DILG Student Internship Program Weekly Journal

  July 31- August 4 It was a blast!! A heavy week but a very fruitful one. This event, I can consider one of the main event in my internship. I have interacted with different people I have discussed different ideas and shared my creative thoughts. Local Investment and Incentives Code is a workshop where different municipalities discuss and generate their LIIC and those participants were very active and jolly. At the time we were preparing tools and things to be utilized on the activity and I've been questioning myself if I could handle to participate because of my social anxiety in which in LGSF last time there were not so many participants and only a small room but for LIIC it was a huge one and there were really like 2 times bigger number of participants during the LGSF. During the first day I was a bit cautious cause I don't want to make a scene like what if I make a mistake or do something unethical but I pulled it through. I was able to communicate with different personali...

  JULY 24-28 With the week 7, though were not yet thoroughly done in setting up our policy paper we have this  I was tasked to do join and assist the LGSF Hinun-anon with the PDMU and CDD with Nong Kevin and Ma"am Jerilee and was permitted by my mentor. Thanks to her allowing me to rotated I was able to make contact with different localities and heads/Focals addressing the problems and solutions that can be generated  in doing the problem solution matrix.  This is the Problem Solution Seeking Matrix where different persons like the City Director and barangay captains. They discussed problems that their community faces in starting their projects and passing different papers in order to execute their activities. It was a fun and interactive session because they were open to every questions and giving their opinion and thoughts. Facing different personalities was a good experience for me because I rarely have an opportunity to learn face to face from higher ups.  I...

  JULY 17-21 I started the week 6 on a work from home format, waiting for my mentor to ask assistance or lend me some works. I messaged her last week regarding my topic and she told me that she'll send me the corrected format of my Policy paper topic and if my topic be chosen I will just focus on making our policy paper On this week, I can feel the pressure coming up for the Policy paper, knowing that only me and Nong Kevin will do the policy paper. I had a lot of though thinking if I can help him because I don't have that knowledge in setting up a policy paper even though we had already made one. But with his trust in me, by also encouraging e along with Ma'am Jenica, I found my confidence back. Nong kevin and I had topics in mind but Sir Makoi told us to go with the SK Officials topic. As my proposal was pushed through we have started to draft our statement of the problem and the objectives but, we were clear on what to focus at first so we had to think and to think what ...

JULY 10-14   At our 5th week on DILG we had a lot of things to do, we focused on the KM Serye as instructed by my mentor, I made the presentations and prepared the certificates for our target participants. I had also finished and signed our activity design and passed it to SRMU. There was time that we argued about the graphics that we will use because it causes us some delays. We went to see the regional director of DILG 6 and he asked us the reason why we want to conduct this study. He also made a recommendation on adding 1 or 2 reactors to maintain balance in the said topics. So, after our discussion we headed at our mentor's office and talked about who we can invite cause its already 3 days before the KM Serye and we need to rush because we need the reply already. So, I made the letter for Love Baronda. I was afraid if we can pull it thought a such a little time for the preparation and there were a lot of changes with regards to the activity. Adding the conditions, there was a s...

  July 3-7, 2023     Starting my week 4 creating activity design for my proposed topic in KM serye. It is about the SKMT of the DILG where I plan to give a head start to the planned trainers for the newly elected SK officials. I'm thinking on the proposal of my co-intern which is regarding to the income generating projects of municipalities or LGU to rise their revenue. We have consulted our mentors regarding our proposed topics, and they said that because we had more than one proposal, they will intervene with choosing the topic. Our mentors choose my proposal, and we started making concepts and formulating Ideas on the output or the target participants. For this week, I made letters for the resource speaker and finishes the activity design.  I was tasked in creating Pre and post evaluation for the participants. This will be used in our recommendations if ever there are and to know if ever the participants have learned or increased their insights.  I also atte...

June 26-30      During my week 3 with DILG I was assigned to help my fellow intern to the GK or Gawad Kalasag MDRRMO evaluation. I thought it was so easy to do but in the long run, I admit that it was kinda hard not mentally but physically. My back was aching sitting all day and looking at the computer, my brother-in-law jokingly told me that after a month I got to have my glasses because of the radiation from the computer. As I have observed regarding how the LGU's think about this GK seriously, I can really tell who are those municipalities or provinces that are really looking into their risks and hazards, how they manage to ease the casualties that their place suffers and how alert they are in responding and giving aid to their people. I've seen also how many people are really qualified in their work which they really do spend their time managing their task and giving satisfaction to the community. I also have evaluated my hometown, I've checked their papers and they m...