DOF Undersecretary Bayani Agabin joins top officials of DILG, DBM and NEDA in signing the Joint Memorandum Circular No. 1-2016 setting the framework and policy for a more coordinated approach towards improving local government units’ public financial management in ensuring harmonized and synchronized policies, systems and procedures in planning, budgeting, investment programming, and resource mobilization. […]

Dear Editor: First and foremost, the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) would like to express our gratitude to the Philippine Star for featuring in its business pages the fiscal performance of the local government units (LGUs) using the Department of Finance (DOF) data evidently sourced from the Statement of Receipts and Expenditures (SRE) data […]

The training aims to enhance the leadership and managerial competencies of local treasurers and assistant treasurers. As part of instituting professional development and capacity build up, this training is offered to all provincial, city and municipal treasurers and assistant treasurers. For the first batch, the pre-identified participants are forty (40) treasurers who have been certified […]

The Training on Facilitation and Presentation Skills is a follow through to the Training of Trainers (TOT) on the Updated LTOM conducted in June 2016. The course goal is to create a pool of effective trainers in the local treasury operations service equipped with knowledge, training skills and right attitudes to manage and conduct capacity […]

March 1, 2016: Launching of Local Finance Management Modernization Project under the approved Information System Strategic Plan (ISSP). BLGF management discusses with Grapikom the concepts and design of the project.

Officers for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – Korea Policy Centre (KPC) visited the Philippines on January 28, 2016 at the BLGF Central Office Manila. Director Kong Bumsuk and Ms. Susie Lim of OECD-KPC had a meeting with BLGF officials for a possible collaboration on the “2nd Asian Public Governance (APG) Forum […]