LEGAZPI CITY: Albay province
received another grand slam honors
during the Gawad Pamana ng Lahi and Seal of Good Housekeeping Awarding
ceremonies held here recently.
Along with Albay which was
named the best province in Bicol, Ligao City
was given the best city award and Tiwi as the best municipal local
government unit by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)
during the awarding rites.
At least 10 local government
units throughout Bicol were declared finalists in the Gawad Pamana ng Lahi
Awards, which include: Albay, Camarines Norte, and Sorsogon for the provincial
category; city category Ligao, Naga and Legazpi for the city category; and the
towns of Tiwi and Sto Domingo in Albay, and Ragay and Calabanga in Camarines
Sur for the municipal category.
Albay Gov Joey Salceda,
together with city and town chief executives of Ligao, Legazpi, Tiwi, amd Sto
Domingo received their respective awards from DILG Director Manny Gotis of the
Bureau of Local Government Development.
The awardees were qualified to avail of
the Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) where they can acquire financial support
for the development of their respective municipalities.
Albay won the award for
carrying out sustainable local governance thru environmental integrity, social
transformation, and economic viability.
Salceda focused his efforts on
education with the following two major projects: Albay Higher Education
Contribution Scheme (AHECS), and the Education Quality for Albayanos (EQUAL),
the biggest funded scholarship program granted by an LGU in the country with
34,000 scholars.
He said with these programs the
province hopes to achieve a “college
graduate in every family”; and a more improved rating in the National
Achievement Test (NAT) with Albay targeted to become one of the top 20
provinces with high NAT ratings in 2016.
The province is also
intensifying school-based feeding programs to address malnutrition in far-flung
villages of Albay.
Tiwi, Albay was cited for its
successful implementation of the Tiwi Upland Management Area for Nature Based
Agriculture.
Mayor Linda Gonzalez of Ligao
City spearheaded the Ligao Participatory Governance for Social Economic
Enterprise Development.
Noel Rosal, former Legazpi City
Mayor and City Administrator underscored the significance of the city’s
award-winning Ecological Waste Management Program.
While Naga City was cited for
its i-Governance: Application of ICT in Local Governance.
Blandino Maceda, DILG regional
director, said the Gawad Pamana ng Lahi Award and the Seal of Good Housekeeping
Award are given yearly to local government units which have shown their
exemplary performance, particularly in
the promotion, of transparency and accountability in governance.
The two governance awards were
introduced during the incumbency of the late Interior and Local Government
Secretary Jesse M Robredo, a champion of good local governance. – Bicol Mail
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