LOCALIZING POVERTY REDUCTION TARGET IN DAVAO REGION

ESTRELLA D. BRIGOLE, RSW, MSW

DSWD Field Office XI

POVERTY SITUATIONGLOBAL LEVELIn September 2000, the UN General Assembly ended the

Millennium Summit by adopting a set of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These are:

 

• To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger• To achieve universal primary education• To promote gender equality and empowering women• To reduce child mortality rates• To improve maternal health• To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases• To ensure environmental sustainability• To develop a global partnership for development

POVERTY SITUATIONGLOBAL LEVEL

The MDGs represent a global partnership that has grown from the commitments and targets established at the world summits of the 1990s.

This responds to the world’s main development challenges and to the calls of civil society.

GLOBAL LEVEL

• “Set for the year 2015, the MDGs are an agreed set of goals that can be achieved if all actors work together and do their part.

• Poor countries have pledged to govern better, and invest in their people through health care and education.

• Rich countries have pledged to support them, through aid, debt relief and fairer trade.

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GLOBAL LEVELWith specific reference to poverty, the MDGs specify specific targets:

Target 1 – Halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty between 1990-2015

Target 2 – halve the proportion below the minimum level of dietary energy consumption and halve the proportion of underweight children under 5 years.

Target 3 – Halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water or those who cannot afford it by 2015.

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ASIA LEVEL ADB’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, has embedded in its long-term strategic framework, is equally admirable. ADB identifies 3 fundamental pillars of poverty reduction:

Social Development (human capital development, population policy, social capital development, gender equality, social protection);

ASIA LEVEL• Good Governance (government accountability, public participation, predictable legal framework, transparency, anti-corruption initiatives); and

• Pro-Poor Growth (labor intensive employment and income creation, public/private sector provision of basic services, poor area public investment. Regional and Sub-Regional cooperation, environmental sustainability)

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PHILIPPINE LEVEL• The Aquino Administration’s official development agenda focuses

specifically on the Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016 which adopts a framework of inclusive growth, that is sustained, generates mass employment, and reduces poverty.

• With good governance and anticorruption as the overarching theme of each and every intervention, the Plan translates into specific goals, objectives, strategies, programs and projects all the things that we want to accomplish in the medium term.

The Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016 will serve as our guide in formulating policies and implementing development programs for the next six years.

It enables us to work systematically to give the Filipino people a better chance of finally finding their way out of poverty, inequality, and the poor state of human development.

STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE THE MDGs

Poverty Alleviation Program

Program For Nutrition

Fighting Corruption

Other Strategies

POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMSSDC Resolution No. 1-2007 defines Social Protection as policies

and programs that seek to:

- reduce poverty and vulnerability to risks

- enhance the social status and rights of the marginalized sectors by:

>promoting and protecting livelihood and employment,

> protecting against hazards and sudden loss of income,

>improving people’s capacity to manage risks.

Why we need

Social Protection?

Many poor are being left

behind.

Filipino families, whether poor or non-poor, face various economic, environmental and human-made risks. Managing such risks is important for families to prevent them from falling into, falling deeper, and trapped into, poverty.

Official SP DefinitionSP Components

Labor market programsmeasures aimed at enhancing employment opportunities and protection of the rights and welfare of workers

Social welfarepreventive and

developmental interventions that seek to support the minimum basic requirements of the poor

Social safety netsstop-gap

mechanisms or urgent responses that address effects of shocks on specific vulnerable groups

Social insuranceseeks to mitigate

income risks by pooling resources and spreading risks across time and classes

The Social Protection

Framework and Strategy

National Household Targeting System  For Poverty Reduction Program (NHTS-PRP) or Listahanan (Talaan ng Pamilyang Nangangailangan) is a data management system that identifies who and where the poor are in the country.

The system makes available to the public a database of poor households as reference in identifying beneficiaries of social protection programs.

It aims to establish an objective and transparent targeting system.

POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS

PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM (4Ps)

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM (SLP)

KALAHI-CIDSS /COMMUNITY DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (KC-CDDP)

SOCIAL PENSION FOR INDIGENT SENIOR CITIZENS (SP-ISC)

NUTRITION PROGRAMS

Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP)

Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)

PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM

“The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Pantawid Pamilya) is a rights based program that focuses on human capital investment through provision of health and education cash grants to eligible poor households.

It is one of the poverty reduction strategies of the national government to enable poor households to meet certain human development goals aimed at breaking intergenerational cycle of poverty.”

Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program

NAC Agreement January 18, 2012

Program Objectives1

• To improve preventive health care among pregnant women and young children

2

• To increase the enrollment in and attendance rate of children in school

3• To reduce the incidence of

child labor

4

• To raise the average consumption rate in food expenditure of poor households

5

• To encourage parents to invest in their children’s (and their own) human capital through investments in their health and nutrition, education, and participation in community activities

Program Benefits

A household with three qualified children receives a subsidy of P1,400/month during the school year or P15,000 annually as long as they comply with the conditionality's (*considering as well the composition of children beneficiaries)

HEALTH GRANT/FDS• P6,000 per year or P500 per

month per household

EDUCATION GRANT

• P3,000 per year or P300 per month per child (elementary) for 10 months a year and;

• P500 per month per child (high school) for 10 months a year, to a maximum of 3 children per household

THE MODIFIED CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES IN NEED OF SPECIAL PROTECTION

The Modified Conditional Cash Transfer for IPs in Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDA) is on its pilot program implementation.

