His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III is shown with the four (4) outstanding CESOs 2010 Gawad Career Executive Service (CES) after his confirmation on January 11, 2011 at the Rizal Hall, Malacañang Palace. Other in the picture are the committee on award member. Denis is 6th from left.
Gawad CES is a Presidential award that recognizes members in the CES for exemplary performance and significant contributions, particularly in the areas of innovation, information and communication technology, social services, adminis-trative reforms and public policy. The 2010 awardees are: Patricio S. Faylon, CESO II and Executive Director of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD-DOST); Urdujah A. Tejada, CESO III and Regional Director of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) – Region II; Mario C. Villaverde, CESO I and Undersecretary of the Department of Health; and Denis F. Villorente, CESO III and Director of the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) – DOST.
Faylon was recognized for leading to push the PCARRD to vie for the Philippine Quality Award (PQA)—the highest level of national recognition for exemplary organizational performance via the Continual Improvement Program, which improved the system thereby saving time and resources for the agency; for enabling the PCARRD to actively sustain its resource generation activities, which resulted in almost doubling the agency’s regular budgetary appropriation from the government, allowing them to sustain their programs and other developmental projects and to conceptualize more R&D programs; and for helping establish the Techno-Gabay Program (TGP) as PCARRD’s platform for R&D results utilization and transfer that serves to bring the needed products and/or processes to the farmers.
Tejada was cited for her three outstanding accomplishments such as leading the establishment of three (3) community-based science and technology projects on aquaculture, peanut and coconut crops that generated employ-ment and increased the income of small fisher folks and farmers; facilitating skills training, technical productivity consultancy services, product quality improvement and product development and promotion to eight (8) Harnessing Appropriate Technologies to Assist Women (HATAW) groups with the aim of producing successful female entrepreneurs; and initiating institutional support to small and medium-term enterprises through mechanisms that improves the quality and competitiveness of products of the SMEs in the region.
The Presidential Award was given to Villaverde for steering the formulation of the Health Sector Reform Agenda (HSRA) 2000 and the Formula One for Health (F1) that facilitated the much needed reforms in the health sector; for crafting and taking charge of the interim guidelines and health sector response for the containment and mitigation of the deadly A(H1N1) influenza in 2009; and for initiating the design and development, in coordination with international, non-government and other agency partners of a series of training courses for personnel development of health workers in the country, thus ensuring the sustainability of DOH programs and projects.
Villorente, on the other hand, was awarded for leading the continued growth and promotion of research networking in the country through the Philippine Research, Education and Government Information Network (PREGINET) that propelled several government agencies, including state universities and colleges, into the information age by providing them a platform to be connected to the internet and to have internet presence through the establishment of government websites; for promoting Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) technology and awareness enabling the country to become an integrated part of the global research committee; and for leading the technical team involved in the certification of the Smartmatic Corp for use in the May 2010 national elections which was instrumental in convincing the COMELEC that the automated election system was viable in the Philippines.
The Committee on Awards who selected the 2010 Gawad CES winners is composed of four representatives from private sectors and three dis-tinguished members of the CES Board. They are: Emerlinda R. Roman, President of the University of the Philippines; Amelou B. Reyes, President of the Philippine Women’s University; Jimmy Isidro, President of the People Management Association of the Philippines; Ramon M. Lopez, Vice-President of the RFM Corporation; CES Board Member Antonio D. Kalaw, President of the Development Academy of the Philippines; CES Board Member Susan M. Solo, Director IV of the Presidential Management Staff; and the Chairman of the Committee Francisco T. Duque III, Chair of the Civil Service Commission.
The awardees received a plaque of recognition and Php 100,000.00 each. /MP
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