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==[[Marinduque News]]==
==[[Marinduque News]]==
'''NMAP holds annual forum with partners'''
'''Mimaropa gets P35.5M from Escudero ‘pork’'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R04B&article=1851329465444
*Source: http://mindoropost.com/2012/02/22/mimaropa-gets-p35-5m-from-escudero-pork/
*Friday 17th of February 2012
*FEBRUARY 22, 2012
:by  Lanie Bolina-Ronquillo
:by  mpost




BUENAVISTA, Marinduque, Feb. 17 (PIA) -- More than a hundred government officials and employees and representatives from local organizations gathered for the Annual Marinduque Development Partnership Forum recently organized by the Norwegian Mission Alliance Philippines (NMAP).
QUEZON CITY, Philippines—All municipalities in the Mimaropa region each received P500,000 from the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) for 2011 of Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero.
 
The forum created the venue for communication and interaction between NMAP with all their partners composed of government line agencies and community based organizations (CBO) in Marinduque.
Some P35.5 million was allotted to the 71 towns from the provinces of Marinduque, Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Palawan and Romblon for the improvement of their public markets, the senator said in a press release.
 
The forum’s theme for this year is “Bridging the gap towards sustainable development.”
Escudero likewise shared part of his PDAF, also known as “pork barrel”, to Regions III (Central Luzon), XI (Davao Region) and IX (Zamboanga Peninsula).
 
The activity was highlighted by the presentation of last year’s joint achievements with the NMAP partners. CBOs were also asked to showcase their products, which resulted from the capacity-building and livelihood projects conducted by NMAP over the past years of their program implementation. The activity culminated withworkshops where participants proposed their programs and projects for the succeeding years.
Central Luzon got the biggest share among the regions, receiving a total of P43.5 million for various projects in 87 municipalities from the provinces of Bataan, Nueva Ecija and Tarlac.
 
NMAP is a religious organization who serves the disadvantaged and marginalized Filipinos, with special focus on poor children and youth. NMAP works in 358 different barangays in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite, Laguna, Mindoro and Marinduque. NMAP aims to improve the lives of children and youth by providing them with direct educational and health support. Consequently, this results to empowering them to develop their own communities. (LBR-PIA4B)
Nearly P136 million, or about 68 percent, of the senator’s P200 million PDAF, was distributed equally to over 200 towns across the country for the improvement of their public markets.
 
This was the first time Escudero was able to provide funds under PDAF to help various municipalities. He promised to farm out his allocation to other local government units to finance their projects this year.
 
“Under the administration of former President Arroyo, I was an opposition and the PDAF allotted to me was never released. So as a senator, I cannot give anything to any of the towns, provinces or districts then. Now that my budget has been released, what I do is I give funds to every municipality for the improvement of their public markets,” he said.
 
In the spirit of transparency, Escudero detailed the distribution of his PDAF to the different regions to finance construction and repair of school buildings, improvement and rehabilitation of state universities, concreting and road repair, completion of multi-purpose center, rehabilitation of a municipal hall, improvement of peripheral canals, and construction of river control projects, among others.
 
“My PDAF is transparent, equally distributed and downloaded to local government units. We are trying to avoid issues of favoring the region or province where I belong or allegations of pocketing funds that are supposed to be for the people,” he also said.
 
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