Inday Sara credits Davao City's good governance award to father

MANILA, Philippines — Davao City Mayor and presidential daughter Sara Duterte-Carpio has credited her father, also the former mayor and now President Rodrigo Duterte for the city government’s Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) award.

Duterte-Carpio recognizes her father’s governance as he served Davao City for 22 years. The president previously served as mayor, a term as vice mayor and also a term as the city's representative in Congress.

The current city mayor said she welcomes the SGLG award from the Department of the Interior and Local Government. She said her administration is inspired by the award to further improve services for Dabawenyos.

“It is a source of inspiration for us to improve and work hard for the people of our city,” Duterte-Carpio said in a release last Monday.

The DILG is awarding Davao City the SGLG award saying the city passed “all the minimum parameters of the core components” of the SGLG including the financial administration, social protection and disaster preparedness. Interior Secretary Ismael “Mike” Sueno said the city also met the measures for business friendliness and competitiveness, peace and order and environmental management.

Davao City also won the prerequisite award, Seal of Good Housekeeping in 2012.

SGLG is not only an award but also an “incentive program for performing local government units to encourage and challenge all areas to improve performance and service delivery set across the core areas and essential areas.” It covered 81 provinces, 144 cities and 1,490 municipalities across the country from March to September this year.

According to Davao Assistant City Administrator Tristan Dwight Domingo, the SGLG award is “a testament to the good leadership and dedicated public servants that we have in the city government in Davao.”

“It also signifies that the Dabawenyos are also helping and doing their parts in effective public governance,” Domgingo said.

After the SGLG award, Davao City is also entitled to be issued with the Good Financial Housekeeping Certification and is qualified to access or use the so-called Performance Challenge Fund and other programs.

The DILG will present the SGLG award in the national conferment ceremony to be held at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila on October 27. — Rosette Adel