By Cheryl G. Cruz
Thursday, September 22, 2011
THE Department of Trade and Industry, in coordination with the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship and the Center for Future Leadership, will hold the first Negosyo sa Barangay entrepreneurship development training to develop the “entrepreneurial Pinoy.”
The four-day training aims to change mindsets and introduce entrepreneurship as a viable and sustainable source of income in barangays; enable barangay and SK officials to facilitate, improve and increase businesses in their respective areas by implementing entrepreneurship development programs; tap resources and products in their respective localities to be channeled into money-making enterprises; impart information vital in starting a business; build networks and linkages with various government agencies, private institutions and experts to help them realize their goals as starting entrepreneurs or as entrepreneur-enabler; and empower barangay residents through entrepreneurship.
Training schedule for Visayas participants, which is expected to include the Liga ng mga Barangay (LnB) and Sangguniang Kabataan provincial, city, municipal chapter and federation officials, was tentatively set April next year.
The Interior and Local Government, in Memorandum Circular 119-2011, is encouraging local chief executives to allow the LnB and SK officials to participate in said training.
"Payment of applicable travel expenses and registration fee of P7,400 per participant... may be authorized, chargeable against local funds, subject to the availability, accounting and auditing rules and regulations," the memorandum stated.
DILG, however, stressed the traveling expenses and registration fees shall not be charged against the 20 percent development fund of from other sources that could prejudice poverty reduction efforts.
Published in the Sun.Star Bacolod newspaper on September 23, 2011.
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