CDO JOB MARKET. Xavier University's Economics researcher and faculty member Kresna D Navarro, the Cagayan de Oro City consultant for Mindanao Jobs Report of World Bank, delivers her presentation on CDO's job potentials and challenges. Supplied photo.
The Economics department of Xavier University and World Bank conducted a public validation for the Mindanao Jobs Report (MJR), where key stakeholders of Cagayan de Oro confirmed the findings and supported the recommendations of the analysis on the city’s job challenges and opportunities.
Thirty-two stakeholders from CDO Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Oro Chamber), Business Process Outsourcing Council, civil society organizations, National Police Commission and other government agencies, among others, joined in the public validation held at the XU - Southeast Asia Rural Social Leadership Institute (Searsolin) Tuesday, February 2.
The forum drew together the key stakeholders to validate the results and strengthen the recommendations of the analysis on the city's job constraints and opportunities, written by Economics researcher and faculty member Kresna D Navarro and her researcher assistant Ana Grace Saab.
The forum also included a presentation on urbanizing Mindanao, and the future of CDO’s job market. During the open discussion, the stakeholders added valuable suggestions and raised related concerns.
Oro Chamber’s vice-president for the agriculture, fishery and mining sector Roberto W Ansaldo (also a former Department of Agriculture undersecretary) suggested realizing an inclusive growth, where development plans should include building the capabilities of "the entrepreneurial poor."
The CDO city analysis forms part of the set of eight city-level studies under MJR that looks at the hidrances and opportunities toward the creation of sustainable jobs in urban Mindanao. These studies were commissioned by the World Bank from various universities and researchers across Mindanao.
The MJR aims to arrive at a better understanding of the job challenges in Mindanao, and proposes specific, practical, and actionable recommendations on how to create more and better jobs in Mindanao through synthesizing existing analytical and operational work using the jobs lens, as well as fill in remaining analytical gaps.
Karl Kendrick Chua, senior economist and task team leader of macroeconomics and fiscal management global practice at World Bank - Philippine Office, serves as head of the said report.
COMPETITIVE CITIES PROJECT. Dmitry Sivaev, who is part of the World Bank group working on the Competitive Cities Project, discusses what the latter is all about during the public validation with key city stakeholders. Supplied photo.