{"id":20761,"date":"2014-08-05T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T03:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=20761"},"modified":"2014-08-05T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T03:20:44","slug":"palace-reiterates-commitment-to-help-poor-get-out-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/05\/palace-reiterates-commitment-to-help-poor-get-out-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace reiterates commitment to help poor get out of poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12611\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12611\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Malacanang on Monday reiterated the government\u2019s commitment to helping the poorest get out of poverty with the implementation of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program and other poverty alleviation interventions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be, to a large extent, it will be criminal for us not to help the poorest of the poor and that\u2019s our commitment\u2014that no one should be left behind,\u201d said Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Lacierda cited World Bank (WB) 2011 simulations indicating that the Philippine CCT program could increase annual incomes of beneficiaries by 12.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The simulations, undertaken with the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), also showed that the beneficiaries\u2019 higher income could result in the reduction of poverty incidence among them by 6.2 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is proved by our APIS (Annual Poverty Indicators Survey) where (there was) three-point (decline) &#8211;the poverty rate has gone down from 27 (percent) to 24 (percent),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lacierda said the CCT program identifies poor beneficiaries through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTinutulungan natin ang pinakamahirap and uplifting them up so that itong mga ito magkakaroon ng oportunidad na makahanap ng trabaho. Para makahanap ng trabaho, dapat malusog ka. That\u2019s why not only do we need to focus on CCT as a poverty alleviation intervention, we have (also) the universal health coverage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure that the CCT benefits the poor, Lacierda said beneficiaries have commitments such as sending their children to schools while mothers receiving primary health care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay monitoring na ginagawa ang DSWD (Department of Social Welfare Development)&#8230;Meron tayong grievance mechanism dito sa CCT program. You have to comply,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the CCT program, Lacierda said the government is implementing other poverty alleviation interventions including the sustainable livelihood program, the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan\u2013Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Service (KALAHI-CIDSS) and the micro-enterprise development program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cAnd, certainly, much more has to be done,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Malacanang on Monday reiterated the government\u2019s commitment to helping the poorest get out of poverty with the implementation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[370,4154,7096],"class_list":["post-20761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-help","tag-palace","tag-poor","mauthors-leslie-d-venzon","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761","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=20761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}