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News
April
15, 2010
LGU-CIVIL SOCIETY PARTNERSHIP FOR THE
MDGs – SET OFF IN NEGROS ORIENTAL
Negros Oriental LGUs Partner
with European Union, La Liga, and
Social Watch for the MDGs
Siliman Univerisity, Dumaguete --
Mayors Rodrigo Alanano of Dauin,
Dodong Limkaichong of La Libertad,
Antonio Renacia of Sibulan and La
Liga Policy Institute Managing
Director Roland Cabigas today signed
a Memorandum of Understanding for
collaboration towards the
achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) in the said
municipalities.
“The project, Cementing Pathways to
Financing the MDGs ,which has a
total cost of €282,159 including
funding support from the European
Union of €239,835, will help Local
Government Units (LGUs) implement a
partnership-based approach towards
broadening their MDG commitments
into actual policies, programs and
resources,” said Cabigas.
The project, dubbed “MDG Pathways”,
will be implemented by the La Liga
Policy Institute (La Liga) and
Social Watch Philippines (SWP) in
partnership with local government
units and community-based
organizations in Negros Oriental and
Pangasinan.
“The activities highlight people’s
participation and
government-citizens’ partnership in
local development and investment
planning to ensure that the
anti-poverty goals are actually
realized at the grassroots,” said
former national treasurer Leonor
Magtolis Briones, lead convenor of
SWP which is globally acknowledged
for initiating government-civil
society partnership in lobbying for
increases in the allocations for MDG-related
programs.
“This project is a very welcome
development because LGUs really need
development interventions that will
improve critical MDG conditions of
our constituents, specifically on
poverty, education, health and
environment,” said Mayor Alanano.
Meanwhile, Mayor Limkaichong of La
Libertad said that he is looking
forward to the formation of
Technical Working Groups (TWGs) for
the MDGs, composed of local
government officials and local
citizens groups, which will lead
efforts in building the capacities
of local stakeholders in planning
programs and budgets for the MDGs as
well as monitoring the
implementation of the programs.
“Our municipalities are very eager
to work with local citizens’
organizations to pursue the
achievement of MDG 1 on poverty
reduction, MDG 2 on universal
education, MDG 5 on maternal health
and MDG 7 on environment
sustainability,” said Mayor
Limkaichong.
“We are very thankful to the
European Union, La Liga Policy
Institute and Social Watch
Philippines for helping our people
understand and participate in local
development and investment
planning,” said Mayor Renacia. “We
thank them for coming to our
municipalities and sharing their
data and knowledge in order to serve
as inputs to our development
planning processes,” he added.
“To cement pathways to financing the
MDGs means being able to strengthen
coherence and harmony towards
achieving international commitments
by channeling of public funds for
the MDGs,” Cabigas said. “The
project will bolster delivery of
basic social services to the 1.6
million people of the project’s
target sites, especially to the
marginalized sectors of fishers,
farmers, women, school children and
out of school youth,” Cabigas
concluded.
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