Kalinga LGUs qualify for governance silver award

By Geraldine G. Dumallig

TABUK CITY, Kalinga--The seven  municipal local government units, including this city and the provincial government  are qualified to vie for the Seal of Good Housekeeping Silver Level Award, the Department of Interior and Local Government Kalinga provincial office reported.

           

According to DILG Kalinga provincial director Francisco Gamatero, based on their local assessment, all the LGUs   have a grade not lower that three and have achieved the four points total grade in all the five areas of measurement for the SGH silver assessment.

           

The LGUs he said were subjected and got a passing grade on the following criteria in key governance areas namely, planning, budgeting, revenue mobilization, financial management and budget execution, procurement and resource mobilization.

           

For all the LGUs to vie for the 2011 awards, it is required  that they  immediately implement and liquidate their Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) and Local Governance Performance Management System (LGPMS) rewards and incentives  they received for passing the 2010 Seal of Good Housekeeping  Bronze level category.

           

“Award recipient LGUs during the 2010 Seal of Good Housekeeping must liquidate their funds to avail of the next round awards or the Silver Level which would now include the Frontline Service Performance criteria aside from Accountable Governance and Transparent Governance criteria” he said.

           

The frontline service performance criteria, he said, should manifest above benchmark performance as indicated in the Civil Service Commission  Report Card Survey on the Anti-Red Tape Law.

           

Except for Lubuagan, all LGUs were reportedly LGPMS awardees in 2010.

           

Gamatero added Rizal and Tanudan were also recipients of the PCF during the first round of assessment in the same year while the provincial government and Tabuk City also received their PCF during the second round.  Tabuk City was also a PamanangLahi awardee for  exemplary performance in same year.

           

The SGH for LGUs is a strategy for DILG to aggressively scale up interventions to elevate the practice of governance that values transparency, accountability, participation and performance into an institutionalized status. 

           

It aims to recognize LGUs with good governance performance in internal “housekeeping” particularly on good planning, sound fiscal management, transparency and accountability, and valuing of performance monitoring.