The Philippine Administrative System (PAS) refers to the network of public organizations that implement and help formulate public policies. It includes internal processes and interactions between organizations. The PAS is influenced by socio-political and economic factors. It aims to empower people through access to services, decentralization, transparency, and simple procedures. The PAS has several components, including public organizations with legal mandates and functions, and internal procedures to perform public functions. It is also responsible for implementing policies formulated by the legislative and executive branches. The PAS draws power from being an instrument of the state, enforcing policies, delivering services, participating in policymaking, and having technical expertise. Government reorganization involves systematically altering organizational structures through planned and deliberate efforts to achieve more

1. Philippine
Administrative
System

2. Philippine Administrative
System
◉ refers to a network of organizations with
specific rules and goals, structures,
resources, and programs. It includes the
internal processes of and the interaction
between and among public organizations,
which are constituted to implement, help
formulate, monitor or assess public policies

3. PA
This system covers the PA relationship with its immediate
public in contact, as well as the PA’s reactions to or how it
is affected by the greater socio-political and economic
environment within which it operates
Public
Socio-political and
economic environment

4. PAS empowers people:
1) institutionalizes access to PAS services;
2) decentralizes & makes operations
transparent;
3) listens and works with people;
4) procedures should be made simple and
local language should be used.

5. Components of PAS:
• Public organization - legal mandates, major
functions and structures, etc.
• Internal procedures and interactive efforts - perform
public functions thru defined rules and procedures
internal to the org.
• Responsible for implementing public policies –
formulated jointly by the legislative and executive
branches

6. Components of PAS:
• Conscious of the different kinds of clientele that it
deals with
• Socio-political, economic environment – PAS as
part of the bigger social system with competing
claims to limited resources and, institutions play a
role in determining the utilization of resources
• Public organization - legal mandates, major functions
and structures, etc.

7. Components of PAS:
• Internal procedures and interactive efforts - perform
public functions thru defined rules and procedures
internal to the organization
• Responsible for implementing public policies –
formulated jointly by the legislative and executive
branches

8. Sources of Power of the PAS
• Instrument of the state – government functions are
exercised legitimately, supported by enabling state
policies and authority
• Enforcer and implementor of public policy – discretion in
policy implementation
• Service delivery system – discretion to determine the
quantity, quality, adequacy, and timeliness of services it
provides

9. Sources of Power of the PAS
• Participant in policy formulation – advice is sought on
legislation and policy-making
• Technical expertise –professional training of civil
servants in areas of competence on policy issues
• Nationwide presence – expansive reach to mobilize
support for programs all over the country.

10. Capability-Building (CB)
• refers to the “building of people-based
structures and institutions which is the real
essence of the concept. It means enabling
people to organize themselves around
common needs and to work together towards
common ends. It is addressed to
policymakers, program implementor, and
program beneficiary”.

11. Four Stages of CB Process
Stages of CB
Process
Problem Identification
Objective Setting
Program planning
Structure building

12. Four Outputs of CB Process
Outputs of
CB Process
Effective self sustaining
community organizations
Installation of community self
management process
Partnership/linkage with outside
structures
Community problem solving
capability

13. Political and Administrative
Accountability
◉ Accountability is defined as a condition in which
individuals who exercise power are constrained by
external means and by internal norms.
◉It refers to the institution of checks and balances
in an organization thru which an administrator
accounts for his stewardship of resources or
authority.

14. Political and Administrative
Accountability
◉ The political-administrative continuum means that
elected officials are politically accountable to the
electorate or their constituencies who voted them to
their positions. These elected officials are held
responsible thru regular elections and other means,
i.e. recall and referendum. Appointive public officials
answer to the people thru the elected officials who
appointed them and directly to the public whom they
serve.

15. Political and Administrative
Accountability
◉ The political-administrative continuum means that
elected officials are politically accountable to the
electorate or their constituencies who voted them to
their positions. These elected officials are held
responsible thru regular elections and other means,
i.e. recall and referendum. Appointive public officials
answer to the people thru the elected officials who
appointed them and directly to the public whom they
serve.

16. Four types of Accountability
Types of Accountability
Individual
Accountability
Accountability
of Administrators
Political
Accountability
Accountability
of National Leaders

17. Four types of Accountability
• Individual accountability – public employees
are answerable for the responsible, efficient,
and effective performance of their tasks.
• Accountability of administrators – for their
stewardship of the administrative authority,
resources, and information placed at their
disposal as leaders of public organization

18. Four types of Accountability
• Political accountability – of institutions that must answer
for their organizational mandate and functions, particularly as
they form part of the incumbent government strategy for
national development.
• Accountability of national leaders – elected national
leadership must answer for the performance in pursuing
their programs of government and their use of national
resources, given the authority, power, and resources vested
in them by their constituency

19. PAS Structure
• Constitutional bodies: 1) constitutional
commissions - CSC, COA, COMELEC; 2)
constitutionally created/mandated special bodies –
CHR and Ombudsman
• Executive Departments
• GOCCs (wholly-owned or at least 51%)
• Chartered institutions (created by law)
• LGUs

20. Government
Reorganization
Pre planning or
Reorganization
Preparation of
Reorganization
proposals
Final Stage
Government Reorganization (GR)
planned deliberate efforts to systematically alter the
existing organizational structure usually for the purpose
of achieving government objectives with more economy,
efficiency, and effectiveness.

21. 1. how reorganization is initiated;
2. who is the authority vested with reorganization;
3. setting goals and tasks;
4. defining the powers to reorganize & outline the
scope;
5. setting resources
Pre-planning or reorganization

22. 1. constituting the reorganization body;
2. preparing the reorganization proposals;
3. recruiting support and staff;
4. creating an information base for the preparation
of proposals
The final stage is the passage of a law that grants
the authority to implement the reorganization
process
Preparation of reorganization proposals and
Final Stage

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