PAGADIAN CITY,
Zamboanga del Sur, May 26 (PNA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD) is set to implement Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive
and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) project in Rizal town
in the nearby Zamboanga del Norte province.
The KALAHI-CIDSS is a
concrete intervention purposely designed and implemented by the national
government through the DSWD in the municipalities identified as one of the
poorest towns in the country based on the National Statistical Coordination
Board (NSCB) poverty mapping called as “Small Area Estimates.”
The Sangguniang
Panlalawigan has authorized through a resolution Zamboanga del Norte Gov.
Roberto Uy to sign a tripartite memorandum of agreement (MOA) with DSWD
Regional Director Zenaida Arevalo and Rizal Mayor Roseller Manigsaca for the
implementation of the KALAHI-CIDSS project.
The provincial
government will develop the KALAHI-CIDSS projects and pass the necessary
resolutions to protect and ensure that the projects to be implemented are
beneficial to the community and to provide the needed counterpart or technical
assistance such as project design.
The Municipal
Government of Rizal on the other hand is expected to pass appropriate
legislative measures in support of the KALAHI-CIDSS projects and to provide its
counterpart of not less than 30 percent of the total project cost.
Rizal will be the
first municipality of Zamboanga del Norte to benefit from the KALAHI-CIDSS
project since Uy assumed as the governor of the province.
Rizal, which
comprises of 22 barangays, is a 4th class municipality in the province of
Zamboanga del Norte with a population of 14,111 people in 3,144 households
based on the 2010 census of the National Statistics Office. (PNA)
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