Corporate Governance Scorecard

The National Irrigation Administration publishes its answers to the Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) Corporate Governance Scorecard by calendar year. The current view shows CY 2025, Section I. Stakeholder Relationships (15%). All items shown are marked Yes.

1a. Stipulates the existence and scope of its effort to address customer's welfare? Answer: Yes. NIA has established a comprehensive and multi-layered policy framework that explicitly defines its commitment to the welfare of its primary stakeholders, particularly farmers, Irrigators Associations (IAs), and irrigation service beneficiaries, anchored on statutory mandates and institutional issuances.

Cited sources:

• CSR Statement
• NIA Vision, Mission, Objectives and Integrated Policy
• MC 108 s. 2025 - Institutionalization of the Agency's Permanent Disaster Response and Resource Mobilization Program, BayaNIAn para sa Bayan
• MC 84 s. 2025 - Reiteration of Existing Policies Relative to the Partnership between Irrigators Associations (IA) to Ensure Efficient Implementation of Irrigation Project
• MC 122 s. 2025 - Second Amendment to Memorandum Circular No. 45, s. 2025 Guidelines on the Provision of Livelihood Assistance to Irrigators Associations and Irrigation Service Cooperatives / Agricultural Cooperatives
• MC 45 s. 2025 - Guidelines on the Provision of Livelihood Assistance to Irrigators Associations and Irrigation Service Cooperatives / Agricultural Cooperatives
• MC 101 s. 2024 - Addendum to MC No. 108 s. 2018 Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 10969, otherwise known as the Free Irrigation Service Act (FISA)
• MC 21 s. 2024 - 3rd Amendments to Certain Provisions of MC 108 s. 2018 IRR of RA 10969
• MC 147 s. 2023 - Amendments to MC No. 91 s. 2021 and MC 108 s. 2018, increasing O&M subsidy from P150/ha/cropping to P500/ha/cropping
• MC 108 s. 2018 - IRR of RA 10969, otherwise known as the Free Irrigation Service Act (FISA)
• MC 47 s. 2018 - Implementation of Client/Customers Feedback Mechanism

1b. Elaborates its efforts to interact with the communities in which they operate? Answer: Yes. NIA has institutionalized a community-centered and participatory governance framework supported by various Memorandum Circulars and programs for engagement, consultation, partnership-building, and community development involving IAs, Irrigation Service Cooperatives (ISCs), and local stakeholders.

Cited sources include CSR Statement, MC 122 s. 2025, MC 84 s. 2025, MC 45 s. 2025, MC 147 s. 2023, MC 57 s. 2023 Guidelines in the Organization and Development of ISCs, MC 42 s. 2023 Enhanced Implementing Guidelines for IA Model Farm (IAMF), MC 157 s. 2022 Guidelines and Procedures in the Conduct of Revised IA Functionality Survey and Annual Search for Outstanding IA Performers, MC 29 s. 2020 Increase in Maintenance Subsidy and MOUs on Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) and Program Convergence Budgeting (PCB), MC 108 s. 2018, MC 13 s. 2017 Guidelines on Free Irrigation Service.

1c. Ensure that its value chain is environmentally friendly or is consistent with promoting sustainable development? Answer: Yes.

• Approved PPD-ED revised Desk Manual includes function of Environmental and Watershed Management Section and conduct of feasibility studies inclusive of environmental, watershed, and social aspects
• Approved PPD-ED Pre-FS Manual through MC 3 s. 2023 on environmental, watershed, and social assessment
• MC 137 s. 2023 NIA Guidelines in Project Preparation for Irrigation Development includes Terms of Reference for Environmental and Social Assessment
• MC 2 s. 2020 Terms of Reference for Social Environmental Impact Assessment
• Amended DENR-NIA MOA series of 2019 on rehabilitation and protection of critical watersheds supporting irrigation systems
• CSR Statement, PPD-ED Desk Manual pages 9-11, PPD-ED Pre-FS Manual Activities 9 and 15, Year-end Accomplishments 2025.

2a. Customer health and safety. Activities include institutionalizing Social Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA) for proposed National Irrigation Projects (NIPs) and Impounding Projects (IPs) for Environmental Compliance Certificate acquisition through MC 2 s. 2020, PPD-ED Desk Manual, and incident response such as Deflated Bustos Dam Rubber Gate No. 3 Now Under Control; No Danger to the Public, NIA and PNP partnership to secure irrigation in remote areas, and 10 agencies uniting for tech advancement.

2b. Interaction with the communities. Activities include stakeholder consultations in Management Plan formulation for Water Resources Supporting Irrigation Systems (RPWRSIS), stakeholder consultation in ongoing feasibility studies for social acceptability, EIA process for dam ECCs, and Year-end Accomplishments 2025.

2c. Environmentally-friendly value chain. Activities include ongoing Rehabilitation and Protection of Water Resources Supporting Irrigation Systems based on NIA Masterplan and DENR-NIA MOA s. 2019, feasibility-stage study on interventions to protect watershed resources, and Year-end Accomplishments 2025.

3. Separate CSR or sustainability report or section? Answer: Yes. CSR Statement, CY 2025 CSR Activities, and Tree Planting, Blood Letting and Gift-Giving Activities.

4. Contact details for stakeholders to voice concerns or complaints on violation of rights? Answer: Yes. Contact Us | National Irrigation Administration.

5a. Explicit health, safety, and welfare policy for employees? Answer: Yes. Framework includes MC 108 s. 2025 BayaNIAn disaster response program, MC 93 s. 2025 Mandatory Inclusion of Construction Safety and Health in Technical Specifications, MC 88 s. 2025 Guidelines on Magna Carta and Hazard Pay for S&T personnel under RA 8439 as amended by RA 11312, MC 6 s. 2025 100% Smoke-Free Environment, OC 6 s. 2025 Promoting Use of Stairs, OC 7 s. 2025 Resumption of Dental Services, MC 132 s. 2024 NIA Drug-Free Workplace Program Policy, MC 124 s. 2023 Designation as ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Committee, and completed activities for CY 2025.

5b. Publishes data relating to health, safety, and welfare? NIA implements smoke-free, drug-free, lectures on respiratory and pulmonary disease, breast cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, urolithiasis, erectile dysfunction, sexually transmitted diseases, chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus, and bloodletting with Philippine Red Cross Q.C. Chapter, NIA Travelers Club, and Philippine Blood Center. Notes that systematic publication of consolidated data is being strengthened.

5c. Training and development programmes? Yes. Intensive internal training from January to December 2025 on technical skills, digital literacy, governance, and administration.

5d. Publishes data on training and development? Trainings for CY 2025 are listed.

Evidence files linked from the CY 2025 scorecard table.