DAVAO City—Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio credits the local administration of her father Rodrigo Duterte as then mayor of their home city for the 2016 Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) the city received from the Department of the Interior and Local Government.
She stressed her administration is inspired by the award to improve the services the city government is giving to the Dabawenyos.
“It is a source of inspiration for us to improve and work hard for the people of our city,” she said Monday.
In a letter, Interior Secretary Ismael Sueno said Davao City passed “all the minimum parameters of the core components” of the SGLG—Financial Administration, Social Protection, and Disaster Preparedness.
Sueno said Davao City also met the measures for Business Friendliness and Competitiveness, Peace and Order, and Environmental Management.
The SGLG is an award and incentive program for performing local government units to encourage and challenge all provinces, cities, and municipalities to improve performance and service delivery set across the core areas and essential areas.
Lawyer Tristan Dwight Domingo, the Assistant City Administrator, said the SGLG award is “a testament to the good leadership and dedicated public servants that we have in the city government in Davao.”
“It also signifies that the Dabawenyos are also helping and doing their parts in effective public governance,” he said.
Having given the award, the City is entitled to be issued with the Good Financial Housekeeping Certification and is qualified to access or use the so-called Performance Challenge Fund and other programs.
The assessment covered 81 provinces, 144 cities and 1,490 municipalities across the country from March to September this year.
The SGLG national conferment ceremony will be on Oct. 27 at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila.
In 2012, Davao City won the Seal of Good Housekeeping, which is a prerequisite award to qualify for the SGLG.