Mabalacat – The Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) awards plaque and marker to Mabalacat City Government as a Re-certified Gender and Development (GAD) Local Learning Hub (LLH) for 2023-2026 and Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) as a GAD LLH for 2023-2026, on May 15, 2023.
Mabalacat City is the first local government unit in Central Luzon to be awarded and re-certified by PCW. This is in connection to the outstanding promotion and implementation of GAD practices that aim to make every program gender-responsive which significantly develops the lives of women and every gender preference in any age.
The city’s gender-responsive program, Early Childhood Care and Development, has notably contributed for building a strong foundation for gender-sensitive Mabalaquenian Kindergarten girls and boys.
“This award is a testament of the LGU’s consistent efforts to be a gender-responsive city. I assure my kabalens that my support in keeping up with this goal will remain strong,” Mayor Crisostomo Garbo said as he received the award and motivated the government officials in his progressive plan.
Mabalacat City has been assessed last January 27, 2022, by the Technical Services and Regional Coordination Division (TSRCD) of the PCW, and it was determined that the city met the requirements for recertification and deserving to receive the award; and be replicated by other LGU’s for our city’s best practices.
Along with Mayor Cris Garbo are Vice Mayor Gerald Aquino, City Councilors Rox Peña, Jerry Magsino, Noel Castro, Cherry Manalo, Doc Cocoy Tiglao, and city administrator Franco Alejo Madlangbayan, department and unit heads, and government employees
Also present are Maria Kristina Josefina G. Balmes – Deputy Executive Director for Operations of the PCW, and PCW delegates: Chief GAD Specialist – Nharleen Santos-Millar, Supervising GAD Specialist – Kim Harold Peji, and Regine Carmelli F. Reyes – GAD Specialist for the Ceremonial and Recertification and Awarding of GAD-Local Learning Hub Makers: ECCD Program.
