provide a basis for policy dialogue with MCC about reform efforts; and
• to highlight enhanced governance, through policy improvement projects, in several key government functions and
achieve improved perceptions from stakeholders in the short to medium term
To take a fresh approach in ensuring the success of the PIP, the PIP Point of Contact (POC) from the Private Sector defined the main task is to put in place innovative action plans to meet the aforementioned indicator criteria, and devolved responsibility for the implementation and monitoring of the most senior level of government (Executive Secretary).
The POC embarked on the development of a unique and innovative approach on the Philippine PIPs by having a strong Public-Private Partnership to ensure a successful implementation of said PIPs. This will be achieved by creating a team composed of the most senior government official in the concerned department as champion, and a person from the private sector as a co-champion. This Public-Private Partnership approach was well received by MCC officials in the POC’s initial meeting with them in Washington D.C. on April 23-24, 2009, when he unveiled the nine PIP projects.
The PIP team identified several initiatives to be taken by certain government agencies which could be strongly supported to completion and institutionalization. Using the principle of the Pareto Rule, the PIP projects were constituted with external stakeholders working closely with empowered agencies for improved delivery of public service in the short and medium term leading to an improved COC perception. MCC officials lauded the unique and innovative approach to policy improvement as the process took shape promptly and with broad-based and active participation of public and private sector partners.
After thorough consultations with the concerned public and private sectors, the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) submitted to the MCC its Policy Improvement Projects Final Action Plan namely: 1) Developing 120 LGUs as Sparkplugs for Economic Development; 2) Institutionalization of the Balanced Scorecard System in Six (6) National Government Agencies, and 3) Improving Transparency in Budget Delivery. This action plan aims to enhance GRP’s efforts in controlling corruption and instituting good governance in the public sector which should ultimately result in continuing improvements in the COC index. The GRP commits to the various goals and integrity development action plans spelled out in these PIPs which are briefly described in the following sections.
