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Of New Economic Distribution Systems and Educational Reforms
Balagtas, Bulacan—“Our best bets for the coming May polls are leaders who can present solutions for better governance, new economic systems and reforms in education”. This was how Running A Bureaucracy author, Ma. Gladys Cruz-Sta. Rita summarizes her criteria for a winning candidate in the upcoming national elections in the Philippines.
She believes that poverty alleviation programs of government should clearly define how agricultural modernization, entrepreneurship, food security, and information technology could work in synergy and form alternative economic systems that are grassroots-based. Education, she said, should complement these economic systems by developing a new breed of competent, competitive, and patriotic professionals and skilled manpower. Sta. Rita has been appointed recently as the permanent representative of Senator Mar Roxas in the Board of Regents of the Bulacan State University.
“This is what is being done in the Province of Bulacan for more that a decade now—preparing the ground for a new economy built on the sturdy foundation of inter-cooperative business and relevant entrepreneurial training and education,” narrates Sta. Rita, who also seats as the Executive Vice-President of the Southeast Asian Commodities and Food Exchange, Inc. (SACFEI)—the private-public corporation behind the first mega-agrofood market in the Philippines, the North Food Exchange (NFEx). She has taken leave of her consultancy services for theHPDP of the USAID recently, after being invited to the management of SACFEI.
The first phase of the NFEx is expected to rise in the last quarter of the 2010 in San Juan, Balagtas, Bulacan, as the very first beneficiary of the new Balagtas Interchange set to open simultaneously with NFEx.
“We intend to provide our farmers, fisher folks, small-medium entrepreneurs, and cooperative producers and businesses, an alternative market for their products; a market where they get to own their stalls and the distribution system built on transparency and equitable profit. This, in essence, is what NFEx offers,” Sta. Rita said.
Sta. Rita’s strategic roles in the NFEx and the BSU Board of Regents reflects her continuing advocacy for development initiatives that promote economic and educational reforms.
“I have been fortunate enough to have been given the chance to extend the message and advocacy of Running A Bureaucracy into the challenging realm of agro-food distribution systems and higher education. After all, good governance principles are as applicable to the private sector and the Academe, as it is to local governments, and the best time to rally people in government and in business, towards the crusade for good governance is this election year,” said Sta. Rita.
She believes that poverty alleviation programs of government should clearly define how agricultural modernization, entrepreneurship, food security, and information technology could work in synergy and form alternative economic systems that are grassroots-based. Education, she said, should complement these economic systems by developing a new breed of competent, competitive, and patriotic professionals and skilled manpower. Sta. Rita has been appointed recently as the permanent representative of Senator Mar Roxas in the Board of Regents of the Bulacan State University.
“This is what is being done in the Province of Bulacan for more that a decade now—preparing the ground for a new economy built on the sturdy foundation of inter-cooperative business and relevant entrepreneurial training and education,” narrates Sta. Rita, who also seats as the Executive Vice-President of the Southeast Asian Commodities and Food Exchange, Inc. (SACFEI)—the private-public corporation behind the first mega-agrofood market in the Philippines, the North Food Exchange (NFEx). She has taken leave of her consultancy services for theHPDP of the USAID recently, after being invited to the management of SACFEI.
The first phase of the NFEx is expected to rise in the last quarter of the 2010 in San Juan, Balagtas, Bulacan, as the very first beneficiary of the new Balagtas Interchange set to open simultaneously with NFEx.
“We intend to provide our farmers, fisher folks, small-medium entrepreneurs, and cooperative producers and businesses, an alternative market for their products; a market where they get to own their stalls and the distribution system built on transparency and equitable profit. This, in essence, is what NFEx offers,” Sta. Rita said.
Sta. Rita’s strategic roles in the NFEx and the BSU Board of Regents reflects her continuing advocacy for development initiatives that promote economic and educational reforms.
“I have been fortunate enough to have been given the chance to extend the message and advocacy of Running A Bureaucracy into the challenging realm of agro-food distribution systems and higher education. After all, good governance principles are as applicable to the private sector and the Academe, as it is to local governments, and the best time to rally people in government and in business, towards the crusade for good governance is this election year,” said Sta. Rita.
