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Marikina’s (not-so-perfect) makeover

Posted by: Alecks P. Pabico | January 12, 2007 at 9:44 am
Filed under: Governance, i Report Features

THE latest article in our current i Report series on good local governance focuses on Marikina. For more than a decade now, Marikina has been held up as a model for good local governance — and with good reason.

Marikina City From a decrepit and nearly dying municipality in the late 1980s, Marikina has been reborn into a city that has won awards for programs that range from a five-minute quick-response system to one aimed at rehabilitating Marikina River. More importantly, Marikeños themselves are pleased with the changes in their midst. In 2001, Marikina topped survey measured citizens’ level of satisfaction with the local government’s delivery of public services in nine Metro Manila cities.

But as our report points out, Marikina’s makeover has been less than perfect. Several Commission on Audit reports, for one, reveal questionable transactions entered into by the city government, including those involving school-building contracts. The city is also not as “clean and green” as it claims, since residual waste is still appearing three times a week at a dumpsite that had been ordered closed nine years ago. Marikina, moreover, grapples with a high unemployment rate that is more than double the national figure.

Yet chances are the current mayor, Maria Lourdes Carlos Fernando, will be re-elected in the coming elections. More popularly known as “MCF” among Marikeños, the mayor succeeded her husband, Bayani (or BF), in 2001, after he finished his third and last term. BF, now chief of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, is credited for having started Marikina?’s transformation; many Marikeños agree that his wife has done a good job of continuing what he began.

Pamela Grafilo, program officer of Galing Pook Foundation that has repeatedly awarded Marikina for programs that exemplify good governance, says the Fernandos practice a top-down style of governance that emphasizes discipline and adherence to rules. She says Marikina’s challenge is to begin a more participatory style of governance that will have people able to join the processes. But Marikeños themselves are not complaining, at least not just yet.

Read on at pcij.org.

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I have been living in marikina for more than 15 years. And i can attest to the transformation…. From an ugly duckling to a beautiful duckling (not a swan).

I can still remember yung mga lumot sa kalsada na kahit summer eh baha sa mga dinadaanan namin.. ngayon wala na.. Dati.. isang linggo bago mawala ang baha, ngayon… after the rain subsides.. unti-unti ng mawawala ang baha (di naman kasi pwedeng mawala ng tuluyan ang baha… kasi mababa naman talaga marikina)

Dati ang daming basura na nakakalat sa paligid.. ngayon makakakita ka lang ng basura pag garbage collection day at nakasupot lata na may tali pa which serves as code kung nabubulok or hinde.

Maraming bumabatikos.. maraming charges of graft and corruption…. Saan ba walang graft and corruption? Saang sulok ng pilipinas ba walang katiwalian sa gobyerno?

“mas OK na yung nangungurakot na may nagagawa at nakikinabang pati taong bayan kesa sa mga nangungurakot na walang nagagawa para sa mga nasasakupan niya”

buddymigs wrote on January 12, 2007 - 12:48 pm | Visit Link

tama ka dyan, kabayan… pero mas mainam siguro kung may nagagawa na e wala ring graft and corruption.. e di anong ligaya ng sambayanan… Mahirap gawin, pero kung susubukan ay puwedeng mangyari… kailangan lang maging matapat ang bawat isang namumuno, puwede naman e… o sige nga “jack and poy” tayo.. ang matalo bababa sa puwesto para hindi na madagdagan pa ang makukurakot nya.

Leo wrote on January 14, 2007 - 4:25 pm | Visit Link