DAP, City Government of Caloocan partner to update Local Revenue Code

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The City Government of Caloocan taking a post-event photo with the DAP Team and Resource Speakers.

Tagaytay City, Philippines—The Development Academy of the Philippines, through the Center for Governance, in partnership with the City Government of Caloocan, held the Training-Workshop on Updating the Local Revenue Code (LRC) and Rationalization of Local Fees and Charges on November 11-13, 2025, at the DAP Conference Center. 

The three-day workshop equipped select Caloocan City officials, key functionaries, and key technical staff with a strategic, holistic, and systems-oriented understanding of the city government’s revenue generation and resource mobilization functions. Participants also gained access to strategic toolkits and hands-on exercises designed to support the rationalization of local fees, ultimately strengthening local fiscal autonomy and enabling smarter revenue generation and management. 

Participants discussing the rationalization of fees and charges to the assigned sector.

Some 50 participants from various offices and committees of the city government took part in the sessions, including members of the City Finance Committee, revenue-generating offices, and representatives from the Sangguniang Panglungsod-Local Legislative Services and Secretariat Services.

Two distinguished experts served as  resource speakers: 

  • Ma. Pamela P. Quizon, Chancellor of the Internal Revenue Institute  of the Philippine Tax Academy 
  • Eng. Jose Arnold M. Tan, PhD, former Deputy Executive Director of the Bureau of Local Government Finance and Board Member of the Professional Regulatory Board of Real Estate Service.

Their sessions covered principles, legal bases, practical tools, and emerging trends in local revenue generation to support the city government’s LRC updating initiative. They also facilitated an engaging discussion on the fee rationalization and guided participants through workshops and exercises that resulted in initial draft outputs for the updated LRC. 

This initiative reinforces the DAP’s steadfast commitment to empowering local governments in advancing sound fiscal management, transparency, and responsive governance–key drivers in sustaining local development and innovation.

Director Jannis T. Montañez delivering her closing message for the three-day Training-Workshop.