The Office of the President issued Executive Order No. 09 reinstating the Cabinet Assistance System (CAS) which shall be responsible for handling priority areas or subjects that require special and immediate attention as identified and recommended by the Department Secretaries.

During the 35th CAS meeting, it was recommended and proposed that the Cabinet Meetings will be held outside Metro Manila. To facilitate the regional discussions, the NEDA and DILG were tasked to identify strategic and priority local issues for discussions of the CAS and for eventual elevations to the Cabinet.

“The SGLG is a game-changer for local government units…”

 This is how Undersecretary for Local Government Marivel C. Sacendoncillo, CESO III, described the relevance of the SGLA in her inspirational message during the opening day of the 2019 Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) National Orientation recently.

She added that the SGLG has ‘scaled up the actions’ of the LGUs and that “it is the system that the DILG can be proud of.”  She also added, “This is the system that allows us, the DILG, to exactly perform our mandate.”