Tagbilaran, Bohol impress

Livable Cities Philippines

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, June 5 (PIA) – Tagbilaran City, and the entire Bohol impresses Livable Cities Philippines Chairman Guillermo Luz, who stood as moderator in the USAID-Philippines collaboration in Urban Connect Project, which aims to promote and develop local economies and improve service delivery in 9 pilot cities in the country, including Tagbilaran City.

While foreign assistance then uses generally imposed programs, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) now adopts local capacity strengthening policy to empower local actors to take the lead in achieving program goals, and picks three cities in the country’s major island groups to establish corridors of development while attempting to decentralize processes.

As these cities strive to raise their urban quality of life based on ratings of stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure, the local lab brings these best practices across the 9 pilot cities to they can all learn from each other and enhance local solutions to an elevated urban life in livable cities.

Luz, Livable Cities chairman, resilience officer of the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation, Ayala Corporation consultant and trustee of leading economic advisory groups in Asia and the Pacific, hailed Bohol’s strategic change agenda as shared by environmental planner and Bohol Provincial Environment and Management Officer Jovencia Ganub, its disaster and risk mitigation in the TARSIER 117 as well as other initiatives that sustain Bohol’s economic cruise.

For Tagbilaran City, Major Jane Cajes-Yap’s streamlining business processes, digitalization in payments, education initiatives that get free and quality education to the kindergartens as well as until college, health care and its innovative trash upcycling.

Coming to Tagbilaran and to the eight other pilot cities, Liveable Cities Philippines, in partnership with USAID Philippines through the Urban Connect Project, brought in its Liveable Cities LocalLab and listened to "Building a Future-Ready Bohol-Spotlight: Tagbilaran City, " last 5 June, the two-hour activity was also attended by representatives of the 8 other pilot cities who attended via online.

The USAID, through the Urban Connect Project, is also implementing local empowerment activities that promote inclusive and resilient economic growth in Tagbilaran and eight other secondary cities, consistent with Urban Connect’s main objectives of enhancing local economic development and improving public service delivery in its partner cities.

These cities include Batangas, Puerto Princesa, and Legazpi in Luzon, Iloilo, Tacloban, and Tagbilaran in the Visayas as well as Zamboanga, Cagayan de Oro and General Santos in Mindanao. (PIABohol)

MAKING IT TAGBILARAN, With the City’s implemented shortened and simplified business processes alone, it hase generated increases in revelues, something that could also elevate Tagbilaran in the eyes of investors. (PIABohol)

INCREASED REVENUES. By digitalization of permitting processes, City Mayor Jane Yap has seen huge improvements in generated revenues, something that the city can also use to channel its social and health services from these events. (PIABOHOL)