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Outstanding Governorship
Outstanding Governorship Award 2017Award 2017

SPARK FORWARD:

Ensuring the Development, Expansion, Conservation and Safeguarding of our Tourism Resources

In 2016, the Spark Samar Campaign made significant inroads in Governor Tan and the Provincial Government believe that before
achieving its objectives of rebuilding the external image of Samar while tourism can grow, the basic social needs of the Samarnons need to be
internally building a sense of pride among Samarnons, ushering in addressed. So the province adopted a holistic approach to development
prosperity by strengthening the marginalized sector, steering growth in the where social, economic, governance, environment and resiliency
rural areas, and promoting care for the environment. programs complement and interplay to generate bigger and more
Seeing the positive social, economic and environmental impact of significant impact.
the Spark Samar Campaign, the program ultimately evolved into a holistic,
sustainable, and inclusive prosperity building development program For good governance, projects that were done and planned for in
dubbed as the SPARK SAMAR DEVELOPMENT AGENDA. 2016 include:
The Framework for the Spark Samar Development Agenda was • Mainstreaming the strategies and learnings gained by the
hatched towards the last quarter of 2016. The Framework reveals that Governor from Zuellig’s Bridging Leadership Program;
the agenda is anchored on good governance, with tourism as the vehicle • Setting in place needed Policies and Legislations; and
for growth and development, having programs, activities and projects • Conceptualization of the Pride of Place Caravan that involves
that cut across the tourism value chain – from agriculture to trade and bringing teachers, students, civic organizations to rediscover Samar – its
industry, environment, history and culture to resiliency, from education sites and successful community based tourism ventures of some of our
and health, and from infrastructure to peace and order. The ultimate goal peoples organizations.
is to transform communities and people, not just economically but also in
terms of values, respect for fellowmen, care for the environment, to build
pride of place and pride of who the Samarnons are.

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