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Leading information technology and telecomm firms are partnering with USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program to prepare Mindanao’s future workforce for an IT-based economy, through agreements signed at the Dusit hotel in Makati this week...
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The Sanga-Sanga (Bongao) airport improvement project in Tawi-Tawi is extending the runway from 1,611 meters to 1,930 meters, and widening it to 30 meters. (GEM) Published in Business World, May 22-23, 2009 ...
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MAKATI CITY—Twenty-five participants from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and other conflict-affected areas in Mindanao celebrated their completion last week of the U.S.-supported Congressional Internship Program for Young Muslim Leaders (CIPYM...
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The International Food Exhibition 2009 held at the Mall of Asia SMX Convention Center in Manila showcased food products from Region X, including banana chips, seaweed snacks, herb products, dried and processed fruit, and purees and jams, like those sold b...
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The International Food Exhibition 2009 was formally opened by Camiguin Governor Jurdin Jesus Romualdo (holding ribbon) with (r-l) Roberto Amores, president of Philfoodex; Undersecretary Tomas Aquino of the Department of Trade and Industry; and Charles Fei...
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Students of Zamboanga del Sur National High School learn advanced software applications using computer resources provided by USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program though its Computer Literacy and Internet Connection (CLIC) Project. The sc...
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Hon. Prospero Nograles (center), Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Thomas Gibbons, Acting Deputy Chief of Missions, U.S. Embassy, led the completion ceremony for the 8th cycle of the the Congressional Internship Program for Young Muslim Leaders...
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Norhabeybe Abo (in foreground) and her friends at the Pikit Central Elementary School library in North Cotabato share a quiet hour reading books donated by U.S.-based Children International Foundation through USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM)...
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ZAMBOANGA CITY—Major airport runway improvements now ongoing in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi are expected to improve air linkages with the rest of the country, and help boost the economy of the Sulu Archipelago. The main airports in both provinces are being impro...
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Thomas Gibbons, Acting Deputy Chief of Missions, U.S. Embassy, and Christian Hougen, Chief of the Office of Economic Development and Governance, USAID/Philippines, chat with the some of the 25 “graduates” who completed the 8th cycle of the the Congres...
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Marcelino Remotigue, president of the Northern Mindanao Vegetable Industry Council (NorminVeggies) explains the advantages of "clustering” the harvests of individual growers to create economies of scale, at a recent vegetable marketing and quality impro...
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Al Ryan Gampong-Alonto, a Grade IV elementary student at the Amel Bahar Primary School, Bubunga, Marawi City reads a fully illustrated, hard bound book acquired by their school through a matching grant provided by the Parent-Teacher-Community Association ...
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What is believed to be the first commercial tilapia farm in Basilan province has been established by the Santa Clara Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Integrated Development Cooperative in Lamitan, with technical assistance from USAID’s Growth with Equity i...
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Once a muddy open area crowded with makeshift stalls of plastic sacking and bamboo, the Alibangbang trading center is now a concrete-and-steel structure providing a sheltered and more orderly business environment for the traders and farmers of Brgy. Sto. ...
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For 6,500 residents in the municipality of Buldon in central Mindanao, a bridge of suspended bamboo poles (left) used to be the main route across the Kaduongan River, although it couldn’t accommodate even bicycle traffic, and was occasionally dangerous ...
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Members of the Mapia Multi-Purpose Cooperative (above) harvest eggplant in Sumbakil, Polomolok. Philippine production of 10 major vegetables (including tomato, garlic, onion, eggplant, and cabbage) grew by 27 percent to P33 billion in 2007-08, reported th...
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Philippine production of 10 major vegetables (including tomato, garlic, onion, eggplant, and cabbage) grew by 27 percent to P33 billion in 2007-08, reported Dr. Rafael Espino (above), Director of the Department of Agriculture’s High-Value Commercial Cro...
