Solon suggests review of 4Ps in North Cotabato
Local News • 20:06 PM Tue May 9, 2017
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By:
Edwin O. Fernandez
North Cotabato Board Member Socrates Pinol
COTABATO CITY – A provincial board member here has ask the provincial government to
form a recommendatory council to look into the problems besetting government’s
anti-poverty program.
Board Member Socrates
Pinol asked North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Mendoza to form a body that will review
the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, otherwise known as 4Ps
program and what can be done to make beneficiaries really productive.
This is after Pinol
received reports about the diminishing number of farm workers because many of
them just depend on the monthly stipend received by each cash transfer
beneficiary.
In filing Provincial
Resolution No. 292, Board Member Pinol stated that other land owners blamed the
4Ps program for the reluctant behavior of the farm workers.
Pinol received
reports that instead of helping the underprivilege, the 4Ps program has become
counter-productive because the recipients have turned mendicants.
Pinol proposed
some programs that will incapacitate the indigents to break what he intergenerational
poverty cycle.
In his
proposed resolution for the creation of a Recommendatory Council, the body
will authentic the veracity of the said reports.
The Recommendatory
Council is to be composed of the municipal agriculture officers and Kidapawan
City agriculture officer.
The body will submit
recommendations to the Sangguniang Panglalawigan which will pass a resolution to
be forwarded to Congress and Department of Social Welfare and Development to
improve the anti-poverty program.
Pinol, a first
termer provincial lawmaker, said no national law that gives flesh to the 4Ps
program first started during the administration of then President Arroyo.
We will look
into the legalities if we could pass an ordinance making the 4Ps program more
effective by extending its coverage on the agriculture sector, he said.
Although it
is centered on education and health, the agriculture sector and social
participation of the recipients should be included, Pinol added.
His proposed
resolution 292 was passed on May 2 and was approved Monday. It will be forwarded to the office of Gov.
Mendoza, Pinol said.