BAGUIO CITY – The Department of the Interior and Local Government-Cordillera Administrative Region (DILG-CAR) announced that 192 barangays across the region have been recognized as National Passers of the 2024 Seal of Good Local Governance for Barangay (SGLGB) by the National Quality Committee (NQC).
The SGLGB is a performance assessment led by the DILG that recognizes barangays that demonstrate excellence in key governance areas of Financial Administration and Sustainability; Disaster Preparedness; Safety, Peace and Order; Social Protection and Sensitivity; Business-Friendliness and Competitiveness; and Environmental Management.
For 2024, 57 barangays in Abra, 31 in Apayao, 50 in Baguio City, twenty- 24 in Benguet, 8 in Ifugao, 15 in Kalinga, and 7 in Mountain Province have successfully met the assessment criteria and are recognized as National Passers of the 2024 SGLGB.
With 192 national passers, the Cordillera region has posted a 178.26% increase, up from 69 barangays cited in 2023.
DILG-CAR Regional Director Araceli A. San Jose attributed this uptick to the improved buy-in from barangay officials to the SGLGB paired with continued provision of technical assistance from the Department and other national government agencies.
RD San Jose shared that the DILG-CAR intends to sustain this momentum by developing strategies that will drive more barangays to earn the coveted seal this 2025.
“We are enjoining our DILG Field Operating Units to explore and introduce innovations that will improve the performance of our barangays. This heightens the need for collaboration to improve our monitoring and evaluation strategies,” the DILG-CAR chief added.
It can be recalled that in 2022, the DILG Baguio City Field Office implemented the “Flexible Learning and Enhanced Knowledge Service” (FLEKS), a digital platform that provides barangays real-time access to governance guidelines and submission of compliance reports.
This initiative contributed to the notable increase in Baguio City’s SGLGB national passers that surged from only one (1) barangay in 2022 to thirty-five (35) in 2023, and now fifty (50) in 2024.
RD San Jose asserted that SGLGB goes beyond being a recognition program as it pushes for improved local service delivery stating, “As the closest level of government to our constituents, we must ensure that our barangays are always performing at the optimal level to effectively address our communities’ contemporary needs.” By Fernando Pre
