Results of research showing that President Benigno Aquio III’s mother’s anti-corruption strategy just might work will be presented on Friday, September 30, 2011 at the National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines from 1:00 –5:00 P.M. The original schedule of September 27, 2011 was moved due to typhoon Pedring.
“A framework for a national anti-corruption campaign based on the “Cory Model” just might work for the country” said Prof. Leonor Magtolis Briones, team leader of a research team looking into “Pinoy Solutions to Corruption”. The two other members of the team are Profs. Danilo R. Reyes and Ma.Oliva Domingo,
Briones wrote the Chapter on “Learning from Success” which showed the events in Philippine history when corruption was successfully battled. The chapter also includes agencies and agency reforms that stopped corruption. This includes the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Department of Public Highways, the Commission on Audit, and the Philippine National Police.
Prof. Reyes tracked the legal, organizational and administrative strategies pursued by different administrations up to 2004. He showed that after 22 anti-corruption institutions created since 1950 and numerous laws, corruption continued to bedevil Philippine society.
Meanwhile, Prof. Domingo chronicled anti corruption efforts up to May 2011; including the travails of Ombudsman Marcelo and the resignation of Ombudsman Gutierrez.
“After nearly five centuries of organized government, graft and corruption now threatens to be as Pinoy as lechon, adobo, sinigang and paksiw. It seems to be as endemic as dengue, tuberculosis and cholera. The solution to this national blight can only come from the Filipinos themselves. ” Briones said.
“Our study proposed that the best framework for an anti-corruption campaign should be built on the ‘Cory Model’, Briones said. “During her administration the anti-corruption campaign was led by no less than the President with all the cabinet members actively participating,” she said..
The event is organized by Philippine Society for Public Administration headed by Prof. Alex B. Brilliantes of the U.P. National College of Public Administration and Governance. Co-organizers are Junior Philippine Society for Public Administration, Philippine Social Science Council, UP/NCPAG Student Council and Social Watch Philippines. The Nationalist artist/singer Joey Ayala will sing and lead the audience in creative affirmations about the Filipino. Leonor Magtolis Briones, Social Watch Philippines
