Bulasa, M. O. V. (2019). Improving local health governance at the barangay level (Unpublished master's thesis). Public Management Development Program, Development Academy of the Philippines.

Public Management Development Program Middle Managers' Class Batch 17 Capstone Paper Thesis (MMC)--Development Academy of the Philippines

Anchored on the premise that urban barangay is itself a unit of study as a local health system, and not merely a satellite of the city-wide health system, the Capstone Project Improving Local Health Governance at the Barangay Level is an attempt to enhance urban barangays' contribution to health development through building the capacity of their leaders in health systems analysis and increasing their ownership of barangay health challenges. Developed for highly urbanized and independent component cities in the Philippines, the design was piloted in Cagayan de Oro City. By applying the framework on transitional leadership in learning communities of Future by Design introduced by Prof. Juan Kanapi, the final product is a two-day classroom intervention where barangay leaders and city health personnel assigned in the barangay will go through exercises and didactics using barangay data to understand their current realities and will be introduced to transformational leadership tools that will help them reach their preferred realities. Although this project report did not capture the result of the pilot run of the program in Cagayan de Oro City, the project recommends for the BLHSD to a) revise and enhance the guidelines on the City Investment Plan for Health to include clear parameters for barangay contributions among HUCs and ICCs, b) leverage the urban barangay resources in the implementation of the Universal Health Care Law that just been passed by Congress and c) continue capacity development intervention for urban barangay leaders on service delivery network and universal health care.