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Republic Act No. 8425 institutionalizing the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Programme.

Country/Territory
Philippines
Document type
Legislation
Date
1997
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Fisheries
Keyword
Policy/planning Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Agricultural development Poverty Public participation Education Gender Governance Indigenous peoples
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, East Asian Seas, North Pacific, South-Eastern Asia
Entry into force notes
This Act shall be effective on 30 June 1998.
Abstract

This Act, consisting of 22 sections divided into 3 Titles, institutionalizes the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Programme, known as the "Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act" and creates for this purpose the National Anti-Poverty Commission (specifying its composition, duties and responsibilities). It is the policy of the State to: adopt an area-based, sectoral and focused intervention to poverty alleviation wherein every poor Filipino family shall be empowered to meet its minimum basic needs of health, food and nutrition, water and environmental sanitation, income security, shelter and decent housing, peace and order, education and functional literacy, participation in governance, and family care and psycho-social integrity; actively pursue asset reform or redistribution of productive economic resources to the basic sectors including the adoption of a system of public spending which is targeted towards the poor; institutionalize and enhance the Social Reform Agenda (SRA), which embodies the results of the series of consultations and summits on poverty alleviation.

Full text
English
Website
www.lawphil.net

References - Legislation

Amended by

Administrative Order No. 21 on the Revised Rules and Regulations Implementing the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act.

Legislation | Philippines | 2011

Keyword: Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Agricultural development, Poverty, Public participation, Education, Gender, Governance, Indigenous peoples

Source: FAO, FAOLEX