Thursday, November 15, 2007 WB, Usep launches 'Panibagong Paraan' By Grace L. Plata
THE World Bank and the Knowledge for Development Center (KDC) of the University of Southeastern Philippines (Usep) is initiating a project grant competition dubbed as "Panibagong Paraan 2008."
KDC Coordinator Resty Macarayo said the competition is open for local government units, people's organizations, non-government organizations, and civil society groups.
With the theme "Building Partnerships for Effective Local Governance," Panibagong Paraan 2008 aims to solicit, recognize, and support initiatives and ideas that help improve the people's quality of life through effective local governance.
"Mostly sa grassroots level na projects which deals with basic social services," Macarayo said.
Proposed projects should build and utilize multi-stakeholder partnerships to: improve transparency and accountability in governance, broaden and improve quality of citizen participation in governance, strengthen collaboration among stakeholders and improve responsiveness and efficiency of public services.
Macarayo said World Bank executives will pick the winning proposal by the end of the year.
"Yung mananalo na group, papuntahin sa Manila where they will showcase their project and show how they will implement it. World Bank will become their partner in the project by giving them a grant of up to 1 million pesos for one year implementation period," Macarayo said.
