Awards 2017 Ten Outstanding Local Governance Programs
3 About Galing Pook and Awards 2017 By the Numbers 4 Message from GPF Chair Maria Lourdes C. Fernando 5 Message from LANDBANK President and CEO Alex V. Buenaventura 6 Message from DILG Officer-in-Charge Catalino S. Cuy 7 Message from LGA Executive Director Marivel C. Sacendoncillo 8 Angono, Rizal: Participatory and Systemic Governance for Socio-Economic Development 10 Cagayan de Oro City: Rising Up from the Mud 12 Davao del Norte: Community Based Road Maintenance Contracting 14 General Santos City: Lingap sa Kabataang Ayaw sa Droga (LIKAY Droga) 16 Palompon, Leyte: Integrated Community-Based Eco-Tourism and Coastal Resource Management 18 Pasig City: “Bayanihan sa Daan” Sustainable Transport Program 20 San Felipe, Zambales: Monthly Search for Galing Barangay and Galing Purok 22 San Luis, Aurora: Luntiang Pamayanan ng San Luis 24 San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte: Catching Rain 26 Valenzuela City: Disiplina Village 28 Finalists 33 The Galing Pook Foundation Board of Trustees and Secretariat 34 2017 Galing Pook Awards National Selection Committee 37 The National Selection Committee on the Field 38 The Galing Pook 2017 Awards Ceremony 39 Galing Pook Theme Song / Mamamayan Mamamayani Theme Song Articles written by Pamela Grafilo and Bashia Mariel Grafilo • Cover design and layout by Lyka Cabatay • Editorial support by Adrian Adove • Reference and photos courtesy of LGUs and from Galing Pook Files Page 2 | Galing Pook Awards 2017
The Galing Pook Awards is a pioneering program that recognizes innovation and excellence in local governance. It started in October 21, 1993 under the joint initiative of the Local Government Academy-Department of the Interior and Local Government, the Ford Foundation, and other individual advocates of good governance from the academe, civil society and the government. The Asian Institute of Management carried on the awards program until 2001. Earlier in 1998, the Galing Pook Foundation was formed as a juridical institution to sustain the program. VISION We are a leading resource institution that promotes innovation, sustainability, citizen empowerment, and excellence in local governance. MISSION We promote excellence in local governance through recognition, sharing of information and support of efforts to replicate best practices at the local level. We encourage partnerships among civil society organizations, private sector, and government agencies at local, national and global levels to improve quality of life. Galing Pook Awards 2017 By the Numbers SELECTION PROCESS AND CRITERIA: The applications were screened by a 19-member National Selection Committee from different fields of expertise and experience. Of the 158 applications, 44 made it to the site validation stage, 20 made it to the finals, and ten were selected as this year’s batch of winners. Total number of applications received: 158 63% of entries from LUZON 16% of entries from the VISAYAS 21% of entries from MINDANAO Promotion of people’s participation and empowerment 30% Positive results and impact BREAKDOWN OF SOURCES OF APPLICATIONS: 30% 15% 15% Transferability and sustainability 50% Innovation 10% Efficiency of program service delivery entries from barangays entries from municipalities 3% entries from provinces 16% 31% entries from cities Galing Pook Awards 2017 | Page 3
Warm congratulations to all the winners of the Galing Pook Awards 2017! This year of the Galing Pook Awards, we celebrated the Festival of Best Practices—a festival of creativity, resourcefulness, and hard work. It highlighted the resilience and resolve of local governments to find solutions to our everyday problems. It is our choice to celebrate good governors, good mayors, good barangay officials, and good local public servants. Despite the challenges of our everyday problems and the frustrations along the way, our ten winners, together with the remaining finalists, show that there is hope in good local governance. Our batch of winners this year is a mix of LGUs from Luzon including the National Capital Region, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Our winners tackled various issues, such as housing and land tenure, market administration, livelihood and rising from disaster, road maintenance, anti-drugs, eco-tourism, sustainable mobility, incentivizing performance, agriculture and irrigation, and renewable energy. No matter how diverse this year’s winners are, they all became successful because of the active participation of their respective communities. So as we celebrate and congratulate our local chief executives and their dedicated and hardworking staff for this year’s gems of best practices, we also extend our congratulations to their constituents—as both beneficiaries and active partners in good governance. It is our hope in Galing Pook that these shining examples of good governance be emulated and replicated by other local government units throughout the country, for it is through the local governments, which are closest to the people, that services are best delivered. We also encourage more LGUs, from the provinces down to the barangays, to participate in our continuous search for best practices, so that other stories of success in tackling everyday problems will be brought to the national consciousness. We would like to extend our gratitude to the Land Bank of the Philippines for supporting the Galing Pook Awards Program, and the Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Local Government Academy for their continuous support to Galing Pook. The support of all our partners, and especially of our local governments who provide us models of good governance year after year, strengthens our resolve to continue believing in good governance, in our people, and in still finding leaders and government workers, who are matitino at mahuhusay. Mabuhay tayong lahat! MARIA LOURDES C. FERNANDO Chairperson Galing Pook Foundation Page 4 | Galing Pook Awards 2017
