1,000 Productivity Ideas Reached

The 2023 - 2028 Philippine Development Plan has mentioned the need for the public sector to increase productivity and support innovation efforts in the country. The Development Academy of the Philippines, through its Center of Excellence on Public Sector Productivity (DAP-COE-PSP), is committed to contribute in raising the productivity performance of government agencies and offices by launching the Productivity Challenge Program. This multi-year project intends to foster awareness and boost the productivity and innovativeness of public sector organizations in the Philippines.

In February 2023, the DAP COE-PSP started to invite National Government Agencies (NGAs), State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), Local Government Units (LGUs), Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCCs), Bureaus, and attached agencies to participate in the first productivity challenge, the 2023 Productivity Spark: 1,000 Ideas to Productivity.

Public sector employees were encouraged to submit ideas that would improve the government's efficiency and effectiveness in delivering quality services.

The awareness-raising efforts of DAP were further intensified through the conduct of the Productivity Challenge Workshop: Discovering and Designing Productivity Solutions, which ran from May until September 2023 in areas of Manila, Baguio, Pampanga, General Santos, Davao, and Cagayan De Oro. Through this workshop, participants from the public sector had the opportunity to understand essential tools for discovering productivity gaps and learned to use different techniques to design and ideate solutions to address productivity problems.