Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has cited the importance of resiliency as key to effective delivery of basic services to the city’s 2.9 million constituents.
“When QCitizens were looking up to us, to provide a way forward, there was no time to waste. There was no time to hesitate. Our eyes and ears were focused on the needs of our people. Our resilience is the product of that singular focus,” she said.
“We can only prepare, to always be prepared. Some call it resilience, and some call it excellence,” she added.
Good governance has played a key role under Belmonte’s administration to be able to maintain a robust mechanism in the delivery of all programs and services uninterrupted, despite the challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of the push for a people centric-governance, Belmonte strengthened the Quezon City People’s Council, where around 4,055 civil society organizations were accredited to help plan and implement various programs and services.
The Quezon City local government earlier received the Seal of Good Local Governance from the Department of the Interior and Local Government.
It also earned a Hall of Fame award from the Department of Finance-Bureau of Local Government Finance (DOF-BLGF) in terms of local revenue generation and obtained the Highest Audit Rating from the Commission on Audit for the second straight year.