MOA on GREAT Women Project in Leyte signed

By Provincial Media Relations Center
December 3, 2010

TACLOBAN CITY  –  The provincial government of Leyte through Governor Carlos Jericho Petilla and the Philippine Commission on Women signed recently the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the GREAT Women Project reinforcing the partnership to promote and sustain programs that provide leverage, opportunities and resources for women in the province.

The Gender-Responsive Economic Actions for the Transformation of Women of the GREAT Women Project is a governance and capacity development project that aims to promote and support a gender-responsive enabling environment for women's economic empowerment, particularly those in microenterprises.

The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), the national machinery for the advancement of women in the Philippines, is the lead executing agency for the Project. The Commission partnered with key national government agencies involved in micro-, small- and medium-scale enterprise (MSME) development and select local government units to support the project.

The project is piloted in four municipalities in the province namely:  Barugo, Baybay, Capoocan and Tanauan, for a period of three (3) years.

The MOA provided for the signing of a Supplemental Agreement among all partners to specify the annual budget and deliverables of each LGU.

Also, one of the initial activity of the project is to enhance the websites of LGUs which seeks to enhance the LGU capacities in creating and organizing Gender and Development and GREAT Women Project web pages in the partner websites. This activity also aims to enhance LGU capabilities in organizing Gender and Development (GAD) and Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) resources in partner websites.

Gov. Petilla reiterated his support to the project saying that “women want a community where fulfillment of basic needs becomes basic rights and where poverty and all forms of violence are eliminated, where each person will have the opportunity to develop her or his full potential and creativity and where progress for women is recognized as progress for all.”