The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Zamboanga Peninsula Region will host the Regional Dialogues on Open Government Partnership and Participatory Government that will be attended by the delegates from Region IX, X and ARMM on February 19-22, 2018 at Garden Orchid Hotel, Zamboanga City.

Regional and Provincial Directors, representatives from the different Civil Service Organizations, Academe, Local Government Units (LGUs), Business Community, Department of Budget Management (DBM), and National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) will grace the event to discuss various issues on Open Government Partnership and Participatory Government.

The Open Government Partnership (OPG) is a unique international initiative aimed at securing concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, increase civic participation, fight corruption, and harness new technologies that strengthen governance. One of the commitment of the national government which was included in the 4^th National Action Plan (NAP) is the Assistance to Disadvantaged Municipalities of the DILG.

Moreover, the Executive Order No. 24 reorganized the Cabinet into six clusters that adhere to the key priorities of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration. One of the clusters is the Participatory Governance Cluster (PGC), which was tasked to pursue the following: public awareness of national government programs; strengthen consultation mechanism; and propose policies, programs and projects that would foster participatory governance.

The event would ensure that projects and programs under the OGP commitment, ADM program, PGC Roadmap and other participatory governance initiative of the Duterte Administration will reach the constituency in a dialogues fora to all stakeholders.