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UP PLANADES signs MoC with
House of Representatives and DILG
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In
photo are PLANADES President and SURP Dean Candido A. Cabrido, Jr.; House Speaker Prospero
C. Nograles; DILG
Undersecretary Marius P. Corpus and officers of SURP, PLANADES, and
members of the House Special Committee on Land Use who witnessed the
signing.
May 13, 2008
--- The University of the Philippines Planning and Development
Research Foundation (U.P. PLANADES) signs a Memorandum of
Cooperation (MoC) with the
House of Representatives through the Special
Committee on Land Use and the
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) on
capacity-building program of local government units in the
preparation of Comprehensive Development Plans (CDPs) and
Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUPs). UP PLANADES is the School of
Urban and Regional Planning’s foundation engaged in research
and extension services,
academic development, consultancy, and training in environmental,
urban and regional planning.
The MoC states
that the Special Committee on Land Use and the UP PLANADES shall
carry out the capacity-building training programs while the DILG
shall ensure the participation of LGUs.
Signatories to the
memorandum are Dean Candido A. Cabrido, Jr., Speaker Prospero C.
Nograles and DILG Sec. Ronaldo V. Puno, who was represented by Usec.
Marius P. Corpus. Also present to witness the signing of the
memorandum were PLANADES Executive Director Benjamin V. Carino,
PLANADES Vice President Rosario D. Jimenez, Prof. Ernesto M. Serote,
the SURP Director of Training, Rep. Antonio H. Cerilles, the Special Committee
chair who spearheaded the MoC. Committee members Reps. Joseph
Emilio A. Abaya (1st District Cavite), Florencio C. Garay
(2nd District Surigao del Sur), Philip A. Pichay (1st District
Surigao del Sur), Edgar L. Valdez (PL-APEC), and House
members Reps. Vicente F. Belmonte, Jr. (1st District Lanao del
Norte), Mark O. Cojuangco (5th District Pangasinan), Jack
R. Duavit (1st District Rizal), Florencio G. Noel (PL-AN
WARAY), Jesus Crispin C. Remulla (3rd District Cavite),
Victor J. Yu (1st District Zamboanga del Sur) graced the event.
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Speaker Nograles, USec. Corpus, and Dean Cabrido, took turns in signing the Memorandum of Cooperation. |
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Congress to act on
land use code
House
to cooperate with Local Government
department and UP to resolve land use issues
THE House of
Representatives, spearheaded by Speaker
Prospero Nograles, together with the
Department of Interior and Local Government
and the University of the Philippines, have
agreed to join forces to work for the
ultimate enactment of a National Land Use
Code, which will serve as a guide for the
judicious and appropriate utilization of the
country’s land resources.
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UP declared National University
Admin urges community to work hard for
Charter implementation
UP is officially the national
university of the Philippines.
On April 29, 2008, just in time for the UP
Centennial, “The University of the
Philippines Charter of 2008” was enacted
after several years in the legislative mill.
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text
Fire Code up for upgrade through four Senate
bills
Senate Bill (SB) 1477 by
Francis Joseph G. Escudero, (SB) 1740 by
Miriam Defensor-Santiago, SB 1954 by Ramon
B. Revilla, Jr. and SB 2196 by Senate
President Manuel B. Villar, Jr. all propose
changes in land use, disaster preparedness,
budget and reengineering of the Bureau of
Fire Protection (BFP).
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Arroyo signs new UP Charter
CEBU CITY -- President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo has signed into law the new
University of the Philippines Charter that
would grant the university additional funds
and strengthen the composition of its Board
of Regents.
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PGMA-signed
‘U.P. Charter 2008’ grants P500-M & greater
autonomy to U.P. system
April 29, 2008 -- The
proposed University of the Philippines
Charter of 2008 -- which President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo had just signed into law
today at the UP Cebu campus in Cebu City --
provides a P500-million ‘centennial gift’ to
the UP System that will defray the cost of
modernizing the country’s state university,
especially its research facilities.
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Gov’t orders immediate stop to land
conversion
MANILA -- Taking a cue from
the experts, Agrarian Reform Secretary
Nasser Pangandaman Tuesday ordered an
immediate stop to the conversion of
agricultural lands to real estate
development in the face of a feared shortage
in the supply of rice.
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Land titles stir tribal communities
In
Barangay Salvacion in
Trento,
Agusan del Sur,
people are now
astir by an outside force that they see as
potentially disastrous to their tightly knit
relationship and to the generous mountains
that surround the place. A lumad leader told
residents that their village is within his
group’s ancestral domain. He showed a
certificate of ancestral domain title (CADT)
approved by the National Commission for the
Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) on July 22, 2003.
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DA-DENR-DILG issue Joint Administrative
Order No. 1
The joint AO,
issued on January 31, 2008, defines and
identifies the areas of cooperation and
collaboration among the Departments of
Agriculture, Environment and Natural
Resources, and Interior and Local Government
in the planning, management and control of
aquaculture development to mitigate impacts
on the environment.
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