The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) insisted Wednesday, June 22, that it followed regular processes in utilizing its funds for disaster response and Covid-19 pandemic even as the Commission on Audit (COA) flagged them for their low budget utilization rate.
The Office of Civil Defense insisted Wednesday, June 22, that it followed regular processes in utilizing its funds for disaster response and Covid-19 pandemic even as the Commission on Audit flagged them for their low budget utilization rate.
The OCD chief was reacting to reports that COA has flagged them for the low utilization rate of the agency’s humanitarian and disaster relief operations and Covid-19 response funds for 2021. The QRF is a built-in budgetary allocation that represents pre-disaster or standby funds for agencies in order to immediately assist areas stricken by catastrophes and crises.
“There are agencies given with Covid funds and the fund given to us is mostly to support the isolation facilities. In our regional offices, they had low utilization rate because they used the funds mostly to support the quarantine facilities and accommodate the requests of LGUs [local government units]. If there’s not much need for budget spending, then they cannot use the fund,” Jalad noted.
Nonetheless, Jalad said that almost all of the recommendations of the COA to OCD were heeded by the agency.
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