Mindanaotoday.com | Dev’t orgs, gov’t aim for sustainability of LDS econ growth
By Claire Gigje
Intending to thoroughly tackle the concern, a provincial economic forum was recently spearheaded to convene members of the Task Force Bangon Marawi’s (TFBM’s) Subcommittee on Business and Livelihood and pitch in feasible ideas for the sustainability of the economic progress of the province which shall then be integrated to the existing sustainability plan of the subcommittee.
“It is basically the input session as well as we are going to be identifying, brainstorming to come up with ways on how we can specifically do that… That is why we are doing this now because we want to share to them this particular good news, try to dissect and understand how that happened, and come up with ways on how the province can have a lasting kind of improvement,” he said.
As such, he conveyed that the recent forum was not the first to have been held as in October 2021, they have already gathered the same target participants to come up with a sustainability plan and specific formula for the creation of programs and activities specifically for IDP enterprises in Lanao del Sur.
Ilagan also stressed that the prior convention has not anticipated the development of the province in its economy where it managed to lift itself from the list of top 10 poorest provinces of the country, thus, the need for another economic forum to factor in this situation.
With the event, the economic development leader expressed his happiness and optimism that they may be able to keep the betterment the province of Lanao del Sur deserves.
“We are very thankful to the donor community, particularly members of the Mindanao humanitarian team Lanao cluster for enthusiastically participating in this process. We hope that this will have very significant outputs that we can use and eventually present to the Task Force Bangon Marawi’s Subcommittee on Business and Livelihood. This will translate eventually to a plan of action for all of us moving forward,” he said. (CRG | PIA-10 | Lanao del Sur)
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