- Ateneo School of Government (ASoG) conducted a three-day Project Management Training for members of the Integrity Management Program (IMP) at the Office of the Ombudsman, Quezon City.
- The workshop, led by Mr. Manolito A. Novales, aimed to strengthen participants’ skills in planning, implementing, and monitoring integrity-driven initiatives to promote ethical governance and accountability.
- The training enhanced interagency collaboration and supported the national corruption prevention framework, reaffirming ASoG’s commitment to integrity, ethical leadership, and good governance in public service.
The Executive Education Program of the Ateneo School of Government conducted a three-day customized Project Management Training for members of the Program Management Committee and the Joint Technical Working Group of the Integrity Management Program from 20 to 22 October 2025 at the Office of the Ombudsman in Quezon City.
The training is designed to enhance the capacity of implementers to design, plan, and manage results-oriented integrity initiatives that promote transparency and accountability in ethical governance. By engaging in hands-on workshops and collaborative learning, participants increased their capacity to transform integrity goals into quantifiable results and institutional reforms in their respective agencies.
The course was facilitated by Mr Manolito A Novales, a core faculty of ASoG and a seasoned expert in public sector project management. Participants included members of the PMC and the JTWG of the Integrity Management Program, a joint undertaking of the Office of the President of the Philippines Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs, and the Office of the Ombudsman. The training supported the continued implementation of the government's national corruption prevention framework.
More than knowledge and skills, the training workshop enhanced interagency collaboration and inspired shared responsibility in furthering the integrity agenda. It allowed the IMP core teams to apply project management instruments to planning, implementation, and monitoring, enabling the alignment of the project outputs with the institutional mandates of the IMP implementing agencies.
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This approach ensures the continuity and long-term sustainability of the Integrity Management Program. As ASoG's Executive Education Program affirms, enhancing leaders' and technical teams' capacity in project management would be equivalent to directly supporting the objective of the IMP and upholding ASoG's continuing commitment to integrity, ethical leadership, and good governance in public service.
Director Dennis Russel Baldago of the Office of the Ombudsman said in his remarks that the Integrity Management Program manifested the strong commitment of the government to promote ethical leadership and strengthen public trust. He added that the training would help the teams translate integrity goals into concrete results.
The Head of the Executive Education Program, Ms. Sharon Grace S. Yabut, urged participants to continue putting what they learned into practice: “Let us uphold integrity not only in the outcomes of our projects but in the way we lead, work together, and make decisions every day”.
