Frequently Asked Questions Empowering Communities How can the neighboring communities of the Power Plant benefit from it? Mindful of its social responsibility towards its host communities as well as the areas nearby, the company has developed a comprehensive community development program that is responsive to the needs of the communities’ constituents and aims toward sustainability and self-sufficiency. Foremost in the program’s approach is empowering the constituents with appropriate skills and technology necessary to accomplish and sustain the activities that have been initiated. This has created an avenue for personal and community growth and development.The program strategies can be classified as follows: 1. Enterprise Development (ED) – promotes the establishment and transformation of livelihood income generating projects into financially viable, productive and innovative economic enterprises. The strategy to be adopted includes a study on the market needs, identification of enterprise movers, (government, NGO’s, successful entrepreneurs, bankers, etc.) identification of proper and suitable production areas, Analysis of the value chain – from inbound logistics, operation, marketing and outbound logistics. Under this program, SPI will provide skills training, micro financing, market linkage, and entrepreneurial management training. 2. Social Development (SD) - promotes the well-being of the individual to enable him to have access to medical and health services, nutrition and more importantly education and skills training. 3. Institutional Development – promotes the formation, mobilization and capability building of the service delivery network composed of local structures (LGU’s, NGO’s, trade groups etc.) for coordinated community development activities To strengthen the local structures within the community, the program includes capacity–building activities such as organizational management training, project development and management, and networking with local and foreign development partners.
How can the neighboring communities of the Power Plant benefit from it?
Mindful of its social responsibility towards its host communities as well as the areas nearby, the company has developed a comprehensive community development program that is responsive to the needs of the communities’ constituents and aims toward sustainability and self-sufficiency. Foremost in the program’s approach is empowering the constituents with appropriate skills and technology necessary to accomplish and sustain the activities that have been initiated. This has created an avenue for personal and community growth and development.The program strategies can be classified as follows: 1. Enterprise Development (ED) – promotes the establishment and transformation of livelihood income generating projects into financially viable, productive and innovative economic enterprises. The strategy to be adopted includes a study on the market needs, identification of enterprise movers, (government, NGO’s, successful entrepreneurs, bankers, etc.) identification of proper and suitable production areas, Analysis of the value chain – from inbound logistics, operation, marketing and outbound logistics.
Under this program, SPI will provide skills training, micro financing, market linkage, and entrepreneurial management training.
2. Social Development (SD) - promotes the well-being of the individual to enable him to have access to medical and health services, nutrition and more importantly education and skills training.
3. Institutional Development – promotes the formation, mobilization and capability building of the service delivery network composed of local structures (LGU’s, NGO’s, trade groups etc.) for coordinated community development activities
To strengthen the local structures within the community, the program includes capacity–building activities such as organizational management training, project development and management, and networking with local and foreign development partners.