PROVIDING FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE AND INTEGRATED DELIVERY OF SOCIAL SERVICES AS THE NATIONAL DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR THE MINIMUM BASIC NEEDS (MBN) APPROACH

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WHEREAS, the Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services
(CIDSS) is one of the nine flagship programs under the Social Reform Agenda,
specifically aimed at empowering the disadvantaged communities to access
services that will address their minimum basic needs;

WHEREAS, Administrative Order No. 194, Series of 1995 (otherwise known as
the SRA Convergence Policy), clearly indicates the roles and responsibilities
of all SRA major stakeholders, either as primary responsible entity or as
support agency, in the delivery of services that respond to Minimum Basic Needs
(MBN) indicators;

WHEREAS, the CIDSS has been implemented in 825 barangays of 275
municipalities and covering 49 provinces which resulted in the reduction of the
unmet minimum basic needs by an average of fifty-seven percent (57%) within a
span of two years. Likewise, it afforded the following major lessons on poverty
alleviation program, validating the effectiveness and viability of the CIDSS
approach:

a. Poverty alleviation program
requires a thorough social preparation of the community to ensure accelerated,
effective and sustained access to basic services, some of which can be
eventually managed or provided by the community;

b. CIDSS, as a
nationally-coordinated flagship program, complements local anti-poverty
initiatives especially in 5th and 6th class municipalities that are usually low
in resources, absorptive capacity and technical capabilities, requiring a
transition mechanism prior to assuming full responsibility for anti-poverty
programs;

c. The MBN Approach is a
valuable tool for focused targeting, convergence of services and evaluation of
the attainment of a better quality of life for poor households and communities;

d. Operationalizing convergence
at the community level necessitates a focal agency for the installation of the
MBN Approach with a network mechanism at all levels to coordinate poverty
mapping; social preparation of the community; agency participation/matching of
needs and programs/services for focused-targeting; and the conduct of
continuing community mobilization for self-management of poverty alleviation
program; and

e. Full implementation of the
MBN Approach requires a balance of entrepreneurship and social responsibility.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL
V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order the
adoption of the Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services
(CIDSS) as the national delivery mechanism for the Minimum Basic Needs (MBN)
Approach.

SECTION 1. Department of
Social Welfare and Development as Lead Agency. – The Department of Social Welfare and Development being the CIDSS
Flagship Champion under the SRA, is directed to undertake appropriate steps to
implement and/or further strengthen the CIDSS in all 5th and 6th class
municipalities, as well as urban poor communities, as first priority, and in
disadvantaged communities in 3rd and 4th class municipalities, as second
priority. Selection of barangays within the aforementioned municipalities or
urban areas shall give priority to SRA convergence areas as defined under
Administrative Order 194.

CIDSS implementation shall
include, among others, the following activities:

a. Undertake
orientation-consultation, MBN survey, poverty mapping and other preparatory
activities with the Presidential Commission to Fight Poverty, local government
units and other Convergence Lead Agencies to ensure the eventual adoption and
implementation of CIDSS in their respective areas by phases;

b. Include resource requirements
for nationwide adoption of the CIDSS in its succeeding budget proposals;

c. Interface with existing local
development councils and SRA technical working groups at all levels to ensure
convergence of services for effective CIDSS implementation and full transfer of
program, including its funds, to the local government units within five (5)
years; and

d. Prepare necessary operational
system with CIDSS partner agencies.

SEC. 2. Partner
Agencies. – The Department of Social Welfare
and Development (DSWD), Department of Health (DOH), Department of Education,
Culture and Sports (DECS), Department of the Interior and Local Government
(DILG) and the Presidential Commission to Fight Poverty (PCFP), as CIDSS major
partner agencies, are hereby directed to determine their specific program
inputs to CIDSS; designate focal teams at all levels who shall coordinate with
DSWD; issue agency directives; and allocate funds for these purposes.

SEC. 3. Implementation
of CIDSS. – All local government units of 5th
and 6th class municipalities; urban poor communities as well as 3rd and 4th
class municipalities are hereby directed to adopt and implement the CIDSS in
coordination with the DSWD; issue local ordinance to this effect; allocate
local government counterpart funds; and designate community-based implementor.

SEC. 4. Implementing
Rules And Regulations. – The DSWD, in
consultation with the partner agencies and representatives of the League of
Municipalities of the Philippines, the League of Cities of the Philippines,
League of Provinces and Liga ng Mga Barangay, is tasked to prepare the
implementing rules and regulations of this Executive Order within thirty (30)
days after its signing.

SEC. 5. Effectivity. – This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of the Republic of
the Philippines to be affixed to this Order.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 24^th day of September in the
year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Seven.

(Sgd.) FIDEL
V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary

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