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TACLOBAN CITY – At the very least 53 native governments in Jap Visayas have been given the 2024 Seal of Good Native Governance (SGLG) by the Division of the Inside and Native Authorities (DILG) for his or her “excellence, transparency, and accountability in native governance.”
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DILG Regional Director Arnel Agabe counseled the awardees for his or her dedication and unwavering dedication to transparency, accountability, and excellence.
“By setting such excessive requirements, these LGUs (native governments models) have develop into position fashions of exemplary governance, inspiring others throughout the area to uphold the rules of excellent native governance,” he stated in a press release on Thursday, Nov. 14.
Final yr, there have been solely 33 LGUs within the area which acquired the popularity.
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The awarded localities excelled in 10 areas of governance: monetary administration and sustainability, catastrophe preparedness, social safety and sensitivity, well being compliance and responsiveness, sustainable training, business-friendliness and competitiveness, security, peace and order, environmental administration, tourism, heritage growth, tradition and humanities, and youth growth.
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Recipients of the SGLG will likely be granted the SGLG Incentive Fund, designed to help infrastructure, service supply tasks, and different initiatives that improve group growth.
This incentive goals to foster innovation and sustainability, benefiting residents all through Jap Visayas.
Of the six provinces of the area, three of them acquired the SGLG: Northern Samar, Samar, and Southern Leyte.
Within the metropolis class, the winners have been Baybay, Ormoc, and Tacloban, all in Leyte; and Maasin in Southern Leyte. The area has seven cities.
Within the municipal degree, three have been from Biliran – Almeria, Kawayan, Naval; 5 from Jap Samar, Arteche, Gen. MacArthur, Guiuan, Quinapondan, Sulat; seven from Leyte,particularly, Alangalang, Albuera, Barugo, Hilongos, Kananga, San Miguel, Tabontabon; 10 from Northern Samar, Bobon, Catarman, Gamay, Laoang, Lapinig, Mapanas, Palapag, Pambujan, San Antonio, and San Roque; six from Samar – Basey, Calbiga, Jiabong, Marabut, Motiong, and Paranas.
At the very least 14 municipalities from Southern Leyte have been additionally acknowledged: Bontoc, Hinunangan, Hinundayan, Libagon, Liloan, Macrohon, Malitbog, Padre Burgos, Pintuyan, San Juan, Silago, Sogod, St. Bernard, and Tomas Oppus.
The official awards ceremony is tentatively set in December 2024 on the Manila Lodge, Metro Manila.
