performance of punong barangay
Introduction The researcher is a 4th year student of Political Science in Universidad De Manila, who conducted a study, entitled “The Performance of the Punong Barangay in the 4th district Manila”. In this research Descriptive Design was applied, which involves the gathering of facts by means of Distributing Questionnaires in order to answer the questions that concerned this study. In this study the duties and functions of the punong barangay were discussed and their performance was rated by their respective constituents. Their performance rating was based on how they perform their duties and functions provided by R.A 7160 also known as Local Government Code of 1991.
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Barangay is the 1“simplest unit of Local Government Unit. They handle a small community like purok or sitios. All places in the Philippines consist of this small LGU unit and barangay officials.” 2“When the Spaniards began their 1951 Philippine adventure; there was no central Philippine government. But Filipinos then already have a system of government for they lived in groups of about a hundred to a thousand people in villages that could support themselves and their beasts of burden which called barangay. The term barangay was derived from the word “balangay” meaning boat. Barangay was led by an elder, warriors and a chieftain sometimes called Datu, Hari, or Rajah, Lakan or Sultan (in Muslim community) or any name which connotes the leadership. They were usually the strongest or oldest warrior with absolute powers; they often had the power of life and death over their subjects. They ruled like despots but their actions were also limited by customs and tradition to which they generally adhere. After Miguel Lopez de Legazpi conquered the better known Filipino barangay chieftains, the barangay were called barrios by the Spaniards. They became the political subdivision comprising a town and ultimately the basic political unit in the Philippine. But their leaders
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Barangay is the 1“simplest unit of Local Government Unit. They handle a small community like purok or sitios. All places in the Philippines consist of this small LGU unit and barangay officials.” 2“When the Spaniards began their 1951 Philippine adventure; there was no central Philippine government. But Filipinos then already have a system of government for they lived in groups of about a hundred to a thousand people in villages that could support themselves and their beasts of burden which called barangay. The term barangay was derived from the word “balangay” meaning boat. Barangay was led by an elder, warriors and a chieftain sometimes called Datu, Hari, or Rajah, Lakan or Sultan (in Muslim community) or any name which connotes the leadership. They were usually the strongest or oldest warrior with absolute powers; they often had the power of life and death over their subjects. They ruled like despots but their actions were also limited by customs and tradition to which they generally adhere. After Miguel Lopez de Legazpi conquered the better known Filipino barangay chieftains, the barangay were called barrios by the Spaniards. They became the political subdivision comprising a town and ultimately the basic political unit in the Philippine. But their leaders