Vice-Governor Herrera describes IPOCORM’s success as “substantial”

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Written By Ric V. Obedencio

The Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management (IPOPCORM) initiative launched six years back by Path Foundation Philippines Inc. (PFPI) got a big boost, not only from their partner-beneficiaries and other agencies concerned, but also from Bohol officials.

Vice-Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera, in his welcome address during the PFPI’s National Dissemination Forum on IPOPCORM held at MetroCenter Hotel in this city last October, described IPOCORM’s success as “substantial.”

“We could say that the strategy has attained a degree of accomplishment,” Herrera told the forum attended by top guns of the PFPI, including former environment secretary and now chairman Dr. Angel Alcala, board members Dr. Juan Romeo Acosta, Jr. (former congressman of Bukidnon), and Dr. Michael Tan of David and Lucile Packard Foundation and local government officials, partner-non-government organizations.

The vice-governor also lauded the project saying that by incorporating reproductive health in coastal resource program, wider involvement of people, women and youth are important.

Herrera stressed that, “it is our duty to protect our environment, preserve it and make efforts to rebuild it if possible.”

The project benefited nine municipalities (Anda, Candijay, Mabini, Tubigon, Baclayon,Dauis, Talibon, Panglao, and Ubay), 58 barangays and 470 sitios in Bohol alone with the cooperation of local government units, NGOs and Pos.

It also worked in the provinces of Palawan, Siquijor, Cebu, Negros Oriental, Camiguin, Surigao de Sur and Tawi-Tawi along with a total of 33 towns, 183 barangays and 356,461 people residing in 56,295 households.

IPOPCORM introduced several approaches in dialogue, analysis, planning, resource mobilization and concrete actions to address the underlying causes of environmental degradation in coastal areas.

It also dealt with strengthening of the capacity in delivering family planning and AIDS (Acquired immuno-defieciency syndrome) interventions.

Among the project “best practices” included the improved community awareness of the interrelationship between population and environment for foodsecurity; promotion of alternative livelihood; habitat enhancement/eco-system rehabilitation; organizational development and technical support; capacity building for planning and budgeting; establishment of private-public partnership arrangement; extension of micro-credit and other interventions that involved the youth, women and fisherfolk.

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[Macky Ferniz]

Mi labay na lang ang pipila ka mga adlaw ug walay mi tubag niini nga topic.

Buot bang ipasabot nga minos gyud ta ug pag-pakabana? Pero kung ma apektohan, kusog dayon mo reklamo.

Tinood ba nga majority kanato ubos kaayo ug kalipay. Ma kontento dayon bisan sa gamay lang ug walay ambisyon para sa ugma? Bisan gi koso-koso ug gi laparo na sa ka-kabos, dili lang gihapon maningkamot?

Hinumdumi mga kaigsoonan nga ang kaugmaon sa atong nasod naga sunod sa damgo nga pagakab-uton sa usag-usa kanato. Hinumdumi nga ang usa ka kalampusan nagsugod lamang sa usa ka damgo ug pangandoy.

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[Happy]

Surely, ang mga tawo mo react kung naay ikasulti, unya unsaon taman ug wala, alangan magpataka ug yawyaw nga wala sa tono.

Sa pagkatinuod lang wala koy ikasulti ani nga topic.

Ikaw, kuya Macks unsa man imo ikasulti bahin ani nga topic?

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[Macky Ferniz]

Hahahahahaha happy,

Karon pa ko ka abri ug utro sa TB.

Time sa, kay mangawt pa ko sa akong ulo.

So mao kini ang akong ikasulti:

Kini, mi claim si Vice-Gov nga success ang maong program. Apan kutob lang sa news. The public deserves the right to be informed with proof (at least pictures or signed testimonials from the benefited ones). Where are the statistics, before and after.

This is a government program, where public funds are involved. Where are the department P.R.O.s of this project. Preporting is important for transparency.

Sa laktod, usa ra akong ikasulti ani nga project, nga this is a noble project and everyone must be enthusiastic and get involved because such will generate a chain of long term benefits.

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[Happy]

Kuya Macks, sa ato pa.. sige ra sila sulti walay nakita? wala diay ebidensya.

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