DILG Full Disclosure Policy
The Full Disclosure Policy requires every province, city and municipality to post a fixed set of financial documents, in three places: a conspicuous place at the LGU, the LGU website, and the DILG portal. This is the list, and then the thing we found about the portal.
The required set
Some are annual, some quarterly. All are public by default, which means you do not need a reason to ask for them.
The approved annual budget, by office and by expense class.
Quarterly. What came in and what went out.
Quarterly.
Utilisation of the 5 percent calamity fund. In a region that takes this many typhoons, the single most consequential line on the list.
The share of the NTA that must go to development projects, and what it went to.
Utilisation of the SEF, which comes from a 1 percent levy on real property.
What the LGU intends to buy this year, before it buys it.
Who won, at what price.
Anything added to the plan during the year.
Money held for a specific purpose and what happened to it.
How many people the LGU employs and in what positions.
The portal
Requesting https://fdpp.dilg.gov.ph/ returns a 302 redirect to the http:// address. The national portal that holds every LGU’s mandated financial postings has no working TLS.