Kalinga LGUs qualify for SGH Silver level award

By Geraldine G. Dumallig

Wednesday 13th of June 2012

TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 13 (PIA) -- The seven municipal local government units, the city of Tabuk, and the provincial government are qualified to vie for the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH) Silver Level Award, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Kalinga provincial office reports.

According to DILG Kalinga Provincial Director Francisco Gamatero, based on their local assessment, all the local government units (LGUs) have a grade not lower that 3, and have achieved the four points of total grade in all the five areas of measurement for the SGH Silver assessment.

The LGUs, he said, 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.

Gamatero said that except for Lubuagan, all the LGUs were LGPMS awardees in 2010.

He added that 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 Pamana ng Lahi 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 four areas, namely good planning, sound fiscal management, transparency and accountability, and valuing of performance monitoring.

LGUs with SGH will be qualified for the PCF to implement for projects that are in line with the Millennium Development Goals and the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management Act of 2010. (JDP/GGD- PIA CAR, Kalinga)