DOLE-8 and EVOSHNET’s budget partnership agreement to enhance transparency in governance

By Philippine Information Agency (PIA 8)
February 20, 2012

TACLOBAN CITY  –  The Department of Labor and Employment Regional Office No. 8 and the Eastern Visayas Occupational Safety and Health Network (EVOSHNET), recently forged a budget partnership agreement in pursuit of President Benigno Aquino III’s thrust to integrate citizen participation in the budget process as a means of enhancing transparency and accountability in the allocation and utilization of public funds.

The parties were represented by DOLE-8 Regional Director Exequiel R. Sarcauga and EVOSHNET President Angelita N. Dimzon during the signing of the agreement on February 15, 2012 at the Coca-Cola Plant, Tacloban City, DOLE-8 Information Officer Virgilio Doroja Jr., said.

DOLE Regional Director Exequiel R. Sarcauga informed that the labor department is partnering with Civil Society Organization like the EVOSHNET to help enhance efficiency and effectiveness in government and to curb corruption through its efforts in monitoring agency programs, activities and projects.

EVOSHNET is a non-stock, non-profit organization composed on occupational safety and health practitioners from private and government sectors, representatives from related professional groups, industry associations, employer groups, trade unions and related non-government organization within the region.

“We are also forging this agreement in response to the directive of DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz to pursue one of the President’s policy reform agenda on labor and employment, that is, the intensification of public-private partnership in labor governance,” Director Sarcauga added.