The Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) received
another Silver Trailblazer Award for its Kagitingan Roadmap 2022 outlining
various initiatives and projects to uplift the welfare of the country’s
veterans.
It made the presentation at the Public Governance Forum of
the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA) during a Public Revalida that tested
whether the agency’s progress to Compliance stage of the Performance Governance
System (PGS).
The PGS is a four-stage pathway to good governance that
promotes transparency and accountability by making governance a shared
responsibility.
It enables public offices, professional associations, and
academic institutions to strategize long-term development goals, organizational
transformation, and transparency viewed through the lens of a balanced score
card.
Its stages include initiation, compliance, proficiency, and
institutionalization.
PVAO deputy administrator retired Major Gen. Raul Coballes
made the presentation before a panel of strategy, business and industry experts
at the bi-annual Public Governance Forum where various national government
agencies, government owned and controlled corporation and local government
units gather to share how their organizations have transformed and raised their
standards of service to the people.
With the Kagitingan Roadmap, PVAO endeavors and empowers the
veterans and motivate the country’s future defenders.
It aims to reduce the number of indigent veterans from
16,100 to 0 by 2022 and propagate love of country by increasing the number of
Kagitingan builders through shrine development, LGU-led commemorations and
production of books, films and materials about the valor and selfless
sacrifices of the veterans.
The Kagitingan Roadmap reflects PVAO goals to transform the
veterans from being merely dependent clients to empowered partners; to
transform veterans’ organizations from being self-centered, factionalized and
marginalized to being united and empowered; to transform underutilized veterans
assets and properties to being optimized and the benefits derived from them
equitably shared; to transform shrines and memorials to instruments that
instill national pride and patriotism; to make commemorative events pervasive
and community-based; to rationalize pensions and benefits structure, and to
ensure veterans’ overall welfare and wellbeing.
PVAO envisions a strong and unified Filipino veterans
community serving as a reliable partner in nation building.
It will guide PVAO to better fulfill its mandate, leading to
the path where the ideals of “kagitingan” are exemplified in order to bring
back kagitingan, or love for country, in its deserved place in our nation’s
value system.
Having witnessed the commitment of the PVAO top management
to pursuing the roadmap, the panel looked at how PVAO cascaded strategy to key
lower-level units to produce second-level scorecards to translate strategy to
operations.
The panelists also validated how the Kagitingan Roadmap has
been communicated to key external stakeholders through a multi-sector
governance council that can represent the public’s interests and at the same
time ensure the continuity of the strategy.
They also ensured that PVAO has developed a strategic
communication plan to generate support from internal and external stakeholders
The panel members were Dr. Aniceto Fontanilla, Chief
Executive Officer of the Asia-Pacific
Center
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=818193
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