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pril flitted in with a series of Roadshows

on Competitiveness. The roadshows pre-

sented the Philippines’ Game Plan and highlighted

the presentation of results of Social Weather Sta-

tions.

While maintaining its focus on alleviating poverty,

DTI continued to put MSMEs at the core of the de-

partment’s programs.

Aside from launching a Negosyo Center in Baya-

wan, DTI also monitored shared services facilities

(SSF), a project which has a tremendous impact on

the livelihood of Filipinos at the grassroots level.

The SSF project is aimed at improving the competi-

tiveness of MSMEs by providing them with machin-

ery, equipment, tools, systems, and training.

DTI continued to be vigilant in protecting consumer

rights by promoting a culture of quality and excel-

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Activities in Photos

News Bite

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) opened a Negosyo Center inside Bayawan City Hall to provide business advisory, business reg-istration assistance and business information and advocacy services to Micro, Small and Medi-um Enterprise (MSME) owners in the city.

This is the third center established in Negros Ori-ental and the first one to be launched outside Dumaguete City.

DTI-Negros Island Region (NIR) regional director Asteria Caberte spearheaded the launching cer-emony on April 1 together with DTI provincial di-rector Javier Fortunato Jr. and the whole staff of DTI-Negros Oriental.

Also gracing the event were Engr. Gilbert Arbon, assistant regional director for finance and admin-istration of Department of Science and Technolo-gy (DOST-NIR), Provincial Planning and Devel-opment Office head Sophie Arevalo, Bayawan City Mayor Ismael Martinez, City Administrator of Bayawan Atty. Rene Gaudiel, ICT-Dumaguete Executive Director Danah Fortunato and other city officials.

In her message, Caberte said establishing a Ne-gosyo Center in Bayawan City is a recognition that the city is considered as one of the growth centers in the province.

The Go Negosyo Act mandates DTI to install Ne-gosyo Centers in growth centers in every prov-ince throughout the country.

“With this Negosyo Center in Bayawan, they (MSMEs) will be given a venue to elevate their concerns. These Negosyo Centers will be manned by counsellors, advisers and fully sup-ported by DTI,” Caberte added.

The DTI official disclosed that part of the strate-gies in the 2015 to 2017 Philippine Export Devel-opment Plan is to give more focus to MSMEs.

In relation to this, she announced that Bayawan City has a big potential and can contribute a lot in the country’s export industry.

Caberte noted that most of the processed foods

are agri-based and Bayawan City can be part of this sector.

Processed foods like banana chips and beverages, coconut oil, and other electronic products belong to the champion quadrant of Philippine exports. These constitute 28% of the total exports of the country.

On the other hand, processed fish products belong to the achievers quadrant and contribute 22% to the country’s total exports.

One of the known products of the city is the “lamayo” or semi-dried fish is included in the achievers quad-rant.

Meanwhile, Fortunato hopes that with this kind of intervention, the city will be able to develop more food products.He also expressed DTI’s commitment to help the city government in developing the food industry here since Bayawan is an agricultural city.

In response to this, City Mayor Ismael Martinez ex-pressed his gratitude to DTI, saying that this inter-vention helps improve the economy of the city and will encourage residents of the city to embark on MSME business.

“This is a welcome event here. This gives opportuni-ty to Bayawanons to go into business,” he said. Martinez ended his short message by expressing the city government’s commitment to continuously sup-port this initiative of DTI. (PIA7-Negros Oriental)




Photo above was taken during the launching of LAMAYO (Fish Processing) Shared Service Facility (SSF) with LGU Bayawan City, Negros Oriental.

(Photo below left) DTI Mobile Business Name Registration using Inverter (CAR Powered Battery) & Solar Panel (Solar Powered) - Bayawan City, Negros Oriental

(Photo below right) “ Timbangan ng Bayan” (public weighing scale) was installed in Mabinay, Negros Oriental.



(Photo above) European Delegates visit DTI Cebu for a short Forum on EU GSP+ (L-R) Comercial Counsellor of the German Em-bassy Dr. Andree Bulh, DTI Central Visayas Assistant Regional Director Nelia Navarro, Counsellor & Deputy Head of Mission of the Belgium Embassy Mr. Xavier Leblanc, Head of Economic and Trade Section of EU Delegation Mr. Walter Van Hattum, DTI Chief Ms. Esperanza Melgar, and Trade Officer of EU Delegation Ms. Rose Pamittan.

