The 2013 EXCELL AWARDEE LGUs in Western Visayas, Phillipines

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) have launch the search for the best performing LGUs among the Municipality and City categories annually. This is to motivate LGUs in the exercise for excellence in there local governance. In Western Visayas Region VI, there are sixteen cities who join the search 2013 and the top four (4) cities who were qualified for the Regional Search for Excellence Awards and these are the Cities of San Carlos, Sagay, Bago, and Kabankalan. The awarding of winners were done on December 5, 2013 at 2:pm in the Nature's Village Hotel, Talisay City, Negros Occidental, and the result were as follows;

Super Typhoon YOLANDA

The super typhoon (Haiyan- International code) Yolanda devastated the Visayas area in the Philippines on October 7 to 8, 2013 where areas of Samar, Leyte, North Negros, Iloilo, Capiz, Antique, and Aklan Provinces heavily affected thereby losing lives, crops, and properties of more than 10,000 inhabitants all throughout.The incident resulted to a complicated life situation, shortage of  foods, environmental pollutions, lose of duelings, human habitation is greatly altered, lost of family members, friends and relatives, to include animals and livelihood projects income sources that causes the down trend of the economy in those affected areas. They needed our concern and assistance to rebuild there lives and regain there direction for future socio-economic development and growth.( see the video below)
 

KAHIL-ICAMC COASTAL ZONING 2013

The KAHIL-ICAMC is a coastal alliance organization consisting of the three local government units in the southern part of Negros Occidental, Philippines. The three LGUs are the City of Kabankalan, City of Himamaylan, and the Municipality of Ilog Negros Occidental. They form into an alliance due to there conflicting municipal-city waters were territorial water boundaries overlapped each other. This problem was resolved by establishing the common waters under the concept of Integrated Coastal Area Management Council (ICAMC). The three member LGUs as a council agreed upon to adopt a unified fisheries ordinance in order to manage there respective coastal and marine resources effectively by designing there respective Coastal Fisheries Resources Management Plan (CFRMP). One of the most salient features in area management in order to establish order of its resources is to zonify the coastal and marine resources for effective uses of each LGUs. (see coastal map)