LGU awards & recognitions

Which local governments were recognized — and when.

6,812 recognitions of provinces, cities, municipalities and barangays from the DILG Seal of Good Local Governance (for LGUs and for barangays) and the Galing Pook Awards, each linked to its official source.

SGLG

Seal of Good Local Governance

Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)

2,145

seals · 2015–2023

DILG's yearly seal for provinces, cities and municipalities that pass its governance assessment (financial administration, disaster preparedness, social protection, peace and order, business friendliness, environmental management and more).

Only this program 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2023

No SGLG list is shown for 2022 (350 LGUs) and 2024 (714 LGUs): DILG announced those awardees, but the official national lists were not found on any reachable official page, so they are not reconstructed from news reports.

SGLGB

Seal of Good Local Governance for Barangay

DILG National Barangay Operations Office

4,311

seals · 2023–2024

DILG's seal for barangays that pass its assessment of financial administration, disaster preparedness, peace and order, social protection, business-friendliness, environmental management and barangay governance. Only national passers are listed.

Only this program 2023 2024

DILG published national passer lists for 2023 (1,028 barangays) and 2024 (3,283 barangays). A few barangays whose names are not in the PSGC list used by the map are listed but not linked.

Galing Pook

Galing Pook Awards

Galing Pook Foundation

350

awards · 1994–2023

356 LGU records (joint awards listed per LGU)

Awards for innovative and effective local government programs, given since 1994. Each award names a specific program of the LGU.

All programs 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2017 2018 2021 2022 2023

Only awardees listed on galingpook.org are included.

Every record

10 matching recognitions

Newest first. Each row links to its source.

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Galing Pook
Emergency Response/Rescue Program
2010 · Barangay San Antonio, City of Pasig
Galing Pook
Damayan Barangay Tangos, Inc.
2010 · Barangay Tangos, City of Baliwag, Bulacan
Galing Pook
Pamangkutanon Sang Banwa (Citizen’s Query): Kuwentahan Hindi Kuwentohan (Accountability not Lip Service)
2010 · Bingawan, Iloilo
Mayor in office: Matt Palabrica — awarded to the LGU during their term
Galing Pook
Cagwait's Best Program: A Development Strategy in Mobilizing Community
2010 · Cagwait, Surigao del Sur
Galing Pook
Pasig Green City Program: Towards a Healthy Environment and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
2010 · City of Pasig
Galing Pook
Steering Local Development through People Empowerment
2010 · Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur
Galing Pook
Strategic Innovations in Operating Devolved Government Hospitals
2010 · Misamis Oriental
Galing Pook
A Paradigm Shift to Environmental Sustainability Ecological Solid Waste Management Program
2010 · Santa Cruz, Laguna
Galing Pook
Good Health through Good Governance
2010 · Surigao del Sur
Galing Pook
Hillylands Green Rehabilitation and Livelihood (Hi-Green): An Anti-Poverty Program
2010 · Zamboanga del Norte

What this does and doesn’t mean

Recognitions are given to the local government unit, not to a person. An official is shown only as being in office when the LGU was recognized.

On a governor’s or mayor’s profile, a recognition appears only if their elected term covered 1 December of the award year, when these awards are usually conferred. The SGLG assessment can cover the previous year’s performance, which may fall partly under a predecessor.

A missing year is a gap in the records we could obtain, not a failed assessment.

How the lists were read

The DILG SGLG lists are scanned tables. They were read with OCR, and every name was matched only to a real PSGC province, city or municipality inside the region printed above it. Names shared by several LGUs were resolved from the printed province label. Rows the OCR could not read were read by eye from the page images. Nothing was guessed.

The barangay seal (SGLGB) lists were read the same way. Each barangay was matched only inside the city or municipality printed beside it; the row counts equal DILG’s numbering (3,283 in 2024) and its per-region totals (1,028 in 2023). A barangay whose name is not in the PSGC list (renamed, split or new) is listed but not linked. Barangay seals are never credited to a mayor.

For every year with an official per-region breakdown (2016–2019, 2023), the counts match it exactly, region by region. The 2015 list has no breakdown table; its row numbering is complete.

Galing Pook places were matched by exact name. Where a name fits more than one LGU and the award page doesn’t say which, the record is listed but not linked to a place.

Not yet included: BLGF fiscal performance rankings, Gawad KALASAG, the Seal of Child-Friendly Local Governance and the Lupong Tagapamayapa Incentives Awards. They will be added once official awardee lists are obtained.

Sources

DILG Region V — SGLG awardees 2015–2019
National “List of SGLG Awardees” for each year (scanned PDFs).
DILG — 2023 SGLG awardees announcement
The 2023 national list (dilg.gov.ph PDF, retrieved through the Internet Archive) matches the announced 28 provinces, 64 cities and 401 municipalities.
DILG — 2024 SGLGB national passers
Linked from the Barangay menu of dilg.gov.ph. 3,283 barangays, read from the PDF table and matched to PSGC barangays.
DILG — 2023 SGLGB national passers
Scanned list of 1,028 barangays. Row counts were checked against DILG's own per-region totals printed on page 2.
Galing Pook Foundation — awardees
Every awardee listed on the foundation's website, 1994–2023. Each record links to its own award page.
PSA — Philippine Standard Geographic Code
Place names and codes used to match each LGU.

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