Parañaque City has been recognized by the Department of Interior and Local Government as the most complaint local government in Metro Manila for passing four of seven local governance assessment areas for the year 2018.
The city was also tagged as one of the Most Compliant LGUs in the implementation of the Supreme Court continuing mandamus for the clean-up and preservation of Manila Bay.
DILG Assistant Secretary for Local Government Marivel Sacendoncillo said Paranaque, under the leadership of Mayor Edwin Olivarez, excellently passed the Environmental Management, Financial Administration, Business-Friendliness and Competitiveness, and Culture and the Arts assessments.
“Paranaque, a highly urbanized city in the southern part of Metro Manila, exhibited excellence in meeting performance benchmarks in four of seven core areas last year, “Sacendoncillo said.
Under the Olivarez administration’s Business One-Stop Shop (BOSS) program, the City’s Business Permit and Licensing Office fast-tracked its government-to-business transactions through the adoption of electronic queuing, document tracking, online payment and No Noon Break policy.
With such a system, what used to be a 15-step process in applying for permits and licenses has been reduced to a simple three-step process of application, assessment, and payment.
As a result of faster, more efficient business processes, the city topped the Civil Service Commission’s list of most compliant cities and municipalities in terms of eliminating red tape and corruption.
Based on the commission’s evaluation, Parañaque received an overall score of 92.7 percent, which is equivalent to Excellent, and tops other major Metro Manila cities like Manila, Quezon City, Makati, Pasig, and Taguig.
Meanwhile, the city garnered a score of 86 percent based on the Regional Inter-Agency Team Assessment conducted in recent months on the clean-up and preservation of Manila Bay.
The team, composed of representatives from national government agencies involved in the Manila Bay Clean up, Rehabilitation and Preservation Program (MBCRPP) visited the 17 LGUs and reviewed their performance in the outcome indicators in the four clusters set under the Supreme Court mandamus.
For 2019, MBCRP will conduct the following activities expected to further strengthen the program’s implementation:
National Inter-Agency Committee Validation of LGU Compliance to MBCRP;
National Environmental Compliance Audit Validation, which will cover performance year 2018;
the Manila Bay Database System (MBDS) Data Harmonization and GIS Training of NCR-LGUs;
Seminar-Workshop on the Updating of NCR-LGUs’ Ten Year Solid Waste Management Plan; and 2019 Assessment of LGU Compliance to the MBCRP.