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ABD President Alicia Devulgado Joins 2025 Bagong Bayani Awards at Malacañan Palace

Employer-aligned ethical recruitment depends on strong governance, credible recognition programs, and collaboration with institutions that protect migrant workers. At the 2025 Bagong Bayani Awards, ABD Overseas Manpower Corporation reinforces its compliance-first leadership through the participation of President Alicia B. Devulgado in her capacity as an Internal Auditor of the Bagong Bayani Foundation.

Event: 2025 Bagong Bayani Awards | Date: 20 November 2025 | Venue: Ceremonial Hall, Malacañan Palace

The Bagong Bayani Foundation, Inc. (BBFI), in partnership with OWWA and DOLE, continues its mission of recognizing the contributions of Overseas Filipino Workers through the Bagong Bayani Awards. The program highlights Filipinos whose excellence and integrity reflect the values of responsible migration and dignified overseas employment.

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What the Bagong Bayani Awards stand for
Alicia B. Devulgado’s role and why it matters
Why this recognition matters to overseas employers
What Alicia shared about ABD’s mission
ABD’s ethical recruitment and compliance standards
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What the Bagong Bayani Awards Stand For

The Bagong Bayani Awards are among the Philippines’ leading recognition programs honoring Overseas Filipino Workers whose work overseas demonstrates professionalism, community impact, and service. While the awards celebrate individual achievement, they also reinforce broader standards that support safer, more responsible migration.

From an employer perspective, programs that promote integrity, excellence, and accountability help strengthen trust across the overseas manpower ecosystem. They support the idea that overseas recruitment should be founded on lawful processes, ethical treatment, and professional standards that protect workers while enabling stable workforce deployment.

The awards aim to:

Recognize overseas Filipino professionals who demonstrate excellence, leadership, and positive community impact
Promote standards that reflect dignity, fairness, and responsible migration practices
Inspire institutions to support worker protection and ethical recruitment governance
Strengthen confidence in Filipino talent as world-class contributors to international industries

Alicia B. Devulgado’s Role and Why It Matters

Representing ABD Overseas Manpower Corporation, President Alicia B. Devulgado attends the 2025 Bagong Bayani Awards not only as a recruitment leader, but also in her role as Internal Auditor of the Bagong Bayani Foundation. This responsibility supports the integrity of the program by strengthening transparency and accountability within the organization’s processes.

For overseas employers, leadership involvement in credible institutions is more than ceremonial. It signals that an agency’s governance culture values ethical standards, proper documentation, and systems that protect migrant workers. These principles align with employer priorities such as compliance readiness, reduced processing disruption, and long-term workforce stability.

Why This Recognition Matters to Overseas Employers

Overseas employers operate in an increasingly compliance-driven environment. Ethical recruitment and protection systems are closely connected to deployment continuity, workforce welfare, and reputational risk management. Events such as the Bagong Bayani Awards help reinforce public-private alignment around responsible migration.

Stronger governance signals: Recognition programs elevate standards that discourage illegal recruitment and unethical practices.
Improved trust framework: When institutions and licensed agencies reinforce integrity, employers benefit from clearer accountability.
Stability and predictability: Compliance-first approaches help reduce disruption risk tied to documentation issues or unethical intermediaries.
Worker protection alignment: Responsible recruitment reduces exposure to disputes and strengthens workforce sustainability.

In practice, employers can strengthen outcomes by partnering with a licensed agency that maintains documented processes, verifies credentials, and coordinates properly with Philippine regulators.

What Alicia Shared About ABD’s Mission

In this featured segment, Alicia B. Devulgado shares ABD’s employer-aligned principles on ethical recruitment, compliance, and responsible overseas manpower deployment.

ABD’s Ethical Recruitment and Compliance Standards

ABD Overseas Manpower Corporation supports initiatives that strengthen lawful, transparent, and responsible overseas recruitment. Philippines-based and compliance-first since 1990, ABD helps employers build recruitment programs grounded in proper documentation, ethical processes, and protection-focused standards that support workforce continuity.

Ethical recruitment is not only a values statement. It is a practical framework that supports compliant workforce deployment—especially for employers who require repeat hiring cycles, stable retention outcomes, and consistent processing coordination.

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POEA / DMW Licensed
License No. POEA-140-LB-042512-R

Reference authority: Department of Migrant Workers (DMW)

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