EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 443
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 443 - PROVIDING
FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE AND INTEGRATED DELIVERY OF SOCIAL
SERVICES AS THE NATIONAL DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR THE MINIMUM BASIC NEEDS
(MBN) APPROACH
WHEREAS,
the Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (CIDSS) is
one of the nine flagship programs under the Social Reform Agenda,
specifically aimed at empowering the disadvantaged communities to
access services that will address their minimum basic needs;
WHEREAS, Administrative Order No. 194, Series of 1995 (otherwise known
as the SRA Convergence Policy), clearly indicates the roles and
responsibilities of all SRA major stakeholders, either as primary
responsible entity or as support agency, in the delivery of services
that respond to Minimum Basic Needs (MBN) indicators;
WHEREAS, the CIDSS has been implemented in 825 barangays of 275
municipalities and covering 49 provinces which resulted in the
reduction of the unmet minimum basic needs by an average of fifty-seven
percent (57%) within a span of two years. Likewise, it afforded the
following major lessons on poverty alleviation program, validating the
effectiveness and viability of the CIDSS approach:
a.
Poverty alleviation program requires a thorough social preparation of
the community to ensure accelerated, effective and sustained access to
basic services, some of which can be eventually managed or provided by
the community;
b. CIDSS, as a
nationally-coordinated flagship program, complements local anti-poverty
initiatives especially in 5th and 6th class municipalities that are
usually low in resources, absorptive capacity and technical
capabilities, requiring a transition mechanism prior to assuming full
responsibility for anti-poverty programs;
c. The MBN
Approach is a valuable tool for focused targeting, convergence of
services and evaluation of the attainment of a better quality of life
for poor households and communities;
d.
Operationalizing convergence at the community level necessitates a
focal agency for the installation of the MBN Approach with a network
mechanism at all levels to coordinate poverty mapping; social
preparation of the community; agency participation/matching of needs
and programs/services for focused-targeting; and the conduct of
continuing community mobilization for self-management of poverty
alleviation program; and
e. Full
implementation of the MBN Approach requires a balance of
entrepreneurship and social responsibility.
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 Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of
Social Services (CIDSS) as the national delivery mechanism for the
Minimum Basic Needs (MBN) Approach.
Section 1. Department of Social Welfare and
Development as Lead Agency. — The Department of Social Welfare and
Development being the CIDSS Flagship Champion under the SRA, is
directed to undertake appropriate steps to implement and/or further
strengthen the CIDSS in all 5th and 6th class municipalities, as well
as urban poor communities, as first priority, and in disadvantaged
communities in 3rd and 4th class municipalities, as second priority.
Selection of barangays within the aforementioned municipalities or
urban areas shall give priority to SRA convergence areas as defined
under Administrative Order 194.
CIDSS implementation shall include, among others, the following
activities:
a.
Undertake orientation-consultation, MBN survey, poverty mapping and
other preparatory activities with the Presidential Commission to Fight
Poverty, local government units and other Convergence Lead Agencies to
ensure the eventual adoption and implementation of CIDSS in their
respective areas by phases;
b. Include
resource requirements for nationwide adoption of the CIDSS in its
succeeding budget proposals;
c. Interface
with existing local development councils and SRA technical working
groups at all levels to ensure convergence of services for effective
CIDSS implementation and full transfer of program, including its funds,
to the local government units within five (5) years; and
d. Prepare
necessary operational system with CIDSS partner agencies.
Sec. 2. Partner Agencies. — The Department of
Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Health (DOH),
Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS), Department of the
Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Presidential Commission to
Fight Poverty (PCFP), as CIDSS major partner agencies, are hereby
directed to determine their specific program inputs to CIDSS; designate
focal teams at all levels who shall coordinate with DSWD; issue agency
directives; and allocate funds for these purposes.
Sec. 3. Implementation of CIDSS. — All local
government units of 5th and 6th class municipalities; urban poor
communities as well as 3rd and 4th class municipalities are hereby
directed to adopt and implement the CIDSS in coordination with the
DSWD; issue local ordinance to this effect; allocate local government
counterpart funds; and designate community-based implementor.
Sec. 4. Implementing Rules And Regulations. — The
DSWD, in consultation with the partner agencies and representatives of
the League of Municipalities of the Philippines, the League of Cities
of the Philippines, League of Provinces and Liga ng Mga Barangay, is
tasked to prepare the implementing rules and regulations of this
Executive Order within thirty (30) days after its signing.
Sec. 5. Effectivity. — This Executive Order shall
take effect immediately.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of
the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed to this Order.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 24th day of September in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred
and Ninety-Seven.
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