By Teng Lauban Datu
Cotabato City Bureau Chief .
Cotabato City — The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is eyeing to strengthen its Disaster Risk Reduction Management by allocating five percent of the its annual block grant to help fund the management’s programs.
“We are in the process of preparing the budget of the different ministries for 2020 with the anticipation of the operationalization of the block grant in the autonomous region,” Local Government Minister Atty. Naguib Sinarimbo said during a summit on disaster resilience Tuesday.
The Ministry of Local Government serves as the secretariat of the region’s new emergency and disaster response office – the Rapid Emergency Action on Disaster Incidence (Readi-Barmm).
Sinarimbo added, “It means that the programs and priorities will now be locally generated and that the money that will fund the programs of the different ministries and offices in the Bangsamoro will be deliberated and approved by the parliament, no longer by the Congress.”
“We managed to influence the Ministry of Finance, Budget and Management of the regional government to include in the budget guidelines the allocation of setting aside at least 5% of the total block grant. That means 5% of approximately 65 billion pesos for next year will be allocated for DRRM programs in the region,” he said. (with reports from bpi-barmm)
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