(Photo below) His Excellency David H. Thorne, Ambassador of the United States of America Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, and the Director of Software Strategy for the IBM Venture Capital Group Ms. Deborah Magid together with DTI officials Usec. Nora Terrado, Asec. Maria Roseni M. Alvero, Region 7 Assistant Regional Director Nelia V.F. Navarro, DTI Cebu Provincial Director Maria Elena C. Arbon, Michael Alfred V. Roaring of DTI-FTSC, and the Managing Director of Endeavor Global Mr. Manny Ayala. Photo taken during the visit of the Ambassador with US envoy for the US Innovation Roadshow in Cebu on March 11 at Radisson Blu Hotel.




Focus

The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) rec-ognized the Philippine government’s Bottom-up Budget-ing (BuB) program as one of five best practices in fiscal transparency from around the world. At the Open Government Partnership (OGP) summit in Mexico City, GIFT noted that “in 2015, 1,514 cities and municipalities (92 percent of all in the country) had joined the program and it has so much demand it would be difficult for future governments to discontinue.” For this recognition, Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad said that notwithstanding the program’s success and recognition, BuB’s potential remains untapped and thus deserves to continue in the next administration. The BuB as a reform program, Abad said promotes im-provements in government openness, accountability and responsiveness. “Through this program, we’ve institu-tionalized people’s participation in the budget process to gain a better understanding of their needs and require-ments, and ensure these are met,” Abad said. The other programs cited are Mexico’s Education Re-form Program, Cameroon’s Budget Transparency in Lo-cal Governments, Brazil’s Thematic Budget, and an in-ternational project called Aid on Budgets being piloted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Moldova, Nepal, and Senegal. “It is an unprecedented process and we’re proud to have been able to implement it in this administration. But it should continue to be supported in the next administra-tion,” Abad sad. “Its success is inceptive and as a mech-anism for transparency and participation, its potential remains largely untapped,” he added.

According to Abad, the proposed 2016 national budget also supports the expansion of the BuB. Local poverty reduction projects identified by communi-ties and LGUs in 1,514 cities and municipalities have been allocated P24.7 billion: An increase from P8 billion in 2013 for the projects identified in 595 cities and munici-palities. “At the top of these reforms is transparency of budget processes. Through these reforms, we have dra-matically improved our standing in global benchmarks of budget transparency,” Abad said. “The International Monetary Fund has declared that our country exhibits good and advanced practices in several areas of its new Fiscal Transparency Code, for example,” the budget chief added. Meanwhile, the International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey for 2015 ranked the Philippines as number one in Budget Trans-parency in the ASEAN due to programs such as BuB. The GIFT recognition comes in the wake of US Ambassa-dor to the UN Samantha Power’s citation of BuB during her speech at the opening plenary of the same OGP summit. In September last year, the Philippines was granted the Gold Open Government Award for BuB in the inaugural OGP Awards at the United Nations Head Quarters in New York City. The country was recognized for its outstanding efforts to deepen citizen engagement in the budget process, one of the three gold awards given out to recognize innovative and citizen-driven initiatives in designing and implement-ing public policy. The two other awardees were Denmark and Montenegro. (Manila Bulletin)

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citizens engage their government.

From being just beneficiaries of government programs,

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(Photo above) Financing Forum held at O Hotel Bacolod,, Negros Occidental.

(Photo below) A BUB 2016 Orientation and Writeshop was conducted on March 29-30 at Sugarland Hotel, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental





(Photos above) Monitoring of Shared Service Facilities (SSFs) in Negros Oriental

(Photo below left) GO REHISTRO at Lumbangan, Mabinay, Negros Oriental

(Photo below right) GO REHISTRO at Panala-an (Checkpoint), Bais City, Negros Oriental.




(Photos above) In reference to BPS memorandum dated 15 March 2016, DTI Bohol monitoring and enforcement team conducted an actual inspection and verification of Ha Long cement at the warehouse of P. Te Construction and Supply in Tagbilaran City on March 29, 2016.

(Photo below) 2016 Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Research Survey Forum was conducted at JJ’s Sea-food Village, Tagbilaran City, Bohol on March 31, 2016.