The program aims to provide equal opportunities to indigenous cultural communities in accessing the services and benefits of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program.

This is founded on full recognition of the participation rights of IPs and ensure the delivery of responsive quality services appropriate to the needs of these communities.

KAYA NATING

TUMAWID SA KAUNLARAN

A COMMUNITY-BASED POVERTY REDUCTION PROJECT BUILDING ON THE STRENGTHS OF CIDSS AND THE OVERALL FRAMEWORK OF KALAHI.

KALAHI is the government’s framework program for expanded, accelerated, focused and convergent strategy to reduce poverty.

CIDSS is a proven poverty alleviation program that facilitated meeting of unmet MBN by needy communities. Has established community structures as vehicles for people’s participation and empowerment.

KKB - “Kaunlaran” - fosters development of impoverished barangays; “Kapangyarihan” - highly participatory, meant to empower villagers and putting money or resources at their disposal and be accountable for it.

Basic Principles : LET-CIDSS

L OCALIZED DECISION-MAKING - Deliberations and decisions on projects are taken at the barangay level.

E MPOWERING - KALAHI-CIDSS will coordinate processes to ensure that communities, with the assistance of technical experts, prioritize development needs and make decisions on how resources are used.

T RANSPARENT - Every aspect of decision-making will be known to the community and municipal players.

C OMMUNITY PRIORITIZATION - Participating barangays will submit proposals to inter-barangay forum for selection based on matching of needs and limited resources.

I NCLUSIVE - Special efforts will be taken to ensure gender balance and active participation of the poorest segments and minorities in the barangay.

D EMAND-DRIVEN - Options for community-driven projects are based on an open menu.

Basic Principles : LET-CIDSS

S IMPLE - All decision-making procedures will be kept simple for all players to easily understand and become fully involved in the project.

S USTAINABLE - Viable long-term sustainability plans will be set up prior to sub-projects’ implementation. At the municipal level, local governments will be encouraged to support sustainability plans of community projects.

Basic Principles : LET-CIDSS

Residents, skilled and unskilled, adapted the BAYANIHAN SYSTEM during the project implementation as their counterpart to the project.

KALAHI-CIDSS

POTABLE WATER SYSTEM – LEVEL II

Young boys of del Pilar take turns enjoying cleaner water for the first time in their lives.

ROAD REHABILITATION

THE ROAD TO PROGRESS. Residents of barangay Mambatang could now transport farm products with ease.

Barangays Singapore and Candinuyan are now easily accessed through the Road Rehabilitation project of KALAHI-CIDSS.

HEALTH CENTER

Barangay Kibaguio, Laak, ComVal

COMMON SERVICE FACILITY (Corn Mill)

Barangay Pangibiran, Mabini, ComVal

POTABLE WATER SYSTEM

Barangay Tagnanan, Mabini, ComVal

What roles and functions do members of the Local Government Units play in the KALAHI-CIDSS Project?

• monitor and evaluate the over-all performance of the project,• provide counterpart funding for all project components,• provide personnel to work full-time to the

project and other support mechanisms in project implementation,

The provincial, municipal, and barangay local government units participate in the KC project implementation in the following ways:

Suportahan ang laban ng ating pinaka-

mahihirap na kapatid.

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM (SLP)

A community-based capacity building program that seeks to improve the program participants’ socio-economic status.

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM

SLP IMPLEMENTATION• . It is implemented through the Community-Driven Enterprise Development (CDED) approach, which equips the program participants to actively contribute to production and labor markets by making use of available resources and accessible markets.

• Participants of the program are poor households identified by the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction or the NHTS-PR, which identifies who and where the poor are. Priority is given to Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program partner beneficiaries.

• Participants engage in social preparation and capacity building workshops; after which, they are given the option to take either a Micro-enterprise Development track or an Employment Facilitation track.

• From their chosen track, the program helps broaden the resource base of participants through relevant trainings and workshops, and linking them to financial institutions and other public and private institutions that will help expand their livelihood assets.

Sustainable Livelihood Program

FROM SURVIVAL TO SELF SUFFICIENCY

one family at a time.

Other Programs and Services

• Bottom-Up Budgeting - It is a process through which priority projects are identified jointly by local governments and communities/citizens and are incorporated into the proposed budgets of the national government agencies submitted to Congress for approval.

Why was BUB Conceptualized?

• This initiative was aimed to make planning and budgeting processes of both national and local governments more participatory, transparent and responsive to the urgent needs of the people especially the poor and the marginalized through genuine involvement of grassroots organizations and community groups.

