Increasing livelihood opportunities creating more jobs in Bicol PDF Print E-mail Written by Administrator Share LEGAZPI CITY -– With vibrant livelihood opportunities, a better quality of life for the people of the region may be expected. The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Bicol believes that the region’s economic growth would be greatly dependent on the number of successful livelihood projects initiated and funded by the government. DOLE Bicol regional director Atty. Alvin M. Villamor remains confident that the livelihood enterprises, if well managed and chosen perfectly, would become the ‘elixir’ of Bicol’s economy. Villamor has predicted that a single DOLE-funded group project with at least 20 members, if successful, could generate an additional 20 more employees and could provide 40 more people with steady income in the form of linkages among businesses including suppliers, retailers and raw materials producers. “Let’s take the Sea Weeds Pansit in Tiwi as an example. The members of the group are earning, the fishermen are earning the wholesalers are earning and the retailers are earning. In short everybody in the community is earning! This is the basic concept of the Community Enterprise Development” Villamor added. The Community Enterprise Development (CED) is the flagship livelihood program of DOLE, that was launched in Bicol by Labor Secretary of Labor Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz last month. The CED Program is aimed to unite all government livelihood grants into a target community enterprise. It is designed to complement and not to compete with existing government funded projects like the One-Town-One-Product (OTOP) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). CED Program in Bicol is being handled by TSSD Livelihood Focal Person, LEO III Russel Ulysses Nieves. “CED is more like a Bayanihan approach in order to help a certain project succeed” Villamor explained. Since January, DOLE Bicol has already released at least P3 million livelihood grants to some 10 group projects ranging from small to medium enterprises and extended individuals grants to over 150 persons under the DK-SK starter kit and Negosyo sa Kariton project region wide. “We want to educate and fuel Bicolanos that in order for Bicol to grow economically, one must not be content to be an employee but rather strive to become and employer through livelihood undertakings and small businesses.” Villamor concluded. bicolpulse/business/news/128-increasing-livelihood-opportunities-creating-more-jobs-in-bicol
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 23:24:23 +0000
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