Spearheaded by the Department of the Interior and Local Government Caraga, representatives from Caraga's 5 Provincial governments and the Highly Urbanized City of Butuan, NGAs, LRIs, and CSOs gathered for the SULONG Program: Regional Partnership Forum yesterday, February 28, 2023, at Watergate Boutique Hotel, Butuan City.

In her rationale, the DILG Caraga Local Government Capability Development Division Chief LGOO VII Annabel F. Yangson highlighted that the Support to Upscaling Organizational Grit of Local Government Units Program (SULONG LGU Program) is a response to the organization’s role as the overseer of capacity development interventions for LGUs developing an appropriate mechanism to harmonize all CapDev intervention of national government agencies and other third-party service providers.

The activity focused on tackling the three components of Comprehensive Capacity Development namely, Enhancing the Local Government Capacity Development Market; Redefining the role of the Provincial Government Capacity Development; and Scaling - Up Local Governance Resource Center (LGRC) Service.

The prelude of this activity was the Kakadiaoan Hong Caraga Capdev Expo last November 28, 2023 where the different national government agencies, academe, and civil society organization earnestly committed to journey with the DILG in shaping the capacities of the LGUs by enhancing the capacity development framework of the region.

Fruitful discussions between and among the Capdev Market - NGAs, LRIs & CSOs, and the LGUs in relation to the priority CapDev requirements of LGUs,  took place during the Regional Partnership Forum. DILG Caraga thanked its partners for the continued partnership in establishing a harmonized platform in the provision of capacity development intervention for the LGUs.  

(LGOO II Dorothy Jill D. Peros, DILG XIII - Caraga)