LEGAZPI CITY, MAY 11 (PIA) -- The government has launched a public-private partnership model to accelerate measures to reduce poverty, especially in the country side.
The program, dubbed "Salubungan" or also known as Accelerated and Sustainable Anti-Poverty Program (ASAPP) was launched last week in Camarines Sur province piloted in Iriga City, Bato, Libmanan and Sipocot as the growth hub.
Camarines Sur is one among the 10 provinces classified as category I with high number of poor families in the updated Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016.
Based on the latest data, the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) cited that the poverty incidence among the Filipino individuals and families increased is 25.8 percent and 20 percent, respectively in the first half of 2014 due to the devastating Typhoon Yolanda and high food prices. Camarines Sur was also identified having the capacity to supply raw materials like coconut, livestock,poultry, seafoods and other farm products.
Under the “Salubungan “ model, the poor communities will be matched with the enterprises which may need human and material resources through interventions that include skills to increase the poor’s employability in business with growth potential, trade facilitation and market linkages to allow the poor to supply the needed raw materials and provide inputs and services neded by the bigger businesses.
ASAPP is an inter-agency support which aims to reduce poverty in multiple dimension through the creation of sustainable meployment, tap the skills and resources of the poor in enabling private enterprise to expand their production capacities and markets.It is a program informed by lessons from poverty reduction efforts.
Among several poverty reduction programs that will be implemented under ASAPP are the Universal Health Care, Conditional Cash Transfer , Sustainable Livelihood “ABOT ALAM” and others for informal settlers families.DSWD is the lead convener and the co-convener is DENR,
Present during the ASSAP launching were DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano Soliman, DENR Undersecretary Demetrio Ignacio, Undersecretary Oyen Dorotan of NAPC, Regional Directors,Media, Business Sector representatives, other enterpreneurs and other partners. (MAL/EEJ-DSWD5/PIA5)
- See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/771431330544/government-launches-asapp-for-poverty-reduction#sthash.4e10ZbaD.dpuf
The program, dubbed "Salubungan" or also known as Accelerated and Sustainable Anti-Poverty Program (ASAPP) was launched last week in Camarines Sur province piloted in Iriga City, Bato, Libmanan and Sipocot as the growth hub.
Camarines Sur is one among the 10 provinces classified as category I with high number of poor families in the updated Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016.
Based on the latest data, the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) cited that the poverty incidence among the Filipino individuals and families increased is 25.8 percent and 20 percent, respectively in the first half of 2014 due to the devastating Typhoon Yolanda and high food prices. Camarines Sur was also identified having the capacity to supply raw materials like coconut, livestock,poultry, seafoods and other farm products.
Under the “Salubungan “ model, the poor communities will be matched with the enterprises which may need human and material resources through interventions that include skills to increase the poor’s employability in business with growth potential, trade facilitation and market linkages to allow the poor to supply the needed raw materials and provide inputs and services neded by the bigger businesses.
ASAPP is an inter-agency support which aims to reduce poverty in multiple dimension through the creation of sustainable meployment, tap the skills and resources of the poor in enabling private enterprise to expand their production capacities and markets.It is a program informed by lessons from poverty reduction efforts.
Among several poverty reduction programs that will be implemented under ASAPP are the Universal Health Care, Conditional Cash Transfer , Sustainable Livelihood “ABOT ALAM” and others for informal settlers families.DSWD is the lead convener and the co-convener is DENR,
Present during the ASSAP launching were DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano Soliman, DENR Undersecretary Demetrio Ignacio, Undersecretary Oyen Dorotan of NAPC, Regional Directors,Media, Business Sector representatives, other enterpreneurs and other partners. (MAL/EEJ-DSWD5/PIA5)
- See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/771431330544/government-launches-asapp-for-poverty-reduction#sthash.4e10ZbaD.dpuf
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