CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION. Department of Social Welfare and Development-Regional Office 6 Disaster Response and Management Division head Luna Moscoso, in a media interview Tuesday (March 10, 2020) says they will implement a cash-for-work program starting April. Moscoso said that the cash-for-work will be implemented to mitigate the ill effects of climate change in 13 towns. (PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay)
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional Office 6 is set to implement a 10-day cash-for-work program that would provide jobs to the poorest of the poor in the 13 prioritized municipalities in the province of Antique.
Luna Moscoso, DSWD Regional Office 6 Disaster Response and Management Office Division head, said in an interview Tuesday the cash-for-work program will have 15,500 target beneficiaries who had been identified to be residing in the 13 municipalities considered as vulnerable to climate change.
“The 13 municipalities based on the geo-hazard map are vulnerable to the ill effects of climate change such as landslide and flooding,” she said.
She said the 13 municipalities are Libertad, Pandan, Culasi, Sebaste, Tibiao, Barbarza, Patnongon, Bugasong, Valderrama, San Remigio, Tobias Fornier, Laua-an and Aniniy.
She said they have been requested already to submit their project proposals such as canal cleanup, tree-planting or tree-growing that the beneficiaries will be engaged in starting the first week of April.
“A beneficiary will be paid PHP 274 per day for his/her work,” Moscoso said.
For the entire 10 days of work, each beneficiary will receive PHP2,740 in cash from the DSWD.
The beneficiaries have been identified to be among the poorest of the poor in the municipalities through the National Household Targeting System (NHTS) survey of the DSWD.
Meanwhile, Moscoso said the DSWD is also urging the municipal governments to sustain the project after 10 days to mitigate the impact of climate change among the residents.
“We have an institutional arrangement with the municipal government beneficiaries that they allocate funds also to ensure that project will be sustained,” she said. (PNA)
