MANILA — The public will have a chance to take a glimpse of policies, programs and projects the government has implemented during the second year of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the Office of the Cabinet Secretary (OCS) and the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) have organized a series of forum in preparation for Duterte’s third State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 23.
Roque said the month long pre-SONA 2018 campaign called ‘Tatak ng Pagbabago’ will be held at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City.
“It will feature Cabinet clusters that will discuss their respective policies, programs and projects implemented during the Duterte administration’s second year and what they mean for the future of every Filipino,” Roque announced in a Place press briefing.
He said the first forum entitled ‘Tatak ng Pag-unlad’ to be held on July 6 will feature the economic cluster and infrastructure cluster.
“No less than the chairpersons of the three clusters namely Secretaries (Carlos) Dominguez and (Mark) Villar will present the accomplishments and plans for their respective clusters,” Roque said.
The second forum entitled ‘Tatak ng Malasakit at Pagkakaisa’ set for July 11 will feature the participatory governance headed by Department of the Interior and Local Government Officer-in-Charge Eduardo Año and the Human Development and Poverty Reduction cluster headed by Acting Secretary Virginia N. Orogo of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
The third and last forum entitled ‘Tatak ng Katatagan’ will be held on July 18 and will discuss the climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu will talk in behalf of the National Disaster Risk Resiliency cluster while Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana will tackle security, justice and peace.
“Each forum will include an open forum with select Secretaries of each cluster. And will be live streamed in the Facebook pages of the PCOO and its attached agencies such as PTV and Radyo Pilipinas,” Roque said. (Jelly Musico/PNA)
