Rizal Buendia
Independent political analyst, consultant and researcher in Southeast Asian Politics and International Development based in Wales, United Kingdom. Dr. Buendia has 25 years of professional experience as an academic, political researcher, and international consultant. Among his fields of research are Muslim separatist movements, comparative politics, Southeast Asian Politics and Governance, ASEAN, ethnopolitics, peace and conflict studies, and social policy. He is the former Chair and Associate Professor of the Political Science Department, De La Salle University-Manila (DLSU-M), and Teaching Fellow in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies and Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He served as consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP-Bangkok), World Bank, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), CANADA-ASEAN Governance Innovations Network-Institute on Governance (CAGIN), Canada International Development Agency (CIDA), the International Development Research Center (IDRC), and the International Technology and Management Corp. (INTEM), among others. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Political Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS) under the NUS by-research Ph.D. scholarship
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As it persists in the Philippines, corruption is one of the major governance issues. For the past 76 years after its independence from American colonial rule, political leaders, civil servants, and general citizens are aware that corruption is rampant and efforts to curb it remains a failure. It has grown over seven (7) decades spreading to the vital centres of government.
Two months after the first SONA of President Marcos Jr. in July, a survey conducted by Pulse Asia in September 2022 reveals that 36 percent of Filipinos believe that corruption has yet to be controlled. This was echoed by 67% of business leaders on a joint survey done by the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) on the same month. They affirm that any economic recovery plans of the Marcos Jr administration will be uncertain with unbridled corruption.
The paper hypothesizes that limiting feats of corruption necessitates that government take a holistic view not only of its own capacity to discover, avert, examine and investigate, and prosecute corrupt individuals, groups, or syndicates in the public and private sectors but also take a whole-of-society perspective to deal with corruption. It briefly discusses the inherent and key elements embedded in holistic governance, viz.: transparency and accountability; democratic values and institutions and; human resource development that preclude the commission of corruption. The paper argues that holistic governance stands as a better governing framework to be institutionalized in the Philippines over time to thwart the ghastly effects of corruption to the nation.
To this end, mitigating corruption at the individual and system levels will bring widespread benefits to the population and improve the political, economic, and social development of the country.
As it persists in the Philippines, corruption is one of the major governance issues. For the past 76 years after its independence from American colonial rule, political leaders, civil servants, and general citizens are aware that corruption is rampant and efforts to curb it remains a failure. It has grown over seven (7) decades spreading to the vital centres of government.
Two months after the first SONA of President Marcos Jr. in July, a survey conducted by Pulse Asia in September 2022 reveals that 36 percent of Filipinos believe that corruption has yet to be controlled. This was echoed by 67% of business leaders on a joint survey done by the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) on the same month. They affirm that any economic recovery plans of the Marcos Jr administration will be uncertain with unbridled corruption.
The paper hypothesizes that limiting feats of corruption necessitates that government take a holistic view not only of its own capacity to discover, avert, examine and investigate, and prosecute corrupt individuals, groups, or syndicates in the public and private sectors but also take a whole-of-society perspective to deal with corruption. It briefly discusses the inherent and key elements embedded in holistic governance, viz.: transparency and accountability; democratic values and institutions and; human resource development that preclude the commission of corruption. The paper argues that holistic governance stands as a better governing framework to be institutionalized in the Philippines over time to thwart the ghastly effects of corruption to the nation.
To this end, mitigating corruption at the individual and system levels will bring widespread benefits to the population and improve the political, economic, and social development of the country.