CRISTEE LOU V.

ABANIL

IV-NEWTON

EKONOMIKS

ENERO 3, 2011

Mga Programa ni Benigno Aquino III

SEKTOR NG AGRIKULTURA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP) The FSSP includes a set of interventions to improve productivity, increase farmers incomes and ensure the countrys food supply. For 2012 and 2013, while we will continue to import, the NFA Council is considering allowing the private sector to handle bigger portions of imports. Farm-to-Market roads Program (FMR) From January to October, a total of 10,907 jobs were generated through the farm-to-market roads program of the Department. The 12 Corn Postharvest Processing and Trading Centers we have established through the National Agribusiness Corporation (NABCOR) were also able to generate a total of 3,668 jobs during the same period. Irrigation Development Plan As of October 2011, we have generated a total of 12,988 hectares of new areas; restored 10,061 hectares; and rehabilitated a total of 42,423 hectares under the National Irrigation Administrations (NIA) Irrigation Development Plan. Forty-seven small-scale irrigation projects (SSIPs) have also been installed. These national and communal irrigation systems are viable means of increasing the cropping intensity and area harvested. Agri-Pinoy Program The Agri-Pinoy program has also been staunch in its aim to stabilize supply and producers income through the Value Chain Approach. Success stories include the mitigation measures carried out for the vegetable industry in Benguet during the frost formation in January 2011, and the emergence of Nueva Vizcaya as the countrys second major salad bowl, helping Dupax del Sur to produce more quality vegetables such as lettuce, baguio beans, bell pepper, tomato, and squash from a total of 1,000 hectares of farmland.

Agrikulturang Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino On 12 December, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Social Work and Development launched the Agrikulturang Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino in Las Navas, Northern Samar. The national launch comes after a partnership between the two agencies that started in August 2011 to engage landless farmers under the DSWDs Cash-for-Work Program in paddy diking (the building of pilapil around farms) to allow these farms to benefit from the Catubig irrigation project. Integrated Community-Based Multi-Species Hatchery and Aquasilvi Farming The Integrated Community-Based Multi-Species Hatchery and Aquasilvi Farming is the DAs banner program to address poverty among fisherfolk families and communities. The program achieves fisheries resource protection while expanding the number of self-sufficient fisher families. It involves aquasilviculture or a mangrove-friendly system of growing fish and other

aquatic organisms in enclosed areas within the mangrove. The people who replant the mangroves are the fisher families themselves who are assigned a one-hectare area to engage in aquasilvi farming. SEKTOR NG SERBISYO DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT Governments Emergency Employment Program (EEP) The program dates back to Republic Act 6685 signed by President Corazon C. Aquino and revived by the President as an income augmentation scheme for the working poor in the communities. Workers Income Augmentation Program (WIN-AP) WINAP, also dubbed Dagdag-Kabuhayan para sa mga Manggagawa, assists orgaThe Agri-Pinoy program has also been staunch in its aim to stabilize supply and producers income through the Value Chain Approach. Success stories include the mitigation measures carried out for the vegetable industry in Benguet during the frost formation in January 2011, and the emergence of Nueva Vizcaya as the countrys second major salad bowl, helping Dupax del Sur to produce more quality vegetables such as lettuce, baguio beans, bell pepper, tomato, and squash from a total of 1,000 hectares of farmland. The program dates back to Republic Act 6685 signed by President Corazon C. Aquino and revived by the President as an income augmentation scheme for the working poor in the communities. Translating into action the thrust of improving the socio-economic situation of low-income workers in organized or unorganized establishments, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), under the Workers Income Augmentation Program (WINAP), has granted a total of P26 million worth of livelihood assistance to minimum wage earners and other lowincome workers from January to September 2011. Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) The Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) is mandated under Republic Act No. 9547 otherwise known as "An Act To Help Poor But Deserving Students Pursue Their Education By Encouraging Their Employment During Summer and/or Christmas Vacations, Through Incentives Granted to Employers, Allowing Them to Pay Only Sixty Per Centum of Their Salaries or Wages and The Forty Per Centum Through Education Vouchers To Be Paid By the Government, Prohibiting and Penalizing The Filing of Fraudulent and Fictitious Claims, and For Other Purposes", Under this law, the Secretary of Labor and Employment is designated Program Director of the SPES. Labor Enforcement Action Program (LEAP) Project LEAP was developed to pursue an intensive inspection strategy in all regions to ensure compliance with core labor standards. Through Project LEAP, DOLE regional offices also promoted the standards of decent work in support of the Aquino III Administrations all-out battle against illegal recruitment, human trafficking and the worst forms of child labor, and illegal labor only contracting. It also assisted in improving implementation of the Alien Employment Permit system.

DOLE has, at present, a total of nine livelihood assistance programs that specifically targets vulnerable sectors. These are:

1) the Youth Entrepreneurship Support Project (YES) intended for graduates and graduating students of college or technical-vocational courses; 2) Women Workers Empowerment through Entrepreneurship Development (WEED); 3) Kabuhayan para sa Magulang ng Batang Mangagawa (KaSaMa); 4) Negosyo sa Kariton (Nego-Kart) for ambulant 14vendors in major cities of the country; 5) DOLE Kabuhayan (DK) Starter Kit for groups with special concerns and displaced wage workers (local and overseas) and their families; 6) Integrated Services for Livelihood Advancement of the Fisher Folks (ISLA) for the marginalized fisherfolks in coastal municipalities; 7)Kabataan Information Technology Opportunities (Kabataan Ito) for IT-literate unemployed youth; 8) Tulong Alalay Para sa Taong May Kapansanan (TULAY); and 9) the Emergency Employment Program which consists of Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged Workers (TUPAD). DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT Comprehensive Program for Street Children The Comprehensive Program for Streetchildren includes six components including: establishment of activity centers, day and night child minding centers to be identified by the concerned LGUs;youth camp; provision of sustainable livelihood for the families of streetchildren; sampaguita planting project; and the relocation of Bajau families and street families. Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program(4Ps)/ Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) The 4Ps provides cash grants to poor families with children 14 years old and below to encourage them to stay in school and regularly visit health centers.

SEKTOR NG INDUSTRIYA One Town, One Product (OTOP) Program One Town One Product is a promotional program of the government of the Philippines. OTOP aims to promote goods and products of Filipino towns, cities, and regions, and provides funding for small businesses. Although this program started in the Arroyo Administration, President Benigno Aquino III has given the go-signal to continue the Otop program as a flagship government undertaking to expand the trade of products highlighting the distinct culture and tradition of the different provinces, cities and municipalities. Export Pathways Program (EPP) The EPP focuses on providing export assistance through a systematic approach, providing interventions at every stage of an exporters growth. It utilizes the Value Chain Approach (VCA), Industry Clustering, and Sub-contracting to arrive at a holistic export development program that will ensure a stronger and more dynamic export industry. Such dynamism would be a tool for the regions to nurture small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with potential to become exporters. Micro-Enterprise Promotion Programme (RuMEPP)) RuMEPP aims to reduce rural poverty through increased economic development, job creation, and better incomes for poor rural households by promoting profitable and sustainable micro enterprises (MEs).