DTI launches SME Roving Academy, signs MOA with
partners
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, July 31 (PIA) -- Some 300 people,
comprising representatives from government agencies, local government units of
Caraga, business sector, and persons with disabilities (PWDs) gathered on
Tuesday at the Almont Hotel’s Inland Resort here and witnessed the launching of
Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Roving Academy (SRA) of the Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI).
Jerry Clavesillas of DTI, representing DTI USec.
Zenaida Maglaya, along with DTI-Caraga officials led by Regional Director
Brielgo Pagaran and partners from different sectors signed the memorandum of
agreement (MOA).
The MOA will provide the four SME
"Bizniz" kiosks to each of the following: 1) PWDs Regional
Association through its president Delfin Antallan; 2) Dinagat Islands through
provincial administrator Atty. Millard Tawakal; 3) Butuan ProFood through its
head, Roderico Cane; and 4) Tourism Industry Cluster through its officers.
Clavesillas said the DTI, in partnership with
the local government units, chamber of commerce, academe, financial
institutions, trade and industry associations and other government and
non-government organizations facilitates not only the learning stages but also
other support services to assist SMEs to grow from micro into small to medium
and large should they desire to do so.
“The DTI's Small and Medium Enterprise Roving
Academy is a continuous learning program for the development of micro, small
and medium enterprise to become competitive in the domestic and international
(global) markets,” said Clavesillas.
The SRA has seven learning stages namely: 1)
start-up and capability building; 2) market awareness; 3) market readiness; 4)
export readiness; 5) export market entry; 6) export sustainability; and 7)
export expansion.
Clavesillas added that this program is an
integration of different government agencies’ services to enhance and sustain
the entrepreneurs’ businesses and provide them the necessary specific skills
training. “The department has a database of all the registered SMEs in the
provinces nationwide and the department will track them to assess their
progress after having availed any services from our partners,” he said.
Meanwhile, Pagaran called on to Caraganons who
are into business to take this opportunity to have their businesses registered
at the DTI’s SME Roving Academy and be part of the growing economy of the
country. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
PWDs avail SME Roving Academy’s technology
demonstrations, specialized trainings of DTI
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, July 31 (PIA) – Some 35 persons
with disabilities (PWDs) have attended a series of technology demonstrations
and specialized trainings by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Caraga
as the first enrolees under the agency’s Small and Medium Enterprise Roving Academy
(SRA) program.
The three-part training is conducted in
cooperation with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and
San Miguel Mills, Inc.
The sessions include the following: 1) Skills
Training on Baking (Black Forest Bread, Cheese Stick Bread, Sweet Savory Bread
and Ube Loaf); 2) Product Pricing and Costing to allow participants to
effectively compute the costs of their products and come up with the reasonable
and competitive prices; and 3) Product Packaging and Labeling to teach participants
the market trends in packaging and labeling that they can apply on their own
products.
DTI-Caraga Regional Director Brielgo Pagaran,
said the activity was also in support to the 35th National Disability
Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Week celebration this month of July with
the theme “Building and Inclusive and Non-Handicapping Environment for Persons
with Disabilities” which aims for the effective integration of PWDs into the
mainstream of society.
The SRA is one of the flagship programs of the
department, conceptualized to be a continuous learning program for the
development of micro, small and medium enterprises to become competitive in the
domestic and international (global) markets. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
DTI to launch ‘Shared Service Facilities’
Project in Butuan
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, July 31 (PIA) -- In time for the
63rd Adlaw Hong Butuan celebration, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
Caraga will be launching the "Shared Service Facilities" (SSF)
Project on August 2 at the Almont Hotel’s Inland Resort, this city.
The project, according to DTI-Caraga Regional
Director Brielgo Pagaran, aims to improve the quality and productivity of
microenterprises and small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMSEs) by addressing
the gaps and bottlenecks in the value chain of priority industry clusters through
the provision of processing machines/equipment for their common use.
“The Shared Service Facilities Project will
enhance the competitiveness of the priority industry clusters through the use
of quality and productivity enhancing machinery and equipment and will develop
priority and market-driven industries in support to the National Industry
Cluster Capacity Enhancement Program,” Pagaran said.
In this project, the department will provide
machines/equipment to microenterprises and SMEs in identified industry clusters
to give them access to technologies needed to improve productivity and product
quality. Machines/equipment will include, but not limited to, packaging
machines, retort, kiln driers, dye vats, slicers, thickness planners, and hand
blooms.
Pagaran also relayed that as to the monitoring
and evaluation of the project, an assessment of its impact will be undertaken
using the following indicators: 1) number of microenterprises and SMEs
assisted; 2) number of jobs generated; 3) sales generated; and 4) investments
generated.
Among the criteria for identification of SSF,
the proposed facility must address processing and manufacturing gaps or
bottlenecks of the industry cluster brought about by any of the following:
absence of the needed facility; lack of capacity of an existing facility; and
cost of services of an existing facility is not afforfable. It also has an
eligible cooperator.
