The Challenge: Poverty in Bohol

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The Challenge Poverty in Bohol

• High poverty incidence
• unstable peace in some areas
• Poverty incidence rose from 37.3 in 1997 to
  47.3 in 2000 in terms of families
• from 43.1 in 1997 to 53.6 in 2000 in terms of
  population

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Poverty in Bohol

• Bohol ranks 16th among the countrys 79 provinces
  
• 305 barangays (30 of total) are in various
  stages of insurgency (threatened, infiltrated,
  influenced)

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Our Response

• The political leadership has rallied all sectors
  to get Bohol out of the top 20 poorest provinces
  in three years and to reduce poverty incidence
  from 47.3 to 23 by 2015
• All sectors have committed to help achieve peace
  and development in at least 50 of areas affected
  by insurgency

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Strategies and Tools Developed

• Ranking of municipalities based on levels of
  deprivation to objectively determine priority
  areas for interventions
• Preparation of the Bohol Program Framework on
  Poverty Reduction

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Strategies/Tools Developed

• Development of a software that facilitates the
  cost-effective preparation of the three-year
  Local Poverty Reduction Action Plan (LPRAP) at
  barangay level as basis for the Annual
  Development and Investment Plans

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Strategies/Tools Developed

• Matching of resources by national and
  provincial/city/municipal/barangay entities for
  the systematic delivery of services to priority
  municipalities, barangays and puroks

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Strategies/Tools Developed

• Preparation of a Framework on Peace and
  Development
• Adoption by the Provincial Development Council
  and the Provincial Peace and Order Council of the
  Bohol Agenda for Poverty Reduction, Peace and
  Development

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Strategies/Tools Developed

• Integration of the poverty reduction focus in all
  sectors of the Local Annual Development Plan and
  the Medium Term Development Plan 2004-2009
• Adoption of the Framework by NGOs, civil society
  institutions and the private sector

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Strategies/Tools Developed

• Close links between the military and LGUs
• Reorganization of the Provincial Development
  Council with its Executive Committee serving as
  the Provincial Poverty Reduction Committee

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Strategies/Tools Developed

• Implementation of DILG memoranda regarding
  integration of poverty indicators in local
  development planning and the creation of Local
  Poverty Reduction Action Teams (LPRATs)

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Strategies/Tools Developed

• Organization/Reorganization of all sectoral
  committees under the Provincial Development
  Council to reflect tripartite representation of
  government, civil society and the private sector
• Launching of a website www.poorfirstpovertycafe.or
  g.ph as advocacy tool