NAVAL, Biliran, Sept. 30 (PIA) -- PEZA has inked an agreement establishing a special economic zone institute (SEZI) with Biliran Province State University (BiPSU) positioned to bring in more economic activities that would propel growth and development not only in Biliran but the Eastern Visayas Region.
It would be another challenging responsibility for the only higher educational institution (HEI) in the Island Province of Biliran.
The SEZI shall serve as joint organizational body and institutional facility to represent shared vision, joint cause and shared commitment to study, explore and install policies, programs, thrusts and projects that shall help establish a locally-positioned promotion strategy for export-based investments in Biliran and in the Eastern Visayas Region.
The SEZI would also be the center of leadership excellence and management innovation in the fields of research, instruction, production and extension towards the institutionalization of the instruments of promotion for export-based investments, professionalization of the personnel of economic zones administration and the proliferation of export-literate workforce in the region.
With the establishment of SEZI in BiPSU, the university will play a vital role in building an industry-responsive research, industry-standard instruction, export-based production and market-oriented extension capacities to help fellow government agencies, local government units, business organizations, landowners and estate developers establish a locally-positioned investment promotion strategy that will transform the people of Biliran and Visayas as world-class workforce and the Eastern Visayas as an export-oriented region.
"BiPSU has accepted the challenge as the program-delivering partner of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) in the installation and foundation of the Special Economic Zone Institute (SEZI) in Region 8," Dr. Victor C. Canezo Jr. said in his welcome message during the Cyberlaunching of the SEZI on September 23.
"We accepted and partnered with PEZA not just for our own sake. We take this role and challenge because we believe that this would make our region great, Canezo added in his message with emphasis that its establishment could lessen the poverty incidence and elevate the rank of the region terms of economic competitiveness."
Canezo further envisioned that the SEZI would be a stepping stone in making the small yet blessed island province of Biliran to be globally competitive in terms of economic standing. It would also strengthen the promotion of the agriculture sector, in particular, the agri-fishery and agri-forestry and soon the agri-tourism, which is in line and one of the priority programs of the provincial government through the leadership of Governor Rogelio J. Espina.
"BiPSU cannot do it alone," Canezo said in his message where he also called the full support of the members of the Eastern Visayas Regional Development Council and other stakeholders in the region.
Part of the cyberlaunching ceremony was the virtual signing of two memorandum of agreements on the operations of the SEZI and the virtual oath taking of the SEZI Council and Council Secretariat.
Present during the Cyberlaunching of the SEZI who also gave their messages were: PEZA Director-General PBGen. Charito B. Plaza, Leyte 1st District Representative Yedda Marie K. Romualdez, NEDA 8 Regional Director Meylene C. Rosales, Biliran Governor Rogelio J. Espina, and Naval Mayor Gerard Roger M. Espina. (nbq/rsv/PIA-Biliran)
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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