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EDITOR: RUEL PELONE, ruel_pelone2002@yahoo.com
Church holds forum, prepares for another anti ‘pork barrel’ protest By IRENE B. DAYO Staff Reporter of Mindanao Daily News
CAGAYAN de Oro City–– The Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) is a form of corruption that undermines development, erodes public trust in the government, weakens the state, and infects the morale of the society, Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma of Cagayan de Oro City said. Ledesma made the statement during a forum on PDAP and its social implications on matters of social responsibility that affect the common good at the Jesuit-run Xavier University here on Saturday.
The forum was done as the church, lay leaders, non-government organizations (NGOs), and civil society groups here commit to participate in the scheduled Sept. 11, rally for the complete abolition of PDAF. The church shared the same sentiments on the squandered 10 billion pesos which would supposedly help alleviate the dire condition of the impoverished Filipino, the Cagayan de Oro City Archbishop said. He also discussed on the importance of social auditing where the monitoring and evaluation of publicly funded projects be made transparent to sectoral groups such as
the civil society, concerned citizens, academia, media, and church members. Ledesma said that social auditing is a means that would eliminate corruption in the expenditure of scarce funds for much needed public services. The government has allocated P 200 million annually for each senator while another P 70 million annually for congressmen while the President gets over P 1 trillion as PDAF for projects consistent with the national agenda and priorities of the national government. This PDAF is released directly to implementing agencies as identified in the PDAF Project Menu. -IBD
LOCAL residents, including a police officer, merely look on while a man shows the twometer python he caught from a drainage under the Velez-Pacana Streets in Cagayan de Oro City Monday morning. The snake bites the man on his right hand. Mindanao Daily NewsPhoto by Gerry L. Gorrit
Govt agency to convene HR officers, practitioners in Normin CAGAYAN de Oro City–– The Civil Service Commission (CSC) Regional Office 10 will convene Human Resource (HR) Officers and HR Practitioners in Northern Mindanao on September 12-13. Lawyer Lourdes ClaviteVidal, CSC-10 Regional Director, said the convention of the HR Management Officers and Practitioners will be held at the Grand Caprice, Limketkai Center, here, as part of the 113th Philippine Civil Service
Anniversary celebration. She said CSC Commissioner Atty. Robert S. Martinez will grace the convention which is anchored on the theme “CSC-HRMPs: Forging A Winning Partnership for Improved and Sustained Organizational Performance.” Vidal said the convention will focus on the emerging role of HRMPs as strategic partner of CSC in its efforts towards improved and sustained organization performance.
In line with this, the CSC-10 is inviting all national government agencies, government owned and controlled corporations, local government units, and state colleges and universities in the region to send representatives to participate in the convention. Interested to join may contact CSC-10 through the Human Resource Division on telephone numbers 710056 or 858-7563 or through the e-mail hrd_csc10@yahoo.com (APB/PIA-10)
Consultation on biodiversity strategy, action plan set in Oro CAGAYAN de Oro City––A National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2020 (NBSAP 2020) consultation is set in the city on September 18-20, to validate and enrich indentified national targets. Theresa Mundita Lim, national director of the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB), noted that the NBSAP
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2020 is still anchored in the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2010 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets adopted during the conference of Parties and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held in Nagoya, Japan last October 2010. A consultation-workshop to draft See strategy/p.9