Focus

The Philippine government empowers poor families through the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP), a community-based capacity building effort that seeks to improve the program participants’ socio-economic sta-tus. SLP is implemented through two tracks: Micro-enterprise Development and Employment Facilitation. The Micro-enterprise Development track supports mi-cro-enterprises in becoming organizationally and eco-nomically viable, whereas the Employment Facilitation track assists participants to access appropriate em-ployment opportunities. Both tracks are executed based on the Community-Driven Enterprise Develop-ment (CDED) approach, which equips program partici-pants to actively contribute to production and labor markets by looking at available resources and accessi-ble markets. From January 2011 to March 2015, SLP benefited a total of 773,796 families wherein 648,328 families were served through the Microenterprise Development track and 125,468 families under the Employment Facilita-tion track. The government has spent P4.46 billion for SLP implementation for this period. It was during the Aquino administration that DSWD strengthened its partnership with public and private sectors through 963 SLP projects. These projects in-creased the economic opportunities of the families by strengthening values and skills formation; increasing access to credit, savings and micro-insurance; improv-ing product development and marketing; and providing pre-employment training and direct employment. Among DSWD’s partner-agencies are the Departments

of Agriculture (DA), Environment and Natural Re-sources (DENR), Interior and Local Government (DILG), Labor and Employment (DOLE), Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Science and Technology (DOST), Tourism (DOT), Trade and Industry (DTI), and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman said that two beneficiaries have become proof of the gains of the program. She cited Lilibeth Polinar of Caraga Region for being able to expand her business of hog raising, rice farm-ing, buying and selling of charcoal, and multi-grains retailing with the assistance of veterinary and agricul-tural company Agrivet. Her business started in June 2013 when SLP provided her a seed capital of P7,000. Today, Lilibeth operates two Agrivet stores, one in Ma-rihatag and another in San Agustin, Surigao del Sur, from which she earns P440,000 per month. Another is a group enterprise managed by the Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran Multi-purpose Co-operative from Region IV-B. Through the collaboration of the local government, DSWD and other government agencies, the group was able to establish a cashew processing enterprise, a first in the municipality. At present, the members sup-ply products to tourist locations in the area. During peak season, they are able to make P40,000 worth of cashew sales per week. The group was also able to employ 11 Pantawid Pami-lya beneficiaries who earn additional P5,000 monthly income. (Source: http://www.dswd.gov.ph/)



News Bites

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) encourages ven-ture capitalists to invest in local startups as the country contin-ues to improve its global innovation index. On the 2015 assessment of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Philippines climbed 17 notches and now ranks 83rd from its 100th ranking in terms of global inno-vation index. DTI Industry Promotion Group (IPG) Undersecretary Nora K. Terrado sees opportunities to enhance and develop the coun-try’s national innovation ecosystem. “There is no better time for the Philippines than now,” said In-dustry Promotion Group (IPG) Undersecretary Nora K. Terrado on the current promotional initiatives for startups and innova-tion in the country. Aside from the impressive climb on the global innovation index, the Philippines’ strong compliance to the intellectual property rights protection also poses a viable qualification to be the next innovation hub in Asia. On a regional scale, the country ranked 2nd for both patent protection and IPR protection in 2014. One of the country’s top Philippine innovations is the Salaman-der by H20 technologies, an amphibious flood faring utility ve-hicle. As the world’s first amphibious tricycle, H20 Salamander is a 6-seater urban flood utility tricycle that has two variants. One is electrically powered and the other powered by gasoline. Driven by the global crisis on climate change, Salamander was developed to address the call for reduced carbon emissions and flood problems in the country. “There are stories of success in the Philippine startup scene.

What we can do is to encourage these startups, link them to venture capitalists, and help them to improve their capacity to enter the global economy by creating an environment support-ive of their persistence,” Terrado added. With over 30 Filipino inventors holding 23 patents assigned to 12 foreign companies, DTI sees startups as viable catalysts to the information era. As one of its core objectives, DTI now aims to develop a new breed of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through inno-vation. “As we define the innovation economy of the Philip-pines, we would like to focus on coming up with new breed of SMEs. It will not just be about digital startups, but we will also explore the field of agriculture, biotechnology, electronics, e-commerce, among others,” Terrado emphasized. According to the digital startup roadmap, the country is expect-ing 500 startups with a total funding of $200 million by year 2020. It can have a cumulative valuation of $2 billion. Further-more, the development of an innovation ecosystem will also address the government’s agenda of inclusive growth through job creation. By 2020, the Philippine startup and innovation community aims to create 8,500 high skilled jobs for Filipinos. In recent years, the Department of Science and Technology’s Information and Communications Technology Office (DOST-ICTO) has started its notable projects in capacity building of startups in the country. Since then, venture capitalists have shown great interests in Philippine tech startups and now con-sider the country as one of the top destinations for invest-ments. SlingShot is a program of DTI, through its Foreign Trade Ser-vice Corps, that caters to startup and innovation entrepreneurs in the country.

