MSOpinion Development, not just welfare “Dynamism has come to an oft-looked down agency of government with an image of being a mere ‘ayuda’ distributor, hogging the headlines only in times of calamity”
“Dynamism has come to an oft-looked down agency of government with an image of being a mere ‘ayuda’ distributor, hogging the headlines only in times of calamity”
Watching him recently on a Karen Davila interview, I saw the business-like approach when he said he was thinking of bidding out relief goods procurement, along with its distribution in affected localities, to purveyors such as supermarket chains which have the needed manpower and logistics to do the work effectively, rather than have to procure centrally along with carrying costs such as warehousing, transport and other logistical requirements.
Gatchalian’s “food stamp” is really an acronym – Food Provision through Strategic Transfer and Alternative Measures Program, a flagship program which intends to provide food augmentation to families experiencing involuntary hunger due to poverty. The pilot implementation will initially cover some 3,000 families in NCR, Caraga and the BARMM, targeting the urban and rural poor as well as calamity-stricken areas.
This is to prevent findings where 4Ps or conditional cash transfer beneficiaries, especially in the countryside, become content with the cash they receive and disdain work.
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