Assessment of the Competency of Barangay Officials in a Selected Municipality in Tarlac Province

Abstract

The barangay is the primary planning and executing unit of the community for government policies, strategies, services, initiatives, and events; and a forum for the collective views of the people to be shared, crystallized, and considered for disputes to be resolved amicably. The study assesses the competency of Barangay Officials in the Municipality of Concepcion. Specifically, it sought to evaluate their competency along with facilitating planning, meeting facilitation, monitoring and evaluation, reporting, passing a resolution, and committee management. This also determined the problems encountered by the barangay‟s officials, through these measures to solve such problems were proposed to improve the barangay officials' competency. Descriptive evaluative research was used to determine the barangay officials' competency needs. Furthermore, they find a  similar  conducive problem in tracking and focusing on the activities they set on the plan by aimlessly not documenting and gathering evidence throughout the conduct of the monitoring and evaluation phase of their plans. Lastly, the data gathered shows that barangay officials themselves do not comprehend their duties as mandated by the Local Government Code of 1991 and other pertinent statutes