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Bohol is K. Adenauer performance awardee
November 12, 2006 The Bohol Standard

BOHOL has another feather tucked into its already heavily decorated cap – this time as the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) and Local Government Development Foundation (Logodef’s) national winner in the search for a highly performing provincial government.

IN a letter to Gov. Erico Aumentado dated Nov. 10, KAS Country Representative Klaus Preschle and Logodef Board of Trustees Chair Nestor Pilar congratulated and invited him to the awarding ceremony at the Champagne Salon of the Manila Hotel on Dec. 6 at 9 a.m.

“I attribute to the unity of the Boholanos the giant leap of the province out of Club 20 – 17th among the country’s 20 poorest provinces out of 79 in 2001 – to the 52nd place this year,” Aumentado said the other day during his weekly program The Governor Reports simulcast live over all AM radio stations in Bohol.

The award is named after Germany ’s first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer.

To note, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2005 Philippines Human Development Report pegged Bohol in the 41st position. Last May, however, the National Economic and Development Authority’s (NEDA) National Statistics Coordination Board (NSCB) ranked Bohol 52nd out of 79 provinces.

The governor said he and his department heads and chiefs of offices are gunning for a Top 10 berth in 2010 even as he recognized the support of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) under Vice Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera, the employees, the non-government organization (NGO) partners, Official Development Assistance (ODA) funders and other groups.

This unity, he pointed out, enabled Bohol to clinch the top Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) last year.

The concerted efforts, he said, led to the province’s bagging the Galing Pook Award for Continuing Excellence (ACE) while the Peace and Development: Bohol Experience program got a Trailblazing Award.

The same unity and cooperation also won for Bohol the 2003, 2004 and 2005 Top Tourism Destination of the Country plums.

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