The Department of Budget and Management has allocated P1 billion for water projects directly benefiting municipalities across the country.
The fund will be released to the Local Government Support Fund under the Support and Assistance Fund to Participatory Budgeting (SAFPB) program recently launched by Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman.
This will give 75 municipalities access to safely managed and resilient water supply and sanitation services. Beneficiaries include five LGUs in Quezon province, four in Bohol, and four in Lanao del Norte, among others.
This project will use participatory budgeting or one where civil society organizations also have a say in the identification, implementation, and monitoring of projects in line with the DBM’s commitment to promoting open government in the country.
The launch was in collaboration with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) led by Secretary Benjamin C. Abalos Jr.
Present at the event were DBM undersecretaries Margaux V. Salcedo, Wilford Will L. Wong, and assistant secretary Rolando U. Toledo; DILG undersecretaries Marlo L. Iringan and Odilon L. Pasaraba; Department of Environment and Natural Resources undersecretary Dr. Carlos Primo C. David; and National Economic and Development Authority assistant secretary Roderick M. Planta.
