Anti-poverty application continues despite pandemic | The Freeman

Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon (The Freeman) - March 7, 2021 - 12:00am

CEBU, Philippines — The countrywide Anti-Poverty commission has cast 127 memorandums of contract with the local govt gadgets in Visayas and Mindanao to be sure the implementation of the company's flagship Sambayanihan Serbisyong Sambayanan anti-poverty program.

NAPC secretary Noel Felongco spoke of that the COVID-19 pandemic has made issues problematic, but it surely did not prevent the implementation of poverty alleviation programs nationwide.

"in reality, 2020 become a busy yr for NAPC in guaranteeing that govt services bought to the primary sectors throughout the pandemic," referred to Felongco.

He talked about that NAPC was able to forge a total of sixty nine MOAs with LGUs in the Visayas and 58 MOAs with LGUs in Mindanao.

in the Visayas, the MOAs dependent partnerships with the provinces of Bohol, Siquijor and Southern Leyte, as well as with a lot of cities and cities in Negros Occidental, Aklan, Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental, Siquijor, Leyte, Samar, Biliran, and Southern Leyte.

The average goal of this recreation, Felongco mentioned, is to be sure that poverty incidence is brought down to 14 % by means of 2022.

NAPC's mandate is backed via Memorandum circular No. 59 issued via executive Secretary Salvador Medaldea in March 2019 that directs all government offices, groups, instrumentalities and government-managed corporations to guide and actively take part in the implementation of the Sambayanihan application.

meanwhile, Felongco pointed out that with the rollout of vaccines, the yr 2021 presents hope of healing and financial restoration.

"hence we're searching on the rollout of family unit monitoring survey in goal precedence areas in 400 cities, municipalities and in 4,000 barangays throughout the nation," he mentioned.

To be sure that govt capabilities are accessed by way of the negative sectors that want them most, Felongco stated that NAPC additionally sought to arrange one million Kasambayanihan volunteers as grassroots stewards for poverty discount monitoring.

Felongco referred to that NAPC additionally sought to expand this 12 months convergence systems for "potential building activities and social business creation" in partnership with as a minimum 200 LGUs nationwide. — JMD (FREEMAN)