On July 27, 2009, our President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo gave her annual State of the Nation address or better known as SONA 2009.
Information about SONA
The State of the Nation Address Filipino: Talumpati sa Kalagayan ng Bansa, abbreviated SONA) is an annual event here in the Republic of the Philippines, in which the President of the Philippinesreports on the status of the nation, normally to the resumption of a joint session of the Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate). This is a duty of the President as stated in Article VII, Section 23 of the 1987 Constitution: “ The President shall address the Congress at the opening of its regular session. He may also appear before it at any other time.”
These are the areas related to Human Resource Management was stated by our President Arroyo during her SONA:
1. Education for all
Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another through institutions.
Education is central to development and a key to attaining the Millennium Development Goals. It is one of the most powerful instruments for reducing poverty and inequality and lays a foundation for sustained economic growth.
• Expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
• Ensure that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, those in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to and complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality.
• Ensure that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programs.
• Achieve a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults.
• Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieve gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls' full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality.
• Improve all aspects of the quality of education and ensure excellence of all so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.
Education is central to development and a key to attaining the Millennium Development Goals. It is one of the most powerful instruments for reducing poverty and inequality and lays a foundation for sustained economic growth.
• Expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
• Ensure that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, those in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to and complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality.
• Ensure that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programs.
• Achieve a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults.
• Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieve gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls' full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality.
• Improve all aspects of the quality of education and ensure excellence of all so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.
2. Health Insurance
Health insurance is insurance that pays for medical expenses. It is sometimes used more broadly to include insurance covering disability or long-term nursing or custodial care needs. It may be provided through a government-sponsored social insurance program, or from private insurance companies. It may be purchased on a group basis (e.g., by a firm to cover its employees) or purchased by individual consumers. In each case, the covered groups or individuals pay premiums or taxes to help protect themselves from high or unexpected healthcare expenses. Similar benefits paying for medical expenses may also be provided through social welfare programs funded by the government.
The Administration is focused on providing increased health services by (1) expanding the health insurance coverage under PhilHealth; (2) making available affordable, appropriate and quality medicines through the establishment of Botika ng Barangays/Botika ng Bayan (BnBs); and, (3) providing access to health services.
The Administration is focused on providing increased health services by (1) expanding the health insurance coverage under PhilHealth; (2) making available affordable, appropriate and quality medicines through the establishment of Botika ng Barangays/Botika ng Bayan (BnBs); and, (3) providing access to health services.
To protect and promote the health of the populace, particularly the poor when they require medical/hospital services, the President promoted the National Health Insurance Program. Depending on the program, financing for the members’ benefits come from the national government in partnership with other stakeholders like the local government units, employers and even the members themselves.
3. Transportation
To ensure that the future Internet infrastructure develops in a way that maximizes the democratic potential of the Net and encourages a decentralized, open architecture.
The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines, and public institutions including schools, post offices, and prisons.
The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines, and public institutions including schools, post offices, and prisons.
Sources:
http://pinoyfrontpage.com/pres-arroyo-last-state-of-the-nation-address-sona/
http://www.cdt.org/digi_infra/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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