Osan Wins Excellence Award at National Mayors' Manifesto Competition for Second Consecutive Year

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Lee Suwon] Osan City announced on the 6th that it won the excellence award at the '2024 National Mayors' Manifesto Best Practice Competition' held recently.

At the competition held on the 31st at Inje University in Gimhae, Gyeongnam Province, Osan City presented a case study titled 'Public-Private Partnership Project to Escape Social Isolation - Together ON, Hope ON, Connecting Hearts and Communities.'

The Together ON, Hope ON Project presented by the city is a program that supports socially isolated households through the establishment of public-private partnership governance.

In relation to this, the city provided diverse welfare services to 427 households through support for care systems and network formation in both public and private sectors.

In particular, the program was recognized for its excellence, winning a total of five awards including the grand prize in the 'visiting healthcare and welfare services provision' category (2023 Regional Welfare Evaluation) by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the excellence award in the 'Hope Welfare Support Group operation' category.

Meanwhile, the competition was held under the theme 'Rewriting Local Governance, Resilience' with the participation of 148 cities and districts nationwide. A total of 186 cases were presented across seven fields including job creation and employment environment improvement, mitigation of social inequality, mitigation of economic inequality, response to demographic structure changes, climate and environment-ecology, local culture revitalization, and community strengthening.

Mayor Lee Gwon-jae stated, "I am grateful that our Osan is being evaluated as a model city in various aspects, including achieving the highest SA grade in the evaluation of municipal mayors' pledge fulfillment and information disclosure in the 8th mayoral term's second year, along with this excellence case competition," adding, "We will continue to pursue administration that focuses solely on citizens."