NORTHERN Mindanao interior and local government department with other national government agencies conducted a two-day training seminar on the workforce development plan, local investment, and incentives code to assist the region’s local governments in setting their respective local development and investment plans.
On Monday, with said government agencies, the department gathered the local governments in the region and even called to align their Comprehensive Development Plans (CDPs) with that of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the said workforce development plans.
“The region’s DILG, DOLE, and the DTI’s efforts are laudable,” said Cagayan de Oro City Council’s committee on trade and commerce and on ways and means chair Councilor George Goking adding that their effort of bringing the local development initiatives towards one direction.
“It is part of the President’s (Marcos Jr.) directive to monitor the (local governments’) compliance and contribution to the achievement of the PDP,” said Goking adding, thus the interface between the city or municipal and the provincial government.
Also, the activity aimed to evaluate if their priority programs, projects, and activities are aligned with the result matrices of the municipal, city, or provincial development plans.
“The national government would do everything in its power to assist local government units during this post-pandemic period,” according to Goking.
Also during the training conference, the local governments are reoriented with the connection of development plans, budget preparations, and resource utilization through the help of other oversight national line agencies like the National Economic and Development Authority, Department of Budget and Management, Bureau of Local Government Finance, and Philippine Statistics Authority.
“Noting that the said government agencies’ current top priority is to protect the Filipino people from the devastating effects of the Covid-19 outbreak through swift, effective response and appropriate services,” said Goking.
The economy is now slowly bouncing back toward recovery from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, he said.
The DILG in partnership with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, and the Department of Trade and Industry, through a Joint Memorandum, proposed to implement the Sibol ― Strengthening of Initiatives for Balanced Growth and Opportunities program.
“It is important to restore employment considering that many have lost their livelihood after several businesses had closed,” said Goking.
The upgrading of Filipino workers’ skills is also part of the agenda of the Cabinet meeting presided over by the President at Malacañan Palace recently, according to Goking.
The DILG said that the basic information in the local government workforce development plan in the implementation strategies describes how the local government and its partners intend to implement the workforce plan.
It said the implementation of the plans are to increase the number of employment, increase investments in the area that will create more jobs, and have access to financing institution for capitalization of MSMEs.
Meanwhile, on day two, the DILG also introduced the local investment and incentives code while the region’s DTI-BOI discussed how to attract investments to the area and the role of the local government in investment promotion and national laws on investments.
“It means that the local government units are at the forefront in achieving these goals,” said Goking adding that it is the local level that provides the foundation for the country to move forward.
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