DAVAO CITY, June 18 (PIA): Two major cities in the Davao Region (Region XI) are in the thick of the race during the search for the most child-friendly local government units (LGUs) conducted to promote child-friendly governance.
After 13 years in hiatus, Davao City this year vies for the Presidential Award for Child-Friendly Municipalities and Cities as one of the contenders for the highly urbanized category.
Davao City was at the limelight in the field of child-friendliness in 1998 and 1999 when it bagged for two consecutive years the Presidential Award as the most child-friendly high urbanized city in the Philippines.
Meanwhile, Tagum City this year enters its fourth year in its bid to pick the child-friendly Presidential Award, competing for the component city category.
Tagum City Executive officer Delia dela Cruz who heads Tagum City’s task group on child-friendly search, said the city has consistently been a national finalist of the Presidential Award.
“We are hoping to grab the child-friendly Presidential Award this year,” she said.
Regional Sub-Committee for the Welfare of Children (RSCWC) coordinator Lorelie Ramos of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) XI congratulates Davao City and Tagum City as they are the sole entry for high-urbanized city and component city categories, respectively.
She too is hoping that the Davao Region will grab this year’s Presidential Award which will be conferred to winning local government units during the observance of Children’s Month in October.
RSCWC 11 last week convened the members of Regional Awards Committee (RAC) which already had a schedule for field visits starting next week.
The Presidential Award for Child-Friendly Municipalities and Cities was initiated by the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) in line with Executive Order No. 184.
The award recognizes the role of LGUs “in sustaining the promotion of children’s rights to survival, development, protection and participation as well as in ensuring child-friendly governance.”
It opens five categories by which LGUs can participate. These are 1st to 3rd class municipality, 4th to 6th class municipalities, component cities, independent component cities and highly urbanized cities.
The search will look for the presence of the gifts for children specifically the Local Development Plan for Children, Local Investment Plan for Children and Local Code on Children, as well as, find out the resource allocation and utilization of contending LGUs.
It will also rate entries as to their performance on service delivery, institution building and child participation.
CWC Executive Director Brenda S. Vigo in her memorandum dated May 30 revealed that the revised validation tool of the search, had integrated concerns on risk reduction and management, and the Seal of Good Housekeeping. (PIA-11/Jeanevive Duron-Abangan)
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