Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) National Secretariat Director-General and Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Laura Q. Del Rosario served as resource speaker at a lecture-forum titled “The Philippine Priorities and the APEC Agenda” last September 29 at the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP)  in Pasig. The event was  attended by government organization representatives and DAP officers and continue reading : DFA Usec. Del Rosario presents APEC Agenda (October 12, 2015)

Some 30 program and project officers from the Department of Health (DOH) central and   regional offices  wen t through   an  intensive  six-day  course  on  project  management at  the  Development  Academy  of  the  Philippines (DAP) conference  center in Tagaytay City on 24-29 August 2015. The course, titled “Capability Enhancement on Project Management for DOH continue reading : DOH personnel gain skills on project management (September 24, 2015)

Development Academy of the Philippines – Center for Governance (DAP-CFG)  ran the Third Structured Learning Visit (SLV3) for Lao Government Partners to the Republic of the Philippines on Decentralization, Regional Planning, and Territorial Management for some 15 Lao government officials and Lao PDR-based German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) advisers from  August 2 to 12, 2015. continue reading : Lao delegation study Philippine decentralization experience (September 22, 2015)

Tagaytay City— The Development Academy of the Philippines welcomed 38 new scholars of the Public Management and Development Program’s (PMDP) Middle Managers Class (MMC) Batch 10 on September 5, 2015 at the DAP Conference   Center (DAPCC) in Tagaytay City. The scholars, who came from different government agencies, went through a rigorous process prior to getting continue reading : PMDP-MMC Batch 10 opens (September 17, 2105)

Some 71 regional directors and technical staff from the regional offices of the Department of Tourism (DOT) and central and regional offices of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) gathered for the “Planning Workshop for the Roll-Out of the Tourism Guidebook for Local Government Units” at the Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria on continue reading : DOT and DILG join forces for local tourism development (August 20, 2015)

The Department of Tourism (DOT), in partnership with the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP)  and   the   Department  of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), launched the “Tourism Guidebook for Local Government Units” on July 09, 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria. The guidebook provides concepts, methods, step-by-step processes and worksheets that will aid continue reading : Tourism Guidebook for LGUs finally rolls out (August 19, 2015)

Some  167  senior  and  middle  management government executives gathered for the first Public Management Development Program (PMDP) Leadership conference at the DAP Conference Center last August 6-7 in Tagaytay City. The  two-day  conference had the theme “Better Leaders. Better Government.” It is part of PMDP’s Continuing Education  Program  to  hone  and  support  its  alumni  that  continue reading : PMDP Welcomes Back Alumni in First Leadership Conference (August 18, 2015)

Move over, traditional sports.  The old, Filipino street games of one’s younger days may be a bit more fun than the usual sports inherited from the country’s former colonizers. This  was the gist of the Development Academy of the Philippines’ Larong Pinoy Olympics 2015, the government think tank’s sportsfest that marked its 42nd anniversary recently. continue reading : Indigenous games for DAP sportsfest (July 31, 2015)