Some local officials, government employees, and
partner stakeholders from the non-government organizations and business sector
are expected to grace the launching. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
DENR Caraga reports reduction of illegal logging
in the region
By Johny S. Natad
BUTUAN CITY, July 31 (PIA) -- Illegal logging
activities in Caraga region had declined with identified hot spots down to 17
from 34, an official of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
in Region 13 said.
DENR Caraga Regional Executive Director Nonito
Tamayo said this may be attributed to the agency's intensive anti-illegal
campaign as mandated in Executive Order 23.
“The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task
Force (PAOCTF) has acknowledged and congratulated the DENR Caraga in its
anti-illegal logging campaign during an evaluation recently made this year for
reducing the illegal logging incident by 70 percent in the region,” Tamayo told
the Butuan City Peace and Order Council in a meeting on July 26.
Tamayo added that the Philippine National
Policed and the military forces had provided support for the DENR's intensive
anti-illegal logging campaign.
Confiscated forest products are available for
utilization by any interested government agencies upon formal request to the
DENR, Tamayo said.
He said that the DENR Caraga had donated to
Butuan City government 138,211.72 board feet of confiscated lumber worth some
P3.5 million. (FEA/JSN/PIA-Caraga)
Butuan to prohibit overloaded trucks in the city
By Johny S. Natad
BUTUAN CITY, July 31 (PIA) -- The Butuan City
Peace and Order Council (CPOC) recently passed a resolution requesting the
Sangguniang Panglungsod (SP) to adopt an ordinance discouraging and forbidding
overloaded vehicles of forest and agriculture products in major thoroughfares
of the city.
The said resolution also aims to regulate
transportation of agricultural and forest products within the city to ensure
the safety of the general public.
Councilor Jaime M. Cembrano Jr., chairman of the
Police and Public Order Committee, disclosed that there are cases where
transport of products had caused major accidents.
He added that overloaded vehicles is a major
factor in the early deterioration of national highways.
“The DPWH in partnership with DOTC through LTO and
PNP implements the provision of RA 8794 with weighbridge stations and portable
weighing machines at strategic locations along national roads to verify
overloaded vehicles and impose the corresponding penalty for violators to
regulate overloading,” DPWH Caraga assistant chief for Maintenance Division
Nemelardo Bariquit.
The council approved the passage of said
resolution to be furnished to the 13th Sangguniang Panglungsod for ratification
or amendment of related existing city ordinance. (PIA-Caraga)
Caraga RPOC formulates roadmap for peace
By Johny S. Natad
BUTUAN CITY, July 31 (PIA) -- The Regional Peace
and Order Council (RPOC) of Caraga is crafting a peace road map for the region.
RPOC Chair and Butuan City Mayor Ferdinand
Amante Jr, during the RPOC meeting held July 30, said there is a need to create
a peace road map for the region so that development programs the region had
already attained can be secured.
“We must establish peace and security in our
region. We hope the progress our region has presently achieved will not be
affected by the recent terrorist attack in Cagayan de Oro and nearby regions,”
Amante said.
It was learned that the Deutsche Gesellschaft
fΓΌr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Society for International Cooperation
or GIZ) of the German Federal Government through its Conflict Sensitive
Resource and Asset Management (Coseram) has been assisting the formulation of
the Caraga peace road map.
During the meeting, GIZ senior advisor Irene
dela Torre presented the overall objective and rationale of the role of GIZ and
RPOC on the formulation of the region’s peace road map, “to enable the RPOC to
give meaning to its mandate and to do beyond it.”
GIZ consultant Diosita Andot who talked on
“Peace and Order beyond Crime and Insurgency” said the council needs to expose
to relevant lenses for them to properly reflect about the region’s peace and
order condition.
Andot held the proposition that, “the POC may
enhance their mandate and functions towards achievement of peace and
development and fulfillment of human security.”
Meanwhile, GIZ consultant Rolando Asunsion
revealed that a preliminary result of the Caraga Regional Situational Analysis
was already conducted which aimed to gather information and generate in-depth
assessment on the current conditions pertaining to peace and order and security
in the region and its component province and city. “It also intended to assess
the internal organizational arrangement of the RPOC and the administrative
hierarchy of POCs from the national down to the community level,” he said.
Asuncion said that the regional situational
analysis is part of the preparatory step towards the development of a regional
peace and development framework and strategic plan. (PIA-Caraga)
Cebuano news: Presidente Aquino mimando sa mga
awtorisadong ahensya nga makig-alayon sa COMELEC sa pagseguro sa malinawon nga
piniliay sa Barangay ug SK
Ni Nida Grace B. Tranquilan
MANILA, Hulyo 31 (PIA) – Si Presidente Benigno
S. Aquino III mimando sa mga ahensyang tigpahamtang sa balaod ug laing mga
ahensya nga dunay kalambigitan nga makig-alayon ug mokooperar sa Commission on
Election (COMELEC) sa pagseguro sa gawasnon, hapsay, ligdong, malinawon ug
katohuan nga gidungan nga piniliay sa Barangay ug Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) sa
Oktubre 28.
