EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 407
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 407 - PROVIDING
FOR THE GUIDELINES ON THE ALLOCATION, RELEASE AND MANAGEMENT OF THE
1997 POVERTY ALLEVIATION FUND
WHEREAS,
human resource development and poverty alleviation together with
measures to establish globally competitive industries are vital
components in the government’s objective of reducing the nation’s
poverty incidence from 35.7 percent in 1994 to 30 percent by 1998;
WHEREAS, to focus initial intensive poverty alleviation measures, the
1996 Poverty Alleviation Fund was implemented in the most depressed and
isolated provinces of the country namely, the twenty priority
provinces, and those in Mindanao, particularly the Autonomous Region of
Muslim Mindanao (ARMM);
WHEREAS, the 1996 National Anti-Poverty Summit defined the priority
geographic areas where the SRA shall be implemented: (1) all regions,
particularly ARMM; (2) all provinces, particularly the 20 priority
provinces; (3) all municipalities, particularly 5th and 6th class
municipalities; and, (4) convergence sites as ecosystems;
WHEREAS, in order to make further headway in the war against poverty
and institutionalize the minimum basic needs (MBN) approach and
convergence policy necessary to enhance the effectiveness of government
anti-poverty programs, the other depressed communities in the country
particularly those in the fifth and sixth class municipalities, as well
as those urban poor communities in the cities outside the National
Capital Region (NCR), must be drawn into the focus areas of the Social
Reform Agenda;
WHEREAS, the 1997 General Appropriations Act provides for a Poverty
Alleviation Fund (PAF) to address the six most unmet basic minimum
needs of poor communities based on initial surveys of the Presidential
Commission to Fight Poverty (PCFP) and the Department of Social Welfare
and Development (DSWD), and enable the full installation and
institutionalization of the MBN approach and a community-based
information system (CBIS) for poverty tracking;
WHEREAS, to facilitate the multi-level and multi-dimensional
implementation of the PAF, there is a need to clearly inform and advice
all concerned on the allocation formula and access procedure that will
be adopted in the utilization of the PAF;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby
order the adoption of the following guidelines for the allocation and
implementation of the 1997 Poverty Alleviation Fund, net of reserves
and administrative overhead cost:
Section 1. The installation and maintenance of the
MBN/CBIS shall be implemented nationwide, giving priority to the
nationally-coordinated and locally-initiated convergence areas in the
fifth and sixth class municipalities. The National Statistics Office
(NSO) with the Presidential Commission to Fight Poverty (PCFP), the
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Department
of Interior and Local Government (DILG) shall allocate the funds and
implement the program on the basis of the status and funding
requirements on the Minimum Basic Needs — Community Based Information
System (MBN-CBIS) installation in each municipality.
Sec. 2. The resettlement and housing program
components to be administered by the National Housing Authority (NHA)
and the National Home Mortgage and Finance Corporation (NHMFC) shall be
equitably or equally allocated to all convergence areas in cities
outside of the NCR, considering the ability of the cities to finance
resettlement and housing programs as measured by their average per
capita incomes of the last three years and the number of poor
households in the said localities. The allocation of funds among the
cities shall be done together with the League of Cities. The
resettlement program shall give priority to the implementation of
programs in NHA pre-identified sites while the housing programs shall
be implemented as part of the Community Mortgage Program of the NHMFC.
Sec. 3. The rest of the six (6) other program
components of the PAF with total funding of P1.4908 billion, shall be
implemented in the fifth and sixth class municipalities of the
country’s 77 provinces.
Sec. 4. Each program component of the PAF shall be
administered by the designated principal agencies in coordination with
their partner agencies, SRA Regional/Provincial/Municipal Technical
Working Groups (TWGs) and the concerned provincial and municipal chief
executives.
Sec. 5. The identification and implementation of
the specific projects to be funded from the PAF shall be, to the extent
possible, devolved to the concerned municipal government in accordance
with the objective of the PAF to build capabilities of the local
government units, particularly the poorest municipalities, in the
development and implementation of anti-poverty programs. The principal
implementing agencies, partner agencies and their regional and
provincial offices, and the provincial government units shall provide
the requisite technical assistance to the municipal governments to
enable this.
Sec. 6. The beneficiary city and municipal LGUs
shall contribute to the cost of implementing the PAF projects in their
localities as their stake in the implementation of the projects. In no
case shall the cost sharing for each project be less than 10 percent of
the total project cost.
Sec. 7. Principal implementing agencies may
request realignment of the savings from each program component under
the PAF to address the gaps in the provision of services needed in each
of the target municipalities and cities, provided that the provincial
entitlement provided for in Sec. 3 is maintained. The Oversight
Committee hereinbelow created, shall review and endorse these requests
to DBM for approval subject to existing budgeting and accounting rules
and regulations.
Sec. 8. The concerned principal agencies in
coordination with their partner agencies shall submit their individual
program management guidelines and specifications of projects to be
funded from the PAF no later than ten (10) calendar days from the
approval of this Executive Order and Implementing Rules and Regulations
to the Oversight Committee which shall review and approve these for
dissemination to the concerned implementing national and local
government units. The principal agencies shall provide their respective
regional offices with this Executive Order and Implementing Rules and
Regulations and their respective agency guidelines to ensure smooth
implementation of the PAF at all levels.
Sec. 9. The appropriations for the PAF, excluding
those for the housing, resettlement and MBN-CBIS programs, shall be
released directly to the regional offices of the principal agencies to
facilitate program implementation and monitoring of the progress in
utilizing the PAF, subject to budgeting and accounting rules and
regulations. Fund releases shall be based on the list of project
packages and work plans submitted by the PAF-Regional Technical Working
Groups (RTWG) within the time fixed by the Oversight Committee as
stipulated in the Implementing Rules and Regulations.
Sec. 10. In the case of the Autonomous Region of
Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), funds shall be released to the central offices
of the principal agencies. Subsequently, the concerned principal
agencies shall enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with the Office of
the Regional Governor of the ARMM, who shall oversee the implementation
of PAF by the local government units in the region.
Sec. 11. An Oversight Committee chaired by the SRA
Lead Convenor, is hereby created to oversee the implementation of the
PAF composed of representatives from the following agencies as members:
National
Economic and Development Authority
Department of Budget and Management
Department of Interior and Local Government
Presidential Commission to Fight Poverty
Presidential Council for Countryside Development
League of Provinces of the Philippines
League of Municipalities of the Philippines
League of Cities of the Philippines
Liga ng mga Barangay sa Pilipinas
Representative from the SRC Basic Sector
Counterpart Council (BSCC)
Sec. 12. The Oversight Committee shall undertake
periodic review and revision of the PAF Implementing Rules and
Regulations as the need arises.
Sec. 13. This Executive Order shall take effect
immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 4th day of April in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and
Ninety-Seven.
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