PEOPLE’S ROLE IN PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY IN LOCAL GOVERNANCE LEVERAGED BY SIAD IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF NEW CORELLA, DAVAO PROVINCE, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES

Governance and public administration is conventionally tasked to elected political leaders and bureaucrats in the Philippines. Until recently, good governance in a decentralized polity subsumed empowering citizens to participate in local political decision-making. This paper is first to conduct empirical analysis on the role of barangay people in promoting transparency in the municipality of New Corella, Davao del Norte, Mindanao, Philippines. The study found that the indigenous-informal community support systems, entrepreneurship, capacity-building by NGOs, participatory leadership, and the local government code of 1991 influenced how people played their roles. Transparency is highly manifested among barangays where leaders are deliberately promoting people’s involvement in governance, which is heavily affected by value system, social capital, participatory strategy, and vision of leaders