“It’s now up to the Bureau of Local Government Supervision (BLGS) Central Office to decide the passers of the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) in the region,” said Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Regional Director Paisal O. Abutazil in the presence of provincial, city directors and cluster leaders during the regional conference and SGLG calibration on July 17, 2014.

 The role of the region is simply to assess on data gathering and it was done early this May to 75 LGUs through cross-posting of our Provincial Directors, City Directors, and Cluster Leaders who actually visited the LGUs” RD Abutazil continued.

 

    He added that the national and sub-national validations are to take place which may include document inspection, on-site visit and /or interview to the LGU concerned.

 

    He further said that the selection is expected to start in the 3rd quarter while national awarding takes place in October of each year.

 

    “A national recognition and better rewards await the SGLG recipient which accordingly, an LGU will have PCF incentives, access to program windows of National Government Agencies, continuing CapDev and access to loans.” RD Abutazil said.

 

    The gathering, according to him, of all the assessors would be an avenue to review the necessary document and verify the data entry before submission to the Central Office.

 

    Notably, SGLG , implemented annually to provinces, cities and municipalities, is the up-scaled version of the SGH applying the “3 plus 1 principles” which means that an LGU needs to pass all the three (3) core assessment areas-Good Financial Housekeeping, Social Protection and Disaster Preparedness and at least one (1) from the essential assessment areas such as Business-friendliness and Competitiveness, Peace and Order and Environmental Management.