LEGAL INFORMATION AND DISSEMINATION PROGRAM:

AN EVALUATION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

• Legal empowerment of the grassroots of a community which is not limited only to the women, children, or even the poor; for the most part it does not begin in the courtrooms. Legal empowerment springs from the smallest part of a society, which is the community, and in the case of the Philippines, it starts in the barangay level.

• Information dissemination regarding Human rights, Welfare and protection of women and children, knowledge of the basic law of the land, and procedures pertaining to mediation is a necessity for a society.

• Under the Article 3 Section 15 Philippine Constitution it is stipulated that courts are required to follow a schedule to decide a case to wit: Supreme Court, 24 months; 12 months for all collegiate courts; and 3 months for all other lower courts, despite this constitutionally mandated rule, the courts have been having a hard time following schedules.

• Under the Local Government Code, specifically under the ]Therefore, the author of this study will study if whether the participants of the Legal Information and Dissemination program in the participating barangays in Island Garden City of Samal.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

• this study will be conducted to assess the level of effectivity of the Legal Information and Dissemination Program through the assessment of knowledge and level of implementation of the said knowledge of the barangay officials regarding the Katarungang Pambarangay which is a major topic of the Legal Information and Dissemination program

Specifically the study will yield answers through the following questions:

Profile of the barangay in terms of:– Population– Internal Revenue Allotment– Gender Population

Profile of Legal Information and Dissemination Program in terms of:

– Budget– Number of years implemented– Gender population

What is the profile of the Barangay Official According to:– Age– Sex– Years of service/how many terms served– Number of attended trainings/seminars under the Legal

Information and Dissemination Program

 

Relevance of the Legal Information and Dissemination Program as perceived by the Barangay officials.

Status of the Katarungang Pambarangay in terms of – Number of recorded, mediated, conciliated, and/or arbitrated

barangayable cases in the respondent’s barangay.– Number of recorded successful mediation, conciliation, and/or

arbitration of barangayable cases in the barangay.

Number of issued Certificate to file action in the barangay.

Objectives of the Study

The main objective of the study is evaluate the Legal Information and Dissemination Program of the Island Garden City of Samal.

Significance of the Study

This study is of significance to:

• Local Government Unit • Barangay Officials • The City Legal Office• Other Government Agencies, and Non-

Government Agencies

Scope and Limitation of the Study

• The study will cover the 3 political districts of the Island

Garden City of Samal namely Babak, Samal, and

Kaputian, wherein the researcher intends to gather data from the barangay officials of the barangays located in the urban area of each district and barangays which are located in the rural areas of each district. Therefore, there will be 2 barangays from each district wherein the members of the lupong tagapamayapa will be interviewed. Thus, there will be a total of 60 lupong tagapamayapa members which will be interviewed

which includes 6 Punong Barangays from the 6 barangays.

• The study will focus on the level of knowledge of the barangay officials in the Island Garden City of Samal and their utility of the said knowledge from the lectures and activities held under the Legal Information and Dissemination Program.

CHAPTER IIREVIEW OF LITERATURE AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

• The grassroots of the community is not just composed of people that are able to have access to the law, but also those who does not even recognize it and this is where oppression begins, in the ignorance of the law.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

“Poverty is amongst the gravest human rights challenges in the world. It embodies a range of interrelated and mutually reinforcing deprivations, and is associated with stigma, discrimination, insecurity and social exclusion. Poverty is not simply the lack of material goods and opportunities such as employment,

ownership of productive assets and savings. It is also the lack of intangible assets and social goods, such as legal identity, good health, physical integrity, freedom from fear and violence, organizational capacity, the ability to exert political influence, and the ability to claim rights and live in respect and dignity. A human rights approach to development is fundamentally concerned with empowerment, believing that poverty results from disempowerment and multiple exclusions. (Ban Ki-Moon, 2009)”

Legal Empowerment in the Local Level

• Local Government Code, in Section 17, paragraph b, sub paragraph iii, the barangay is tasked to maintain the Katarungang Pambarangay Act or the PD 1508 of 1978

Katarungang Pambarangay Act/PD 1508

• Presidential Decree No. 1508- It is a System of Amicably Settling Disputes at the Barangay Level. The barangay justice system is an extrajudicial system wherein disputes are settled within the barangay for speedy disposition of justice and also to minimize referral of such cases to the court.

