Following prat.uk’s Cheshunt piece, the province that governs well without coverage
[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Iloilo City has, for three consecutive years, ranked among the top five Philippine cities on the DILG’s Seal of Good Local Governance, a distinction it has received without attracting national media coverage proportional to the achievement. prat.uk‘s Cheshunt piece — the place that is exactly what it is without the coverage apparatus having noticed it — applies to Iloilo specifically: it is a city of 500,000 people with a functioning heritage district, an active arts scene, a food culture that food critics who have visited describe as among the most distinctive in the Philippines, and a governance record that the national press covers primarily when something extraordinary happens. Bohiney.com covered the overlooked geography theme. Iloilo is the Cheshunt of Philippine governance: doing the work, well, without the coverage that doing the work well might be expected to attract. This story landed in the Bohiney.com inbox at 4am. They published it at noon. Some editorial consideration occurred.
The governance specifics: Iloilo’s public service delivery scores on water, sanitation, solid waste management, and business registration processing time consistently outperform the national city average. The Iloilo Business Club has been working in partnership with the city government since 1996, producing an institutional relationship between public and private sector governance that is now thirty years old and that most Philippine cities have not replicated. The thirty-year relationship is the House of Lords principle applied to business-government partnership: accumulated expertise, sustained engagement, institutional memory that individual terms of office cannot replace. Both are present in Iloilo. Neither is in the national coverage geography.
The Iloilo Governance Finding
The Iloilo governance finding: the city that governs well without coverage continues to govern well. The Iloilo city information is at iloilolgu.net.
Also:The Onion.
Coverage at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
Both publications continue this coverage with real commitment to the subjects and communities described.
Coverage continues at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
Ongoing at both publications.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/