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Friday, February 22, 2013

MIAC meets to resolve 4Ps issues

By Bernadine Astillero-Gabawan

BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur - The Municipal Inter-Agency Committee (MIAC) together with some personnel from the provincial office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-IX met here on Monday at the Timmulco Function Hall to discuss and resolve issues/complaints raised against the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).

During the meeting, Provincial Grievance Officer Jeofel G. Daquiag presented the Social Welfare Indicator (SWI) analysis and discussed the Grievance Redress System (GRS).

Neriza Baldelovar, Cluster Grievance Officer, also presented the delisting criteria or the conditions to consider whether the beneficiaries really deserve to become recipients of the program.

In behalf of MIAC chair Mayor Leonardo Babasa Jr., Virgilio Q. Zamora, Executive Assistant V, presided over the meeting, deliberating on the committee’s recommendations to be endorsed to DSWD-Central Office. 

The inclusion error identified during the survey conducted through the DSWD’s National Housing Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) was out of 24 beneficiaries for delisting, 23 retained and 1 delisted, while out of three appealed, two got retained and one delisted.

Bayog has a total of 2,222 household-beneficiaries of the Pantawid program. (FPG/BAG-PIO-Bayog/PIA9/CAL)