Local Legislators' Toolkit - The Sangguniang Panlalawigan ng ...

Promote accountability and transparency among LGU officials? Promote peace andunity? Engage the citizens to actively participate in local governance?To implement the LA effectively, the sanggunian needs a set of competencies andinstitutional arrangements that comprise its organizational capacity. <strong>The</strong> role of the LA teamis to identify interventions needed to develop the required capacities, which are priorityareas subsumed under the strategic thrust of Development Administration. Interventions forcapacity development of the sanggunian may require developing or enhancing:• knowledge, skills and attitudes (e.g. drafting ordinances, policy analysis, codificationof ordinances, preparing issue or policy briefs, etc.)• structures (e.g. creating a legislative research and policy unit in the sanggunian)• systems and procedures (e.g. installation of a computerized legislative trackingsystem)• policies (e.g. creating a <strong>Local</strong> Legislative-Executive Development AdvisoryCoordinating Council)• logistical needs (e.g. acquisition of computers for the sanggunian, legal referencebooks, budget for xx number of committee hearings and committee meetings)In identifying capacity development needs specific to the sanggunian, the LA team may usethe Capacity GAP Analysis Matrix in the ELA Manual, p.49.Step 7. Determining legislative requirementsMost programs and projects require ordinances and resolutions before they can beimplemented by executive agencies. At this stage, it is imperative to identify which amongthe items in the list of priority programs and projects require legislative action in the form ofordinances and resolutions.Adopting Step 7 of the ELA process, the steps in determining legislative requirements are asfollows: (See Tool 3 for sample format of the output):1. Identify LGU development thrusts and strategic directions.2. Examine each of the strategic thrusts and actions (i.e. goals and objectives,programs, projects, policies) and identify policy/legislative gaps.3. Identify areas requiring policy/legislative gaps.4. Draw up a list of priority policy/legislative measures.94