Municipal officials, department heads of LGU Binalonan attended the Program for Newly-Elected Officials (NEO) Orientatation Course: Priming Leaders for Effective Local Governance  held at the Sangguniang Bayan Session Hall

Spearheaded by the Municipal Interior and Local Government Office (MILGO) the three-day seminar from October 16 to 18 aimed to enhance the competencies of newly-elected officials in carrying out their tasks in community development while promoting peace and resilience towards inclusive and sustainable development.

Department heads were tapped to attend the seminar to communicate and consult with the local officials for the implementation of their Agenda and Action Plans.

Mayor Ramon N. Guico Jr. welcomed all the participants of the training and commended that this program for NEO serves as a continuing intervention of the DILG, which provides coordinated and all-inclusive capacity development delivery mechanism for the LGU.

Leading the discussion and workshop for the 1^st day, DILG Provincial Director Randy S. Dela Rosa said,  “There is a greater challenge that lies ahead after winning in the local elections. There are bigger battles to overcome, more problems to be solved and more issues to be tackled. You must be aware of your evolving roles as local leaders not merely attending sessions once a week. “

The director also reminded the participants that this training serves as a venue to understand the priorities of the current administration to come up with a term-based development road map consistent with the current agenda of the national government.

Dela Rosa tackled on the topics: DILG Indicative Framework, NEO Program Framework, Decentralization, Guideposts in Good Local Governance,General Welfare and development Services (R.A 7160), Phillipines.

Meanwhile, MPDC Engr. Elizabeth Aquino presented Binalonan’s Vision and Mission after the sharing of the LCE’s Development Commitment – the  1^st 100 Days and Executive Agenda by Councillors Jovelyn Manaois and Josephine Caburnay respectively.

During the 2^nd day of the seminar, the speaker, Cluster Leader of DILG Pangasinan, Roger A. Daquioag discussed the Executive Legislative Agenda (ELA) Formulation which included the Overview of ELA, JMC 2016 and CPD Processes and Asessment.

Workshop on Setting and Revisitng the LGU Vision & Mission, was done  followed by a workshop on Project Identification, Sifting of Interventions on Programs/Projects/Activities, Project and Non-Project and another workshop on Legislative Requirements.

Representative of the 5^th District Ramon “Mon-Mon” Guico III graced the occasion briefly and provided suggestions and insights in framing the town’s vision and mission.

The 3^rd day speaker, Melinda Badua, DILG City Director of San Carlos City deliberated on the Capacity Development Agenda (CDA) followed by a workshop on Revisiting, Updating and Crafting of the CDA and the Prioritization of Program and Projects.

After all the workshops were done, a synthesis of the Action Plans presented by 5 groups of department heads on social, environment, infrastructure, economic and institutional  was led by Vice Mayor Melicio F. Patague II, who also  shared on the success story of Binalonan under former Mayor Ramon V. Guico III, now 5^th District Representative of Binalonan.

The three-day activity ended with the Commitment Setting headed by the municipal officials followed by the distribution of the Certificates of Participation.

MLGO Head Marivic Guerrero and LGOO II Kate Perez facilitated the NEO Orientation Course with the assistance of Nicole Borja.