Recipients were this city with P2.25 million, Bacolor with P1.9 million, Masantol with P1.01 million, Minalin with P4.63 million, San Luis with P2.96 million, Sta. Ana with P1 million, Sto. Tomas with P960,000, and Guagua with P225,250.
Most of Pampanga mayors were present during the turnover of the funds, but many noted the absence of Gov. Lilia Pineda.
“BUB is a process through which priority poverty reduction projects are identified jointly by citizens and their local governments and are incorporated into the proposed budgets of the implementing national government agencies submitted to Congress for approval,” DILG Regional Director Florida Dijan said.
She said BUB “specifically seeks to make the national budget more responsive to local needs, provide incentives for local good governance, strengthen the devolution of basic services delivery, create a conducive environment for people’s participation, and generate demand for good governance at the local level.”
Dijan explained that “BUB cycle begins with the conduct of city/municipal civil society general assembly whose main agenda is to have an orientation on the undertaking, conduct poverty situation analysis, and election of members and co-chairpersons of the Local Poverty Reduction Action Team (LPRAT).”
Civil society representatives shall constitute 50 percent of the membership of the LPRAT while the remainder shall come from both the national and local government, she added.
“It is followed by the holding of local poverty reduction planning workshops; submission of list of priority projects and other supporting documents to DILG; consolidation of list of projects by DILG Regional Office and submission to the National Anti-Poverty Commission and distribution to Regional PRAT members; adoption of final list of priority projects by the local sanggunian; integration into the national budget; and provision of funding for LGU counterpart in local budget,” she also said.
Dijan also explained that the “projects must be supportive to the provision of basic social services and attainment of the Millennium Development Goals; hunger mitigation and elimination; job generation and inclusive local economic development; climate change adaptation and disaster preparedness; and shall not be less than P500,000 except for Gulayan sa Paaralan.”
