DSWD-12 allots P92-M anti-poverty fund under BUB
The projects include the construction and rehabilitation of day care centers, social development centers, potable water systems and other social infrastructure projects, she said.
Taha said these projects will be implemented through its flagship anti-poverty program Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services or (Kalahi-CIDSS).[]
“We already communicated these projects to the local government units (LGUs) and we are presently doing some follow-ups regarding the submission of the required documents and the setting of the necessary ground works for their implementation,” Taha said in a statement.
The agency’s Sustainable Livelihood Program unit will be handling the skills enhancement, provision of production and training centers and capital assistance, micro-financing, cash-for-work and other livelihood and entrepreneurial services in support of the initiative.[]
She said the DSWD-12’s Protective Services Bureau will spearhead the construction of women and children crisis centers as well as community learning centers.
It will handle the provision of shelter assistance, social pension for senior citizens, strengthening of initiatives for persons with disabilities or PWDs, supplemental feeding and other community-based welfare and development projects, Taha said.
The official said the municipalities of Lebak, Lutayan, Lambayong and Isulan in Sultan Kudarat and Magpet in North Cotabato were given the privilege to directly implement the identified projects in their areas.
“These are LGUs that were given the Seal of Good Housekeeping, have no unliquidated cash advances and have technical capability to implement the projects,” she said.
BUB is a planning and budgeting approach in the formulation of the budget proposals of government agencies, taking into consideration the development of poor cities and municipalities as identified in their respective local poverty reduction action plans as endorsed by the basic sectors and civil society organizations.
The implementation of the bottom-up planning and budgeting for the fiscal year budget preparation was mainly aimed at further reducing the poverty incidence in the country in consonance with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
For 2013, a total of P8.39 billion worth of projects will be implemented across the country by 13 national government agencies through the BUB approach. (Allen V. Estabillo/MindaNews)