BAGUIO CITY (PIA) — A legal practitioner proposed the institutionalization of performance indicators of each government personnel that help in evaluating effectiveness of work and establishing accountability.
Attorney Lyndon Rom David of the University of the Philippines College of Public Administration and Governance cited the need to institutionalize performance indicators to ensure that the budget will translate into actual performance.
“That is something that we consider of a legislation, institutionalize performance indicators that focus from the national down to the individual members of government para po ‘yung mga priorities in the budget will translate to actual performance,” David said during the Caucus for Good Governance Beyond Elections held in Baguio City on April 1, 2025.
David elaborated that the Department of Budget and Management provides an organizational performance indicator framework (OPIF) to the different government agencies and they have to fill the major final outputs (MFOs).
OPIF directs resources toward results and accounts for performance by identifying the MFOs that the agency delivers to its clients. OPIF attaches indicators of performance for each MFO.
However, most of the time the MFOs do not translate to the specific performance indicators, not even for each personnel, David said.
“Kasi, the budget is the declaration of our priorities and most of the time, those priorities are set aside because of the performance once the budget is passed into law and then later on released to the different agencies,” David stated.
As the Philippine government continues its efforts to implement a result-based management system, stakeholders hope that the priorities for implementation will not be set aside and the national budget is allocated efficiently and effectively to achieve the desired outcomes. (JDP/DEG-PIA CAR)