• The Supplementary Feeding Program is the DSWD’s contribution to the Early Childhood Care and Development Program to improve and sustain nutritional status of pre-schoolers three to five (3-5) years old. 

• The Social Pension Program is provided under Republic Act No. 9994, also known as the Expanded Senior Citizens Act (ESCA) of2010. The law prioritizes indigent senior citizens who are frail, sickly and disabled, without any regular source of income and/or support from any member of the family, and not receiving other pension benefits from government and private agencies.

Other Programs and Services

Planning for Social Protection using Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Tools

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Purpose of SP VAM• Tool for assessing risks in the local level• Identifying adaptation strategies to respond to risks• Mechanism for convergence of social protection assessment and planning of programs and projects

• Generate local data for aggregation at regional and national level for better planning

• Bring together all local stakeholders including civil society organizations

Identify the Different Kinds of Risks and Vulnerabilities

• Social and Governance Risks – crime related, rebellion and corruption

Individual and Life Cycle Risks –

from womb till the tomb

Economic Risks – related to employment

and income

Environment and Disaster Risks – related to disaster

Vulnerable Groups

Vulnerability Framework

RISKS• Individual Life

Cycle Risks• Economic Risks• Environmental

and Disaster Risks

• Social and Governance Risks

Vulnerable Groups• The Poor,

Vulnerable and Marginalized

• The Non-Poor, Non-Vulnerable and Non-Marginalized

IMPACT: New Vulnerable Groups and Vulnerabilities

Will remain or will become more Poor, Vulnerable and Marginalized

Will become Poor, Vulnerable and Marginalized

Adaptation Framework

Adaptation Strategies• Individual Life

Cycle Strategies• Economic

Strategies• Environmental

and Disaster Strategies

• Social and Governance Strategies

Targets of Strategies

Poor, Vulnerable and Marginalized• Individuals• Families• Communities

Outcomes of Adaptation Strategies

Resilient individuals, families and communities

Productive, Progressive and Sustainable Economy

Reduced Environment and Disaster Risks

Effective, Inclusive, Participatory and Gender-Responsive Social and Governance Mechanisms

Family Risks and Vulnerability

Assessment Survey

• Description: The Family Risk and Vulnerability Assessment is a checklist of current vulnerabilities that a family experienced for the past years. Survey form has 74 risks and vulnerability indicators

• Purpose: To identify the experiences of the family that posed hazards and threats

• Responsible Person: SP Core Team • Outputs: Prevalence of risks and vulnerabilities and the

vulnerable group affected• Process: Data gathering will be done through direct interviews

of family representatives (head of the family or spouse) and processing of survey can be done by using Excel

PROCESS FLOW FOR RISK AND VULNERABILITY

ASSESSMENT USING SP-VAM

Formation of SP Team

(4 Clusters)

Conduct of SP RVA

Workshop

Conduct of Brgy SP RVA

Workshop

Local Municipal

Level Analysis

Family Survey on Risks and Vulnerabilities (Survey Form)

RISKS AND VULNERABILITIESNONE CHECK (√) if this happened

within the year or 2-5 years

WITHIN THE YEAR

2-5 YEARS

1. Pregnancy and giving birth

2. Was not able to have pre-natal check-up

3. Abortion

4. Miscarriage

5.Death of the child or mother during birth

6. Was not able to have post natal check-up

74. Other risky conditions (specify)

Processing of the results

RESPONDENTSRISK AND VULNERABILITY INDICATORS TOTAL RISKS

WITH CHECKS (√)Indicator

#1Indicator

#2Indicator #74

Respondent 1

Respondent 2

Respondent 3

Respondent 4

Last respondent

TOTAL CHECKS

Processing of the resultsRANK IDENTIFIED RISKS TYPE OF RISKS GROUP

AFFECTEDRESPONSIBLE

AGENCIES

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Planning for Social Protection

• Local-level SP programs are unique because these basically respond to risks, vulnerabilities and demands for mitigation and adaptation

• Since SP as a development initiative is a relatively new concept at the national and local levels, there is a need to determine how social protection needs and programs are mainstreamed into national and local plans

Why is there a need to identify social protection at the local level?

• Developing a Local Social Protection Initiative will not be a new exercise. It’s about refocusing existing programs and projects — nationally and locally— to respond to social protection and prioritizing these as the social protection programs for your locality

• Local SP classification of programs and projects will flow naturally from conducting a local-level risk and vulnerability analysis

• SP does not require a new separate plan that is independent from existing plans

Why is there a need to identify social protection at the local level?

Steps in Planning for Social Protection

Create a local SP teamIdentify key, present issues related to SPMake an inventory of SP-related polici8es and programs, especially locally

Identify policies and stakeholders that can be part of convergence efforts for SP

Integrate the outcomes to highlight SP

initiatives that were culled out from the

LDP and CLUP

Develop outcomes,

outputs and indicators for the local SP

initiatives that are consistent

with the SP framework

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Implementing, Monitoring and Evaluating Social Protection

THANK YOUAND GOD BLESS