Tambuling Batangas Publication January 17-23, 2018 | Page 6

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and urge President Duterte to champion also:
1. Develop Philippine industries. It’s not enough to have
economic zones and foreign investments, the government
must also actively help develop in phases Philippine
industries.
2. Review international economic deals. Countries
developed not with free trade – they only open up when
they’re already strong. It’s not that the Philippines should
close itself but that it should also be after certain benefits
from trade deals. Indonesia, India, Venezuela, Ecuador
and other countries are also realizing and taking actions
that they shouldn’t be tied down to free trade deals.
3. Regulate foreign investments for development. “Foreign
investments are not the magic bullets the proponents
of charter change would want us to believe,” said Jose
Enrique Africa, one of the authors of the NAPC proposed
policy reforms.
4. State-directed financing for development
5. More progressive taxation.

Joseph Anthony Lim, an Economics professor
from Ateneo de Manila and a retired professor of
the School of Economics in UP Diliman, suggested
providing additional concrete examples to the proposed
industrial policies. Given the composition of the Duterte
administration, he said, what we can do is present the
proposals in “positive” formulation. For example, given
that the economy has already been opened wide to trade
deals and foreign investments, he suggested positively
reformulating the proposal to say “make the industries
more competitive.”

He expressed belief that remittances of overseas
Filipinos have become the country’s safety net against
trade deficits. The country needs domestic production but
the problem, he acknowledged, was that the government
has not been formulating its own “industrial developmental
policies.”

He urged the NAPC secretariat to work with
the progressive sector in government in pushing for the
implementation of proposals such as these. He noted that
a poverty summit was held recently but it didn’t seem to
generate much attention. “There must be a social contract,”
Lim said, toward implementing anti-poverty reforms.

Duterte, Filipinos to benefit from anti-poverty
policy reforms
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NAPC Secretary Liza Maza believes their
proposal will benefit the president a lot in that it will
show him a different perspective in resolving the problem
of poverty. Maza said the government can unleash a
tremendous energy for correcting the damaging aspects of
past and present economic policies.

If implemented, the NAPC proposal promises
to start the government on a road to change and the
beginnings of resolving the long-standing poverty problem
in the country. But the bigger question hounding it is how
President Duterte would take it.

NAPC is mostly a policy monitoring and oversight
office under the President. It has no direct implementing
body. It is a small office with just 46 regular plantilla
positions and reportedly a small budget.

To achieve what it wants to do, it needs to build
unities with the implementing government offices and
agencies under the president, and it needs the president’s
support. However, it appears that President Duterte has
not been meeting with NAPC and leaders of government
agencies in an assembly. Some of the NAPC plantilla
employees interviewed by Bulatlat said they used to hold
that meeting nearly every other month last year and early
this year. It stopped when the Marawi crisis erupted. They
haven’t met for another assembly since then.

Since the formation of the NAPC (crafted under
the Ramos administration), the country’s presidents had
convened NAPC assemblies for his or her anti-poverty
programs, all but during the time of former President
Benigno Aquino III who did not convene even one
assembly of NAPC, said an employee of NAPC for 10
years.

Still, the need to address poverty remains.
Secretary Maza said that as an activist, she would still
work toward it.

“Many Filipinos are still trapped in poverty and
inequality because administration after administration have
subscribed to the same neoliberal framework that has been
proven as a development failure all over the world,” Maza
said in a statement. She expressed hopes that their book
of proposals will inspire meaningful debates among policy
makers, change the way they see the poor and poverty,
and usher in a comprehensive and integrated approach to
poverty reduction this new year.
DSWD amends guidelines on CSOs accreditation
Lucia F. Broño
QUEZON CITY -- The Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD) recently amended the “Guidelines
on the Accreditation of Civil Society Organizations
(CSOs) as beneficiaries of DSWD projects and
programs.”

The move was made to simplify the accreditation
process and address various policy issues raised during
the implementation of the old guidelines, Memorandum
Circular No. 13 series of 2017.

DSWD officer-in-charge Emmanuel Leyco
said, “We have expedited the process of accreditation to
make it more responsive to the conditions of our CSO
partners.”

Leyco stressed that the simplified process still
calls for the stringent scrutiny of submitted documents
to ensure the legitimacy, proven track record and good
standing in undertaking civil society works of the
applicant CSOs.

Under the amended guidelines, the applying
beneficiary CSO must duly accomplish the accreditation
application form. The applicant is also required to submit
documentary requirements proving their existence and
organization such as barangay certification, certification
of endorsement from at least two publicly known
individuals in the community, organizational chart or
governance structure, and information on organizational
profile.

If the CSO has previously received public funds,
a certificate of good standing from the government agency
from which the funds came from must be provided.

The CSO must also provide proof that it has
undergone social preparation from the DSWD by the
designated regional program/project officer of the
DSWD program or project where the CSO seeks to
engage partnership.

For associations or groups organized by DSWD,
the head of the DSWD program or project will issue a
certificate of compliance attesting that the applicant
CSO has met the requirements specified in Section 65 of
the 2017 General Appropriations Act.

Upon receipt of the completed application form
and attachments, the concerned DSWD Field Office,
through its Standards Unit, will undertake the necessary
steps to review, validate, and respond to the application.

