February 04, 2021 THE Province of Bohol has allowed the use of saliva reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for those who wish to visit the province’s tourism bubble and as a requirement for Authorized Persons Outside of Residence (Apor).
Bohol Gov. Arthur Yap issued on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021 Executive Order (EO) no. 9 series of 2021, which amended EO 53 series of 2020 that provided guidelines for the implementation of the Bohol Tourist Bubble and EO 54 series of 2020 on simplified and unified guidelines for sea and air travel to Bohol for locally stranded individuals, returning overseas Filipinos and Apor.
EO no. 9 also allows saliva RT-PCR test for tourists who will come to Bohol for meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (Mice) and other events.
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Bohol launches Communal Garden Project as sustainable food source
Bohol has launched its Communal Garden project as a sustainable food source for communities.
The Bohol Communal Garden (BCG) serves as a complementary economic development intervention to harness rural women’s capability in sustaining communal gardens to achieve community food security.
An agricultural base provides a local food source for the community, while the community provides new markets for farmers through commercial distribution. This will allow rural women to establish their agency and independence by leading their respective communal gardens.
Serving women from five different municipalities in Bohol, the BCG aims to re-engage rural women in entrepreneurship and train them through a series of modules on food sovereignty and security, digital marketing and sales literacy, leadership and management, values formation and gender and development.
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DILG Secretary Eduardo M. Año said that the 15 LGUs that bagged this year’s Digital Governance Awards (DGA) for their remarkable Information Communication Technology (ICT) practices and innovations will effectively render their assigned tasks under the new normal with the virus still lurking in the environment.
“Amid all the present trials, LGUs heeded the call of the DILG to innovate and to help us overcome the adversities of the new and unfamiliar normal. LGUs embraced IT solutions not only to continue working and operating but also to advance strategies in reaching out to their constituents and stakeholders,” said Año.