BEN KRITZ
THE Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) is a study in contradictions. It is one of the larger departments of the government and has vast authority over things that affect the everyday lives of ordinary people, yet receives almost no media attention and is little understood by the public. It is also a contradiction in the way it manages its various responsibilities, carrying out mandates that ought to be organized at a provincial or regional level by micromanaging them at the smallest possible level of government.