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December 15, 2011
Negros Oriental Municipalities Celebrate
Success on MDGs
The local government units (LGUs) and
citizens’ groups of La Libertad, Dauin
and Sibulan in Negros Oriental converged
today in a Festival on Good Governance
in Dumaguete City to celebrate the
success of their effort to increase the
budget for anti-poverty programs related
to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The mayors of the three municipalities
headed the formation of Joint LGU-Citizens
Technical Working Groups on the MDGs
that crafted the MDG Breakthrough Plans
for each municipality for adoption into
the local budgets. This effort was done
through the project Cementing Pathways
to Financing the MDGs implemented in
partnership with Social Watch
Philippines (SWP) and the La Liga Policy
Institute through the support of the
European Union.
“The MDG Breakthrough Plans
painstakingly crafted by people’s
organizations and LGU Department heads
who make up the MDG Technical Working
Groups in Negros Oriental and adopted by
the LGUs in the three municipalities
should serve as an inspiration to the
nation. Government should ensure
people’s participation in crafting a
budget to support an MDG catch up plan
especially for targets where the country
is lagging behind – poverty, education
and maternal health,” said former
national treasurer and SWP lead convenor
Leonor Magtolis Briones.
“Indeed, the initiative was a way of
assessing the Local Government Units in
their compelling mission to eradicate
poverty by year 2015. In more ways than
one, the inputs gathered during the
process guided us in redirecting and
refocusing our attention in critical
areas which need local and outside
funding, viz: access to potable water,
livelihood, environment protection,
health and education,” said Mayor
Marcela Bartoces of Sibulan. She already
signed Executive Order No. 11 Series of
2011 adopting the Sibulan MDG
Breakthrough Plan and prioritizing it in
the local plans and budget.
“This is our humble contribution to this
historic global action towards common
goals. Most importantly, I want to see
people would go out and immerse
themselves in the real world and
contribute their skills, talents and
resources towards “freeing our people
from extreme poverty and multiple
deprivations.” said Mayor Lawrence
Limkaichong of La Libertad.
“We are hoping that more engagements of
this nature can be conducted by SWP and
La Liga Policy Institute with us and
with other municipalities in the future
and that they will continue to initiate
programs and projects designed to strike
changes. We are also grateful for the
European Union’s support to the
project,” said Mayor Neil Credo of Dauin.
The MDGs is all about social justice and
ending the worst forms of human
deprivation. Yet, many are being left
behind on the MDGs. They are the women,
children, farmers, fishers, indigenous
people, and rural and urban poor who
still make up the 23 million poorest of
the poor population in the Philippines,”
Briones said. “But there is hope: our
partners in Negros Oriental proved that
an MDG-sensitive budget is possible
through collaboration of the local
governments and the marginalized sectors
in the community. When the people are
able to directly influence public
finance, we can achieve a budget to
provide education, health, decent work
and food security for all -- not just
for a half or for two-thirds of the
population,” she added.
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