TY - BOOK AU - Brillantes,Alex B.,Jr AU - Ruiz,Karl Emmanuel V. TI - Innovation and excellence: understanding local governance in the Philippines SN - 9789718567937 AV - JS7303.A3 .B75 2024 U1 - 342.099599 23 PY - 2024/// CY - Quezon City PB - National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines, Center for Local and Regional Governance, Philippine Society for Public Administration, University of Makati Foundation, Local Government Academy of the Philippines KW - Local government KW - Philippines KW - Decentralization in government KW - Southeast Asia KW - Intergovernmental cooperation KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Decentralization, devolution, and development in the Philippines -- Local governance and NGOs in the Philippines: issues and concerns -- Global forces and local governments in the Philippines: challenges and responses -- Doing things differently: innovation at the local level -- What makes excellent local leaders: the local government leadership awards -- Toward the development of indicators for good local -- Phronetic leadership in a crisis: best practices of selected Filipino local leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Locally originated metropolitan governance: the Philippines' BLISTT (Baguio, La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan, Tuba, and Tublay) -- and Indonesia's Kartamantul (Yogyakarta, Sleman, and Bantul) -- Issues and concerns about decentralization in some Asian countries: an indicative picture -- An agenda for reform -- Appendix A. Summary of issues and challenges in local governance -- Appendix B. Federalism: the next logical step after devolution? -- Appendix C. LGU fiscal dependency by province -- Appendix D. LGU fiscal dependency by city -- Appendix E. LGU fiscal dependency by municipality -- Appendix F. Finally, for whatever it is worth ... reflections on the bureaucracy ER -