Consistent with its mandate, the Development Academy of the Philippines, through the Center for Governance-Operations Management Office, has helped another institution, the Bureau of Animal Industry, redefine its directions by  facilitating a strategic planning workshop for the agency under the Department of  Agriculture.

The workshop, which was held last December 1-4 at the Baden-Powell International Hotel in Los Baños, Laguna, redefined the bureau’s strategic direction for the next five years as it tried to provide what Undersecretary for  Operations Jose Reaño called context to “ensure that the strategic plan that (would) be crafted is harmonized with the livestock program being   implemented by the DA.”

 

53 participants

A total of 53 participants attended the workshop.  They represented the various offices and divisions in the Bureau of Animal Industry, including Animal Feeds, Veterinary Drugs, and Biologics  Control Division, Animal Health and Welfare Division, Veterinary Laboratory Division, Livestock Research and Development Division, National Veterinary Quarantine Services Division along with its regional quarantine stations, and the bureau’s Human Resources, Budget and Accounting, and Planning Offices.

The participants were able to refine during the four-day activity the bureau’s vision and mission as well as core values statements, determine strategic objectives, formulate measures, set targets and identify initiatives to “operationalize the agreed strategic direction for the next five years.”