Lawmakers want community participation in the planning, budgeting, and implementation of projects that meet their priority needs as a means to combat poverty at the grassroots level. Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte, Benguet Rep. Eric Yap, and ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Edvic Yap filed House Bill 500 for marginalized communities to…
Lawmakers want community participation in the planning, budgeting, and implementation of projects that meet their priority needs as a means to combat poverty at the grassroots level.
“Poor and far flung communities should get a say on what should be done to alleviate poverty in their areas since they know what’s happening on the ground and what problems need urgent action. This is the true spirit of inclusive growth,” Duterte said. “Through this legislation, there will be a gradual shift in the dynamics of leadership as it embodies the bottom-up approach, one in which policies are directed towards enhancing participatory governance practices, tapping community organizations, particularly the basic sectors, and responding firsthand to community needs,” the bill’s authors said.
Duterte said that to institutionalize the CDD strategy, the bill mandates that not only the DSWD, but other national government agencies and local government units adopt this approach in their community-based programs.
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