Iloilo province receives 3rd consecutive good governance award

Iloilo Business Park (Photo from https://www.megaworldcorp.com/townships/iloilo-business-park/)

ILOILO CITY – The province of Iloilo will be receiving for the third consecutive year the “Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG),” an award given by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).

Iloilo will receive the award together with the provinces of Aklan and Negros Occidental.

As a three-time awardee, the province is now a grand slam winner, according to Governor Arthur Defensor in an interview on Thursday.

Iloilo received the similar award in 2015 and 2016.

A local government unit can qualify for the SGLG if it has good financial housekeeping, programs for disaster preparedness and social protection.

Aside from the provincial government, the local government units of Anilao, Barotac Nuevo, Bingawan, Carles, Dingle, Duenas, Dumangas, Estancia, Mina, New Lucena, Oton, Pavia, Tubungan and Zarraga and the component city of Passi are also awardees.

“There are a lot of benefits that the province will receive by winning the seal of good local governance,” Defensor said.

He specifically said that the province, as well as the recipient towns and city, would again be entitled to avail of projects for the improvement of roads through the Conditional Matching Grant to Provinces for Road Repair, Rehabilitation and Improvement (CMGP) and Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) program of DILG.

The awarding ceremony is scheduled on November 27 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Metro Manila.