Fourteen additional local government units in Region XII passed the Public Financial Management Compliance (PFM) Assessment, DILG XII- Project Development Management Unit (PDMU) revealed.
Earlier this week, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) XII has confirmed and furnished DILG XII the said list of 14 LGUs which included Arakan, Kabacan, Magpet, M’lang, and Tulunan of Cotabato Province, Kiamba, Maasim, and Malungon of Sarangani Province, Sto. Nino, Surallah, and Tampakan of South Cotabato, and Bagumbayan, Esperanza, and Lambayong of Sultan Kudarat Province.
To date, the Region has a total of 18 PFM-compliant LGUs with the towns of Alamada, Aleosan, Libungan, and President Roxas from the Province of Cotabato composing the first list of PFM compliant LGUs furnished by DBM XII to DILG XII on April 24.
PDMU believes that the Unit’s consistent reminder and active support to the LGUs despite the COVID-19 crisis have partly contributed to this achievement.
The Unit, headed by Engr. Herminia S. Ontoy, has earlier conducted a series of virtual meetings with all the towns in the Region to update and fast-track their PFM compliance and submission of other technical requirements for fund release under the 2020 locally-funded projects of the DILG. DBM XII representative, Ms. Roxanne Mapa has also joined the said virtual meetings as a resource person.
Under the AM and SALINTUBIG General Appropriations Act (GAA), LGUs are mandated to complete the governance reform requirements of the programs which include passing the Good Financial Housekeeping, Local Development Council Functionality, PFM Assessments, and other technical requirements.
The PFM compliance system is a reform program of the national government facilitated by DBM that aims to improve the efficiency, accountability and transparency in public fund use through a tool dubbed as PFM Assessment Tool for Local Government Units (PFMAT for LGUs).
PFMAT for LGUs aims to help LGUs institutionalize governance reforms by enabling them to assess and improve their PFM systems, and generate information as basis for their PFM improvement plans.
DILG XII is set to endorse the additional PFM compliant LGUs and their proposed projects under the 2020 AM and SALINTUBIG programs to DILG Central Office for funding.
