DILG Secretary Eduardo M. Año (FILE PHOTO)
QUEZON CITY, Oct. 21 (PIA)--Eight local government units in the National Capital Region (NCR) were conferred with the 2019 Seal of Good Local Governance by the Department of the Interior & Local Government (DILG).
The cities of Caloocan, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Muntinlupa, Navotas, San Juan, Pasay, and Quezon City were among the 57 SGLG City Government awardees nationwide this year.
In a statement, DILG Secretary Eduardo M. Año, said the SGLG 2019 is a refined version of last year’s ‘all-in’ requirements as it is now composed of specific improved requisites.
“We saw the need to refine the criteria and we are hoping that the LGUs see this as an opportunity for an improved service delivery,” Ano said.
“The ‘all-in’ criteria in itself was very challenging for our local government units (LGUs) yet we still want to push them for greater innovation, hence, we polished and redefined this year’s SGLG requirements,” Año said.
Año explained that SGLG 2019 is geared towards institutionalizing a culture of performance among LGUs which utilizes performance information for interventions and actions.
He pointed out that SGLG 2019 requires LGUs to pass all seven governance areas namely: Financial Administration; Disaster Preparedness; Social Protection; Peace and Order; Business Friendliness and Competitiveness; Environmental Protection; and Tourism Culture and the Arts.
“Requirements in the current set up are more specific and defined, thu creating a more competitive and dynamic metrics for the LGUs to try to attain,” Año said.
Recipients of this year’s SGLG from 81 provinces, 145 cities and 1489 municipalities were conferred with the SGLG marker; eligibility to the Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) to finance their local development initiatives; and an access to other programs and capacity development assistance from the DILG.
Some of the refinements integrated in the SGLG 2019 provincial, city and municipality criteria are plus 30 percent of recommendations fully complied with for Good Financial Housekeeping; and the inclusion of all quarters in CY 2018 in the compliance with the Full Disclosure Policy of Local Budget and Finances, Bids and Public Offering for the Financial Administration indicator.
Disaster preparedness criteria for provincial, city and municipality now require a convened PDRRMC; a contingency plan for top two high risk hazard; and at least one LDRRMC or LDRRMO head/plantilla LDRRMO staff trained in Incident Command System.
Under the Social Protection, provincial governments are now required that during CY 2018 or 2019, at least 50 percent of the provincial government-run hospitals are Philhealth accredited; and at least 50 percent of city goverment-run hospitals are Philhealth accredited for maternity care package, primary care benefits, and TB-DOTS for CY 2018 or 2019 for cities and municipal governments.
The Peace and Order assessment tool requires provincial, city and municipal governments to pass the Peace and Order Performance Audit rating, while, under the Environmental Management, city and municipal government must convene their solid waste management board.
The Department of the Interior & Local Government (DILG), in 2010, piloted the Seal of Good Housekeeping with the aim of promoting transparency and accountability in local government operations by assessing its financial housekeeping in compliance with COAs accounting and auditing standards and auditing standards and the Department’s Full Disclosure Policy.
In 2014, the Department scaled up the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH) into the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) or Pagkilala sa Katapatan at Kahusayan ng Pamahalaang Lokal. (PIA-NCR)
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