Sulong Kaalaman Program For Brgy. Kagawads

by Bienvenido P. Cortes

Roxas City – The city government through Roxas City Mayor Vicente B. Bermejo conducts workshops to enhance new governance for barangay officials known as Sulong Kaalaman Program.

According to Lauro Lima, program coordinator, this program is a component of New Governance under the Sulong Roxas development framework of Roxas City government which aims to enhance the capabilities of barangay kagawads.

Sulong Kaalaman program aims to inform and train various committee chairmen of existing national and local laws and to review the ordinances passed in their respective barangays.

Lima said, seven committees in the 47 barangays of Roxas City are involved in this program. These committees are the infrastructure, peace and order, health and sanitation, education, agriculture and fisheries, environment and youth and sports committee.

They train on basic principles and the necessary steps in crafting ordinances and resolutions; be oriented of the existing national and local laws relevant to their committee; analyze and understand the elements of effective legislative acts using case study analysis; and prepare a draft of ordinance or resolutions for implementation in their respective barangays.

2009 Excellence Awards In Local Governance

The provincial office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Roxas City announced recently the winners in the search for Local Governance Excellence at the provincial level as evaluated by the DILG evaluation team as follows:

Category A (1st – 3rd class municipality), Panay – 1st place; Pontevedra – 2nd place; and Maayon – 3rd place.

Category B (4th – 6th class municipality) – Ivisan – 1st place; Sigma – 2nd place; and President Roxas – 3rd place.

Special Awards for Excellence were also evaluated as follows: For Administrative Governance – Panay; Social Services – Panay; Economic Develop-ment – Sigma; Environ-mental Management – Panay; and for Local Legislation – Pontevedra.

Regional Level, Category A – Panay, 1st runner up for Excellence in Environmental Management; Category B – Ivisan, 2nd runner up for Excellence in Social Services and 2nd runner up for Excellence in Envi-ronmental Management.

Ms. Helen J. Mestidio, DILG Provincial Director of Capiz, reported that the evaluation of this program was conducted in August 2009. /MP