biz permitting in 3 steps
Cagayan de Oro City – Members of various offices of the city hall gathered together June 17-18 2010 for a two-day workshop to develop an effective business processing and licensing system (BPLS) model in the city.
Participating in the activity were the City Treasurer’s Office, Business Licensing Division of the Mayor’s Office, City Administrator’s Office, City Planning Office, City Building Official, City Health Office, City Fire Marshall, City Information Office and the Human Resource Management Office.
As part of the Streamlining BPLS Project, an ongoing endeavor of the local government unit, the workshop participants discussed and agreed on the streamlined process of processing business registrations which reduced the steps into only three: validation of application, payment, and receipt of permit to operate.
The workshop, which was also joined and supported by the Misamis Oriental provincial office of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as well as the Promote CDO Foundation, put together the plan of institutionalizing the Business Processing and Licensing Office (BPLO) which shall be the overseer of the BPLS operations and its continuous improvement at the city hall.
Aside from the planned changes in the business permitting process, the city hall group also looked at the clearances and permits required prior to the application for business permits, and identified future partnerships with the concerned government agencies and offices to further improve client servicing.
The preliminary study for the BPLS streamlining project started during the term of the former chief executive Hon. Constantino Jaraula, but the full plan will be submitted to the incoming mayor, Hon. Vicente Emano, for his approval and support and the plan’s eventual implementation.
Aimed to improve the Cagayan de Oro system to exemplify the established national standards and encourage business investments into the city, the BPLS streamlining project is a collaboration with the Local Implementation of National Competitiveness for Economic Growth (LINC-EG), a USAID-funded policy reform and implementation project. LINC-EG works with government and private sector to improve governance of the business environment leading to more investments, fiscal responsibility and economic growth.
