EFFECTIVE partnership between the local government unit and civil society is the common thread that binds all the winning programs of the province of Oriental Negros.

The province bags the Award for Continuing Excellence (ACE), the top recognition in the Gawad Galing Pook, for displaying and sustaining excellence in fields where other LGUs fear to tread. These include agriculture, primary healthcare services, and coastal resource management.

Oriental Negros is particularly known for successfully addressing the problems brought about by the devolution of healthcare services. Its winning programs are community-based and brought basic services even to underserved areas such as the hinterlands and where insurgency problems persist. This is a mean feat considering that the province covers such as vast land area compoised of 20 municipalities, five cities and 557 barangays.

Oriental Negros is now considered a hub for convergence of empowering local governance programs, and for dynamic local leaders even in the barangay level.

Oriental Negros has been recognized in the Gawad Galing Pook for the following programs:

Top Ten Outstanding Programs

• (2005) Gulayan at Palaisdaan Alay sa Kabataan
• (2004) Barangay Agricultural Development Center
• (2003) Inter LGU-NGO Partnership in Healthcare Delivery
• (1995) Community Primary Hospital/ Community-Based Resource Management