Muntinlupa received the 2022 Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG), an “award, incentive, honor and recognition-based program aims to boost LGUs' drive to constantly progress and/or sustain their notable performance across various governance areas.”

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) announced on Oct. 27 that there are 350 awardees this year consisting of 18 provinces, 60 cities and 272 municipalities in the Philippines.

The total number of awardees this year is 20.4 percent of the 1,715 provinces, cities and municipalities in the country covered by assessment.

Only five of the 17 local government units (LGUs) in the National Capital Region (NCR) passed the assessment for SGLG and were named awardees this year. These are Muntinlupa, Caloocan, Mandaluyong, Navotas and Quezon City.

“Congratulations, Muntinlupa City! We did it again! Muntinlupa City is among the awardees of the 2022 Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG)!” said Muntinlupa Mayor Ruffy Biazon.

He added, “Maraming salamat sa mga katuwang natin sa paglilingkod, most especially to Cong. Jimmy Fresnedi sa kanyang leadership noong siya ang mayor ng ating lungsod (Thank you to our partners in service, most especially to Cong. Jimmy Fresnedi for his leadership when he was the mayor of our city).”

The SGLG, institutionalized through Republic Act 11292, is based on 10 assessment criteria.

“The SGLG maintains the ‘All-in’ principle where a local government must pass all governance areas,” according to a memorandum issued by the DILG.

These are:

- Financial Administration and Sustainability: Uphold the practice of fiscal discipline and sustainability, and transparency and accountability in the use of public funds;

- Disaster Preparedness: Prevent and prepare for disasters, whether natural or human-induced, in order to strengthen their resilience,

- Social Protection and Sensitivity: Demonstrate responsiveness to the needs of, and facilitate meaningful engagement with the vulnerable and marginalized sectors of society;

- Health Compliance and Responsiveness: Set-up, implement, and sustain health policies and programs that would strengthen and promote the well-being, healthy lifestyle, and safety of the public, while ensuring that all individuals, especially the vulnerable, have fair opportunities for better health without causing financial hardship through the organization of an integrated healthcare delivery system;

- Sustainable Education: Implement education reforms and programs to support the vision of quality education for all;

- Business-Friendliness and Competitiveness: Enable pro- competitive policies and interventions, and facilitate ease of doing business, in accordance with the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018 (RA 11032);

- Safety, Peace and Order: Protect constituents from threats to life and damage to property;

- Environmental Management: Safeguard and preserve the integrity of the environment through adaptive social responsibility;

- Tourism, Heritage Development, Culture and Arts: Foster the value of sustainable tourism, and nurture culture and heritage;

- Youth Development: Stimulate meaningful participation of youth in local governance and nation-building