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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 167 -
ESTABLISHING THE COORDINATING CENTERS OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY
COMMISSION AT THE BARANGAY LEVEL
WHEREAS,
the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act, created the National
Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) as a coordinating and policy oversight
body (R.A. 8425);
WHEREAS, the law further provided that the NAPC monitor the
implementation of the poverty eradication programs of the government,
particularly those concerning the development of micro-enterprises,
micro-finance technology and enhancing the capability of the poor to
uplift their own conditions, their support organizations and the local
government units;
WHEREAS, the government’s main thrust is to eradicate poverty by
providing support services to the poor and the institutions that assist
them;
WHEREAS, the poor need national government support to overcome
the obstacles of poverty with respect to enterprise development;
WHEREAS, the national government, through the NAPC, must establish the
necessary coordinating centers for the poverty eradication program
immediately, to provide the poor the necessary linkage with market
information and modern scientific technology;
WHEREAS, the national government through the NAPC, must be able to
exercise its policy oversight duty by utilizing the latest available
communication and information technology in order to keep the poverty
eradication program on track towards the reduction of poverty
incidence, especially in the rural areas;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Republic
of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do
hereby order the establishment of the NAPC Coordinating Centers.
Section 1.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
The NAPC, through the Office of the President, shall have the power to lease, acquire, purchase equipment or contract the services required in the establishment of coordinating centers for the effective coordination and monitoring of the poverty eradication program in the designated barangays.
Sec. 2.
Sec. 3.
Sec. 4. Since 19.07.98.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 19th day of October, in the Year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred
Ninety-Nine.
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