The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has given Quezon City good marks in local governance performance in 2011 as one of the country’s highly urbanized cities.  
Based on the results of DILG’s local governance performance management system, QC has obtained an overall performance rating of 4.71 percent last year, improving by at least 3 percent the city’s 2010 performance rating, which was recorded at 4.57 percent. In his report to Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista, DILG-QC Director Juan Jovian Ingeniero noted the increase in the city’s performance rating was generated from improved delivery of basic public services in five key areas, namely, valuing fundamentals of good governance, administrative governance, social governance, economic governance and environmental governance.
The DILG gave the local government an excellent rating for environmental governance for having strictly implemented waste segregation in the city’s 142 barangays and even in the QC Hall.
The inclusion of QC in the World Bank list of Eco2 Cities (Ecological Cities as Economic Cities) also contributed to the city’s positive rating, the DILG report said.
It also reported that QC’s strengths were also evident in the delivery of basic social services to its residents for maintaining functional health and school boards and keeping an updated database for the housing sector.      
For valuing fundamentals of good governance, Quezon City received good marks for promoting transparency in government operations and in maintaining a functional feedback mechanism. Arlie O. Calalo