DILG names Ilagan City as top performer on local gov’t management system

By Merlito G. Edale, Jr.

Saturday 18th of August 2012

ILAGAN CITY, Isabela, Aug 18 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has named Iligan City as the top performer on local government performance management system (LGPMS).

DILG said in a statement that the then municipality of Ilagan topped other municipalities in the country on local government performance in terms of managing its resources, manpower and programs for the benefit and welfare of its constituents.

LGPMS is a management and development tool that does not only enable local governments to determine their capabilities and limitations in the delivery of public services, but also provides information on the state of local governance performance and their state of local development.

DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo said local governments are being assessed and ranked based on performance area index ranging from one to five, with one as the lowest and five as the highest, in the following areas: administrative governance, social governance, economic governance, environmental governance and fundamentals of good governance, which include transparency, participation and financial accountability.

Jun Montereal, city information officer of Ilagan, said various awards received by the then municipality of Ilagan on various searches like the child-friendly municipality and Gawad Pamana ng Lahi where the municipality is national awardee are the criteria considered by the interior and local government department.

Montereal said, aside from the awards received, it was considered administrative, social, economic governance, environmental, fundamental and good governance in the delivery of public services to the people of Ilagan City.

Based on DILG’s LPGMS result, Ilagan, Isabela got 4.92; Carmona, Cavite, 4.9; Santol, La Union, 4.89; Alimodian, Iloilo, 4.883; San Mateo, Isabela, 4.879; San Luis, Aurora, 4.86; Surallah, South Cotabato, 4.843; Maslog, Eastern Samar and New Lucena, Iloilo, 4.839; Bacoor, Cavite, 4.822; and San Gabriel, La Union, 4.820. (TCB/MGE-PIA2, Isabela)

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