@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008831,
 author = {GERA, Weena J. S.},
 journal = {国際開発研究フォーラム, Forum of International Development Studies},
 month = {Sep},
 note = {Drawing from the premise that the central bureaucracy plays a critical role in decentralization, this paper reexamines the continuing relevance of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) – the lead national government agency mandated to conduct general supervision of local governments in the promotion of local autonomy in the Philippines. It argues that sustaining the gains in the country’s decentralization depends largely on the institutionalization of policy structures in central bureaucratic agencies responsible in enforcing regulatory frameworks towards broader capacity and efficiency in local service delivery. Talking into consideration the prevailing political and bureaucratic constraints in the country’s intergovernmental system, this paper highlights the need to institutionalize DILG’s policy structures. Rather than calling for its abolition, it asserts for its rationalization and structural revamp that would make it more effective in its monitoring, coordination and capacity-development functions which proved elemental in making decentralization in the Philippines move ahead.},
 pages = {99--122},
 title = {Central Bureaucratic Supervision and Capacity Development in Decentralization: Rethinking the Relevance of the Depertment of Interior and Local Government of the Philippines},
 volume = {37},
 year = {2008}
}