Galing Pook Foundation calls upon interested local government units (provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays) to submit your application for the Galing Pook Awards 2008. Partners, non-government organizations, private organizations, or individuals are also called upon to encourage LGUs with innovative practices to submit their applications. Application forms may be downloaded here.

The deadline for submission of applications is on June 30, 2008.

The 2007 Galing Pook winners were awarded last Thursday, February 28, by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in a ceremony in Malacañan.

A dinner reception to celebrate innovation and excellence in local governance was held in the evening of the same day at the Bulwagan ng Diwang Pilipino, Development Bank of the Philippines in Makati City, to honor the finalists and the ten awardees.

The Winners | 2007 Souvenir Program

Here you will find information on best practices in Philippine local governance, which the foundation has collected through its annual awards program.

Help us enrich this resource pool by sharing your exemplary local governance programs. We invite all Philippine provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays to apply to the GALING POOK AWARDS. Local governance partners from the national government agencies, private/business sector, academe, non-government organizations, and donor agencies are also welcome to nominate the efforts of their supported LGUs.

Sections of this website are also devoted to the foundation’s work in the replication of its awarded best practices through collaborative partnerships and its various knowledge products.