The De La Salle University - Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance, originally established as the La Salle Institute of Governance in 2001, is a private, nonprofit, and nonpartisan research and training unit based at the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) of De La Salle University.

The Institute engages in initiatives to strengthen performance, participation, transparency, and accountability in governance systems across the public-private divide. The Institute, in partnership with domestic and international partners, co-creates and implements innovative programs, projects, and activities; develops key capacity among governance and development stakeholders; and generates knowledge products that document, transform, and distill learnings from research and practice.

In 2012, the Institute adopted the name Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance to honor the late La Sallian alumni and highly decorated good governance advocate, Jesse M. Robredo, who served as a mayor of Naga City and as a Secretary of the Department and Interior and Local Government. The Institute is referred to with the acronyms LSIG, for La Salle Institute of Governance, or DLSU-JRIG, which stands for De La Salle University – Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance.

our vision

To be a center of excellence in implementing governance research and training in partnership with international and local institutions.

our mission

To undertake programs, projects, and activities that are innovative and effective in creating knowledge products, developing capacity among key stakeholders, strengthening university-community engagements and improving the integrity, performance, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability of governance systems.