Awareness on Features of Compliance Documentation among Local Government Officials in Barangay Mother Tamontaka, Cotabato City

Global trends support the philosophy, To see is to believe, which causes all entities both public and private to document their relevant activities in order to solicit support from various individuals and organizations for the attainment of organizational vision, mission, goals and objectives. Documentation if undergoes the correct processes shall be the cause of promoting transparency, collaboration, peace and development and at the same time, it shows that the managerial skills of a leader have been sustained. In the community, skills in documentation have gained a huge attraction particularly on the enhancement of technology, science and social media that contribute work efficiency and productivity. Numerous studies revealed that documentation is everywhere but the question of how to document has been an issue and it needs to be investigated. In the barangay level, the chairman with his or her line-up entities must develop skills in documentation to build harmonious relationships with the community. Thus, the research aimed to determine the documentation skills of Local Officials in Barangay Mother Tamontaka, Cotabato City specifically to find out the level of awareness on the features of compliance documentation as perceived by the barangay officials themselves. The study had been conducted to the said barangay where the floated questionnaires were answered by a total of 30 barangay officials as respondents. The findings of the study had indicated that the Local Government Officials in Barangay Mother Tamontaka, Cotabato City had much level of awareness on the features of compliance documentation as shown from the total average weighted mean of 3.97. Based on the aforementioned findings, it could be inferred that the documentation skills of the local officials need to be enhanced and sustained; therefore it is highly recommended that the barangay chairman may continue initiating relevant programs or projects intended for the enhancement of the documentation skills of his subordinates in order for them to become more productive as public servants. Likewise, since Cotabato City State Polytechnic College has adopted the said barangay, the faculty extensionists may conduct series of seminar-workshop in relation to documentation so as to lessen or even eradicate the difficulties or challenges they have been encountering and to enhance their level of efficiency and effectiveness as community leaders and as models for the attainment of peace and development.