The Alternative Learning System (ALS) is the Department of Education’s flagship program offering non-formal education to out-of- school Filipino youth and adults who have failed to complete basic education. To enhance ALS, DepEd is piloting an initiative that integrates a skills training component to the ALS education interventions. Dubbed ALS-Education and Skills Training or ALS-EST, continue reading : Department of Education Alternative Learning System – Education and Skills Training (ALS-EST): Call for Partnerships
DAP Board of Trustees designates SVP Magdalena Mendoza as Officer-in-Charge
The Board of Trustees of the Development Academy of the Philippines has designated SVP Magdalena L. Mendoza as the Officer-in-Charge of the Academy, through a letter sent by the Office of the President of the Philippines last December 21. Below is a copy of the said letter.
PMDP senior executive class faculty review curriculum
Philippine Normal University President Ester B. Ogena, along with four other experts, headed the Senior Executive Class (SEC) curriculum review of the Public Management Development Program (PMDP) last November 18 at the DAP Conference Center in Tagaytay City. The initiative is part of the PMDP’s proactive move to continually strengthen its program design to make continue reading : PMDP senior executive class faculty review curriculum
Public sector experts urge government agencies to measure productivity
University of the Philippines assistant professor Dr. Tina Clemente and Development Academy of the Philippines Senior Vice President for Programs Magdalena Mendoza encouraged government offices to measure productivity in order to track their performance, and also to discover opportunities for improvement as well as document their best practices. Clemente and Mendoza served as the resource continue reading : Public sector experts urge government agencies to measure productivity
Philippines hosts international conference on public sector productivity
Tagaytay City, Philippines – The Philippines, through the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) and the Asian Productivity Organization (APO), successfully hosted the International Conference on Public Sector Productivity (ICPSP) on October 10-12 at the DAP Conference Center in Tagaytay City. DAP President and Chief Executive Officer Elba S. Cruz opened the conference with the continue reading : Philippines hosts international conference on public sector productivity
DAP conducts strategic planning workshop for Surigao del Norte provincial government
The Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP), through its Center for Governance-Local Governance and Development Office, conducted the Strategic Planning Workshop for the Provincial Government of Surigao del Norte on 21-23 August 2017 at the Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao, Davao City. Surigao del Norte Governor Sol Matugas emphasized the message shared by Mayor Casimiro A. continue reading : DAP conducts strategic planning workshop for Surigao del Norte provincial government
DAP holds Baguio training on regulatory impact analysis
The Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP), through its program on Modernizing Government Regulations (MGR) and in partnership with the Asian Productivity Organization, recently conducted a four-day training course on Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) for regulatory agencies at the Baguio Burnham Suites Hotel in Baguio City. The training, the third for this year after two continue reading : DAP holds Baguio training on regulatory impact analysis
DAP conducts seminar on public corporate governance for social housing agency
The Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP), through its Center for Governance- Operations Management Office, facilitated the “Orientation-Seminar on Public Corporate Governance” for the Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) last August at the Marco Polo Hotel Ortigas. The two-day activity was designed to equip appointive directors of government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) with the knowledge continue reading : DAP conducts seminar on public corporate governance for social housing agency
‘ASEAN Way’ needs to be modified or abandoned – Mercado
Former Senator and Graduate School of the Development Academy of the Philippines Dean Orlando Mercado declared that there is a need to either “modify or reinvent” the so-called “ASEAN Way” or completely abandon the long-held principle based on consultation and consensus-based decision making while establishing “a more concrete, systematic and productive mechanism” for addressing conflicts continue reading : ‘ASEAN Way’ needs to be modified or abandoned – Mercado
2 DAP alumni assume sensitive military positions
“New ISAFP chief fit for the job.” This was the description issued by the Armed Forces of the Philippines about the incoming intelligence chief of the military, Brig. Gen. Macairog Alberto, one of two alumni of the Development Academy of the Philippines Graduate School of Public and Development Management under its Development and Security Programs continue reading : 2 DAP alumni assume sensitive military positions