LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIT

INTEGRATED FINANCIAL TOOLS

(LIFT) OVERVIEW
The LIFT is an IT-based solution that provides our LGUs with
a simple yet comprehensive tool to help local government
plan, budget, improve revenue collection and budget
execution, as well as audit.

LIFT shall serve as a tool to harmonize and complement the

various performance management systems currently being
implemented by the LGU oversight agencies (DBM, DILG
and DOF-BLGF).
• DBM and DOF – BLGF
eSRE system was enhanced to version 3 to incorporate new
modules (Expenditure Tagging, Expenditure Forecasting, SIPB,
LGU FSS), introduce data encoding improvements, modify
selected existing modules.

• DILG
Linked eSRE’s Local Government Financial Performance
Monitoring System (LGFPMS) indicators to DILG’s Local
Government Performance Management System (LGPMS)
Electronic Statement of Receipts and Expenditures (eSRE)System

The LGU System allows the Treasurers, Budget Officers and Assessors
to encode data needed in order to generate the SRE and QRRPA reports.

The Central System allows the Treasurers, Budget Officers and Assessors
to submit the encoded data to be reviewed and processed by regional and
central users.

It also runs various performance assessment

(Performance Standards, Fiscal Sustainability Scorecard, LGFPMS)
and forecasting procedures
(Annual Performance Targets and Medium-Term Forecasts).
Other additional modules are for Debt Management and Data Analytics.
Legal Basis:
a) DOF Department Order No. 08-2011: Adoption of Statement of Receipts and
Expenditures as the Official Reporting System on Local Government Fiscal and
Financial Operations and Providing the Rules and Financial Operations and
Providing the Rules and Regulations Therefore

b) DOF Department Order No. 34-2014: Amending Sections 3,8 and 9 of the
Department Order No. 8-2011 dated 11 February 2011

c) BLGF Memorandum Circular No. 8-2015: Guidelines in the submission and

reviewing of eSRE reports pursuant to the Department Order No. 034-2014 dated
26 May 2014, Amending Sections 3, 8, and 9 dated 11 February 2011
Legal Basis:
d) DOF Department Order No. 59-2015: Electronic Submission of the Quarterly
Report on Real Property Assessments (QRRPA)

e) DILG-NEDA-DBM-DOF Joint Memorandum Circular No. 1-2016 : Updated

Guidelines on the Harmonization of Local Planning, Investment Programming,
Resource Mobilization, Budgeting, Expenditure Management , and Performance
Monitoring and Coordination on Fiscal Oversight
Conformity on the Freedom of Information
Bill
Executive Order No. 02

Operationalizing in the Executive Branch the People’s

Constitutional Right to Information and the State of Policies
to Full Public Disclosure and Transparency in the Public
Service and Providing Guidelines Therefor
 BLGF HAILED BY ABS-CBN
AS ONE OF THE TEN (10) GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
PROVIDING PROMPT DATA
ON DIGITAL FORMAT FOR FREE
 But there have been patches of blue in an overcast sky.

In a span of almost a year, out of the approximately 40

national and local government agencies that the ABS-CBN
Investigative and Research Group dealt with, seven have
stood out in upholding the people’s right to know, the DPWH,
DOTC, Office of the Civil Defense-ARMM, PPPC, BSP, PSA
and DOF-BLGF.

These agencies did not only provide updated and detailed data
promptly, but these were also in digital format that could easily be
analyzed. Best of all, they did not impose any fees for providing
the service.

Unfortunately, these agencies remain the minority. In 8 out of

every 10 requests for government data and information, the
supposedly straight forward exercise has turned out to be a test
of patience and perseverance.

Now that we have an EO on FOI, will we see significant

improvement in government’s disclosure of information to
citizens?