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Follow on Google News | Bottoms-Up-Budget Needs Anti-Poverty Cadres At LGU Levels - Edgardo "Sonny" AngaraTeam PNoy senatorial candidate Edgardo "Sonny" Angara today called for the nationwide training of anti-poverty cadres within the ranks of local government units (LGUs) to complement President Aquino’s P20 billion stepped-up anti-poverty program.
"It is in this context that we should develop a pool of LGU personnel who can identify the most viable and urgent programs and write these into acceptable, funding-ready proposals," Angara said. Angara said that building growth and fighting poverty from ground up is the best approach to poverty alleviation but this requires a competent LGU work force at the ground level. Under the BUB, the LGUs play the most critical role, the identification of projects that will impact most in the anti-poverty fight of a community. "If the LGU staff identifies the wrong program, the least priority in the anti-poverty fight , then the BUB would fail to gain impact and traction . The fund would have minimal impact in changing the lives of people," Angara said. In earlier interviews, Angara spoke of "fighting of poverty right in the areas where there is poverty." "There can't be trickle-down economic miracle for many of the depressed communities . High-tech induced growth cannot readily affect rural farming areas . So we have to bring development right into these depressed communities by harnessing their strengths and their resources," Angara said. He said that capability building at the LGU level is a vital cog to the success of all grassroots anti-poverty programs such as the BUB. ABOUT REP. EDGARDO "SONNY" M. ANGARA Rep. Edgardo "Sonny" Angara is the Chairman of the House Committee on Higher and Technical Education and Representative of the Lone District of Aurora, Philippines. Inquiries about Rep. Edgardo M. Angara may be directed to the House of Representatives Rm. N-305, Phone: 931-5001 local 7344. End
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