Jesse Robredo

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Jesse Manalastas Robredo (May 27, 1958 – August 18, 2012) was a Filipino statesman who served as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government in President Benigno Aquino III's administration from 2010 to 2012.

Robredo, a Liberal politician, was a member of the Liberal Party. Robredo served six terms as Mayor of Naga City, Camarines Sur.

In honor of his contributions as Naga City mayor, Robredo was given the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 2000, becoming the first Filipino mayor to be honoured.

Robredo was installed to the Cabinet of President Aquino in July 2010, when the light aircraft he was travelling in crashed off the shore of Masbate Island after suffering an engine failure.

Early life and education

Jesse Manalastas Robredo was born in Naga on May 27, 1958, to José Chan Robredo Sr. and Marcelina Manalastas-Robredo. Jesse is a descendant of Chinese descent, and he adopted the priest's surname, thus becoming Juan Lim Robredo. Lim Pieng Ti, Jesse's Hokkien Chinese name, is on the menu. He has one brother and three sisters.

Robredo attended elementary school at Naga Parochial School before starting high school at Ateneo de Naga University in 1970. Robredo obtained his undergraduate degrees in industrial management engineering and mechanical engineering at De La Salle University. He was later accepted as an Edward Mason Fellow and graduated with a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1999. Robredo completed his Masters in Business Administration at the University of Diliman in 1985 and was deemed the Graduate School and Faculty Organization awardee for scholarly excellence. At its 80th commencement ceremony on April 4, 2008, Far Eastern University awarded Robredo with a Doctorate in Humanities, honoris causa, in recognition of his attempts to develop Naga.

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Political career

Robredo returned to Naga in 1986, where he became program director of the Bicol River Basin Development Initiative (BRBDP), an initiative that was supposed to carry out integrated area development planning in the Bicol region's three provinces. He encountered fellow Nague Leni Gerona, who would marry the following year, while at the BRBDP.

Robredo was elected mayor of Naga at the age of 29 in 1988. Robredo was elected president of the League of Cities of the Philippines in 1995 and chaired the Metro Naga Development Council. Robredo's funded candidate Sulpicio S. Roco, Jr. succeeded him after his three terms as mayor on June 30, 1998. Robredo was lauded by Asiaweek in 1999 for making Naga one of Asia's Most Improved" cities.

In 2001, he was re-elected as the city mayor and then served for three terms until June 30, 2010. He served for a total of 19 years as mayor of Naga before being elected on July 9, 2010 as the Secretary of the Interior and Local Government.

Robbins' appointment was met with skepticism. Two lawmakers from Bicol, Luis Agregado Ortega, and Luis Villafuerte protested Robredo's appointment by the Commission on Appointments, in which Villafuerte himself was a member. Robredo's appointment was rejected by the Commission on Appointments in March 2012. In June 2012, his nomination was rejected once more. According to reports, another confirmation hearing had been scheduled on August 29, 2012, 11 days after Robredo's unexpected death.

Robredo's time as DILG's secretary concentrated on relocating thousands of people in Manila's slums into housing projects to clear Metro Manila's waterways and allow for flood mitigation initiatives and other enhancements. Robredo, the head of an inter-agency body for relocation, advocated for the establishment of in-city tenement housing units for thousands of informal settler families residing in designated "danger zones" such as estuaries, riverbanks, railroad tracks, garbage dumps, and similar areas. These were compared to earlier government housing projects, which relocated informal settlers to areas away from the city, which deprived residents from their normal livelihoods.

Any local government officials, including Makati mayor Junjun Binay, protested Robo's attempt to force evictions, saying that such negotiations broke long-standing deals with private land owners and undermined the city government's authority.

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Awards

• Philippines Exemplary Fiscal Management Award by the DILG, 1989
• Dangal ng Bayan Award by the Civil Service Commission, 1990
• The Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines, 1991
• Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World, 1996
• Konrad Adenauer Medal of Excellence, 1996
• Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service, 2000
• Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award (posthumous) by the Civil Service Commission, 2012