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UNIDA PRIMER (First of a Series)

NO HOLDS BARRED (051) January 25, 2010
By Ike Señeres

UNIDA PRIMER (First of a Series)

Q. What is the UNIDA?

A. UNIDA is short for United National Integrated Development Alliance. It is an alliance of individuals and organizations that are working towards the socio- economic development of the Philippines as a whole.

Q. What is the ideology of the UNIDA?

A. Competitiveness is the ideology of the UNIDA. We want to build a nation that is globally competitive, and is regionally a dominant economic power in South East Asia.

Q. What is the strategy of the UNIDA?

A. Convergence is the strategy of the UNIDA. We want to converge the delivery of public services to the local community levels, within the framework of Integrated Area Development (IAD).

Q. What is the methodology of the UNIDA?

A. Cooperation is the methodology of the UNIDA. We want the people at the local levels to cooperate so that they could lower the rates of poverty, illiteracy and mortality in their own communities, through the cooperatives.

Q. What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?

A. HDI is the framework adopted by the United Nations to measure the performance of member nations in lowering the rates of poverty, illiteracy and mortality, among other data.

Q. What is the UNIDA solution to the high poverty rate?

A. Livelihood is the UNIDA solution to the problem of poverty. We want each member of our society to be productive, so that he or she could graduate from the poverty line. We want each family to be able to afford or access the imaginary basket of goods, an economic tool that is used to measure the poverty rate at the local and the national levels.

Q. What is the UNIDA solution to high illiteracy rate?

A. Education is the UNIDA solution to the problem of illiteracy. We want each member of our society to not only graduate from primary education, but also from secondary education, as a preparation for moving up towards vocational and collegiate education.

Q. What is the UNIDA solution to the high mortality rate?

A. Health is the UNIDA solution to the problem of high mortality. We want each member of our society to have access not only to primary health care, but also to secondary and tertiary health care, using new technologies such as telemedicine and medical informatics.

Q. How can the UNIDA support livelihood?

A. Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) is the front end technology that the UNIDA will utilize to support livelihood. We want each enterprise to be able to sell their products and services locally and globally by using the Internet, backed up by strong production and product development at the backend.

Q. How can the UNIDA support education?

A. Electronic Learning (eLearning) is the front end technology that the UNIDA will utilize to support education. We want each student to be able to access all kinds of local and global educational content by using the Internet, backed up by good preparation and courseware development at the backend.

Q. How can the UNIDA support health?

A. Electronic Health (eHealth) is the front end technology that the UNIDA will utilize to support health. We want each patient to be able to access all kinds of local and global medical assistance by using the Internet, backed up by volunteer and professional health providers at the backend.

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2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

eLearning has opened doors for many people to reach their academic goals. Many online colleges and universities offer a vast array of courses and degree programs that can be acquired online, fulfilling the demands of countless students who cannot attend the traditional on-campus classrooms.

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Blogger Unknown said...

"http://www.chiropracticmarketingsecret.com"> Illiteracy means inability to read and write. It is the root cause of ignorance which frustrates all development efforts of the government and the community. Eradication of illiteracy in a country like Bangladesh with so vast a population is undoubtedly a gigantic task. It is the social responsibility of all the literate people. men and women.To make some concerted efforts to remove illiteracy from society. The government of Bangladesh has already undertaken some important Programs in this regard. To provide primary education for at least 70 percent of children of six to ten years of age by the end of 1990. The government has launched a programme called the Universal Primary Education (UPE) Project. There is another education program in which each primary school in a community is to be regarded as a Community Learning Center (CLC). The objective is to involve increasingly the parents and the members of the community in the educational activities of the school. The adults and the out-of-school youths will come to the school in the afternoon or in the evening after their work. Here they will receive not only basic education but also practical training in their vocations. The mass media, especially radio TV and newspapers can play a vital role in marking the people more conscious of the importance of literacy in the life of a nation. They can broadcast and publish regular features on various aspects of basic education. adult education and mass literacy.

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