Pagadian City – The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Region 9 thru the Project Development and Monitoring Unit (PDMU) will conduct series of advocacy training on Human Rights – Based Local Water Sanitation Governance in Bay Plaza Hotel, Pagadian City in two batches.
The first batch will be attended from recipient LGUs of Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga Sibugay Province on November 4-7, 2014 while another batch on November 11-14 from the recipient LGUs of Zamboanga del Sur.
The recipient LGUs are Bacungan, Baliguian, Manukan, Roxas, Tampilisan and Sergio Osmeña of Zamboanga del Norte; municipalities of Zamboanga Sibugay namely : Mabuhay, Malangas, Naga, Olutanga and Talusan.
In Zamboanga del Sur are the municipalities of Aurora, Dinas, Dumalinao, Kumalarang, Labangan, Mahayag, Margosatubig, Molave, Sominot, Tabina, Tambulig and Tukuran. Also included is the City of Isabela.
Some 60 participants are expected to join in the first batch and 55 on the second batch which include the Mayor or the Sangguniang Bayan Member on Appropriation, the City/municipal engineer, Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator, and Municipal Local Government Operations Officers.
Primarily to orient and train the participants and gain appreciation to human rights – based approach on WATSAN governance, the training – workshop also helps the participants in the formulation of strategic communication plan for sustainable WATSAN service delivery of the recipient municipalities.
Regional Director Paisal O. Abutazil emphasized that the provision of water supply and sanitation services are one of the very basic needs of the people, thus, with the declaration of WATSAN as human rights, this put the people at the center of development.
“ In region 9, implemented water projects covered 35 LGUs in 2013 under the Bottom Up Budgeting and another 45 LGUs this year. By this transition, the government is also fulfilling the right to water and sanitation of the people with this new development” he said.
He added that the DILG is committed to integrate and mainstream the human-rights based approach in the capacity development programs intended for the participating municipalities under Sagana at Ligtas na Tubig (SALINTUBIG) and Grassroots Participatory Budgeting Process (GPBP) program.
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