DAP turns-over 5-year BAI strategic plan (March 21, 2016)

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The Development Academy of the Philippines, as a highlight of the Bureau of Animal Industry’s 86th anniversary celebrations last March 1, turned over the agency’s 2016-2020 Strategic Plan in simple ceremonies held at the BAI Office at Visayas Avenue in Quezon City.  DAP President Antonio D. Kalaw Jr. made the turnover to BAI Acting Director IV Rubina O. Cresencio and Assistant Director Simeon S. Amurao Jr.

The BAI’s five-year strategic plan is the main deliverable of the project “Formulating the Strategic Plan of the Bureau of Animal Industry” that was undertaken by the Academy’s Center for Governance-Operations Management Office (CfG-OMO).  The intervention helped the BAI define its strategic direction for the next five years and to formulate its delivery unit scorecards aligned with its crafted strategic plan.

 

DAP President Antonio Kalaw, Jr. turns over a copy of the BAI’s strategic plan to Acting Director IV Rubina Cresencio in exchange for the latter’s certificate of project completion as BAI Acting Director III Simeon Amurao Jr. looks on. The turnover was made in rites at the bureau’s 86h anniversary celebrations.
DAP President Antonio Kalaw, Jr. turns over a copy of the BAI’s strategic plan to Acting Director IV Rubina Cresencio in exchange for the latter’s certificate of project completion as BAI Acting Director III Simeon Amurao Jr. looks on. The turnover was made in rites at the bureau’s 86h anniversary celebrations.

Strategic intervention

Kalaw, in his turnover speech, emphasized the role of the DAP as a facilitator for strategic intervention, underscoring the fact that the importance of any intervention lies in its implementation and execution.  The Academy’s top man expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome the BAI has extended to the DAP and emphasized that its doors will always be open to the organization for any future assistance that the Academy could provide.

Dr. Cresencio opened the anniversary, which had the theme “Gearing Towards a More Vibrant and Competitive Animal Industry in 2020,” by sharing her thoughts about how the organization has grown, and how for the past two to three months it had undergone the strategic planning exercise that the DAP just concluded with the turnover.

The BAI‘s Strategy Map is unveiled during the same program. In photo are (from left) Department of Agriculture Assistant Secretary for Livestock Davinio Catbagan, DA Undersecretary/Chief of Staff Dennis Guerrero, DA Undersecretary for Operations (Livestock) Jose Reaño, DAP President Antonio Kalaw, BAI Acting Director IV Rubina Cresencio, and Assistant Secretary for Regulations/Executive Director of the National Meat Inspection Service Minda S. Manantan.
The BAI‘s Strategy Map is unveiled during the same program. In photo are (from left) Department of Agriculture Assistant Secretary for Livestock Davinio Catbagan, DA Undersecretary/Chief of Staff Dennis Guerrero, DA Undersecretary for Operations (Livestock) Jose Reaño, DAP President Antonio Kalaw, BAI Acting Director IV Rubina Cresencio, and Assistant Secretary for Regulations/Executive Director of the National Meat Inspection Service Minda S. Manantan.

Basis for direction

She revealed how proud she is for the organization to have finally crafted a document that will serve as basis for the direction the BAI will take and which will guide whoever takes her place. She stressed that the livestock industry is in the midst of stiff competition and that its stakeholders must be willing to change and adapt to future technological standards in order to stay relevant.

Dennis M. Guerrero, chief of staff of the Department of Agriculture who represented the DA in place of DA Secretary Proceso Alcala, meanwhile, keynoted the program by specifically underscoring how the BAI should “sustain its efforts” in maintaining the country’s freedom from foot and mouth disease as well as the avian influenza that have beset other countries.  Guerrero said that the BAI owes it to the industry’s stakeholders to preserve such an advantage.

 At the forefront

On the other hand, Davinio P. Catbagan, Assistant Secretary for Livestock, spoke about how the BAI is continuously at the forefront of maintaining the health status of animals in the country, spearheading various animal welfare activities, genetic improvement, artificial insemination programs and regulatory functions.

The celebration was attended by the organization’s senior and key officers, staff and key stakeholders and beneficiaries.  Kalaw, along with Guerrero, Catbagan, DA Undersecretary for Operations (Livestock) Jose C. Reaño, and  Minda S. Manantan, Assistant Secretary for Regulations and Executive Director of the National Meat Inspection Service, led the guests. – Peter Dan Baon