President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has lauded the commitment and participation of the Italian government as a vital partner in development projects in some rural areas in the province of Iloilo.

Speaking at the Monday, December 1 inauguration of the Tinapay ng Bayan project of 15 out-of-school youths in Janiauy town, province of Iloilo, the President said the Italian government assisted the bakery project of the Pag-asa Youth Association of the Philippines (PYAP) of Janiuay with bakery equipment such as oven, refrigerator, baking pans and other tools.

The livelihood and hunger mitigation cooperation project is managed by the OSYs and located inside the Good Samaritan Gawad Kalinga project in Brgy. Sta Rita, Janiuay.

The bakery project is currently making profits in producing more than 1,000 packs of break every day delivered to various school canteens in the municipality of Janiuay. Read more »

Any governmental unit’s reason of existence is the well‐being of its people. The most basic
for their existence would be survival, shelter and security. However, the collage of world
and local situation over time would show that these three basic needs are not afforded
equally to women and men. Such inequality is not borne out of a natural phenomenon but is
brought about by society’s acquired and learned biases that are most often brought about
by biological determinism. Society’s perception that women and men are different has been
largely influenced by women’s capacity to bear child. Such natural and inherent capacity of
women to bear child has been expanded to the expectation that women should rear
children as well. Such responsibility expanded in to a broader domestic cum reproductive
role for women. Read more »

ILOILO CITY – The first commercially viable coal-fired power plant in Western Visayas will be commissioned by the last quarter of 2010 at its site at Brgy. Ingore, La Paz, Iloilo City. .

This was announced by Engr. Adrian Moncada, president of the Global Business Power Corp., proponent of the P16 billion power plant investments during the Power 101 power situationer report conducted by the Iloilo Business Club was April 17, 2009 at the Hotel del Rio here.

Moncada admitted that landfill development is currently ongoing in the 24-hectare site and actual construction will start by July or August this year. Read more »

ILOILO CITY – The Department of Trade & Industry-Iloilo Office, in cooperation with the Iloilo Provincial Government and the Ilonggo Producers Association will hold a One Town One Product (OTOP) Showcase at SM City on 13-19 April 2009. This trade fair is in line with the celebration of Semana sang Iloilo.

A total of 15 Ilonggo exhibitors will participate in the trade fair that showcase specific delicacies and other products locally made but have already captured national acceptance.

Wilhelm Malones, DTI provincial director said that the OTOP Showcase aims to market and promote the local products of different municipalities and cities in Iloilo by accessing wider market area and establishing linkages with potential buyers. For local government units who have joined for the first time, this will be a good opportunity for them to introduce their OTOPs to the market. Read more »

ILOILO CITY – The city government will get some P50 million as its share in the initial partial release of P483 million Paglaum Fund and will be used for the dredging of Dungon Creek in Mandurriao district.

City mayor Jerry P. Treñas said the creek is an important waterway that absorbs surface water during the rainy season and must be rehabilitated and dredged to pave the way for surface water to pass through and go to the Iloilo River.

Rapid urbanization and the emergence of housing villages in the area have constricted the flow of water that led to flashfloods. Super typhoon Frank that occurred last June 21-22, 2009 had flooded for several days the downstream area including those along the diversion road. Read more »

ILOILO CITY – Three successful Ilongga businesswomen shared their experiences in a symposium held by the Gender and Development Focal Point for the DENR men and women employees to inspire them to go on business as part of developing their economic contribution to the government.

The symposium in celebration of the Women’s Month this March was held at the DENR ERDS office last March 9, 2009.

The first speaker was a private food caterer, a nurse by profession, and who had worked abroad as a nurse for 15 years. After realizing her dream of building a house for the family, she eventually quit her flourishing career as head nurse of a prestigious hospital in the Middle East and went home to be with her family to support her agriculturist husband in their farm and to be near her children. Read more…

Public Safety and Security

• Information Dissemination

A.I Fire Prevention Month Celebration
A.2 National Disaster Consciousness Month Celebration
A.3 Crime Prevention Week Celebration (preparation of flyers, posters, etc.)

• Improve Technical Capabilities

B. Services improvement
B.1 Radio communications training attended by committee member agency
B.2 Conduct seminar on Writ of Amparo

• Improve community participation

C.1 Best practices/models in Public Safety and Security (Search for the Best of the year

• Improve Coordination and Networking

D. Coordination and Administration
D.1 Quarterly meetings

Environmental Management Committee

• Creation of LGU’s Environment and Natural Resources Office (MENRO)

Meetings
Trainings/capacity-building for MENRO-designates
Establishment of MENRO as permanent positions Read more »

Urban Partnerships Program-Philippines (UPP-Philippines) Leadership Series.

Download UPPP’s Leadership Series, a learning tool for policy makers to promote understanding of pressing urban issues and encourage policy actions for urban sustainability.

Leadership Series No. 10: Bioregional planning
Leadership Series No. 9: Furnishing the Streets
Leadership Series No. 8: When Public Becomes Private
Leadership Series No. 7: Spokes in the City
Leadership Series No. 6: Urban Waterfronts: The Wave of the Future
Leadership Series No. 5: Breaking Free From the Concrete Prison
Leadership Series No. 4: Walking into a Greener Future
Leadership Series No. 3: The Gospel of Bioregionalism
Leadership Series No. 2: The Evolution of the Jeepney and Transit in Metro Iloilo
Leadership Series No. 1: The New Public Realm and the Sustainable City

Read more »

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

Click link below to download
MIGEDC Focus For Action: Presentation by Gary and Beate (PDF)