CSC-11 calls on nominations for search for most outstanding state workers

DAVAO CITY, Jan. 20 (PIA) – The Civil Service Commission in the region has called on the public and government institutions to endorse nominations of state workers deserving to be honored due to their exceptional work performance in the 2014 Search for Most Outstanding Public Officials and Employees.

CSC-11 regional director Annabelle Rosell made the call and raised the need to identify Davao Region’s own government servant heroes through the media during Friday’s Kapihan sa PIA-11.

In the midst of the many calamities and challenges that the country has endured, Rosell believed that there are more employees commendable of their heroic acts and worthy to be conferred of the three major awards under the Search.

She enthused that a lot of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) have been recognized as Bagong Bayani just like caregiver Rose Fontanes who won in the recent X Factor Israel singing competition.

However, she lamented that very few state workers were given citation.

Out of the 1.4 million government employees in the entire country, only 2,400 were bestowed of the Search’s Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award, CSC Pagasa Award and the Outstanding Public Officials and Employees Award or Dangal ng Bayan.

In the region, less than one per cent of the 52,000 employees have been included in the list of awardees for the past years, Rosell bared.

Among them were last year’s Lingkod Bayan awardee Anabel P. Ungcad, a mobile teacher of the Alternative Learning System in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur, assistant regional director  Mila T. Segovia of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (2003 awardee), and regional director Ma. Lourdes D. Lim of the National Economic and Development Authority (2010 awardee).

Ungcad believed that she got the prestigious award due to her dedication and love to her work as mobile teacher to drop out students and out-of-school youth in far-flung communities where most of her Tagabawa-Bagobo tribal co-members reside.

Apart from providing education, the Lingkod Bayan awardee also served as a bridge in the delivery of basic social needs in the ethnic communities and took the initiative to facilitate the registration of the indigenous people to the Civil Local Registrar.

Ungcad also made possible the construction of a two-classroom school building worth P1-million donated by a power company based in Sta. Cruz.

She said the award has inspired her more to work harder and continue providing education as well as extending assistance the best as she can to the communities she’s serving.

Aside from the cash prize that Ungcad received as an awardee, the mobile teacher got a promotion from Teacher I to Teacher III, and presently another promotion is being processed for her as Master Teacher I.

Rosell said the nationwide Search for Outstanding Public Officials and Employees is an annual event under the CSC’s Honor Awards Program (HAP) that serves as the core of the bureaucracy’s employee incentives and rewards system.

Any individual or organization may nominate an individual or group of individuals for a specific category of the Search, and nominations must be submitted to the CSC regional or provincial/field office on or March 31, 2014, she said.

The award will be conferred on the chosen outstanding government officials and employees in September this year during the CSC’s anniversary celebration. (PIA-11/Carina L. Cayon)