Mangaldan 3rd Most Competitive on Resiliency Cat. in Ph

 P’SINENSES SHOULD BE PROUD OF

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan – This central Pangasinan town garnered the third Most Competitive Municipality-Resiliency Category for the first and second class towns all over the country.

Resiliency is the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness (online dictionary).

AWARD. Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno (3rd from left) receives the award as the Third Most Competitive Municipality-Resiliency Category for the first and second class towns all over the country. The National Competitive Council granted the town the plaudit for hurdling its Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) in a ceremony held recently at the Fiesta Pavillon Hall of the Manila Hotel in Ermita, Manila.

“Isa na namang tagumpay ang ating inaalay ang para sa bayan at sa mga kababayan pinagsisilbihan namin. Napakasarap tumangap ng award para sa Mangaldan kaya naman magsisilbi itong inspirasyon sa ating lahat upang mas mapabuti pa natin ang pagbibigay natin ng serbisyung matibay at (inaudible) sa taong bayan,” Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno told the guests and officials of National Competitive Council after she received the award held last September 28 at the Fiesta Pavillon Hall of the Manila Hotel in Ermita, Manila.

This town hurdled with flying colors the Council's Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) 

There are 1, 489 municipalities in the Philippines where 323 are first class towns. The Department of Finance classified this town as first class and one of the highest grossing on revenue yearly among the 44 municipalities in Pangasinan.

 The rankings of Cities and Municipalities were based on the sum of their scores on four Pillars: Economic Dynamism, Government Efficiency, Infrastructure, Resiliency, and Innovation. Provincial rankings are based on population and income weighted average of the overall scores of cities and municipalities under a province.

 The CMCI is an annual ranking of Philippine cities and municipalities developed by the National Competitiveness Council through the Regional Competitiveness Committees (RCCs) with the assistance of the United States Agency for International Development.

When Parayno won the 2013 mayoralty race against vice mayor Bernardo “Berex” Abalos and until she bowed down from office in June 30, 2019, this central Pangasinan town swasbuckled on the limelight as it became a recipient of various national government conferment. These plaudits were four Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) awards. 

The fifth SGLG grant came in 2022 when she returned again in the mayorship here after defeating former Mayor Marilyn Lambino. Parayno expects her sixth SGLG award after the assessment by the national government in September this year.

Other grants the Parayno Administration received were as first place among LGUs in Pangasinan in the 2022 SubayBAYANI Awards, Gawad Kalasag Seal of Excellence and Child-Friendly Municipality awardee. The Municipality Social Welfare and Development (MSWD) has been recognized for attaining the Level 2 – Functional Status during the conduct of Service Delivery Capacity Assessment for calendar year 2022.

This town’s Civil Registrar became an Outstanding Local Civil Registry in the Medium Category thus becoming the first Recipient of PhilSys Birth Registration Assistance in Region 1.

Her administration became a bronze awardee of how she managed and implemented the Human Resource Management System under the enhanced Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence in Human Resource Management (PRIME-HRM) in the national level.

 “In health, we are 3^rd Placer in the Search for Best Performing LGU Voluntary Blood Service Program. We were also awarded as Lead Developer of Quality and Responsive Local Investment Plan for Health and Annual Operational Plan,” she said in one of her functions here.