In support of the tasks that emanated from the Asia-Pacific Eco-nomic Cooperation (APEC) Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) in 2015, the Philippines, through the Department of Tarde and Industry (DTI), submitted a proposal for a survey that will gather information to address issues on food packaging, labelling, as well as market expansion of Micro, Small and Medium Enter-prises (MSMEs). After the approval of the proposal, the APEC Sub-Committee on Standards and Conformance (SCSC) disseminated the Survey on Packaging and Labeling Requirements for Pre-packaged Food Products. The survey comprised of 12 questions that included inquiries on economy information, domestic laws/regulations and its mandato-ry requirements, placement of mandatory labeling requirements, acceptable languages, acceptance of removable labels and members information dissemination and capacity building efforts to facilitate business compliance. The information gathered shows important differences in the re-quirements across APEC Economies. All respondents surveyed

have specific laws/regulations that provide them the authori-ty to implement these packaging and labeling requirements. All respondents have websites or portals that are accessible by its stakeholders that contain information on labels and other requirements. One of the APEC priorities in 2015 is “Mainstreaming Small and Medium Enterprises into Global and Regional Market”. These priorities accentuate the relevance of strengthening cross-fora collaboration within APEC particularly on working hand in hand in addressing SME issues for them to fully capitalize on the tariff liberalization happening in the Asia Pacific and the world. While international standards exist, regulations on food labeling are still varied among econo-mies which may lead to difficulties to the business sector particularly to SMEs. The choice for the focus on pre-packaged food products is aligned with the Small and Medi-um Enterprises Working Group (SMEWG) indentified sec-tors (agriculture, electronics, food processing, handicrafts and automotive) that are most critical to APEC economies in terms of economic growth and sustainable development.




(Photos above) The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) held a Forum on the Regionalization of the Philippine Export Development Plan (PEDP) 2015-2017 on 31 March 2016 (Thursday) at Hotel Elizabeth in Cebu City. Participants to the activity included representatives of business groups and government officials of Regions 6, 7, 8 and 18 (NIR), including DTI Export Marketing Bureau (EMB) Executive Director Senen Perlada and Export Develop-ment Council (EDC) Executive Director Emma Mijares as well as local DTI officials. (Photos below) A DTI BUB Writeshop was conducted on March 29-30, 2016 at Sugarland Hotel, Bacolod City , Negros Occidental.




(Photo above) On March 22, 2016 a Re-assessment/Re-evaluation meeting of BAGWIS - Certified Establishment representatives was held at the DTI Conference Room. The meeting was conducted by DTI-BPO CWBRD Chief Jose Hibaya and assisted by Mercedes J. Matalines, TIDS.

(Photo below) DTI Bohol conducted a Consumer Education Seminar at Suzuki Bohol on March 3, 2016. Lecturers were Mr. Miguel Abuyabor and Ms. Mercedes J. Matalines.



(Photo above) To express their support to the green transportation advocacy of the Bayawan Advocates for Network of Indigenous Initiatives, Inc. (BAYAW-ANI) the whole office staff of DTI-Negros Oriental led by DTI-NIR regional director Asteria Caberte and DTI provincial head Javier Fortunato Jr. rode bamboo bikes from its Negosyo Center at the Baya-wan City Hall to Brgy. Boyco Gymnasium which is the venue for another DTI event in Bayawan City last April 1, 2016. The bamboo bikes were made by BAYAW-ANI. On the other hand, the green transporation advocacy is the organiza-tion's response to global warming and climate change. (PIA7-NegOr)

(Photo below) BuB seminar on enterprise operations and management for farmers and fisher folks was conducted on April 4-8 in Bais, Negros Oriental.




