ASPAP Partners with LOGODEF for the 2009 KAME Awards

Under its partnership agreement with the Local Government Foundation (LOGODEF) signed in April 2008, the ASPAP Inc. network has been tapped to take the lead in the 2009 Search for the Kondrad Adenauer Medal of Excellence (KAME) Awards. Now on its fifth year, the KAME Award recognizes constructive local government leadership and local government reforms at the provincial, city, municipal and barangay levels. In 1996, it was recognized by the Senate of the Philippines through Resolution No. 68, making it the only foreign award for local governments in the Philippines.

The KAME Award is being pursued by the Kondrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in partnership with LOGODEF, one of the country’s premier institutions promoting decentralization in the Philippines through training, research, recognition and replication of best local government practices and innovations.

For this 2009 KAME Awards, the ASPAP Inc, through its Regional Chapters and lead schools in the region, will work closely with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the various local governance stakeholders in their respective communities, in the process of identifying and selecting excellent local government leaders and local government initiatives and reforms. A Regional Coordinating Committee, also chaired by the ASPAP Chapter, will oversee the regional selection processes and will report directly to a National Search Committee. Awarding of the selected winners will be on December 2009.

Nomination forms can be secured from the LOGODEF, the ASPAP National Office and its designated regional chapters, and all DILG Offices.