ANTIQUE – Four barangays in this province passed the Seal of Good Local Governance for Barangay (SGLGB) 2023 of the Department of interior and Local Government (DILG).
These are Semirara in Caluya town, Apgahan and Magsaysay in Patnongon, and Igbonglo in San Jose de Buenavista.
Barangay Captain Catherine Lim of Semirara was elated to share the good news on her facebook page.
“Semiraranhons, we made it to the SGLB list again! For the second time around, BLGU Semirara is once again listed as one of the Seal of Good Local Governance for Barangay 2023 passers,” she said.
A total of 64 barangays in Western Visayas passed the SGLGB 2023, according to DILG Region 6.
The SGLGB is a performance assessment and recognition system designed to distinguish barangays with outstanding performance across various governance areas.
It also intends to encourage barangays to continuously progress in delivering efficient, equitable and quality public services. It puts primacy to integrity and good performance as pillars of meaningful local autonomy and development.
The SGLGB gives distinction to barangays with remarkable performance across various governance areas and aims to encourage them to continuously progress in delivering efficient, equitable and quality public services.
It further aims to encourage and challenge barangays to scale up its performance and practices of good governance that accord primacy to the principles of accountability, transparency, performance and effectiveness.
For calendar year 2024, the DILG said SGLGB shall still employ the established “3+1” assessment framework across all 42,041 barangays in the country.
This initiative strives for sustained improvement in governance practices, ultimately empowering local communities through recognition and fostering developmental initiatives.
The “3+1” assessment framework are the financial administration and sustainability, disaster preparedness and safety, peace and order./PN
