(PAGASA 24-HOUR PUBLIC WEATHER FORECAST as of Friday, 11 July 2025) The Southwest Monsoon (Habagat) continues to affect Mindanao. FORECAST: The Zamboanga Peninsula will experience cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the Southwest Monsoon. These conditions may lead to possible flash floods or landslides, especially during moderate to occasionally heavy rainfall. The rest of Mindanao will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms also influenced by the Southwest Monsoon. Winds will be light to moderate from the southwest, with slight to moderate seas (wave height between 0.6 to 2.1 meters).


Friday, September 30, 2022

Caraga LGUs gear up for devolution  

BUENAVISTA, Agusan del Norte -- Population and Development Officers of the different local government units in Caraga region re-assessed its plans to suit with the Department of Budget and Management (DBM)-approved Devolution Transition Plan (DTP) of the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM), as mandated by Executive Order No. 138.

 

During the third quarter Regional Population and Development Conference (RPDC), POPCOM Caraga Director Alexander A. Makinano made sure that the provinces, cities and municipalities understand their specific roles and functions in the Philippine Population and Development Program (PPDP) localization, based on POPCOM-approved Devolution Transition Plan (DTP). 

 

Director Makinano reiterated that POPCOM’s DTP provides for the strategic direction and thrust of the PPDP within the context of devolution; partnership framework between POPCOM national and regional offices and LGUs; the basic standards for the implementation of POPDEV strategies and services including prescribed organizational structure and staffing complement in the LGUs; and the capacity development strategy for national, regional and local population offices and workers. 

 

The LGU population workers care-out a plan to closely keep tract the commitments of the local government executives during the PPDP localization alliance building and partnership conducted by POPCOM Caraga,  through committee hearing, budget hearing, devolution council or devolution transition committee meeting, executive-legislative agenda, comprehensive development plan, annual investment program. (May ann O. Escobal, POPCOM Caraga/PIA Caraga)