The Textbook Count Experience

Characterizing the G-Watch SAc Approach:

right quantity of right quality

textbooks bought at the right price and

delivered to the right

recipients at the right time

GOVERNMENT WATCH

SAc Model

joint citizen-

government monitoring

easy-to-use tools

preventive and pre-emptive

community-based

data- and evidence-

based

result

Components and Goals

1. BIDDING

2. PRODUCTION

3. DELIVERY

4. DISTRIBUTION

Safeguard the integrity of the bidding process

Ensure good textbook quality

Help high schools and districts check the textbooks delivered

to them

Help districts distribute the textbooks to elementary

schools

JOINT CITIZEN-GOVERNMENT

• Memorandum of Agreement

• Coordination Scheme

• Quality Inspection • Delivery • Distribution• Problem-Solving

monitoring

EASY-to-USE• Quality Inspection Report• Inspection and Acceptance

Report• Title of Books | Allocation

| Actual Number Received | Physical Condition | Date Received

TOOLS:

preventive / pre-emptive• clarifies the

standards of an on-going process that it monitors, hence serving as an affirmative action to ensure compliance to standards or to avoid deviations

Ink smudge

Print out of registry

community-based

data- and evidence-based

• Recommendations forwarded are from the results of the monitoring

• Post-Delivery Evaluation- CSO assessment- DepED assessment (Division and

Central Office)- Responses from stakeholders:

Divisions, IMCS, supplier, forwarder, CSOs

G-Watch Social Accountability Approach

GOVERNMENT WATCH

SAc Model

joint citizen-

government monitoring

easy-to-use tools

preventive and pre-emptive

community-based

data- and evidence-

based

joint citizen-government monitoring

easy-to-use tools

preventive and pre-emptive

community-based

data- and evidence-

based GOVERNMENT WATCH

SAc Model

Lower cost per textbook

Shorter procurement

period

Better physical quality

Delivery well accounted for