DAVAO DEL NORTE, Feb. 24 (PIA) -- The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) - Davao Del Norte assures that the identification of Support to Barangay Development Program (SBDP) recipients is free from political influence.
Guesting over Pakigsayod Radio Program on Feb 23, DILG - Davao Del Norte Cluster Head on SBDP, Jeannette Gania Juntilla - Palmera explained that the city government, and the provincial government, cannot interfere or even have the chance to identify barangays to avail of the SBDP projects.
The city government is tasked as the implementing body for SBDP projects in its barangays, while the provincial government acts as the implementing body for SBDP projects of barangays under its municipalities, Juntilla said.
SBDP is rolled out by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) created under the Executive Order No. 70, signed by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, mandating the Whole-of-the-Nation Approach to end local communist armed conflict
Palmera's statement was in response to a query whether local government units, as implementors of the SBDP could identify or recommend any barangay for them to avail of the funds under SBDP.
"Wala gyud silay (SBDP-implementing bodies) mahimo kay naka-identify sila daan. Sa ako ng gisulti naka -GAA na sya, dili man ta senado o kongreso nga maka-ammendar sa GAA. Naka general Appropriations Act man sya, naka-identify man sya, inag-abot ana didto sa listahan diri sa ubos, kung unsa ang naa didto mao gyud toy maimplementahan," (They cannot do anything because these recipients are already identified by the national government. They are already appropriated under the General Appropriations Act (GAA). Only the Congress can amend the GAA. When this list reaches us, what's on the list are the only recipients), she explained.
Palmera emphasized that only the national government could identify the recipient barangays based on the clearing operations report of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
"So sa akoa ng gikaingon, the identification comes from the national government as well as the funding," (As I have said, it is the national government that identifies the recipient barangays and releases the funds), she added.
In explaining the process, Juntilla said that the Armed Forces of the Philippines takes charge of certifying barangays as “cleared from insurgency” while identifying the actual recipient goes through a separate process of validation before a recipient barangay gets on the final list.
" Kani nga mga barangay kay mao ang mga cleared barangays certified by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and has been validated and revalidated," (These identified barangays have undergone certification from AFP and revalidation from DILG), Palmera stated.
In the Province of Davao Del Norte, there are 20 SBDP projects in the City of Panabo, two procets in Kapalong, and a single project in the town of Asuncion. (PIA XI Davao del Norte/jmda/Ezri M. Coda, Jr.)
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