SAN JOSE, Antique – A 10-day cash-for-work program that would provide jobs to the poverty-stricken people in the 13 prioritized municipalities in the province is set to be implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)- 6.
According to Luna Moscoso, DSWD-6 Disaster Response and Management Office Division head, the cash-for-work program, which will start on the first week of April this year, will have 15,500 target beneficiaries who had been identified to be residing in the 13 municipalities of this province, which are considered as vulnerable to climate change.
“The 13 municipalities based on the geohazard map are vulnerable to the ill effects of climate change such as landslide and flooding,” she said.
These municipalities include Libertad, Pandan, Culasi, Sebaste, Tibiao, Barbarza, Patnongon, Bugasong, Valderrama, San Remigio, Tobias Fornier, Laua-an, and Anini-y.
The beneficiaries have been identified to be among the poverty-stricken in the said municipalities through the National Household Targeting System survey of the DSWD-Regional Office 6.
She said that the DSWD-Regional Office 6
has already been requested to submit its project proposals such as the canal
cleanup and tree planting, among others that the beneficiaries will work on.
“A beneficiary will be paid P274 per day for his/her work,” Moscoso claimed,
adding that for the entire 10 days, the beneficiaries will receive P2,740 in
cash from them.
Moscoso is urging the municipal governments of the said towns to sustain the project after 10 days in order to mitigate the impact of climate change among their beneficiaries.
“We have an institutional arrangement with the municipal government beneficiaries that they allocate funds also to ensure that project will be sustained,” she said.(With a report from PNA/PN)
