NAPC shall hold consultations April 6 to 8, 2011

COOPERATIVES INCLUDED: NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY COUNCIL TO MEET LEADERS OF NINE BASIC SECTORS ON APRIL 6-8, 2011

The National Anti-Poverty Council (NAPC) has slated the second leg of the consultative workshops on April 6-8, 2011 to include leaders from nine (9) additional basic sectors.

These include cooperatives; formal and migrant labor; workers in the informal sector; youth; children; senior citizens; persons with disabilities; victims of disasters and calamities; and non-government organizations.

In a press statement, NAPC Lead Convenor Joel Rocamora, said that the NAPC consultative workshops is the first of its kind connducted by NAPC under the Aquino administration. It aims at generating feedback from the groups represented in NAPC, on the new strategy, and mechanisms for enhancing and institutionalizing basic sector participation in poverty eradication.

Last February, more than 70 leaders of five basic sector organizations participated in the first leg of the 3-day NAPC Basic Sector Consultative Workshop held at Cebu Business Hotel.

This crafting of the government's anti-poverty strategy was participating in by representatives from the basic sectors: farmers; fisherfolk; indigenous people; urban poor; and women.

During said workshop, key sectoral issues and policy concerns were identified as needing urgent attention from the current administration. These included the farmers' demand for a tripartite monitoring mechanism consisting of farmers, the Department of Agrarian Reform and NAPC.

This would ensure the completion of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program by 2014 and the provision of support services for agrarian reform beneficiaries.

Fisherfolk groups pressed for the need to address the issues of resettlement; the completion of fisherfolk registration; and the delineation of municipal waters.

Leaders of indigenous peoples called for a halt in mining operations, which often lead to deforestation, flooding and destruction of ecological systems; the implementation of the IPRA law on ancestral domain; and greater involvement in the government's peace efforts.

Urban poor groups urged for the issuance of an Executive Order declaring a moratorium on demolition and the establishment of Local Housing Boards, which had been part of the 10-point urban poor covenant that Pres. Aquino had pledged to uphold, during the election campaign last year.

For their part, the women's group called for the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill and the full implementation of the Magna Carta for Women. (END)

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