[On behalf of GLI, training officer Wilson J Hormeguera received the certificate of accreditation from LoGoTri-PhilNet president Marivel Sacendoncillo, who is also the executive director of the Local Government Academy, along with other board members of the network. Supplied photo.]

By Wilson J Hormeguera

Four training programs of the Governance and Leadership Institute (GLI) of Xavier University received accreditation from Local Government Training and Research Institute – Philippine Network (LoGoTRI-PhilNet).

The certificate of accreditation was awarded during the Consortium of Academic Institutions in Mandaluyong City on October 30.

LoGoTRI-PhilNet is the country’s response to rationalize and direct the capacity development efforts in local governance, and to institutionalize mechanisms towards sustained, responsive, appropriate, transparent, accountable and quality capacity-building interventions for LGUs.

A non-stock, non-profit national association, LoGoTRI-PhilNet is a network of Local Resource Institutions (LRIs) composed of different academic and non-academic member communities.

The said institute awarded value stars based on their matrix to four of GLI’s training programs:

• Community Participation in Local Governance – four stars (Excellent)
• Balanced Scorecard to Effectively Manage Organizations – four stars (Excellent)
• Bridging Leadership for Organizations – four stars (Excellent)
• Community Participation in Procurement – three stars (Generally Satisfactory)

In school year 2014-2015, GLI was able to train leaders from 104 local government units across Mindanao.

GLI believes that this accreditation affirms its mission of building the capacity of public servants to advance good governance and effective leadership, and its vision to be the premier leadership institute in Mindanao by 2020.