Community World Bank team meets community volunteers
World Bank team members Pia Peeters and Malou Padua visited barangays Angilan and Esperanza ofAloguinsan, Cebu to see for themselves the success of KC in empowering the community volunteers and how they managed to finish their subprojects.
The sub-project in Barangay Angilan is a 400linear meter concrete access road worth more than Php 1.7 million. The sub-projects in Esperanza are the two 18meter foot bridges worth more than Php 1.1 million.
After the site visit, two separate focus group discussions of World Bank representatives with the members of Municipal InterAgency Committee and community volunteers were done.
During the FGD, the volunteers expressed the difficulties they encountered especially that it was their first time to be involved in implementing a community project.
“It was hard for us during the procurement because the suppliers could not believe that ordinary people like us were the ones procuring the materials for our access road project. We repeatedly went back to the store to be able to get a canvass form filled out by the supplier. It really tested our patience," said Teresita Dealaton, Chairperson of the Procurement team of Barangay Angilan.
Dealaton said their willingness to learn the KC processes which would eventually empower them is what keeps them moving, slowly but surely.
Oscar M. Canino, Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator said Kalahi-CIDSS helped him to be an effective Planning officer.
“For me and the rest of my group, there is really a need for us to go down to the community for us to see the real needs of the people because most of the time we are very engrossed with paper works in the office,” Canino said.
Vice Mayor Cesare Ignatius G. Moreno thanked Ms. Peeters and Ms. Padua, DSWD and Kalahi-CIDSS
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Kori Ellis of sheknows website says, “Ego has the staff for the financial and technical support that helped the community people realize their dream of improving their lives. The process of KalahiCIDSS in empowering the community has already made the people responsive and participative in the community affairs. They have now sense of ownership and they value the subprojects that they worked hard for the good of the community,” Moreno added.
In the exit conference and feedback session, Peeters shared her appreciation to the dedicated volunteers and to the honest public servants who openly admitted their shortcomings.
“I am extremely impressed by how they talked about the KalahiCIDSS process and what they learned from it,” Peeters said. She added that as the newly appointed task team leader she will be staying here in the Philippines for 3 years, and will definitely remember Aloguinsan, her first site visit.
Amante Sabangan, Island Cluster Manager and Asec Alex Glova of KalahiCIDSS National Program Management Office together with Kalahi-CIDSS Region VII staff headed by OIC-ARDO Ms. Grace Q. Subong also attended the activity.
Aloguinsan received a total fund of Php 12,442,500 in the first cycle and was able to complete 8 sub-projects like footbridges, access roads and solar streetlights.
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