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Officers and staff of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Regional Office 7 underwent a Synergy Program at the Kool Adventure Camp of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI-KAC) Education Center in Cansomoroy, Balamban on July 26 to 27, 2018.

The two-day Synergy Program was attended by 40 NEDA personnel headed by Regional Director Efren Carreon. He was joined by then Assistant Regional Director Dionisio Ledres Jr. and the chiefs from Policy Formulation and Planning, Investment Programming and Budgeting, Project Monitoring and Evaluation, Development Research, and Financial and Admin Support divisions.

The experiential learning activities through Personal Discovery, Ropes Courses, and Low Initiative activities enabled participants to understand the fundamentals of team performance, get to know one another better and provide a common ground that foster teamwork and collaboration in NEDA 7.

Carreon said the mission of the KAC Professional Development Program (PDP) team is aligned and consistent with NEDA’s objectives on building an effective team through experiential learning. Although the PDP program is new to NEDA, the agency believes these life-changing activities are a great experience to the team.

“I really wanted to build a strong, coherent and effective team. It is very important that every member of the organization should be committed, should have conviction, and should understand his/her own role in the attainment of the organization’s goals and objectives. We want to continue and sustain the teamwork that we have been doing and continue to pursue excellent work as a member of the Philippine Bureaucracy,” Carreon said

“We want to have a more balanced way of providing opportunities to staffs to learn and to get insights that they can apply to the organization. The sessions really provided us with the opportunities to interact, share, and give insights. I hope and I am confident that after this activity, we will emerge as a better team,” he added.

The Kool Adventure Camp of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI-KAC) is the first and only fully dedicated Adventure Education Center in the Philippines. RAFI-KAC equips organizations and individuals with the character, competence, and citizenship to be leaders of change through powerful learning experiences.