50 Baguio barangays get 2024 Local Governance Seal

Fifty barangays in the city copped the prestigious Seal of Good Local Governance for Barangays (SGLGB) affirming the city’s improving governance standards.

The model barangays were awarded during the Regional Celebration of the 34th Local Government Month held on October 24, 2025, at the Newtown Plaza Hotel with the theme, “Transforming Governance, Empowering Futures.”

The SGLGB is awarded to barangays that have demonstrated outstanding performance in areas of financial administration, disaster preparedness, social protection, peace and order, environmental management, and business friendliness and competitiveness.

The Dept. of the Interior and Local Government Baguio Field Office under City Director Millicent Carino said the 50 city barangays were among the 192 barangays in the Cordillera Administrative Region and the 3,283 barangays nationwide that qualified for the SGLGB.

Only 8 percent of the total 41,610 barangays nationwide made the cut, according to the DILG Baguio.

“Notably, 40 percent of Baguio City’s barangays successfully passed the assessment, surpassing the 8 percent national passing rate by 32 percent,” the DILG Baguio emphasized.

The barangay awardees are:

• Barangay Alfonso Tabora
• Barangay Andres Bonifacio
• Barangay Atok Trail
• Barangay Aurora Hill Proper
• Barangay AZKCO
• Barangay Bakakeng Central
• Barangay Camdas Subdivision
• Barangay Camp 7
• Barangay Camp Allen
• Barangay City Camp Central
• Barangay City Camp Proper
• Barangay Country Club Village
• Barangay Dominican Hill-Mirador
• Barangay East Bayan Park
• Barangay Engineer’s Hill
• Barangay Fairview Village
• Barangay Fort Del Pilar
• Barangay Hillside
• Barangay Holy Ghost Extension
• Barangay Honeymoon
• Barangay Imelda Village
• Barangay Kabayanihan
• Barangay Kias
• Barangay Legarda-Burnham-Kisad
• Barangay Loakan Liwanag
• Barangay Loakan Proper
• Barangay Lourdes Proper Subdivision
• Barangay Lourdes Subdivision Extension
• Barangay Lower Lourdes Subdivision
• Barangay Lower Quirino Hill
• Barangay Lower Rock Quarry
• Barangay Magsaysay Private Road
• Barangay Middle Quirino Hill
• Barangay Middle Rock Quarry
• Barangay MRR-Queen of Peace
• Barangay Palma-Urbano
• Barangay Poliwes
• Barangay San Antonio Village
• Barangay San Roque Village
• Barangay San Vicente
• Barangay Santo Tomas Proper
• Barangay Scout Barrio
• Barangay South Drive
• Barangay Teodora Alonzo
• Barangay Trancoville
• Barangay Upper Market Subdivision
• Barangay Upper Quezon Hill
• Barangay Upper Quirino-Magsaysay
• Barangay Upper Rock Quarry
• Barangay West Quirino Hill

Both Carino and Mayor Benjamin Magalong toasted the barangays for their “unwavering dedication to transparency, accountability and service that uplifts the city’s governance standards.” – Aileen P. Refuerzo