August 22, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Solely 14 authorities departments and companies acquired a excessive score of ’excellent’ from the Division of Funds and Administration’s company efficiency overview for 2024.
Funds Secretary Amenah Pangandaman stated the score intends to make authorities places of work environment friendly in using its price range to offer public service.
“This one is we’re wanting extra carefully at their implementation of the applications, greater than the numbers. We wish to dig deeper,” Pangandaman stated in response to the distinction with the quarterly issuance of nationwide money allotment utilization.
The companies that acquired an excellent score, or a rating of 5, embrace the Civil Service Fee, Public Lawyer’s Workplace, International Service Institute, Video games and Amusement Board and Nationwide Intelligence Coordinating Company.
It additionally contains the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, Nationwide Labor Relations Fee, Nationwide Wages and Productiveness Fee, Information and Info Bureau and Philippine Info Company.
State universities and schools are additionally included and deemed as ‘excellent’ similar to Biliran Province State College, Cagayan State College, Davao del Sur State School and President Ramon Magsaysay State College.
Based on the DBM, the overview evaluates how authorities places of work ship public items and providers.
This contains measurement of companies’ bodily outcomes, outputs, precise spending and income assortment in opposition to their targets and allotted budgets for a similar interval.
Solely 4.6 % of presidency places of work posted ‘excellent’ score from 308 departments and companies included within the DBM’s report. The majority, or 59.3 % or 181 places of work acquired a ’very passable’ score from the price range division.
In the meantime, a complete of 94 companies or 30.8 % bought a passable comment.
About 5 % of the companies, nonetheless, acquired low marks from the DBM, with 15 rated as ‘unsatisfactory’ and one given a ‘poor efficiency’ score.
Included within the places of work that acquired unsatisfactory scores have been the Division of Finance’s Workplace of the Secretary, Bureau of Customs, Nationwide Vitamin Council, Division of Tourism’s Workplace of the Secretary and Philippine Fee on Sports activities Scuba Diving.
The DBM acquired a really passable score.
Solely Romblon State College acquired a ‘poor’ score.
In the meantime, three companies acquired ‘no APR’ scores.
Funds Assistant Secretary Romeo Balanquit stated the division’s overview serves a report card to different authorities companies because it gives a rating on the workplace’s fiscal efficiency.
