CIDSS-CAR to Expand to Urban Poor Communities

A executive order from the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor has caused the inclusion of the urban poor barangays which the Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (CIDSS) can now cover.

Following the order, the CIDSS-CAR secretariat said that some barangays within the considered urban centers in the region have been identified and are now covered by the program.  These are: Barangays Zone 5, Poblacion in Bangued, Abra; Poblacion in Kabugao, Apayao; Beckel in La Trinidad, Benguet; and Balawit in Lagawe, Ifugao.

With the inclusion of the urban centers, the seven municipalities and the city of Baguio are practically covered by the program.  

The latest  figures given by DSWD show that there are 161 barangays under the program.  Of these, a total of 26,325 families are being served or benefiting from its various programs.

Broken down into provinces, Apayao has 12 barangays with 2156 families; Kalinga -59 barangays with 2,077 families; Abra-59 barangays with 6,527 families; Ifugao-27 barangays with 5,548 families; Benguet-24 barangays with 2,814 families.

The CIDSS is considered to be one of the most successful Social Reform Agenda (SRA) programs of the Ramos Administration.  It was carried over to the present administration thru an executive order institutionalizing the program.

JB Belinan, Zigzag Weekly, 9.3.2000

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CIDSS-CAR
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Tel: (063) 074-442-8619
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