PROJECTS

UPPAF implements various projects that are funded by university resources and external partners like the national government agencies, local government institutions, and international development funding agencies. Project ideas are multi-sourced – from the concepts that are proposed by faculty, UP-NCPAG centers of excellence, and graduate students, that are eventually raised to the President and the Board for consideration and from “calls for proposals by external funders” that are sent to the foundation and responded to by interested parties within the UP-NCPAG system.

Through the years, UPPAF has implemented projects for and in cooperation with major international and national development institutions such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), GTZ now GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH), Ford Foundation, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid), Philippines Australia Human Resource and Organizational Development Facility (PAHRODF), The Asia Foundation (TAF), Millennium Development Goal Achievement Fund (MDGAF), Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), and International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IIDEA), among others.

 

It provides various professional services to key agencies of the Philippine government, such as the Congress of the Philippines, various departments of the national government, local government units, commissions like the Civil Service Commission (CSC), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Human Rights Commission (CHR) and Commission on Audit (COA), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), Department of Transportation (DOTr), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA), Governance Commission for Government Owned or Controlled Corporations (GCG), Philippine Competition Commission (PCC), Tariff Commission (TC), and Philippine Commission for Women (PCW) among others. UPPAF maintains linkages at the national and international levels. Its links include: Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA); Network of Asia-Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG); Association of Schools of Public Administration in the Philippines (ASPAP); Philippine Society for Public Administration (PSPA); Asian Group of Public Administration (AGPA); Gawad Kalinga Foundation; Galing Pook Foundation; and Local Government Leagues.

Through the years, UPPAF has received and implemented grants/sub-grants from USAID Projects. Among its recent projects are:

• Assessing the Performance of the Aquino Administration under the USAID Facilitating Public Investment (FPI) Project of DAI Global, LLC (2016-2017);

• Open Government Research Colloquium under the USAID Facilitating Public Investment (FPI) Project of DAI Global, LLC (2016-2017);

• Support to Capacity Building of the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission and Key Agencies on Project Management under the USAID Philippines Rule of Law Effectiveness Project of Management Systems International (MSI) (2007);

• Compliance Training in Anti-Money Laundering under the USAID AMLA Project implemented by MSI (2005-2006); and

• 1-10th Congressional Internship Program for Young Muslim Leaders under the USAID Growth with Equity (GEM 1-3) of Louis Berger Group, Inc. (2000-2010).