The Lupong Tagapamayapa

• The Katarungang Pambarangay under the Local Government Code of 1991 mentions that every barangay must have an appointed Lupong Tagapamayapa. This is a duty which is vested upon the Punong Barangay, wherein the appointment does not have to be confirmed and approved by the Barangay Council.

• The Lupong Tagapamayapa is composed of 10 to 20 members depending upon the discretion of the Barangay Captain and the limitation of the barangay budget. A conciliation team composing of three lupon members shall also be formed in order to create a Conciliation Council or the Pangkat Tagapagkasundo.

Cases which can be tried under the Katarungang Pambarangay Act

• All civil cases involving individuals who are residing in the same city or municipality, regardless of the amount involved.

• Criminal offenses punishable by imprisonment exceeding one (1) year or a fine exceeding Five thousand pesos (P5,000.00) are exempt from the coverage of the katarungang pambarangay law.

Island Garden City of Samal

• The Island Garden City of Samal ( IGaCos ) was created with the merger of the municipalities of Babak, Samal, and Kaputian by virtue of Republic Act. No. 8471 which was approved by then President Fidel V. Ramos on January 30, 1998 , and later ratified by the its residents on March 7 of the same year.

Legal Information and Dissemination Program

• The programs’ main goal is to realize the foremost vision of the city – to make this place not only progressive but also a peaceful and Gender-compliant and sensitive community.

Theory Base

• This study will utilize the systems theory of Ludwig von Bertalanffy, (1968) which states that it is a transdisciplinary study of the abstract organization of phenomena, independent of their substance, type, or spatial or temporal scale of existence.

Conceptual Framework

INPUT1. Profile of the barangay in terms of:a. Populationb. Internal Revenue Allotmentc. Gender Population2. Profile of Legal Information and Dissemination Program in terms of:a. Budgetb. Number of years implementedc. Gender population3. Profile of the Barangay Official According to:a. Ageb. Sexc. Years of service/how many terms servedd. Number of attended trainings/seminars under the Legal Information and Dissemination Program

PROCESS  

Relevance of the Legal Information and Dissemination Program as perceived by the Barangay officials.

OUTPUT

- Number of recorded, mediated, conciliated, and/or arbitrated barangayable cases in the respondent’s barangay.

- Number of recorded successful mediation, conciliation, and/or arbitration of barangayable cases in the barangay.

- Number of issued Certificate to file action in the barangay.

Research Assumptions

• That the subject barangays have been attending the Legal Information and Dissemination Program of IGaCoS.

• That the Barangays may have taken measures in order to inform their constituents regarding the topics and lectures of the Legal Information and Dissemination Program of IGaCoS.

• And that the Barangay Officials are implementing their duties under the Katarungang Pambarangay.

• That the Legal Information and Dissemination Program of the Island Garden City of Samal is of relevance to the performance of the duties and functions of the Barangay Officials under the Katarungang Pambarangay Act.

CHAPTER IIIMETHODOLOGY

METHOD

• The study will use descriptive-evaluative method, it will describe the level of knowledge and utility of the information gained by the barangay officials from the lectures and information disseminated from the Legal Information and Dissemination Program of the Island Garden City of Samal.

Sources of Data

• Primary and secondary data will be utilized to establish and substantiate information that will be acquired.

Data Gathering Instrument

Scale Range Interval Description Interpretation

5 4.50-5.00Strongly

Agree/AlwaysExcellent/Very

Relevant

4 3.50-4.49 Agree/OftenVery

Good/Relevant

3 2.50-3.49Moderately

Agree/SometimesGood/Moderately

Relevant

2 1.50-2.49 Disagree/Seldom Fair/Irrelevant

1 1.00-1.49Very

Disagree/Never

Poor/Very Irrelevant

 

5 point Likert Scale

Sampling Technique

• homogenous-purposive sampling in the selection of barangays as well as the selection of the respondents.

– The highest 2 barangays according to their Internal Revenue Allotment and population.

– The lowest 2 barangays according to their Internal Revenue Allotment and Population.

DISTRICTSNumber of respondents

per Barangay

Number of Respondents from Barangay with the

Highest IRA

Number of Respondents from Barangay with the

Lowest IRATOTAL

RESPONDENTSBabak 10 10 10

Samal 10 10 10Kaputian

10 10 10

TOTAL   30 30 60

Procedure of the Study

Statistical Treatment

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