Performance management training for BTA staff held

Cotabato City  – The Office of the Parliament Speaker organized a three-day ‘Total Performance Management (TPM)’ training for Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) administrative officers on December 6 to 8, 2019 in Cotabato City.

The training, which aimed to further empower BTA staff to level up their organizational skills, was conducted in partnership with the Center for Global Best Practices (CGBP).

Prof. Raby Angkal, Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) Secretary General, said the government of the day must invest in its people’s capacity, intellect, and responsibility.

“This training serves as an instrument for us to give better and excellent output when we return to our respective workplace,” Angkal said.

Meanwhile, Henry Aquende, founder and president of CGBP, said, “at the end of the training, we will be better at work, be more productive in our initiatives, and will bear better results in working in our offices.”

Core values for performance

Dene Hurtado, managing director of TPM, underscored the four (4) core values practiced by successful businesses and organizations, which are ‘honesty, discipline, fairness and excellence’.

“These core values are also consistent with the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) core values: a united, enlightened, self-governing, peaceful, just, morally upright and progressive Bangsamoro Government,” Hurtado added.

The CGBP is an organization that advocates the use of best practices in enhancing global competitiveness of individuals, business organizations, and industries. (Bureau of Public Information)

4Ps beneficiaries in Maguindanao and Sulu to receive cash grants this November

Cotabato City  - The Bangsamoro Government’s Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) is set to release the cash grants of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries in the provinces of Maguindanao and Sulu within this month.

In a radio interview, lawyer Raissa Jajurie, MSSD minister, said they are taking measures to ensure that nothing will be deducted from what the beneficiaries are supposed to receive.

She said every beneficiary will receive the monthly P500 health grant, P300 pesos per child in daycare and elementary, and P500 per child in high school. A single household can have a maximum of 3 children as beneficiaries.

Jajurie said the cash grants for 4Ps beneficiaries in Lanao del Sur and Tawi-Tawi were released in October this year.

“Next to receive would be provinces of Maguindanao and Sulu this November but the exact dates of the release is yet to be finalized,” she said.

Jajurie said she issued a memorandum prohibiting the release of the cash grants to a ‘second person’ or anyone who acts as representative of the actual grantee.

Moreover, her office will be coordinating with the Ministry of Interior and Local Government (MILG) to ensure the orderly conduct of the 4Ps pay outs in the said provinces.

She said they will request the MILG to issue a memorandum requiring the barangay, municipal, provincial officials to facilitate the logistics and venue, adding “pero wag [silang] makialam sa actual payout cause it’s prohibited in the guidelines.” (Bureau of Public Information)