Vol 5
Issue 51
In this Issue WESTERN VISAYAS
Press conference with DAR 6 Director Stephen Leonidas, Iloilo PARO Enrique Paderes and PIA 6 Director Janet Mesa at Madison Plaza Hotel, Iloilo City, December 22.
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CENTRAL VISAYAS
Cebu Blogging Community Core Leader Mary Tinio Narvasa talks on Blogging 101: A Platform for Government Communications during CAOCAMPIO‟ s Year End Program Accomplishment Review and 2015 Communication Planning. (vvv/PIA Cebu)
December 21 - 27, 2015
Published by: PIA 6, 7 & 8
Three WV establishments get Bagwis award Leonard T. Pineda I ILOILO CITY, December 21 (PIA) --The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-6 awarded three establishments in Western Visayas for upholding the rights of consumers while practicing responsible business where consumers get the best value for their money. Bagwis Award, formerly known as DTI Certified Establishment, is awarded to commercial establishments that promote and foster the highest level of business ethics and upholds a fair and honest marketplace through voluntary self-regulation and service excellence. Silver Bagwis Seals were conferred to Isuzu Iloilo Corporation in Mandurriao, Iloilo City, Metro Pacific Construction Supply in Iloilo City, and Ponce Automobile Corporation (Nissan Bacolod) in Bacolod City. One component for the establishment is the setting up of a sustainable Consumer Welfare Desk (CWD) or an equivalent customer relations office at the mall that will provide information to consumers and serve as a venue for the speedy resolution of consumer complaints. DTI-6 OIC-Regional Director Rebecca M. Rascon noted that business establishments have been starting to upgrade themselves in order to provide a conducive and favorable environment to the consumers. Currently, there are already 11 bronze awards, eight silver awards, and four gold awards issued by DTI-6 to business establishments in the region, aside from the 25 gold awards to corporate/commercial establishments here that were issued by the head office. The program is open to all commercial establishments falling under the following categories: Category I – Supermarkets; Category II - Department Stores and Specialty Stores; Category III - Appliance Centers; Category IV - Hardware Stores; and Category V - DTI Accredited Service and Repair Shops. The award is classified into bronze, silver and gold. For the bronze seal, establishments must comply
with Fair Trade Laws (FTLs) such as the Consumer Act, Price Act, Price Tag and install the Consumer Welfare Desks or an equivalent customer relations office inside the mall. The silver seal involves additional criteria to meet such as compliance with social responsibilities that include sound purchasing policy, good working relationship with the government by participating in the national or local government programs such as price stabilization and livelihood programs. For the gold seal, establishments must meet the additional requirement of ISO 9001/Quality Management System (QMS) compliance. (JCM/LTP/PIA-Iloilo)
Representatives from Ponce Automobile Corporation-Nissan Bacolod (2nd from left), Metro Pacific Construction Supply (3rd and 4th from left), and Isuzu Iloilo Corporation (1st and 2nd from right) show their Bagwis Seals award bestowed by the Department of Trade and Industry-6 during an awarding ceremony held Dec. 18, at DTI-6 Regional Office. The award is given to commercial establishments that uphold the rights of consumers while practicing responsible business. Also in the photo is DTI-6 Regional Director Rebecca Rascon (1st from right). (LTP/PIA-Iloilo)
PRDP PSO Visayas OKs P16-M worth of livelihood projects in EV
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, December 23 - Many farmers and fisherfolk associations in the region will surely benefit from the enterprise sub- projects recently approved for funding under the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP). DA RFO 8‟s Regional Executive Director Leo P. Caneda said, “Our farmers and fishers have waited for this. More on Region 7, pages 4-5. We need to source out more funds to provide capitalization for the much-needed investments that Also CLICK Here… would open up livelihood opportunities, especially as the region is still under the rehab phase after the typhoon Yolanda.” EASTERN VISAYAS He said that the project (PRDP) has liberalized its requirements under the I-REAP Small Livelihood Project (SLP), which is meant to provide livelihood assistance for the farmers and fisherfolk whose livelihood were affected by calamities. “So far, Region 8 has availed much of the project funds under the SLP compared to other regions in the country. This simply indicates our need for such kind of funding assistance,” he intoned. The newly-approved 15 sub -projects under the SLP were submitted by proponent groups from the Share-A-Love Program in Cooperation with municipalities of Silago, Maasin, and Malitbog, in Southern Philippine National Police with Psupt. Carlito Leyte; Basey, Calbiga, and Sta. Rita, in Samar; San Policarpo D. Abriz @ PNP Quadrangle, Catbalogan City and Quinapondan, Eastern Samar; Allen and San Jose, December 21, 2015. (PIA 8) Northern Samar; Alang- alang and Isabel, Leyte, and; Tacloban City. Technical review for the other 32 proposed small livelihood projects by some experts from the Regional Project Coordination Office-8 and the Project Support Office for Visayas undertaken from December 9 -11, 2015, at the Leyte Park Resort Hotel, in Tacloban City. More on Region 8, pages 6-7. These proposed SLPs submitted were from the local Also CLICK Here... government units of Albuera, Hilongos, Tanauan,
Palompon, Mayorga, Barugo, San Isidro and, Ormoc City, in Leyte; San Ricardo, Padre Burgos, Macrohon, Maasin, Tomas Oppus, Anahawan, Hinunangan, San Juan, Limasawa, Pintuyan, San Francisco, in Southern Leyte; Biliran, Almeria and Naval in Biliran; San Sebastian, Gandara, Basey, and Motiong, Samar; Mondragon, Catarman and Allen, Northern Samar, and Guiuan, Eastern Samar. The livelihood sub- projects proposed ranges from livestock and poultry production, high value crops, organic fertilizers, and root crops production as well as, aqua culture and fisheries. Director Caneda expressed optimism that these sub -projects will be funded before the year ends. “We need to be able to catch –up and submit these proposals with endorsement from the Regional Project Advisory Board to possibly get the No Objection Letter (NOL) before the end of December 2015,” Director Caneda said. Under the PRDP, a NOL when issued either by the Project Support, the National Project Coordination Office or the World Bank, depending on the amount involved for any proposed sub-project positively signals that it is approved for funding and that, correspondingly, procurement of the needed items may already proceed in order to start off with its implementation. “The total funding assistance which could be availed of for each sub -project proposed under the SLP reaches up to a million pesos. The required equity from the proponent group comprises 20 percent of the total cost of the proposed enterprise sub –project which could be in -cash or in –kind,” he added. (DA-8/PIA-8)