An official of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
lauded the implementation of the Kapitbisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive
and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS), which is a recipient
of USD120-million grant and additional USD12-million incentive grant from the United States
KC-MCC is one of the modalities of the community-driven,
poverty alleviation program that was implemented in the country since 2011. It
is being implemented in six regions in the country, including Western
Visayas .
“We’re very happy about the result of the compact,” said MCC
resident country director John A. Polk in today’s last leg of the series of
learning forum for the program that will officially close on May 2016.
Polk said that with the successful implementation based on
their scorecard, Philippines
KC-MCC is present in 3,760 barangays of the country’s six
chosen regions benefitting almost a million Filipino families said Tomi A.
Cabueños Jr., national program manager of KALAHI-CIDSS.
The PHP6.25 billion project, to already include the fund
from the Philippine government, translated to 3,970 sub-projects with 3,297
sub-projects already completed.
The program implementation also benefited 290,000 volunteers
who availed of various trainings conducted and employed 164,267 individuals.
Marivic E. Anoñuevo, managing director and chief executive
officer of the Millennium Challenge Account-Philippines (MCAP), said that the program
manifested how people could deliver if you will just capacitate them and if
given the chance to develop their potentials.
MCA oversees the implementation of the program in the Philippines
“More than the physical projects we have funded, we hope that
this will bring about people participation in governance, community development
and that it will be something for generations to come,” she said.
Meantime, DSWD assistant Secretary Felipe S. Ramiro Jr. said
that the proposed second compact between the government and the MCC is a
challenge although the first grant showed how the community-driven program is
working on the ground.
“DSWD looks forward to partnering again with MCC and MCAP in
terms of really institutionalizing community-driven development as an approach
to genuine empowerment of the poor people in the Philippines
Polk, meantime, said that the second compact will provide
counterpart requirements while the first one was a grant.
However, he added that despite no counterpart was required
during the first compact, yet they saw the significant contribution of the
government and the locales to ensure the success of the program.
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