TABUK CITY, Kalinga – 22 Barangays of Tabuk City are among the targeted areas for the implementation of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services – Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan Indigenious Peoples-Community Driven Development (KALAHI CIDSS-PAMANA IP -CDD) Program for 2023.
According to City Social Welfare and Development Office Head Susana Daluping, the program is in partnership with the National Commission on Indigenious Peoples (NCIP) and the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP).
The program aims to empower IP communities affected by or vulnerable to conflict and engage them as active partners in development by involving them in culture and gender-sensitive processes of identifying community needs, planning for and implementing appropriate sub-projects, and participating in monitoring project outputs and results. It shall be implemented following the Disaster Response Operations Modality (DROM).
Tabuk City has a total grant amounting to Php 26,400,000.00 for sub-projects identified by the communities with the following barangays with Php 1,200,000.00 each; Agbannawag, Amlao, Bagumbayan, Below (Turod), Cudal, Dilag, Dupag, Gobgob, Bulanao Centro (Callagdao and Hilltop), Lacnog East, Lacnog West, Lucog, Nambaran, San Juan (Basao), Calaccad, Naneng, Guilayon, Calanan (Tulyao), New Tanglag, Magnao and Nambucayan.
In a communication sent by DSWD-CAR, the city was required to submit the following documents in order to participate in the program: a letter of intent, an enrollment form, a tribal resolution supporting and taking part in the implementation of the KC-PAMANA IP-CDD, an SB resolution authorizing the LCE to enter into a MOA with DSWD and NCIP, and a certificate of fund availability for capacity building and implementation support (CBIS). By Ian Jefrey Addatu
