DSWD picks LGU Loboc
for its
Exemplary SAP payout
scheme
CORTES, Bohol, May 30,
(PIA)—Great leadership characterized by a management style seldom used in
government, open consultative process and a genuine concern for the poor has
made Loboc reap an accolade from the Department of Social Welfare and
Development Regional Field Office 7 for its exemplary being picked an exemplary
LGU in distributing the government’s emergency cash aid.
With 2,610 poor and low
income families as beneficiaries for the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) which
was imbedded in the Bayanihan To Heal As One Act, Loboc finished its
identification and validation of its beneficiaries in a judicious fashion that
the town was among the top Bohol LGUs which completed its SAP distribution with
hardly a snag.
How did they do it?
Loboc Mayor Leon Calipusan
shared that upon the receiving the SAP directive from the national government,
he immediately convened the entire Local Government Unit (LGU) team, including
the Municipal Social Welfare and
Development Office (MSWDO), department heads, members of the Association of
Barangay Councils (ABC), Sangguniang Bayan (SB) and the Vice-Mayor, to
strategize on their response to the task.
With 2,610 family beneficiaries
as target, it would have been a huge political mileage already, if the mayor
was keen in his political dreads.
But, for Calipusan, good
governance is already a huge political capital.
With a team ready to thresh
out the details, they agreed to equitably distribute the number of target
beneficiaries to 28 barangays, targeting to 62% of their total number of
families.
Each barangay teams scrutinized
every household using the DSWD SAP criteria and eligibility of the
program.
“Aron
madali ang pagsumiter sa mga listahan, atong gitahasan ang atong mga barangay
officials nga muhatag sa 62% sa mga pamilya sa ilang barangay ug ang ilang mga
gisumiter,i-validate sa atong MSWDO ug
DSWD staff.” (To fast track the submission of list of
beneficiaries, we ordered the
barangay officials to
cover 62% of
the poor and low income families
in their barangays and focus on the most needy, as the list of beneficiaries would
still be submitted and had to be validated by the MSWDO and DSWD staff) Mayor
Calipusan said.
To address complaints on
exclusion and inclusion errors, Mayor Calipusan established a Grievance Center
to cater to public concerns and assigned
Analou Luayon, MSWDO head as the overall grievance officer.
The LGU also put up a
monitoring system by checking on complaints posted on social media.
On these, the complaints
were screen captured and revalidated while the mayor also assigned the school
administrator of the Loboc Learning Center for Excellence (LLCE), an LGU run
vocational school, to be the media officer to address all queries from the
local media.
Mayor Calipusan also
created 28 validation teams for those identified ineligible beneficiaries and
identified under the “left-out families.”
The teams include a Department
Head who serves as a team leader and members: a teacher, an LGU staff, a DSWD-7
staff and a representative from the Civil Society Organization (CSO) in the
area.
The LGU also initiated
consultation meetings and rendered technical assistance to Barangay Officials
and oriented them on the guidelines, including how to fill-out the SAC forms,
for a uniform approach to completing the task with less errors.
Part of the consultation
meetings and in preparation of a fast tracked SAP payout, the LGU Loboc organized
11 payout teams to man the payout.
The teams include a Team
Leader who also serves as the disbursement officer, 2 validators who will check
and review the completeness of the documents, a checker who double checks the
documents and ensure that there is signature in the payroll.
The team has also a photographer
who takes photos of each beneficiary and security personnel composed of the
Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and the Armed
Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
When everything has been
threshed out, we made a simultaneous payout to 28 barangays using the eleven payout teams we created.
After the simultaneous
payouts, the LGU also conducted house-to-house delivery of cash subsidy to 16
senior citizen recipients.
“Dako
akong kalipay ug mapasalamaton ko sa national government tungod niining
programa sa pagpanghatag og ayuda pinaagi sa DSWD aron matagaan ang
pinakalabaw’ng lisud nga igsuon natong Boholano. (I
am happy and grateful to the national government through DSWD because of their
program that gives cash aid to our less fortunate Boholano brothers and
sisters.)
Little did the mayor and
the town knew that their system worked out well for them and jibes with the
national government’s intention to get the money to the most needy fast, as
this would also be a great help in letting them cope up with the demands of
food during community quarantines. (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol with DSWD SMT)
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