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Deped found compliant in 14 of 15 PBB indicators

- Claudeth Mocon-ciriaco

FOLLOWING the assessment of the Inter-agency Task Force on the Harmonizat­ion of National Government Performanc­e Monitoring, Informatio­n and Reporting Systems (AO25 IATF), the Department of Education (Deped) said that teachers and non-teaching personnel will receive their Performanc­e-based Bonus (PBB) for Fiscal Year 2020.

“We have consistent­ly introduced reforms in our processes to help our employees provide better services to our stakeholde­rs. I thank the whole Deped family for contributi­ng to these reforms and to our goal of improving our performanc­e amidst challengin­g times,” Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones said, adding that they hope to continue the culture of excellence in the Department as “we strengthen our programs and projects for basic education.”

A letter from AO25 Chairperso­n and Department of Budget and Management Undersecre­tary Kim Robert De Leon assessed Deped as compliant in 14 of the 15 applicable indicators for the 2020 PBB. This is the most number of compliant indicators since the start of PBB in 2012.

“Since the start of PBB implementa­tion in 2012, this is the first time that Deped got almost a 100 percent compliance in all of the PBB indicators,” Undersecre­tary Wilfredo Cabral emphasized.

Cabral said that Deped is ensuring that it will continue its process improvemen­t through the institutio­nalization of the National Quality Management System (NQMS) to meet the eligibilit­y indicators for PBB 2021.

“[Deped] embarked on developing the BE-LCP to enable basic education learners to continue learning and for teachers to deliver instructio­n in a safe work and learning environmen­t amid the threat of Covid-19,” AO25 IATF said in its final assessment on streamlini­ng and process improvemen­t of agency services indicator.

The Deped has also requested AO25 IATF for a re-validation on the submission of Undertakin­g of Early Procuremen­t for at least 50 percent of goods and services after Deped’s PBB Secretaria­t assessed Central Office and all Regional Offices compliant on the said indicator, as of October 15, 2021.

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