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The DOLE Integrity Development Action Plan (IDAP) was adopted as the National Anti-Corruption Strategy Framework of the Executive Branch in December 2004. It has 22 specific and doable anti-corruption measures, as follows :
On Prevention:

1. Strengthen internal control through institutionalization of Internal Audit Unit
2. Conduct of Integrity Development Review
3. Fast-track e-NGAS and e-bidding for the procurement of goods, services and infrastructure projects
4. Incorporate integrity check in recruitment and promotion of government personnel
5. Institutionalize multi-stakeholder performance evaluation system
6. Protect meager income of government employees
7. Adopt a single ID system for government officials and employees

On Education:

1. Disseminate compendium of anti-corruption laws, rules and regulations
2. Prepare agency-specific code of ethical standards/guidelines for adoption
3. Provide ethics training, spiritual formation, moral recovery program
4. Mandate integration of anti-corruption in elementary/secondary education modules

On Deterrence:…

Ethel Doria Sinajon is a 42-year-old registered nurse and married with two children. She was challenged to enrol in nursing as a second courser in a college in Kidapawan City due to her daughter’s condition, who is a type I diabetic. After hearing about Project Entreprenurse from her husband, Mario, she was encouraged to join also because of her daughter’s condition. “I want to share my knowledge on how to manage type I diabetic patients and act as a support group to the parents,” Ethel added.

Elizar Bulac, on the other hand, is a graduate of both BS Nursing and BS Physical Therapy. “Business is rooted in of our family. My father is a retired business manager and my mother ran her own business. I worked in a hospital for two (2) years. I also worked as Medical Sales Executive …

The CARAGA region, composed of Surigao del Norte, Surigao del Sur, Agusan del Norte, and Agusan Del Sur, is going global – again.

Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM) OIC of the Service Business Department Doris Gacho said CARAGA has a lot of potentials in competing with other products in the international market.

With the international market shifting priorities from only-delicious to healthy-and-delicious consumption, CARAGA has not been contented with exporting its coconut sugar and seaweed to consumers.

“One of the sustained trends in the food sector would be for healthy products like camote chips and we are very capable of producing these,” said Gacho.

The produce is one of the region’s most popular agricultural crops, together with abaca, corn, rice, and banana, among others, and is apparently a hit for its medicinal effects in the …

To “go home and plant kamote (sweet potato)” in Filipino lingo depicts a picture of helplessness, and there are many negative, if humorous, connotations about the “lowly” kamote  that in local minds make it pale beside loftier foreign greens. Yet the people from Visayas State University (VSU) in Baybay, Leyte, one of the leading agricultural universities in the Philippines , hold that there is much more to this and other indigenous root crops than what readily meet the eye.

According to Dr. Julieta Roa, head of the Philippine Rootcrop Research and Training Center (PhilRootcrops) based in VSU, the multiple health benefits and ready availability of root crops in our soil like gabi, potato, ube, and cassava are primary reasons to further elevate root crops into staple food status, as is already being done for kamote and cassava in places like …

Guide to Business Planning

Friday, May 21 2010, 08:00 – 17:00

One-Day Training on Effective Business Planning

Training Fee     :  Php 850
Location : Cebu City
Contact : Grace Rafon ( [email protected] This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Forum on Computerized Accounting System (CAS): Short lecture on different kinds of Accounting System Software and its application.…

Techniques on Business Performance Analysis

Saturday, April 24 2010, 08:00 – 17:00

One-Day Training on Techniques for Financial Analysis

Training Fee    :  Php 850
Location : Family Country Hotel & Convention Centre, General Santos City
Contact : Grace Rafon ( [email protected] This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) Tel. (02) 7511888 loc. 1775 / 0915-6722071
Forum on Computerized Accounting System (CAS): Short lecture on different kinds of Accounting System Software and its application.…