Anti-Hunger Mitigation Program (AHMP)

October 24, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized - Comment

DILG advocates the government’s Anti-Hunger Mitigation Program (AHMP) to local governments in the region. The program is being spearheaded by the Department of Education and the Department of Social Welfare and Development, and the National Nutrition Council with the support of other agencies.

In Region VI, the provinces of Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Iloilo and Negros Occidental are beneficiaries of this program. Only Antique belongs to Priority 2 areas. To date, regional and provincial technical working groups cooperate to implement the program which provides rice allowance to Grade I pupils of public schools in target municipalities. It also encourages the establishment of Gulayan sa Paaralan which serves as the model garden of the community.

MIGEDC Focus For Action: Presentation by Dr. Gary Davidson and Beate Bowron

October 24, 2008 - Posted in News - Comment

Presentation by Dr. Gary Davidson and Beate Bowron (Canadian Urban Institute) consultants.

CUI Urban and Regional Planning Program
Iloilo, September 7 – 16, 2008

Beate Bowron, FCIP, RPP, former Director of
Community Planning, City of Toronto

Dr. Gary Davidson, FCIP, RPP, former Director of
Planning and Development, County of Huron

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MIGEDC Focus For Action: Presentation by Gary and Beate (PDF)

Benchmarking workshop seen to enhance provincial operations

October 2, 2008 - Posted in Events, News - Comment

DILG conducted a “Workshop on Benchmarking for Excellence in Provincial Operations” in Iloilo City on September 23-25, 2008, Sarabia Manor Hotel, with the aim of coming up with a proposal for new structure of field operations at the provincial level including operating and administrative policies and procedures of the team/cluster approach of program and project implementation and service delivery, coming up with an Action Agenda for the proposal geared towards excellence in provincial operations, organization and management, and propose HRD programs or alternative mode of capacitating technical/field personnel pinpointing distinct specialization on the areas of local legislation, CDP preparation, SLGR diagnosis for capacity intervention, revenue generation, and others.

It aims to generate excellence and better accomplishments among regions through reconfiguring their provincial and field operations, hence, the need to consolidate and study the strategies and approaches for the Department to come up with a model one and adopt it as a policy.

There were a total of 18 participants composed of 10 Provincial Directors, 5 OIC Provincial Directors, 1 Division Chief, 1 Assistant Division Chief, and 1 Regional Information Officer.

During his keynote address, Assistant Secretary for Regional Operations and concurrent Asec. for Plans and Operations Eubert F. Gutierrez emphasized on the need to develop the competencies of field officers to the maximum level in order to ensure that the DILG performs at its peak at all times.

ASec. Gutierrez reminded that the DILG organization should be people-centered, as the quality and capacity of the personnel therein is one important capital for delivery of the department’s services. He challenged the participants to continue the dynamisn, to be human and to be liberal. Owing to his long stay in the department, ASec. Gutierrez said that he wants to assist the SILG in the implementation of plans and meeting all challenges that are being posed for the DILG. He lamented that there is a rapid turnover of experts in the Department due to retirement of personnel, therefore the current crop of leaders should be ready to meet those challenges.

He reminded the participants to come up with the structure that shall become part of the Department’s policy, as the results of the workshop shall be incorporated therein. It was important, he said, to come up with results that are dynamic and flexible, improve the structure, as well as define the standard of procedures that are applicable to all regions. /adj