NEDA Regional Office VIII, Government Center, 6501 Palo, Leyte, Philippines.Tel No. (63) (53) 323-3093, 323-3095 Tel/Fax No. 323-3093. Email: neda8@evis.net.ph


 




Two NEDA staff served
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the Website Development
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local governments ...
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Four NEDA VIII officials
and staff received
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NEDA staff provides
technical assistance
on Local Development
Strategy for pilot
local governments
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Promoting eco-tourism in Calicoan Island: Full speed ahead

Now I can say I was there. I am referring to what could be the most beautiful place in Eastern Visayas – Calicoan Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar.

Oh yes, I’ve been there before, many times in fact.

But it is a different and much better setting now because of its amenities and the tour packaging they have started to do, including the Aquaculture and Nature Park where you can enjoy being in lush greeneries (with monkeys loitering all around), then into a set of ponds where you can order bangus and tiger prawns (and eat them right there, or bring home as pasalubong). And the trek up 107 steps to a Sai Shanti Yoga Sanctuary to a porch that provides a panoramic view the island and the Pacific. more
GRDP CY 2005
(at constant prices)
P26.853 B
GRDP Growth Rate
4.0%
Inflation Rate (2000=100) (Nov. 2006)
4.7%
Poverty Incidence of Families (CY 2003)
35.3%
Poverty Threshold
(annual per capita)
P10,804.00
Employment Rate
(October 2006)
95.3%
Population 3,610,355
Population Growth Rate
1.51%


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NEDA VIII ICT PLAN 2005-2007

The wheel is spinning to make Region VIII’s dream of becoming a Medical Transcription (MT) Hub a reality.

Commissioner Nona S. Ricafort of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) promised to help organize an Educational Mission to the US and Canada for prospective Region VIII investors of MT business. She made the promise during the meeting with a group of local businessmen on June 5, 2006 at Leyte Normal University (LNU), in response to issues raised by Dr. Manuel Santamaria with regard to starting a local MT company.

Dr. Santamaria, a practicing physician and a local businessman, stated that without government support, it ... more.

FOURTH QUARTER 2006
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

More positive than negative signals about the economy were eminent during the period. Generally, the economy continued to be productive.

Looking at the bright side, the major contributors to the economy, especially the hog and poultry industry and fishery sectors sustained modest growth. Likewise, mineral production, public construction, air and land transport, exports, business climate, housing and tourism sectors performed well.

On the bleak side, major crops production was slow. Sea transport and energy sectors were ... more
 
NEDA VIII SIGNS MOA WITH KR2 BATCH 1 RECIPIENTS
The first batch of recipients of the Japanese-funded Productivity Enhancement Project Kennedy Round 2 or NEDA-KR2 project signed a Memorandum of Agreement with NEDA Regional Office VIII last month. The first recipients were the local government of Capoocan for the project Seaweed and Oyster Culture; the Eastern Samar State University - Salcedo Campus for the project ... more
NEDA VIII RECEIVES P2 MILLION FOR FIRST FOUR NEDA-KR2 PROJECTS

NEDA Regional Office VIII Director Buenaventura C. Go-Soco, Jr. officially received from NEDA Director General Romulo Neri the amount of Two Million Two Hundred Sixty Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Thirty Four Pesos (P2,269,734) for the funding of the first four approved projects for Eastern Visayas under the NEDA-KR2 Program. This was in a ceremonial turn-over held last January 29, 2007 at NEDA sa Pasig...   more

NEDA CONDUCTS DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
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The NEDA Regional Office VIII particularly the economic development division coordinated and conducted a regional workshop on mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in sub-national development and land use planning in the Philippines last December 12, 2006 at Ritz Tower De Leyte The workshop was a preparatory activity of the project proposal with the same title to be funded by the ....   more
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By the closing of year 2006, the NEDA Regional Office VIII has endorsed to Central Office fourteen (14) initial projects worth P5M for funding under the Productivity Enhancement Project otherwise known as NEDA-KR2 project. The NEDA-KR2 project which is under the RP-Japan Grant Assistance for Underprivileged Farmers, officially started at NEDA VIII in October 2006.

The fourteen endorsed projects emerged from around two hundred (200) project concepts received by NEDA VIII from November to December 2006. These were chosen after a series of screening activities undertaken by the office.

The first activity was a series of orientation forums held at NEDA in November 2006 attended by local chief executives/representatives of local government units (LGUs) as well as state colleges and universities (SUCs). During the forums, participants submitted project concepts for initial evaluation by the NEDA staff.

Within five working days from submission of project concepts, LGUs who got positive evaluation on their project concepts were advised to prepare the full-blown project proposals.

Proponents were also asked to present their proposals orally before a panel consisting of NEDA-KR2 project management and implementation team members and technical experts from government agencies like the Department of Agriculture (DA), Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

For projects that scored favorably in the above stages, the NEDA-KR2 teams visited the projects on-site to verify the information in the proposals. Finally, in a plenary session, the NEDA-KR2 teams ranked the proposals based on a Prioritization Criteria crafted by them.

Internally at the NEDA VIII, the KR2 teams underwent training on project evaluation with focus on the evaluation of the market, technical, organizational and financial viability of projects ...  more


Products from caramilk for sale at Leyte State University-Philippine Carabao Center Dairy Nook..

Fresh pulp of jackfruit being washed in preparation for drying and vacuum frying.

Eucheuma fresh from the sea...for drying and processing into pickles.


 

 

 

 

 

 



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For the second time, NEDA VIII hosted the meeting of NEDA Regional Directors (MNRD) on May 29, 2007 at the Calicoan Surf Camp in Guiuan, Eastern, Samar. Before and after the meeting proper, the delegates from different NEDA Regional Offices and the Central Office were given a tour of a number of sites in Eastern Visayas. They were also given a taste of native delicacies and sample of native products. More photos.
 


Selected NEDA VIII staff who were trained on website development using PHP/MySQL and Mambo from November 21 to 26 and December 5 to 9 last year received their Certificates of Completion on January 9, 2006 after presenting their respective outputs before their trainers from the Eastern Visayas State University as well as before the heads of offices of EVSU and NEDA VIII.  More photos.
 
On February 18, 2005, NEDA-8 hosted the Forum on Headline Inflation and Unemployment, an advocacy activity sponsored by the Statistical Research and Training Center, the National Statistics Office and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Speakers included NSO Administrator Carmelita Ericta and Mr. Basilio of the Bangko Sentral, Central Office. More photos.
 

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