Crucial to sustainable growth and development throughout the country is finding reliable partners that can help equip every Filipino in need with the necessary tools toward poverty alleviation. The financial and technical assistance that LANDBANK extends to the countryside is only valuable if delivered on time and through effective means. The Bank is fortunate to have reliable partners who uphold beliefs similar to our mission and vision of helping the country grow. Having been part of LANDBANK’s fostering environment for socio-economic change through its relentless support to local government units across the nation, the work that the Galing Pook Foundation is able to do in many parts of the country attests to the value of capacity building at the grassroots level. Winners and participants to this year’s Galing Pook Awards are no different, as these remarkable entities have demonstrated worthwhile efforts that will allow communities and other generations to find a better future. From good governance to environmental advocacies and innovative practices, we at LANDBANK are confident in the ability of Galing Pook Foundation to further build on its success toward helping empower more people and communities in the years to come. In behalf of LANDBANK, we extend our sincerest congratulations to everyone who has made the 2017 Galing Pook Awards a memorable success. ALEX V. BUENAVENTURA President and CEO Land Bank of the Philippines Galing Pook Awards 2017 | Page 5
My congratulations to the individuals and groups behind the 2017 Galing Pook Magazine featuring this year’s inspiring awardees and finalists. I laud the Galing Pook Foundation and partners for continuing this worthwhile tradition of recognizing and promoting culture of good governance in the Philippines. As one of the institutions that founded the Galing Pook Awards in 1993, the DILG assures its unceasing support to this valuable initiative of awarding game changers who are worthy of emulation, as they model the way to inclusive and equitable local development for and by the Filipino people. These are moving stories of innovation and excellence in local governance that you will take pieces of information, interest, and inspiration from. Knowledge and awareness spur practice and it is hinged at the end goal of Galing Pook to support efforts to replicate the best practices at the local or community level. May these encouraging stories of good local governance be preached and spread to more areas in the country. It is also our fervent prayer that these real-life narratives will help build up more productive partnerships among civil society organizations, private sector, and government agencies at the local, national as well as global arena. Nawa’y lalo pang maiparating at maipadama ang mga biyaya ng magandang pagbabago sa mas maraming Pilipino. Again, congratulations to this year’s winners. Mabuhay ang Galing Pook Awards! CATALINO S. CUY Officer-in-Charge Department of the Interior and Local Government Page 6 | Galing Pook Awards 2017
For years now, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), through the Local Government Academy (LGA) has been partnering with the Galing Pook Foundation in promoting good local governance, believing that every local government unit (LGU) has the inherent capacity and potential for innovative practices to serve the best interest of their constituents in their respective communities. We experience this at the recently concluded Festival of Best Practices meant to inspire other LGUs to follow without the need to reinvent the wheel. All the practices were truly inspiring – from the Participatory and Systemic Governance of Angono, Rizal to the Disiplina Village of Valenzuela City. These LGUs were able to bring forth a good harvest of their labor in evolving their best practices. Each of them beams as an epitome of an exemplar LGU. To the Galing Pook Foundation, we are grateful for the opportunity to work together once again in the interest of good local governance. To the awardees, may you continue to inspire our communities with increasing momentum to create more innovative practices in the years ahead. To the LGUs, we take our hats off for your undying passion to serve the Filipino citizenry in your respective communities. Together, let us continue to advocate good local governance with passion for a better Philippines and a better world. MARIVEL C. SACENDONCILLO, CESO III Executive Director Local Government Academy Galing Pook Awards 2017 | Page 7
