FOUR OUTSTANDING LMB WOMEN AUSTRALIA AWARDS ALUMNAE WHO MADE IT BIG IN THE PHILIPPINE LAND SECTOR
An excerpt from the featured news of the website – http://australiaawardsphilippines.org/
“Four outstanding Australia Awards alumnae working to make a difference in the Philippine land sector
For many Filipinos, access to land is a key means to get out of poverty. This is why the Philippine Government, through the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) – Land Management Bureau (LMB), has been working to improve land administration and management in the country through various reforms including computerization of land-related data and removal of overlapping oversight function among government agencies.
Four notable Australia Awards scholars are at the forefront of these reforms. One of them is Atty. Emelyne Talabis, Director of LMB and Australia Awards Fellow in 2009. “The Fellowship exposed me to how land administration and management is done in Australia. Because of this, I was able to appreciate the reform initiatives that DENR is currently implementing. I can say that we are on the right path,” she shared…”