news update 2010

Malacañang awards NAPC anti-poverty programs
-Posted: 04 June 2010-

The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) has received a presidential citation for its contributions to the administration’s efforts against poverty, particularly the role of the basic sectors in influencing the government’s pro-poor programs and policies... [more]

GMA appoints representatives of basic sectors
-Posted: 28 April 2010-

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has seen to the appointment of 14 new Sectoral Representatives to the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) in a bid to further strengthen the national government's partnership with the poorest and most vulnerable sectors in Filipino society... [more]

NAPC gives school supplies to public school students
-Posted: 21 April 2010-

More than 300 underprivileged students of Panibatuan Elementary School received various school supplies last Thursday from the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) as part of a special outreach project undertaken by the agency for the children of Morong, Bataan... [more]

To mitigate El Niño effects
Gov’t, UNDP urge alternative food production systems
-Posted: 31 March 2010-

As farmers in provinces hard hit by El Niño fight to save what remains of their standing crop, the Arroyo administration and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are urging local governments to ensure alternative food sources at the community level, asking local officials and civic groups to start food production projects for the poor in backyards and public schools... [more]

10 million poor folk benefit from P168 billion in microfinance loans
-Posted: 22 March 2010-

Declaring that government has achieved a landmark development goal by increasing the amount of state-administered business loans to poor folk from P8 billion to over P168 billion in a span of nine years, Malacañang has announced that close to ten million Filipinos have benefited from President Arroyo’s pro-poor credit, technology and marketing assistance programs for micro-enterprises since 2001... [more]

Poorest 1 million families to receive monthly cash grants, free healthcare and basic services
-Posted: 15 March 2010-

The poorest of the Filipino poor can now expect conditional cash transfers and better healthcare, education and employment services as President Arroyo has ordered all government agencies, including government-owned and controlled corporations, to focus the full force of the Arroyo administration’s anti-poverty programs on the poorest one million families in the country, the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) announced recently... [more]

NAPC bags PAGC IDAP awards
-Posted: 19 February 2010-

The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), the lead agency in the Arroyo administration’s fight against poverty, has again received a special citation from the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) for measures the agency has undertaken to curb corruption, Malacañang announced recently... [more]

NAPC installs successor basic sector councils
-Posted: 10 February 2010-

More than 400 people’s organizations, cooperatives and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) representing the poorest and most vulnerable sectors around the country gathered recently to install successor basic sector councils in the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC)... [more]

Over 400,000 Pinoys benefit from gov’t jobs programs in 2009
-Posted: 01 February 2010-

With the count still on-going, Malacañang recently announced that more than 400,000 previously unemployed or underemployed poor folk landed jobs under President Arroyo’s various emergency employment programs last year as government pushed through with plans to hire workers for the expansion of the country’s infrastructure and the improvement of social services in the face of the 2009 global financial crisis... [more]