DILG-Aklan field personnel is CSC Pag-asa awardee
Kalibo, Aklan – One of the 11 Civil Service Commission Pag-Asa Awardees for this year is an Aklanon, a field personnel of the Department of Interior and Local Government in Aklan.
Emmie Macogue Cawaling, Local Government Operations Officer V assigned as DILG-MLGOO from 2002 up to present in the municipality of Nabas had been chosen by the Presidential Lingkod Bayan and Pag-asa Awards Committee as one of this year's awardees.
The Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award is conferred on an individual or group of individuals for exceptional or extraordinary contribution resulting from on idea or performance that has a nationwide impact on public interest, security and patrimony.
As an awardee, Ms. Cawaling will be honored along with the 10 others on September 21 at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, Cultural Center of the Philippines to highlight the 106th Philippine Civil Service Anniversary Celebration this month of September.
Ms. Cawaling was chosen by the 2006 Committee on Lingkod Bayan and Pag-asa Awards "for giving participatory governance a new meaning to local government units."
"She harnessed the capacities of civil society organizations in the delivery of basic services and projects. Under her stead, barangay secretaries, barangay treasurers and barangay tanods, usually relegated to support functions, became more visible anchors of the community in service delivery. To enable LGUs and development workers to benchmark data and draw up a socio-economic profile of communities and households, she introduced such innovations as the Green Passport Card which monitors barangay officials' participation and compliance of DILG directives," the Committee emphasized in its Resolution No. 2 dated September 1.
With the award, DILG-Aklan Provincial Director Patricio Villavert said that Ms. Cawaling had contributed an invaluable recognition and respect to each and every Aklanon nationwide.
Ms. Cawaling had been with DILG-Aklan since 1995.
(PIA/VGVillanueva)