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PRESIDENTIAL ANTI-GRAFT COMMISSION (PAGC)

PRESS RELEASE

December 29, 2006 

PAGC RELEASES 2007 PLANS, BRACES UP FOR MORE INTENSIFIED WAR ON CORRUPTION 

The Presidential Anti-Graft commission (PAGC) issued its 2007 ‘attack plan’ on corruption marked by strengthened measures and programs to advance the four key areas which the commission focuses on in its fight against corruption, including prevention, education, deterrence and strategic partnership.   

PLANS FOR 2007

For the first quarter of 2007, PAGC is targeting the following for a more intensified campaign against graft and corruption:

1. Investigation and Enforcement (Deterrence)
   1. Endorsement of 2 resolutions per week or 10 per month, with at least 50% of which to carry punitive recommendation to the office of the president. This includes the resolution of high profile cases being investigated by PAGC
   2. Close coordination with the reviewing body from OP to ensure that at least 1 case will be resolved per week.
   3. Forging of agreements with the AMLAC, NBI and PNP-CIDG for sharing of information and conduct of surveillance to ensure that corruption will indeed be a high risk, low reward activity.
   4. Continuous capability building of PAGC investigators together with partners (TAN, FOCIG, VACC) thru investigation and LSC trainings.
2. Prevention and Education
   1. Conduct of a visioning/missioning workshop with the cabinet secretaries as regards focus on the anti-corruption fight to ensure ownership and implementation of anti-corruption strategies in their own agencies.
   2. Work towards approval and implementation in cooperation with the other concerned agencies of the Procurement Transparency Board.
   3. Development of an anti-corruption scorecard that will serve as a gauge on how well the anti-corruption strategies of various agencies are faring.  DBM has also shown interest in this project as they are intending to use it as regards budget allocation (rewards to agencies that are actively implementing anti-corruption plans).
   4. Continuous cascading of IDAP to the regional, provincial and attached agencies by the various departments covered by IDAP and through the Regional Development Councils.
   5. Phasing in of IDAP in 2 attached agencies (NFA and NPO), 2 GOCCs (NAPOCOR and PNOC); 1 SUCC (PUP STA-MESA); and 3 LGUs (Marikina, Bulacan, Cainta)
   6. Monitoring of the implementation of anti-corruption programs and activities funded from the P1.0 billion a/c fund by agency - beneficiaries (PDEA, BIR, BOC, PCVF, PNP, ETC)
   7. Initiation of the IDR process to 11 NGAs, the fund of which shall be covered by the php1billion a/c fund of PGMA
   8. Continuous roll-out of the graduate certificate course on corruption prevention to 30 agencies
   9. Completion of the quality assessment report which shall serve as basis for the development of a quality assurance program for internal audit units of the executive department which is targeted to be finished by the end of the first sem 2007.  This is c/o the PAGC-WB project on strengthening of internal audit units for effective procurement monitoring and enforcement. This QA program aims to assist IAUs in its operation towards compliance with the requirements of ISPPIA
   10. Implementation of a communications plan to address the negative perception of the public and at the same time reach out to the public, both locally and those in the international arena
   11. Conduct of PAGC road show twice a week, to administer briefing on the mandate and accomplishments of PAGC before officers/members of to top corporations/businesses, NGOs and rotary club members as well as touching base with the various super regions to empower them to also intensify their resolve to fight graft and corruption.

“We look forward to the coming year as a period of building further on PAGC’s in the past year – to really drive our message across – that this government will leave no stone unturned to substantially reduce, if not to totally eradicate corruption.” PAGC Chairman Constancia de Guzman said to stress on the commission’s resolve to curb corruption.    

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