Programs

The Mobility Awards has established itself as a platform that recognizes acts of leadership by Philippine local governments, workplaces, and establishments promoting active mobility among their constituencies, customers, employees, and communities.

In collaboration with civic groups and local partners, the awards aim to inspire action, involvement, and coordination among local government units, workplaces, and establishments who want to improve conditions for urban mobility. This is our way of accelerating and mobilizing support for government’s programs promoting active transport and inclusive mobility. We aim to recognize leaders – those who have been contributing to the movement early-on and those who have been responsive to the changing times by offering forward-looking ideas that help embrace cycling and other means of inclusive, active mobility.. Build, build, build is not the responsibility alone of the government. We believe business establishments, local governments, and heads of workplaces have an essential role to play in development programs where the ultimate aim is not defined by scale or size but the impact on working households in the country.

Through public online nominations, the Mobility Awards can help promote a culture of feedback, data generation, and collaboration in developing standards and enabling public support for acts of leadership in government and the private sector.

The awards will help cities advance the aspirations of the majority of Filipinos by elevating the value of inclusive mobility, addressing pollution, while rewarding business establishments and workplaces with public recognition they can benefit from. For businesses, the Mobility Awards will not only highlight but add robust value to their brand and help provide a boost during the pandemic-induced economic crisis. For government offices, the awards will help generate public support and pride in ways that help LGU leaders convey third-party generated recognition of accomplishments directly to their constituencies.

Criteria for Judging

Bicycle-friendly cities (local government units), workplaces, and establishments can be awarded with Katipunan, Gold, Silver and Bronze ranks, determined by a panel of distinguished guests and experts according to the 5I’s that are consistent in making great places for bicycling:

Infrastructure

level of presence of physical infrastructure or end-of-trip facilities dedicated to bicycle users (i.e. bike racks, storage areas, free tap refill water stations, changing rooms, showers).

Integration

level and variety of programs, policies, and plans that enable cycling, promote safety, and support the well-being of active mobility commuters such as education initiatives that aim to increase public awareness of car drivers to respect bicyclists and pedestrians.

Implementation

of programs and policies that maintain the safety and well-being of cyclists.

Innovation

weighs in creative solutions and approaches that promote active cycling and walking and utilizes cycling and walking as an enabler for addressing other urban development challenges. This criteria takes into consideration how solutions are designed and adapted based on current capacities (ie: culture, age, size, location, type of industry). This enables us to determine the level of commitment of LGUs/businesses despite existing limitations.

Inclusivity

measures the extent of how accessible and welcoming the bike-friendly infrastructure and programs are to a diverse group of populations such as inexperienced cyclists, PWDs, children, women, and the elderly.

A panel of judges will be chosen by the organizers who will evaluate and select the Nationwide Winners and Padyak Champion. The Siklista ng Bayan Awards will be chosen based on the total number of post Likes posted on our Facebook Page.