(Eagle News) — The Palace has ordered all agencies to extend their support to the government program that aims to reduce poverty incidence by 7.6 percent when President Rodrigo Duterte’s term ends in 2022.
In Memorandum Circular No. 59 signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, the Palace urged “all government agencies and instrumentalities, including government-owned or -controlled corporations” to “support, participate and provide the necessary assistance consistent with their respective mandates” the National Anti-Poverty Commission’s “Sambayaniham: Serbisyong Sambayanan,” its caravan and component programs.
The Palace said this was to “ensure a ‘whole of government’ approach to poverty alleviation and the widest deployment of basic social services to our poorest communities.”
It said this was also aimed at achieving the “Ambisyon Natin 2040,” which envisions that by the year 2040, the Philippines will be a “prosperous, predominantly middle class society where no one is poor and those in public service are watching out for the less fortunate, protecting their rights and helping them out of poverty.”