The
Municipality of San Jose de Buenavista is vying for its second Galing Pook Ten
Outstanding Local Governance Programs. The Municipality’s Farmville project was
shortlisted for site validation in this year’s national search for innovative
practices of local government units.
In 1999, San Jose de Buenavista
already won the award for its Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) scheme in rebuilding
its town public market -- now San Jose Business Park, razed by fire.
This 2015, Mayor Rony L.
Molina is hopeful that San Jose de Buenavista will clinch another Galing Pook
Award with Farmville. Farmville is
an integrated farm owned and managed by the local government unit inspired by a
popular farming simulation game on a popular social media networking platform. The project aims to establish an
environment-friendly integrated model farm which shall serve as a show window
for technology transfer to encourage take up of modern farming techniques and
make farming relevant to the young generation.
Galing Pook Award is a program that
recognizes innovation and excellence in local governance. Selection of winners is based on positive results and impact, promotion of people’s participation
and empowerment, innovation, transferability and sustainability, and efficacy
of service delivery.
Site validation is on June 23-24,
2015.