ANGONO, RIZAL: Participatory and Systemic Governance for Socio-Economic Development Angono took advantage of two opportunities to bolster its socio-economic progress – improving its public market and addressing the plight of its informal settlers. It is anchored on environment, culture and arts promotion of the LGU. Notably, the LGU adopted a People-centered, Sustainable, Integrated, Area-based Development (PSIAD) strategy to shift from public administration to governance. From a liability, Angono’s public market has been transformed to a competitive “People’s Market” comparable to commercial supermarkets in the area. The implementation of the Amended Market Code of Angono Rizal helped turn the public market into a reliable economic enterprise of the local government. Furthermore, a financial aid from the provincial government enabled Angono LGU in improving the market infrastructure. Roads were constructed and widened to be accessible to transport vehicles and prevent traffic congestion, which effectively addressed the issue on vendors not wanting to occupy the stalls at the back of the market. As a result, it became a market “na lahat may harapan”. Furthermore, learning from Olongapo City’s color-coding scheme for public utility vehicles have inspired Angono to improve its traffic management and regulate tricycle and jeepney operations with designated terminals and drop-off points in the market’s vicinity. In maintaining peace and order, the LGU deployed 80 market guards who work in shifts to ensure a 24/7 security coverage. The market has 32 CCTV cameras installed with a 24/7 Consumer Welfare Desk put in place for quick issuance of public announcements. A Market Vicinity Committee was also created to ensure safety in the area. Through these initiatives based on data as of September 2017, crime rate was reduced, and the market even experienced zero crime incidence. To address the low collection efficiency rate of the public market, a new payment and debt restructuring scheme was crafted by the LGU in consultation with stall owners. A high collection efficiency rate Page 8 | Galing Pook Awards 2017 Public Market Income 2014 - 2016 2014 2015 2016 Receipts 12,046,901.40 14,442,205.85 14,419,398.53 Expenditures 9,391,123.83 11,039,021.07 10,516,378.18 Net income before subsidy 2,655,777.57 3,403,184.78 3,903,020.35 Subsidy 1,308,000.00 2,695,700.00 2,202,573.00 Income after subsidy 1,347,777.57 707,484.78 1,700,447.35 from PhP 12 million in 2014 to PhP 14.4 million in 2016 was noted under this system. Although the public market could sustain its operations due to its improved collection rate, Sangguniang Bayan Ordinance No. 746 (2016) was enacted to sustain the operations of the public market through an annual budget allocation, if needed. Inspired by Marikina’s “Disiplina sa Bangketa” project, Angono provided reorientation seminars on cleanliness and service quality such as politeness and customer service. In the recent Citizen Satisfaction Index Survey (CSIS) conducted by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the University of Rizal System, the Angono Public Market ranked “High” in all the indicators in citizens’ awareness, availment and satisfaction. In connection with Angono’s Zero Basura program, a Solid Waste Management system was also implemented in the public market through the construction of its own Materials Recovery Facilities. Through this initiative, the Angono Public Market was recognized as the “2nd Healthiest Public Market in the Province
of Rizal” from 1999 to 2002 and the “Healthiest Public Market in the Province of Rizal” in 2003 to 2005. To address the needs of its informal settlers, Angono introduced the Zero Squatter program that assisted 8,000 informal settler families (ISF). An effective and functional Urban Settlement Development Office (USDO), created through EO 2010-11 and SB Resolution 12-125, served as the coordinating unit between the government, private owners, and the informal settlers that made possible the timely government response to the people’s needs. The program also strengthened community-based organizations and associations of resettled ISF by allowing them to organize themselves and plan their communities. Appropriate representation in the local Housing Board, and the Local Committee against Squatting Syndicates and Professional Squatters were allocated to 75 organized groups. Women’s groups were also organized to improve skills as well as access to livelihood and basic services. Economic Impact Year Population Annual Income 2000 74,668 PHP 54,303,584.30 PhP 727.27 2016 *115,481 PHP 285,618,938.75 PhP 2,473.30 Per capita *Please take note that 2016 population projection is based from the last Census (2015) at 113,283 with +1.94% growth rate. With an existing and functional Local Committee against Squatting Syndicates and Professional Squatters, relevant executive orders, resolutions and ordinances were enacted to provide sustainable and institutionalized response to the problems of squatting syndicates and professional squatters. As a result, Angono is the only municipality acknowledged as the 2015 National Champion and 2016 1st Runner Up for Best LGU Practices against Professional Squatters and Squatting Syndicates. The programs on the Angono Public Market and ISFs have contributed to an annual income of around PhP 285 million in 2016 from PhP 54 million in 2000. Clearly, the participatory and systemic governance of Angono uplifted the lives of its people as well as created a climate conducive to socio-economic development. Mayor Gerardo V. Calderon, MPA Tel. Nos.: (02)6510062; (02)4511033 Email: ofm@angono.gov.ph Galing Pook Awards 2017 | Page 9
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