Focus

The recent second round of household assessment for

Listahanan or the National Household Targeitng System for

Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) of the Department of Social

Welfare and Development (DSWD) showed that a total

1,511,320 beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino

Program have improved their status to “non-poor”.

This figure represents a large percentage (36%) of the total

4.2 million active Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries.

“The improvement in the lives of these 1.5 million Pantawid

Pamilya beneficiaries is due to their dedication and hard

work to break from the intergenerational cycle of poverty

that they have been in,” Secretary Corazon Juliano-

Soliman shared.

Of those who have transitioned to non-poor, about 67,968

or 4.5% are still at risk of reverting to poverty when faced

with disasters and economics shocks.

Studies classify this group as the “vulnerable” or “transient

poor”. These are households who registered as non-poor

at a particular year but are dragged back to poverty a few

years after.

“Given the number of natural disasters that hit the country

in recent years, the DSWD recognizes the need to extend

assistance to these families to keep them from becoming

poor again,” explained Sec. Soliman.

Using the mentioned studies, the DSWD pegged 1.1 or

10% above the poverty line as the threshold that will ena-

ble them to identify the vulnerable families in the assess-

ment. By applying the said threshold to the result of the

Proxy Means Test (PMT), the Listahanan will be able to

generate a list of vulnerable families.

Then, the Department can craft programs that specifi-

cally address the needs of this sector.

The PMT is a statistical model that approximates

household incomes based on specific household

characteristics such as education attainment, liveli-

hood or occupation of household members, and ap-

pliances, furniture and other household assets,

among others.

Of the 15.1 million households or 16.7 million families

covered in the 2nd assessment, the Listahanan iden-

tified 880,978 households or 983,816 families as vul-

nerable.

The DSWD encourages other agencies and organiza-

tions involved in social protection to allot a portion of

their resources to implement programs that will help

vulnerable households attain the level of self-

sufficiency.

The complete profile of the vulnerable poor, which

includes breakdown per sector, geographic location

and employment or occupation, among others, is

available upon request.

However, the list of households, families or individu-

als can only be obtained upon execution of a data

sharing agreement with the DSWD. This is to ensure

that the list will only be used for implementation of

programs and services meant to improve their well-

being.

“While the Listahanan can generate statistics on pov-

erty, it does not provide the official poverty statistics,”

stated DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman.

The official poverty statistics released by the Philip-

pine Statistics Authority (PSA) provides data on pov-

erty and subsistence incidences based on poverty

and food thresholds.

The Listahanan is an administrative tool for targeting

poor families. It establishes a centralized database of

poor families to serve as basis for identifying benefi-

ciaries of social protection programs and services,

minimizing wastage of resources to unintended recipi-

ents. (Source: http://www.dswd.gov.ph)

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(Photo above) Solar powered GO REHISTRO along the highway at Manalongon, Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental on March 17, 2016

(Photos below) Orientation-Briefing: Cities & Municipalities Index (CMCI) Survey — at the Social Hall, Provincial Capitol ,Negros

Occidental.

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Photo above was taken on April 8 during the launching of the Shared Service Facility (SSF) for Bamboo Furniture in Antequera, Bohol.

Photo below was taken during the Annual Performance Review of DTI Cebu. The provincial office got a perfor-mance rating of outstanding for CY 2015.




(Photo above) Department of Trade and Industry - Negros Oriental 2015 Report Card Performance Governance System (PGS) Outstanding Rating - March 29, 2016 @DTI Conference Room

(Photo below) Annual Performance Review of DTI Siquijor was held on March 28 at the DTI Conference Room.



(From Department of Budget and Manage-ment, January 7, 2016 )

In 2017, the government’s reform program, Bottom-Up Budgeting will be expanded to cover 42,036 ba-rangays nationwide. Each baran-gay will receive a subsidy of P1 million to be used for the imple-

