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History
In 2007 the LLDA established the
pilot Compliance Assistance
Centers (CACs) for two (2)
priority sectors in the Laguna
de Bay Region, namely
Hog/Poultry Farms and
Slaughterhouses, through a grant
from the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID)
through Environmental
Cooperation-Asia Program and
Asian Environmental Compliance
and Enforcement Network (AECEN).
As designed, the CACs have both
physical and virtual platforms.
The Compliance Assistance Center
Websites are the virtual platforms of the CACs. They were developed and
piloted in 2007 under the
earlier grant to LLDA. The two
websites were jointly launched
on April 29, 2008.
Virtual Platforms
The two (2) Websites are the
virtual platforms of the CACs
and is used to promote the
centers and their services for
improved stakeholder engagement
and environmental compliance. It
is also a tool to update and
improve the knowledge and
understanding of the regulated
establishments under the two
target sectors with
additional/updated information
and resources as well as to
expand the compliance promotion
efforts for the slaughterhouse
and hog farm industries in
Laguna de Bay Region. As a
virtual platform, the websites
help in engaging more
stakeholders in using the
centers’ services for a
comprehensive compliance
assistance program for the
targeted sectors. Initially
started to serve the hog/poultry
farms and slaughterhouses in the
Laguna de Bay Region, the CAC
Websites are accessible by other
sector and non-sector audience
nationwide, thereby contributing
to the intended CAC replication
and scale-up in the Laguna de
Bay Region and beyond (through
the DENR/EMB).
Information Sharing
Using the CAC website as a tool
for information
updating/exchange and sharing of
technologies and best practices
and for further enhancement of
the relationship of these two
sectors with the Laguna de Bay
Region’s stakeholders and the
LLDA, among other benefits, it
is best and to the advantage of
LLDA that the hosting of the CAC
websites which are being
maintained and updated by the
LLDA through the PPIMD-MIS be
continued by the LLDA. When the
time comes for the two CACs are
full self-sustaining under the
administration of the host
institutions, the LLDA may
devolve the hosting of the
websites to them.
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