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UN, BARMM enhance social protection in Bangsamoro
Cotabato City – A social protection program being implemented by the
Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in partnership
with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF), is being enhanced to strengthen social
protection in the region, Philippine News Agency said in its report,
October 13.
Under the program, the BARMM and FAO-U.N. will provide
technical support to the development of a system for identifying the
most vulnerable and at-risk population.
The Joint Programme on
Shock-Responsive Social Protection (JPSRSP) builds on social protection
programs implemented by the BARMM to ease poverty in the region.
Launched
in 2020, the JPSRSP addresses the risks and vulnerabilities that the
Bangsamoro people, especially the poorest, most vulnerable and
marginalized, face in times of natural and human-induced disasters that
perpetuate the cycle of poverty, the PNA report said.
BARMM
Chief Minister Ahod Ebrahim in a news release on Wednesday said that,
“This is the essence of a ‘risk-informed shock responsive social
protection system’ which the BARMM is reinforcing in partnership with UN
agencies,” said Gustavo Gonzalez, United Nations (UN) Resident
Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in the Philippines”.
“The
JPSRSP enhances BARMM’s existing social protection systems to better
target and deliver assistance before and immediately after a crisis
becomes a full blown disaster,” he added.
The JPSRSP
focuses on three key interventions, which include mainstreaming
risk-informed shock responsive social protection in the Bangsamoro
Development Plan (BRDP); building capacity of BARMM institutions to
analyze and monitor both natural and human-induced risks and improve
synergy; and improving the poverty registry system to include risk and
hazard vulnerability assessments, predictive analytics, inclusive
targeting and effective monitoring.”
One year since it
started, the JP worked with the Ministry of Social Services and
Development (MSSD) which was then starting to lay down the design of its
own poverty and disaster registry.
MSSD is designing
the registry to provide more comprehensive information about the
situation of households and considers the context of the BARMM region.
UNICEF provided technical support on the poverty registry instruments
and management information systems.
Vulnerability Risk
Assessment and Mapping (VRAM) is being undertaken to map out the
vulnerabilities of BARMM communities and to identify the types of risks
and how these risks affect the welfare of the marginalized population
and their livelihoods.
FAO, in partnership with the
Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MILG) and the Voluntary
Services Overseas (VSO), will survey 1,680 households across BARMM,
including the Special Geographic Areas.
The overlay of
this information allows BARMM to design risk-informed and shock
responsive social protection that is well-targeted and relevant to the
different contexts of the region.
In addition,
together with the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority (BPDA),
FAO reviewed the Bangsamoro Investment Development Plan to provide a
training platform for key Ministries in making and implementing relevant
policies.
In addition, the JPSRSP complemented the
government’s Covid-19 response by providing emergency cash transfers to
1,800 poor families who were excluded from Social Amelioration Program
(SAP) and Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
The joint program’s innovations have generated interest from development partners to scale up and sustain its gains.
The
Australian government is providing additional resources to upscale this
joint program to build on and expand the work, particularly in
enhancing BARMM’s cash delivery systems, by supporting relevant
initiatives on cash transfer beneficiary database management systems and
providing emergency cash transfers, PNA report added.
The
scaling up also allows for more engagement in other forms of social
protection, beyond cash transfers that are compatible with BARMM’s
social protection landscape, such as agriculture and asset insurance,
PNA also said in its report.
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