Davao Oriental guv maps out priorities
DAVAO ORIENTAL - For the next two years, Provincial Governor Corazon Malanyaon hoisted as top priorities of her administration the rehabilitation and development of the three east-coast towns hardly-hit by Typhoon Pablo.
She also set priority actions to take to achieve agricultural productivity; to further develop infrastructure and tourism; to sustain peace and order, health and social services; to enhance disaster preparedness and risk management; to adhere to good governance; and to attract more investments.
Addressing her constituents during the recently celebrated annual anni- versary of Davao Oriental, Malanyaon pointed out the need to set strategies to achieve the desired development for the province, before her term would end.
She set her eyes towards completion of the rehabilitation program for the three Pablo-affected municipalities of Boston, Baganga and Cteel that will include the housing and resettlement projects and livelihood projects, and infrastructure development.
To achieve agricultural productivity bannered under her flagship program, “Pagkain at Kita”, Malanyaon called on the need to strengthen projects for strategic crops such as cacao intercropping, rice sufficiency project, corn propagation, hot chili propagation, and, oil palm plantation.
She also set priorities for fishing industry by working on a fishport project within the next two years while providing continuous support for livestock raising.
She also intends to procure “new infra support equipment” as her administration pushes for “extensive repair and rehabilitation” of all provincial, municipal and barangay roads connecting production areas and tourism sites.
Aside from road infrastructure to support tourism development, Malan- yaon also set to establish basic amenities such as small parks, restrooms, and visitors’ lounge in all our tourist landmarks.
She also expressed resolved efforts to maintain peace and order as the province had already been declared last year as “insurgency free” by the Armed Forces of the Philippine with whom she wanted to continue partnering with, to further push development, thereby making everyone a part of Davao Oriental’s growth.
“Health and other social services will also be sustained and enhanced to address the requirements of those of our populace who need most these interventions” she added.
Meanwhile, she wanted to roll out with maximum effort the Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Program on the heels of the five-year consecutive recognition of the province to have the “Best Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council”.
“We need to be constantly prepared for any occurrence of disaster as this seemed to be the ‘new normal’. We have to level up our mitigating and response measures,” she said.
She also wanted local government units to continue improving systems and mechanisms and to observe the indicators of the Seal of Good Housekeeping as yardstick of performing good local governance.
“Likewise, I strongly enjoin all LGUs to continuously revisit and update your respective Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP). This is a necessity in the context of hazards, disasters and the phenomenon of climate change that affects our safety, property and livelihood”.
In line with economic development, she saw the need to attract more investments particularly in manufacturing industry.