The Development Academy of the Bangsamoro trains the officials and employees of the Bangsamoro Government, gives its ministries, agencies and offices technical assistance, and carries out research and policy studies for it.
The Academy provides the following services to the ministries, agencies, offices and employees of the Bangsamoro Government.
Building your team's skills?
Live training on set dates, face to face, online or blended, such as the Mandatory Onboarding Training, values transformation, completed staff work, executive coaching and training of trainers. DAB also designs a training around the skills your team needs.
Run by the Center of Training and Assessment
Want to study one subject in depth?
Short-term course programmes on a set curriculum, such as the Managerial and Supervisory Leadership Short-Term Courses, first run in 2026, and the School of Peace and Democracy-Bangsamoro.
Run by the Center of Education and Extension
Need help with planning or staff work?
Help for ministries, agencies and offices with strategic and operational planning, year-end assessment, process improvement, and organisational assessment with learning and development planning.
Run by DAB, with its pool of outside experts and specialists
Need evidence for a policy?
Research projects and policy studies for the Bangsamoro Government, on the region's research and policy development agenda.
Run by the Center of Research and Policy Development
Want to learn from what works in other offices?
Forums where BARMM officials and employees share good practices and strategies, such as the Knowledge Exchange Forum on Leadership Development Programs, and DAB's pool of experts that offices can draw on.
Run by the Center of Knowledge Management
Need a guide your staff can follow?
Guidebooks and manuals that DAB prepares for the Bangsamoro Government's offices.
Run by the Center of Education and Extension
Planning which staff to send this year?
Each office's yearly allocation of places in DAB's trainings, against which its human resources staff nominate employees.
Run by the Center of Training and Assessment
Every service follows the same four steps.
Your office writes to DAB about training, technical assistance or research, or nominates its staff to a training.
DAB and your office agree on what is needed, who takes part, and when and where it happens.
Your office and DAB confirm the arrangement in writing before the work starts.
The training or work takes place. Each participant receives a certificate with its hours, and the training is added to their training record.
The Academy is headed by an Executive Director, with five divisions established under Section 48, Book IV (The Office of the Chief Minister), Title III (Functions), Chapter 3 (Attached Agencies and Offices), Part F (Development Academy of the Bangsamoro) of Bangsamoro Autonomy Act No. 13 (Bangsamoro Administrative Code).
Runs training and other capacity-building programmes for Bangsamoro Government employees.
Designs short-term courses and specialised graduate programmes, and prepares their curricula and modules.
Sets and carries out the region's research and policy development agenda.
Keeps DAB's technologies and channels for sharing knowledge across the Bangsamoro workforce.
Gives the Academy its administrative and financial support.
Write to the Academy about your office's training, technical assistance or research needs.
