“Break the Corruption Chain: The Philippine Anti-Corruption Initiatives”

Abstract

Every government seeks to build a public service having the value of excellence and with integrity. Thus, every government should wish to constantly maintains the standard of “a public office is a public trust,” for that being said, they started various programs or initiatives specifically to curb or combat the problem of corruption in our society and encourage good governance and public thrust. This study wants to assess the implementation and monitoring of the different anti-corruption initiatives to promote good governance and enhance public trust. The problem being investigated is the effort of the Philippine Government in the implementation, and monitoring of different anti-corruption initiatives. Expressly, it ought to collect particular answer to the following question: (1) What is the status of the anti-corruption initiatives of the Philippine Government in terms of: 1.1. Implementation; and 1.2. Monitoring. The methodology used was a qualitative research. 10 respondents were chosen from the Philippine civil service commission. A semi-structured interview was utilized. The findings of the study show that the commission is continuously improving its procedure and conducting surprise visit to its satellite office to ensure the public trust, also these anti-corruption initiatives are being monitored to give an assurance to the public that they continuously provide quality, effective, and efficient public service to everyone.