PHOTO: RD Rascon orients Iloilo LEIPOs on ProGED

DTI OIC-Regional Director Rebecca M. Rascon shares the importance of enhancing the competitiveness of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) by helping them adopt climate-smart and environmental friendly strategies by using the value chain approach, through the Promotion of Green Economic Development (ProGED) to the Local Economic and Investment Promotions Officers (LEIPOs) in the Province of Iloilo. Rascon was a speaker during the Investment Promotion Strategies Training initiated by the Local Economic Development and Investment Promotion Center of the Iloilo Provincial Government on Thursday, July 21, 2016. The training aims to highlight the critical role of LEIPOs in facilitating the establishment of an aggressive, systematic, coordinated, sustained promotion and marketing of the local government units as investment location. Likewise, to increase the appreciation and knowledge of local chief executives on the importance of deliberate investment promotion, generation facilitation and servicing; to develop the desire to build-up the capacity of the locality to become competitive and attractive for investment; and, to develop a harmonized investment promotion strategy for the Province of Iloilo, among others.