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Outstanding Governorship Award 2017

The Governor awards Cooperative Livelihood Assistance to a Senior Citizens Cooperative
under the BRO Program, a breakthrough program that is the first in LGU history

One of Gov Dy’s leadership goals has always been to keep within The national awards and honors notwithstanding, Governor Dy counts
reach of his attentive administration all Isabeleños and city and municipal as the No. 1 among his administration’s accomplishments, the drop in the
local government units so that no one barangay or family is left behind, in provincial poverty incidence since he became Governor. From 26% in 2010
particular the residents of the coastal municipalities, in the enjoyment of to 24% in 2012, to 19% in 2014, and 15% in 2016, this drop is, to Gov Bojie,
the fruits of development and in the delivery of basic and social services. even worth more than the numerous honors and tributes PGI has received
This is the motivation behind the rehabilitation and improvement of the from different award-giving bodies since 2011 and until the present.
82-kilometer ILAGAN-DIVILACAN ROAD, the banner road project of the The implementation since 2012 until the present of the BRO-FARMER
PGI which will connect the coastal municipalities of Palanan, Maconacon, ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, an anti-poverty cum capacity-building program
Divilacan, and Dinapigue to mainstream Isabela and allow the smooth that is first and the only one of its kind in LGU history, was instrumental
flow of goods and services from trading centers and the cities of Ilagan, in reducing poverty incidence in the farming barangays. This is through
Cauayan, and Santiago, as well as from the provincial government during the assisted enrolment of small farmers and barangay health/nutrition/
post-calamity relief operations. The Road will also usher in opportunities day care workers into the program to receive its package of 13 benefits,
for investment in the industries of agriculture and fishery, scientific namely: crop insurance, price and transportation subsidy, livelihood loans,
research, food processing, eco-tourism, and leisure and recreation. With livestock raising opportunities, alternative income sources, free Social
13 kilometers of white sand headlining the breath-taking lures of Coastal Security and provincial healthcare and Philhealth enrolment, free accident
Isabela, the much-awaited completion of the project pushes the excitement insurance, free Pag-ibig membership to capacitate them in the era of
level of many Isabeleños, businessmen, and tourists several notches up. Climate Change, nutrition subsidy for their pre-school children, and college
scholarships for their children’s tertiary education.

Advice from the Governor to beneficiaries of the BRO Program
16 which provides livestock for free to small farmers and barangay workers