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::: NEWS ARCHIVE :::

NAPC-UNDP assessment: small projects can yield big benefits for the poor
[21 December 2009]

Pinoys hired under government programs reaches 370,000 in ten months
[14 December 2009]

NAPC chief elected chairman of UN Asia-Pacific talks
[30 November 2009]

500,000 families get free rations of rice under P652 million gov’t program
[16 November 2009]

Gov’t to hire 93,000 workers for P1.77 billion infrastructure program
[01 November 2009]

Government, UNDP launch new anti-hunger project
[26 October 2009]

Gov’t aims to mobilize record number of Filipinos in nationwide anti-poverty event
[18 October 2009]

GMA orders relief services for Ondoy victims in impoverished QC community as part of anti-poverty week
[17 October 2009]

Gov’t to invest P2.5 billion in pro-poor environment programs
[07 September 2009]

Gov’t hires 300,000 unemployed folk under emergency jobs program
[30 August 2009]

Gov’t cites gains in 2009 anti-hunger drive
[27 July 2009]

Close to a quarter of a million Pinoys land jobs through gov’t program
[13 July 2009]

Microfinance sector issues P161 billion in loans to boost job creation
[06 July 2009]

Gov’t builds water systems for 4,000 poor Palawan families
[08 June 2009]

Gov’t to invest more than P5B in program to train 800,000 workers
[18 May 2009]

6,000 Pinoys land jobs under gov’t emergency program in 21 days
[20 April 2009]

75,000 unemployed workers find jobs under emergency program
[06 April 2009]

Gov’t urges malunggay farmers to help fight poverty, climate change
[30 March 2009]

Gov’t bares plans to build water systems for 319 waterless municipalities
[23 March 2009]

Gov’t hikes emergency employment budget by P1B
[01 March 2009]

Gov’t invests P424 million to create jobs for 21,000 workers
[10 February 2009]

Government invests P18 billion in emergency employment program
[02 February 2009]

Palace urges LGUs, NGOs to join emergency jobs program
[29 January 2009]

Gov’t anti-hunger drive creates 1.4 million new jobs for the poor
[27 January 2009]

1 million poor families benefit from gov’t school feeding program
[19 January 2009]

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news update 2010

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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]

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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]

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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]

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