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• Even Small Mindanao LGUs can Boost Local Revenue Generation—and Still Gain Public Support

  DUMINGAG, ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR—Veteran tax collector Reynaldo Saren tugs at the reins of his horse as he navigates a hillside trail in one of this municipality’s upland barangays.  The locals he meets along the way smile and wave at Saren, one of the fe...

• Through the Digital Doorway

  The students of Momungan Academy, in Barangay Momungan, Balo-i, Lanao Del Norte, can now do online research, establish email accounts and communicate with other students throughout the world using the computers and wireless broadband internet access provi...

• Agriculture Boost

  Leo Eduria (3rd from left), executive director of the Northern Mindanao Vegetable Producers Association (NorminVeggies), and Arcadio Rodulfa (far right), agriculture specialist of USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program, turn over food-grad...

• Highland Collector Rides Again

  Municipal tax collector Reynaldo Saren does his rounds in Barangay Dilud, in Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur. The municipal government partnered with USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program, through its Revenue Enhancement and Progress (REAP) p...

• More Efficient Tax Collection

  Municipal tax collectors Joselito San Jose (center) and Benjamin Geografia (right) collect taxes from farmer Eufemia Bomez-Toos in Libertad, one of 44 barangays in Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur. The municipal government partnered with USAID’s Growth with ...

• Efficiency and Transparency Raise Municipal Revenue

  Gil Basay, officer-in-charge of the municipal water system in Molave, Zamboanga del Sur, proudly shows visitors its newly upgraded and computerized office, funded out of increased water revenues. The municipal government is partnering with USAID’s Growt...

• More Efficient Trade in Basilan

  Residents of Barangay Amaloy, in Unkaya Pukan, Basilan, are enjoying safer and more efficient water transport with the help of a new boat landing built by USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program under its Barangay Infrastructure Project (BI...

• Safer COMVAL Crossing

  Farmers and other residents of Barangay Las Arenas in Pantukan, Compostela Valley Province, used to cross the Tagugpo Creek over a rough-hewn wooden bridge (inset)  to reach the barangay proper. When the creek swelled on rainy days, the old bridge became...

• Year-Round Stability

  The new 48-meter suspension footbridge (right photo), a Barangay Infrastructure Project (BIP) constructed by USAID's Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program, ensures that approximately 2,900 residents of the barangays of Cadayunan,Tambo, Pantao, Pant...

• Mall-Bound Vegetables

  Roy Moreno (2nd from left) and farmers belonging to the Vegetable Industry Council of South Cotabato (VICSCo) show samples to Nanette de Jesus (2nd from right) of Banana Creations, a fresh produce concessionaire of newly-opened Robinson's Supermarket in G...

• Ex-Fighters Find Commercial Success in Milkfish Culture

  Members of the Kawas Fisherfolk Association and Farmers’ Association, comprised of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) former combatants living in Kawas, Sarangani Province, show off the bangus they cultured in Sarangani Bay. USAID’s Growth with Equ...