DepEd Officials Define New Roles Under Decentralized System

In a bid to increase efficiency through a decentralized system of education management, key officials of the Department of Education gathered in a two-day strategy mapping workshop to draft a matrix of responsibilities and functions based on RA 9155, otherwise known as the Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001.

The said officials of the Department of Education came up with a matrix on their new roles and responsibilities, guided by the articles stipulated under RA 9155. Based on these responsibilities, they have identified also the competencies needed to perform well in their functions as “apostles of decentralization.”

SEAMEO INNOTECH Center Director, Dr. Erlinda C. Pefianco, who had taken the lead in facilitating the crucial task of identifying the educators’ new functions, coined the term “apostles of decentralization”. This was with reference to the task of the workshop participants to propagate the adoption of a decentralized system of education management.

The mapping session is an initial undertaking of the Secondary Education Development and Improvement Project (SEDIP) through the Decentralized Management Development Program (DMDP).

The outputs of the workshop, which is a DMDP Strategy Map, would be presented to the Secretary of the Department of Education after a process of refinement and validation. A follow-up activity is scheduled to take place late this month.

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