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Agtultuloy nga asikaso, ad-adu pay a trabahoGov. Imee SOPA launches midterm devt plan
August 7, 2013 Featured

In her first State of the Province Address (SOPA) since her re-election to a second term, Governor Imee R. Marcos pledged to strengthen the Provincial Government of Ilocos Nortes (PGIN) efforts towards transformational, Jobs-rich growth and bring the new development to all Ilocanos. Held today, August 6, at Plaza del Norte Hotel and Convention Center, Gov. Marcos hour-long speech was a comprehensive report of her administrations feats for the first term and her priority bills for the next three years in service. Poverty has indeed fallen, Gov. Marcos said, pinpointing to the recent plunging 9% poverty rate in Ilocos Norte as compared to 2009s alarming 24%, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board. Ilocos Norte is also tagged by the United Nations Development Programmes Philippines Human Development Report as one of the top province to improve quality of life and one of the few provinces set to achieve the (Millennium Development Goal) of halving poverty in 2015, Gov. Marcos added. Just as she confirms the quick and positive economic transition in the province, Gov. Marcos admitted that the growth is not equal and has failed to deliver the quality jobs a number of Ilocanos in far-flung barangays still direly need. Walang iwanan, ang sigaw natin nung eleksyon; wala rin naman dapat na maiwan sa pag-unlad ng probinsya, Gov. Marcos emphasized as she launched the Poverty Eradication Agenda to top her midterm development plan for Ilocos Norte. According to her, the Poverty Eradication Agenda is set to optimize the 4Ps cash transfers from the national government, provincial MDG educational, health and food distributions, and myriad contributions from local governments, NGOs and overseas Ilocanos. Together we can transform Ilocos Norte, convert our emerging province into a diversified, developed and gainfully employed economy for the future, Gov. Marcos added, including her jobs agenda thru the Job Creation Act, that shall unleash economic growth in labor-intensive sectors namely Agribusiness, Tourism and Manufacture which she coined as ATM. ATM can unlock jobs to bring not mere growth, but genuine, transformational jobs-rich growth, Gov. Marcos said. Other components of the development plan are the institution of the New Agribusiness Agenda geared to set up value-adding, processing and innovative plants and factories, the establishment of an Investment and Trade Promotions Office, the establishment of Entrepreneurship and Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) Initiative to jumpstart micro, small and medium-scale enterprises to bring jobs to the countryside, the enactment of Corporate Social Responsibility Scorecard to promote responsible investing, the preparation of TechVoc Roadmap to prepare

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students for technical-vocational programs, and the launching of new job-creating programs, Saguip Nars and Trabaho sa Barangay.

Gov. Marcos also enjoined private sectors to formally partner with PGIN and other municipalities in a more extensive job-generation thru a formal pledge signing. Jobs not only in the wealthy centros, but jobs for far-flung barangays; not jobs only for the well-educated and young, but jobs for the greater number of rural workers; not mere contractual jobs without security or protection, but jobs that our families can count on for years to come, Gov. Marcos said. The initiative towards a province-wide ISO certification was also formally declared, with each municipal mayor receiving an ISO Quality Management System Manual after the governors address. This is after PGIN became the first ever fully ISO-certified local government unit in the Philippines last February. The international certification (ISO) of every municipality and city will be the best proof, to our citizens and investors, of the provinces commitment to good governance and development, Gov. Marcos said. A former representative of the second district of Ilocos Norte in the Philippine House of Representatives from 1998 to 2007, Marcos first sworn-in as Governor was on June 30, 2010. Gov. Marcos who admitted that she was hesitant to make a political comeback reported that crises on security, health and economy welcomed her during her first 100 days in office. In her first ever SOPA last June 29, 2011, she tried to combat the rising unemployment and pledged to help fellow Ilocanos on how to INvest, INnovate and INspire. With the success of her three IN pillars, several achievements were reported during her second SOPA last July 9, 2012, with an economic mini-boom due to tourism and rising number of investments. Namnamaenyo, Itultuloy ko ti Asikaso ken Ad-adu a Trabaho para ken Ilocano, Gov. Imee said, closing this years SOPA which was applauded 33 times.Grazielle Mae A. Sales, PGIN-CMO

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