Sumala pa sa taho, ang deriktiba gipagawas ubos
sa kaligdong sa Memorandum Order numero 56 nga gilagdaan ni Secretary Paquito
N. Ochoa Jr. niadtong Hulyo 23.
Ang COMELEC, pinaage sa Resolusyon Numero 9731
(s.2013), mipalig-on sa pag-hangyo sa consensus ni Presidente sa pagpadala sa
mga Armadong Kusog sa Pilipinas (Armed Forces of the Philippines), Philippine
National Police (PNP), ug uban pang awtorisadong ahensya, pagkonekta sa
gidungan nga piniliay sa Barangay ug Sangguniang Kabataan.
“Pinasubay sa Section 2(4), Artikulo IX-C sa
Konstitusyon, ang COMELEC dunay gahum sa pag-deputize, uban sa kasabutan sa
Presidente, mga ahensya nga tigpahamtang sa balaod ug mga instrumentalites sa
gobyerno, lakip na ang Armadong Kusog sa Pilipinas, sa ekslusibong katuyoan nga
maseguro ang gawasnon, hapsay, ligdong, malinawon ug katohuan nga gidungan nga
piniliay,” ("Pursuant to Section 2 (4), Article IX-C of the Constitution,
the Comelec is empowered to deputize, with the concurrence of the President,
law enforcement agencies and instrumentalities of the Government, including the
Armed Forces of the Philippines, for the exclusive purpose of ensuring free,
orderly, honest, peaceful, and credible elections,") kini sumala pa sa
nahitala memorandum.
Ang Chief Executive miuyon sa COMELEC Resolution
No. 9731, nga mi-deputize sa AFP, PNP ug uban pang tigpahamtang sa balaod nga
mga ahensiya, sa pag asister sa COMELEC nga maseguro ang gawasnon, hapsay,
ligdong, malinawon ug katohuan ang pagpahigayon sa piniliay sa Oktubre.
Kani nga nga kamanduan sumala pa sa taho,
gilayon i-emposar na. (NGBT/PND/PIA Surigao del Sur)
Cebuano news: DSWD migahin P12.7-M pondo sa
emerhensiyang paghumpay alang sa mga biktima sa baha sa Mindanao
Ni Nida Grace B. Tranquilan
MANILA, Hulyo 31 (PIA) - Ang Department of
Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) migahin ug P12.7 milyones kantidad nga
pondo alang sa emerhensiyang pagpahumpay sa mga biktima sa baha nga miigo sa
Mindanao gumikan sa kusog nga ulan, kini ang gibutyag nga pamahayag sa
Malakanyang niadtong Martes.
Sa usa ka press-briefing nga gipahigayon didto
sa Malakanyang, si Deputy Spokesperson Abigail Valte miingon nga ang DSWD usab
mihimo na ug pakig-alayon sa lokal nga panggamhanan kaabag sa Mindanao sa
pagdugang sa technical assistance and resource augmentation (TARA) nga gikinahanglan
sa mga biktima.
Sumala pa sa taho nga ang kusog nga ulan nga
mibuhos sa mga probinsiya sa Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat ug Cotabato City
bag-ohay pa lamang ug miresulta sa baha ug hinungdan sa pagpamakwit mokabat sa
gibanabana nga 50,000 ka mga residente gikan sa ilahang tagsa tagsa ka mga
panimalay.
“Sumala sa impormasyon namo, nga ang bando sa
DSWD nakig-alayon na sa ilahang mga kaabag sa lokal nga panggamhanan sa mga
unsang paghangyo alang sa teknikal nga hinabang ug pundo dugang kon ginatawag
nga TARA,” (“The information that we have is that all DSWD teams are already in
close coordination with their local counterparts for any request for technical
assistance and resource augmentation or what we call the TARA,”), sulti ni
Valte.
“Ang DSWD duna nay pangdugtongan nga P12.7
milyones kantidad sa emerhensiyang pagpahumpay nga pundo sinakop sa standby
funds, family food packs ug uban pang mga gi-itemang mga pagkaon ug dili-
pagkaon nga butang,” (“The DSWD has already prepositioned P12.70-million worth
of emergency relief resources consisting of standby funds, of family food
packs, and other food items and other non-food items,”) dugang pa niya.
Si Valte mitumbok sa nasyonal nga panggamhanan
nga milihok na isip pagdugang sa DSWD ug lokal nga panggamhanan sa pag-andam ug
dugang nga mga pagkaon nga gibangan kon “food packs” alang sa mga residente sa
apektadong lugar.
“Ang nasyonal nga panggamhanan miandam sa
pagdugang ug 6,000 ka mga pagkaon nga gibangan kon “food packs” alang sa
DSWD-ARMM ug si DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman nitugot sa pag pagawas sa dugang
30,000 ka mga pagkaon ng gibangan alang sa Maguindanao ug sa Sarangani,” (“The
national government has provided an augmentation of 6,000 food packs for
DSWD-ARMM (Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao) and that DSWD Secretary Dinky
Soliman has approved the release of additional 30,000 food packs for
Maguindanao and for Sarangani,”) sumala pa ni Valte. (NGBT/ PND/PIA-Surigao del
Sur)
