Good Governance Committee Project Proposal By Raymond Clarence Y.

Rodis USC Councilor

Introduction
The Good Governance Committee (GGC) is envisioned as a special standing committee, provided for under Section 3, Article IX of the University Student Council Constitution.

Rationale
The Good Governance Committee would function as an advocacy committee similar to the Gender and Environmental Concerns Committees of past councils. It would focus on campaigns surrounding governance and other policy issues. It would also serve the watchdog role through fulfilling the monitoring and evaluation mandate. Lastly, it would pursue the task of student participation through consultation, empowerment and engagement. Unlike other committees that cater to specific subsectors, Good Governance is an advocacy that affects everyone. As citizens, good governance or the lack of it affects society as a whole. Student involvement and participation is always promised by every student council. This committee is created to help concretize that vision by promoting participatory governance, more popularly known as Peoples Participation, in all USC endeavors. Stakeholders should always be taken into account. Also good governance concepts such as transparency, responsiveness and accountability are popular battle cries of UP students. The University of the Philippines takes great pride in its critical approach towards government and it would be good to ensure our own student council is above reproach. The USC would display its commitment towards good governance by making it a year round priority. The Good Governance Committee would pursue a healthy mix of programs, projects and campaigns throughout the year under the GGCs principles of participation, accountability, responsiveness and transparency.

Vision
A University and Nation that Practices Good Governance

Mission
To push for national policies that will promote better governance practices in the country. To promote good governance practices in the local and university student council.

Functions Auditing Ensure internal audit and compliance with rules and plans.

Performance-Based Budgeting Linking USC Budget with project performance targets and measures of success. These will be both qualitative and quantitative in measure.

Project Evaluation and Compilation Internal auditing to ensure all pre and post-event processes are properly dealt with.

I. Projects Good Governance Policy Fair (January)

The youth draft papers on certain policy areas such as Sustainable Development, Anti-Corruption Measures, Political Dynasties, International Commitments and Policy, and Participatory Governance. The results will be published in a journal.

Kapihan with Administration (Start and End of Every Semester)

The USC will facilitate a direct student dialogue between the Chancellor and the students. Regular students will be able to ask questions to the administration. The commitments made by the administration during these talks will be recorded and monitored.

Boses Diliman
Online Freedom Wall wherein students can anonymously submit their concerns, whether college, university or system wide concerns, and where the USC will respond their courses of action to address that issue. It will be a simple facebook page similar to Diliman Files wherein students submit their concerns through google doc form. Submissions will be screened for profanity and the like but as a general rule, everything will be posted.

Grade Your SC (Near the End of Every Semester)

Using multi-stage random sampling, students will be asked to rate their student councils both local and university wide using the UP grading system based on certain criterion.
Proposed Criteria. (See Annex B) A Seal of Good Governance will be awarded to student councils that perform basic housekeeping functions. (See Annex A)

Good Governance Workshops Local Council Capacity-Building (May July)

Series of seminars to provide training to local councils how to do financial statements, minutes of the meeting, attendance records, writing letters, photoshop skills and marketing. Prepares each council to comply with the Seal of Good Governance.

School of Budget (July)

A Forum with UP Professors and other experts explaining the basics of the UP Budget and the Philippine Budget. There will also be a video-making, poster-making and creative campaign contest to inform the students about the budget.

Governance Scorecard (August)

A Forum where we grade the current Philippine administration in numerous governance areas and then make policy recommendations moving forward.

II. Programs Bantay BOR

The USC would be regularly updated on whats going on in the Board of Regents. There would also be monitoring of the Office of the Student Regent.

Crowdsourcing
Students will be allowed to forward projects and program ideas to the USC. The calendar of USC projects will also be consulted with the students. They can submit their ideas through google doc forms, at the USC office or through the USC hotline.

III. Campaigns Anti-Political Dynasties Political Party Development Act Open Government Initiative Freedom of Information ASEAN 2015 Anti-Epal Bill Sangguniang Kabataan

Establishment of a movement to forward these advocacies. Each campaign would involve multiple stages such as forums, educational discussions, primers, position papers and signature campaigns.

Auxiliary Support to Other Committees

These are projects that would not fall under the Good Governance Committees primary jurisdiction but could be supported by the Good Governance Committee. Look Out USC In coordination with Mass Media, Finance and Secretariat Committees, USC Financial Statements, Minutes of the Meetings and Attendance Records would be posted in bulletin boards of all colleges and dormitories. Local College Councils would be encouraged to do the same.

Ronda Diliman In coordination with the Education and Research Committee, regular student consultations and focus group discussions about important issues will be conducted in every college as USC officers go around campus.

Gender Budget In coordination with the Gender Committee, the USC can push for councils and colleges to comply with the spirit of the Magna Carta for Women to allot 5% budget to gender-related projects.

Public Peoples Partnerships All projects are open for student involvement. Student Council Volunteers can sign up on a perproject basis. Student Council Volunteers have the option to be oriented by the Good Governance Committee.

Direct Link To The Students Using student council volunteers and officers, regular room-to-rooms (1 2 classes per college) and org-to-orgs about important updates will be conducted.

Committee Structure The Good Governance Committee will adopt a matrix structure dependent on the project. The committee officers will be drawn from the pool of student council volunteers. These are the standing officers: Secretary General Director for Programs Director for Operations Policy and Advocacy Division Monitoring and Evaluation Division Liaison and Communications Division Training and Capacity Building Division

Additional offices may be created as the need arises.

ANNEX A Seal of Good Governance

Transparency and Accountability Does Does Does Does Does Does the the the the the the council council council council council council publish its minutes regularly? publish financial statements? publish its plans for every semester? publish the attendance record of its officers? regularly send representatives to the League of College Councils? have a citizens charter? (OPTIONAL)

Citizens Charter Student Council Services Directory of Student Council Officers Administrative Services Important College Rules

ANNEX B Self-Rated Satisfaction

Rest assured that all your personal data (student number) will be strictly confidential and will only be used for evaluation purposes. Multi-stage Random Sampling

Background for Respondents What is your student number? What degree program are you currently under? (Undergraduate, Graduate, Diploma, Masters) What course are you? How active would you say you are in student council events? (Inactive, Somewhat Active, Active, Very Active) How aware would you say you are of your student council (Not Aware, Somewhat Aware, Aware, Very Aware) Questions Using the UP Grading Scale,

I. Events 1. How would you rate the overall number of SC events? 2. How would you rate the quality of execution of SC events? 3. How would you rate the relevance of SC events? II. Publicity 4. How would you rate the online information dissemination (social media, mail, etc) of the student council? 5. How would you rate the offline information dissemination (text message, posters, room-torooms, etc) of the student council? III. Day-to-Day 6. 7. 8. 9. How How How How would would would would you you you you rate rate rate rate the the the the student councils accessibility to the students? extent of the student councils consultation with the students? student councils responsiveness to the concerns of the college? student councils general services? 1

IV. General Perception 10. Overall, using the UP Grading System, rate the student council.

Name 3 SC Projects/ Programs/ Initiatives that you believe had an impact on the college.

V. Freedom Box Is there anything else you want to say about your council?