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ILOILO City – This city has been hailed as the best among other cities in Western Visayas during the 2017 Excellence in Local Governance Awards (EXCELL) of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) awarding ceremony at the Iloilo Convention Center (ICON) yesterday.
Mayor Jose Espinosa III along with city department heads and City DILG officer Atty. Ferdinand Panes received a plaque from DILG undersecretary Austere Panadero, DILG-6 director Anthony Nuyda and DILG-6 assistant director Maria Calpiza Sardua.
“Iloilo City has been consistently excellent and outstanding in terms of administrative, social, economic, and environmental governance. Rest assured that the city government will continue to give utmost and excellent service to our constituents,” said Espinosa.
Iloilo City bagged the award after being named as champion in Environmental Governance and first runner-up in Administrative Governance, Social Governance, and Economic Governance for City category.
The city’s entries for the different excellence awards included the Iloilo Citizens Charter Comics and Traffic Handbook, Talatapan Center, Trabaho sa Barangay, and KABALAKA which stands for Kahublagan sa Barangay para sa Lapnagon nga Kahandaan sa Kalamidad (Movement for Community-Based Disaster Preparedness).
Iloilo City bested Passi City and Roxas City for the “Best Performing City” award.
The city was also cited for Customer Service and Frontline Service Provision, Early Childhood Education, Labor and Employment, and Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation through innovative best practices.
The EXCELL award recognizes local government units that have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in governance, administration, social services, economic development, and environmental management.
The award is also intended to advocate transparency and accountability, positive reinforcement for good performers, popularizing replicable best practices, and educating the electorate. (Merianne Grace J. Ereñeta, Iloilo City PIO)/PN
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