Information and news about the USAID Growth with Equity in Mindanao III (GEM 3) Project

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• ARMM Student Connects with World's Virtual and Real through IT

  COTABATO CITY—A striving student in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is given the key to virtual worlds—and ends up traveling “for real” to spend a life-changing year halfway across the globe.As the youngest of five children born to...

• Basilan's Gateway

  A cargo truck drives off the ferry from Zamboanga City onto the roll-on, roll-off (RORO) landing at Lamitan Port in Basilan. After USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program upgraded the port and outfitted it with the RORO ramp, vessels callin...

• Young Residents of Brgy. Pag-asa in the Provincial Capital of Bongao

  Young residents of Brgy. Pag-asa in the provincial capital of Bongao play at the community center which serves as a venue for public consultations, seminars, mobile health clinics and other communal activities. The facility was constructed by USAID’s Gr...

• Tough Love: Mindanao LGUs Generate Revenue from Local Sources

  PAGADIAN CITY, ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR—“No one should be exempted from paying taxes,” Mayor Nacianceno Pacalioga of Dumingag said firmly. Those are bracing words from the mayor of a small Zamboanga del Sur municipality, where 90 percent of the population ...

• Smoother Transport in Polomolok

  Until quite recently, farmers, students and other residents of Barangay Sumbakil in Polomolok, South Cotabato, and neighboring barangays had little choice but to wade through the muddy waters of Malbog Creek (inset) when traveling on this road link to the...

• Mindanao Produce on A Roll

  Lakatan bananas from North Cotabato are loaded onto a ventilated truck for consolidated shipment to Manila through the roll-on, roll-off (RoRo) inter-island network. Mindanao growers have been able to expand their market reach and ensure that their fresh ...

• Building Bridges, Re-Building Lives in Former Battleground

  MATANOG, MAGUINDANAO—Jamal Tolino, 22, recalls vividly the day he helped padlock the windows of the family’s sari-sari store in Sitio Sarmiento in this municipality nine years ago, as armed conflict between government troops and rebel fighters intensi...

• Economic Activity in the ARMM

  In Sitio Sarmiento in Matanog, Maguindanao, USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program built a 20-meter concrete bridge, with an additional 170 meters of concrete paving, along the Matanog-Barira provincial road, replacing a dilapidated bailey...