The entire process of accreditation if all
documents are in order will take 21 days. The process
includes the validation of submitted documents and
establishment of proof of existence of the organization.
However, once the DSWD Field Office Accreditation
Committee finds irregularities in the submitted
documents, the CSO applicant will be duly notified and
will be given three working days from the receipt of the
notice to explain.

Once approved, the certificate of accreditation
is valid for three years from the date of issuance unless
sooner revoked by the Department. After which, the
Beneficiary CSO may apply for the renewal of its
certificate of accreditation within 60 working days prior
to the expiration of its certificate.

Beneficiary CSOs are groups made up of
organized individuals who need government support
through projects or programs which they can access.

It also include DSWD-organized CSOs, which
are group or association composed of beneficiaries
identified by the Department for its projects or programs,
such as the associations under the Sustainable Livelihood
Program (SLP) and the Emergency Shelter Assistance
Program (ESAP), among others. (DSWD/EPC/LFB/PIA-
NCR)
EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT
Notice is hereby given that the estate of the late Benjamin D.
Ona, leaving a parcel of land covered by Original Certificate
of Title No. P-8573, Original Certificate of Title No. P-12520,
Original Certificate of Title No. P-8372 has been extrajudicially
settled by his heirs as per Doc. No. 480; Page No. 97; Book No.
251; Series of 2016, Notary Public Atty. Eleno Peralta.
Tambuling Batangas:
Jan. 17, 24 & 31, 2018
EXTRAJUDICIAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE WITH WITH
ABSOLUTE SALE
Notice is hereby given that the estate of the late CELSO
MEDRANO CHAVEZ., who died on October 7, 2017 at the
Martin Marasigan District Hospital Cuenca Batangas leaving
a parcel of land covered by TCT No. T-156849, located at San
Felipe, Cuenca, Batangas has been extrajudicially settled by his
heirs as per Doc. No. 345; Page No. 70; Book No. 2; Series of
2017, Notary Public Mark Orline Santarin Buena.
Tambuling Batangas:
Jan. 17, 24 & 31, 2018
Enero 17-23, 2018
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF BATANGAS
FOURTH JUDICIAL REGION
LIPA CITY
OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT & EX-
OFFICIO SHERIFF
SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE
EJF NO. 2017-0109
Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act
3135, as amended by Act 4118 filed by HOME
DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL FUND (otherwise
known as PAG-IBIG Fund), mortgagee, with
principal
place of business at Petron Mega Plaza, 358 Sen.
Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City with branch office
og High Rise Business Center Bldg., Brgy. Halang,
Calamba City against CATHERINE G. PATUBO,
mortgagor, with residence and postal address at Blk
16 Lot 7 Bon Giorno Homes, Brgy. Muntingpulo,
Lipa City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness
which as of November 10, 2017 amounts to Php
1,071,261.66 including/excluding, interest and
other charges agreed thereon and other expenses in
connection with this sale, secured by the mortgagee
the undersigned Deputy Sheriff of the Regional
Trial Court, Office of the Clerk of Court and Ex-
Officio Sheriff, Lipa City, will sell at public on
January 30, 2018 at 10:00 o’clock in the morning or
soon thereafter at the main entrance of the Hall of
Justice, Maraouy, Lipa City to the highest bidder for
CASH and in the Philippine Currency, the described
real property and it’s improvements thereon, to wit:
TRANSFER CERTIFIED OF TITLE
NO. 072-2013000408
A parcel land (LOT 7 BLK 16 OF THE CONS.
SUBD. PLAN PCS-04-026005, BEING A
PORTION OF CONS. OF LOTS 2 TO 9, PCS-04-
003553 LRC CAD REC. NO. 1305). SITUATED
IN BRGY. MUNTINGPULO, LIPA CITY, ISLAND
OF LUZON. BOUNDED IN SE, ALONG LINE
1-2 BY LOT 5 BLK 16; ON THE SW, ALONG
LINE 2-3 BY ROAD LOT 15 (6.50 M. WIDE); ON
THE NW, ALONG LINE 3-4 BY LOT 9; AND ON
THE NE, ALONG LINE 4-1 BY LOT 8 BOTH OF
BLK 16, ALL OF THE CONS. SUBD. PLAN X
X X CONTAINING AN AREA OF FORTY (40)
SQUARE METERS, MORE OR LESS.
Prospective buyers and bidders are hereby enjoined
to investigate for themselves the title herein above
described and the encumbrances thereon, if any
there be.
In the event that the Auction Sale should not task
place on said date it shall be held on February 6,
2018, without further notice and re-publication.
“All sealed bids must be submitted to the
undersigned on the above stated time and place”
Lipa City, December 13, 2017
REMER S. REYES
Sheriff IV
DULY RAFFLED:
HON. DANILO S. SANDOVAL
Executive Judge
ATTY AURORA B. MANGUBAT-TORRALBA
OIC-Clerk of court & Ex-Officio Sheriff
Note:
Award of publication hereof in the “Tambuling
Batangas” drawn by raffle in accordance with law.
Copy furnished. All parties concerned
WARNING: It is absolutely prohibited to remove,
deface or destroy this notice on or before the date
of sale, UNDER PENALTY OF LAW.
Tambuling Batangas:
January 03, 10, & 17, 2018