mentation of projects that they have identified. The pro-gram is expected to aid barangays in better formulating poverty reduction action plans and monitoring the delivery of basic services in the communities. The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) an-nounced that Bottom-Up Budgeting (BuB), the govern-ment’s reform program that institutionalized the people’s participation in the budget process, will be expanded next year to cover 42,036 barangays nationwide. DBM Secre-tary Florencio B. Abad said that while all barangays are beneficiaries of the program, implementation shall be in batches. “The first 12,000 barangays will receive funding from the national government in 2017,” Abad said. Abad added that the Department of the Interior and Local Gov-ernment (DILG) has started national consultations with barangay captains to engage them in the discussion of the rationale, objectives, and mechanics of the Barangay BuB. This will be followed by capacity building sessions and project preparation for the first batch of barangays that will pioneer BuB. According to DILG Sec. Mel Senen S. Sarmiento, the ex-pansion of the BuB was the result of the clamor of various associations of barangay councils (ABCs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP). The ULAP National Executive Board—on behalf of its member leagues, local govern-ment units, and elected officials—passed a resolution to institutionalize BuB at the barangay level and adopted the recommendation from the leagues for the implementing guidelines of the BuB. “We are bringing BuB down to the grassroots level to en-sure that the need for services and facilities of barangays are met. Also, by enabling barangays to implement pro-jects which they have identified and prioritized through a process of citizen participation in planning and budgeting, we hope to improve governance at the barangay level,” Sarmiento said. The Liga ng mga Barangay ng Pilipinas (LBP)—through its National President, Atty. Edmund R. Abesamis—expressed support for the program, calling the Barangay BuB “the highlight of the national govern-ment’s recognition of the role of barangays in govern-ance.” “The Barangay Bottom-Up Budgeting effectively provides life and meaning to the recognition of barangays as frontliners in governance,” Abesamis said. How to participate in Barangay BuB To participate in the program, each barangay league’s city

and municipal president must orient all punong baran-gays within their area of jurisdiction on the Barangay BuB not later than January 31, 2016. Afterwards, every punong barangay must convene a Barangay Develop-ment Council (BDC) for orientation, conduct a planning workshop with the BDC, and formulate a list of priority projects for submission to the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP), which will develop a criteria for the ranking and selection of barangays. The Ugnayan ng Barangay at Simbahan (UBAS)—a part-nership of local Catholic churches, the LBP, and the DILG for the observance of good governance principles at the community level—will monitor the proper implementation of the projects. At least 1,590 local government units have participated in the BuB program since it was implemented in 2013. There was a total of 42,221 BuB projects reported in the Open BuB Portal. Of this number, 13,712 projects have been completed as of December 1, 2015 (exclusive of dropped projects that were replaced, split, or merged). For this year, 14,325 local poverty reduction projects have been allocated P24.7 billion. This is an increase from P8 billion in 2013 for projects identified in 595 cities and municipalities. Bottom-up Budgeting project internationally recog-nized BuB has been recognized as one of five Best Practices in Fiscal Transparency from around the world during the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit held in Mexico City last November. In their declaration, Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) noted that “in 2015, 1,514 cities and municipalities (92 percent of all in the country) had joined the program and it has so much demand it would be difficult for future governments to discontinue.” The Philippines was also granted the Gold Open Govern-ment Award for BuB in the inaugural OGP Awards at the United Nations Head Quarters in New York City in Sep-tember 2014. The country was recognized for its out-standing efforts to deepen citizen engagement in the budget process, one of the three gold awards given out to recognize innovative and citizen-driven initiatives in de-signing and implementing public policy. BuB is also being credited as one of the reforms that have helped to improve the country’s standing in global benchmarks of budget transparency. For example, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) declared the Philip-pines exhibits good and advanced practices in several areas of its new Fiscal Transparency Code. Likewise, the International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey (OBS) for 2015 ranked the Philippines as number one in Budget Transparency in the ASEAN because of pro-grams such as the BuB. (Source: http://www.gov.ph/)

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REGIONAL OFFICE

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Provincial Director: MA ELENA C. ARBON

DTI Building, Osmena Boulevard, corner Lapulapu Street, Cebu City

Tel. # (63)(032) 255-6971 / 255-3926

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SIQUIJOR PROVINCIAL OFFICE

Provincial Director NIMFA M. VIRTUCIO

CF Bldg., Legaspi St., Siquijor, Siquijor

Tel. # (63)035-480-9065

Fax # (63) 035-344-2238

Email: [email protected] NEGROS ORIENTAL PROVINCIAL OFFICE Provincial Director JAVIER FORTUNATO, JR

2F Uymatiao Bldg., San Jose Street. Dumaguete City

Tel. # (63)(035) 422-2764

Fax # (63)(035) 225-7211

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