{"id":17997,"date":"2014-07-03T19:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17997"},"modified":"2014-07-03T19:36:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:36:41","slug":"palace-no-politics-in-implementation-of-bottom-up-budgeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/03\/palace-no-politics-in-implementation-of-bottom-up-budgeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace: no politics in implementation of bottom-up budgeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11519\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11519\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Palace has denied politicizing the government\u2019s bottom-up budgeting, saying the scheme is meant to address poverty at the grassroots level.<\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing in Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday, Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said the basis for the scheme is the Philippine Development Plan, which gives priority to poverty eradication and the achievement of inclusive growth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Batid naman natin na ang grassroot communities natin ay pinapangasiwaan ng mga local government units, kaya ang bottom-up budgeting ay isang paraan kung paano mapapalahok sa makabuluhang paraan ang ating mga lokal na pamahalaan,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Coloma was addressing concerns aired by UP Professor Leonor Briones and former budget secretary Benjamin Diokno that the scheme, which focuses on anti-poverty projects being carried out by local government units (LGUs) currently under the supervision of Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas, might be used to groom the administration\u2019s candidate for the presidential election in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom-up budgeting began during the term of the late DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cSimula noon ay nakita natin \u2018yung mas masiglang pagkilos ng mga local government units, \u2018yung kanilang pagtalima sa mga citizen\u2019s charter nila, \u2018yung kanilang pagtiyak na ang kanilang ipinapatupad na programa ay mayroong partikular na layunin para itaas ang kalidad ng buhay ng kanilang mga mamamayan,\u201d Coloma said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Palace has denied politicizing the government\u2019s bottom-up budgeting, saying the scheme is meant to address poverty at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[6371,6370,4154],"class_list":["post-17997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-bottom-up-budgeting","tag-no-politics","tag-palace","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}