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2011 GP Magazine.Pmd Galing Pook 2011 • 1 20112011 GalingGaling PPookook Contents 3 The Galing Pook 4 Global Public Innovation Network 5 Message from President Benigno S. Aquino III 6 Honoring the Brilliance of LGUs DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo 6 Promoting a More Inclusive Growth Process GPF Chair Ma. Nieves Confesor 7 Development Strategies Worth Emulating LBP Pres. and CEO Gilda Pico 7 Supporting Innovative LGU Initiatives DBP Pres. and CEO Francisco del Rosario, Jr. 8 Justice on Wheels Sarangani 10 Poor Municipality Can Eliminate Malnutrition Limasawa, Southern Leyte 12 Turning Red to Green Misamis Oriental 14 Rural Community e-Center Upi, Maguindanao 16 LGU-Led Cadastral Survey Maribojoc, Bohol 18 Empowering the Subanen People Zamboanga del Norte 20 Community-Based Mental Health Management Real, Infanta, Gen. Nakar, Panukulan 22 Bringing High Schools Closer to Home Alimodian, Iloilo 24 Rabies Prevention and Elimination Bohol 26 Health Strategy for MDG Attainment Albay 28 2011 Galing Pook Awards Finalists 32 2011 National Selection Committee 34 Galing Pook Foundation Board of Trustees and Secretariat 35 Galing Pook Hymn Cover Design, Layout and Main Articles by Allen M. Mariano • References supplied by LGUs • Photos courtesy of LGUs and from Galing Pook File Photos 2 • Galing Pook 2011 The Galing Pook he Galing Pook awards is a pioneering program that recognizes innovation and excellence in local Tgovernance. 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 Vision Pook Foundation was formed as a juridical institution We are a leading resource institution that promotes to sustain the program. innovation, sustainability, citizen empowerment, and excellence in local governance. Since 1994, more than 250 programs from at least 160 local government units and alliances have already won recognition. The Galing Pook winners are chosen Mission each year from a wide array of programs from local We promote excellence in local governance through governments after undergoing a rigorous multi-level recognition, sharing of information and support of screening process. efforts to replicate best practices at the local level. The winning programs are selected based on positive We encourage partnerships among civil society results and impact, promotion of people’s participation organizations, private sector, and government and empowerment, innovation, transferability and agencies at local, national and global levels to improve sustainability, and efficiency of program service quality of life. delivery. Partners Galing Pook 2011 • 3 Global Public Innovation Network he Global Public Innovation Network, established Tin 2002, is a collaborative network of 10 public policy awards programs from around the globe. With support from the Ford Foundation and contributions by the individual programs, the Innovation Network gathers and disseminates knowledge about innovations in public service provision, public action, and governance. These innovations represent significant contributions to the collective well-being of citizens and to the reduction of social, economic, political, gender, and ethnic inequalities. By sharing successful local practices through an international network, the impact of each awards program can extend far beyond its country’s borders. Innovation Network activities include workshops, research, and publications. Partner Programs The Global Public Innovation Network includes the following programs: American Indian Tribes in the United Mexico: Government and Local States of America: Honoring Nations Management Award Program Peru: Participation and Local Brazil: Public Management and Management Program Citizenship Program Philippines: The Galing Pook Chile: Citizen Participation and Public Foundation Awards for Outstanding Politics Program Local Government Programs China: The Innovations and South Africa: Impumelelo Innovations Excellence in Chinese Local Award Trust Governance Program United States of America: Innovations East Africa: The Mashariki Innovations in American Government Awards in Local Governance Awards Program Program Source: Harvard Kennedy School: Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Website (http:// www.ash.harvard.edu/Home/Programs/Innovations-in-Government/Global-Public-Innovation-Network), accessed January 5, 2012. 4 • Galing Pook 2011 Malacañan Palace Manila It is my pleasure to congratulate the recipients and finalists of the 2011 Galing Pook Awards, and I commend the Galing Pook Foundation for spearheading this annual recognition of exemplary community programs. Local government units are our key partners in implementing reforms at the grassroots level, serving as the national government’s arm in ensuring an environment of equitable progress. This occasion demonstrates your commitment to uphold the system of decentralization with efficiency and excellence. The innovative activities that the awardees and finalists have carried out in their respective localities redound significantly to our agenda of good governance, which includes the resolution of socio- economic issues such as poverty, health, and peace. Thus, I applaud your steadfast dedication to work toward the fullest development of your territories. Your initiatives indeed strongly contribute to forging self-reliant communities. May your endeavors inspire others to foster dynamism in public service. I exhort our LGUs, represented by the different local leaders, to sustain accountability and transparency in fulfilling our Social Contract with the Filipino people. May our paths be guided by our aspiration for genuine reforms in this time of renewal. BENIGNO S. AQUINO III Manila January 2012 Galing Pook 2011 • 5 Honoring the Brilliance of LGUs he Department of the Interior and Local Government would like to extend its sincerest Tcongratulations to the 2011 winners of Galing Pook Awards. Galing Pook Awards does not only recognize but more importantly honors the brilliance of local government units that continue to provide stories of hope and inspiration as a proof that good governance is alive and thriving in the country. I salute the LGUs that have taken part and showcased the best practices in their localities. It is my fervent hope that they sustain and upscale the efforts they started. I would also like to acknowledge our strategic partners from the private sector and the civil society organizations for their continued efforts in helping us promote good local governance. Jesse M. Robredo Secretary I believe that by working hand in hand we can make positive changes in the lives of our Department of the Interior people. and Local Government Congratulations and Mabuhay! Promoting a More Inclusive Growth Process oday, we recognize that millions of poor Filipino families, systemic approach to eliminate rabies in the province of Bohol; Tincluding many women and children, in both rural and for achieving zero-mortality rates for Limasawa, Southern urban areas, continue to be left behind even as the country's Leyte; for an LGU-led cadastral survey, with simultaneous economic prospects have improved. The challenge is to systematic adjudication to address the conflict "fall-out" from promote a more inclusive growth process --- one that sustains clearly plotted lines and boundaries; establishment of an competitiveness and robust economic growth performance, inter-local health zone for community-based mental/psycho- while ensuring that wealth creation provides the widest social health management; creation of strategically located possible benefits, notably for the expanding low-income and much needed high schools in barangay clusters in population. Growth alone, while critically important, does Alimodian; and the first community e-center in the country in not necessarily alleviate poverty and reduce inequality. There Upi. Peace-building initiatives, through Misamis Oriental is convincing evidence that inequality does retard growth province's Lantad Peace-building Experience and and render growth to be "sporadic" and short-lived in Zamboanga del Norte's program to bring the lumads to access developing economies such as ours. mainstream services, continue to be recognized. Sarangani's JEEP (Justice Enhancement and Empowerment Program) Thus, eighteen years and more than 250 awardees later, the creates "inclusive growth" by bringing the justice system to search for innovative sustainable arrangements are "co- the people, by setting up mobile courts, among others, with created" by local governments and communities, even in the clear results. most challenging of conflict conditions, to ensure that growth is for ALL, and not captured by an elite. "Acting locally", Organizations, be they public or private, fail to create the such local governance mechanisms have been sustained by future not because they fail to predict it but because they fail transparency, clear accountability, expanding inclusion of all to imagine it. Congratulations to the awardees and finalists! stakeholders, and their increasing empowerment. They have imagined and they have created. For many of those in leadership, whether exercised with authority or not, the choice to lead has been marked by courage to create. For many of those who have been recognized, the programs have produced leaders,
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