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The current administration should benefit from the whole of
nation approach that had saved the country from the worst ravages that the
pandemic can offer.
While rookie errors are understandable, the recent mayhem at the
Department of Social Welfare and Development should have not happened.
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The agency could have continued from the previous programs and
benefited from the long experience of the Duterte administration in the
distribution of financial aid, which has been sharpened as the government
simultaneously faced calamities and the pandemic then.
There was no need to reinvent the wheel as the current crop of
officials only needed to refer to the whole of nation approach in confronting
challenges brought by the pandemic.
The distribution of aid or ayuda, despite the several complaints
raised against it, reached beneficiaries in an efficient manner, mostly through
the use of technology.
It was former president Rodrigo Duterte’s conviction that the
military has the wherewithal when it comes to logistics, thus former generals
filled his Covid response team.
More than 50 former military officials were in the
administration, including about five generals in the Cabinet, that the bleeding
hearts including foreign groups said was proof of the militarization of
government.
The preference for soldiers, according to Duterte, was that they
do things faster and with little argument.
Among the brass that Duterte relied on were his Defense
Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, the 2001 commander of the Philippine Army Special
Operations Command; Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, who was a chief of staff of
the Armed Forces of the Philippines; Peace Process Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr.,
another former chief of staff of the military; Environment Secretary Roy
Cimatu, erstwhile AFP chief of staff; and Social Welfare Secretary Rolando
Bautista, who was a Philippine Army chief.
Bautista’s appointment was then the most assailed since the
detractors said the DSWD should be headed by somebody who knows social work.
It did not take long to prove his detractors wrong as the
much-needed subsidies were farmed out efficiently, except for some instances
when cash was stalled in the local government level for one reason or another.
The supposed agreement with the Department of the Interior and
Local Government to improve the distribution of the education aid already has a
precursor through a joint circular among DSWD, DILG and DND that was signed in
2021.
In that joint memo circular are the detailed guidelines for the
quick dissemination of cash aid or ayuda during the enhanced community
quarantine.
Although the agreement covers only the National Capital Region,
it provided the framework for the distribution of subsidies, mainly the
participation of local government units in the process.
Vital in the document is the accountability requirements for
local officials to ensure that the public funds go to Filipinos who need it the
most.
Duterte’s men accumulated a rich trove of knowledge during the
more than a year of quarantine experience in the battle against Covid.
The distribution of educational assistance falls within the
spirit of the whole of nation approach that the former leadership had crafted,
which was well accepted considering the consistently high rating of the
president even during the peak of the lockdowns where most Filipinos were
strictly locked inside their homes.
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It was, however, a matter of rapport with Filipinos along with
the efficiency in the top level of government that kept the confidence of
people high amid the uncertainties then.
The current administration should benefit from the whole of
nation approach that had saved the country from the worst ravages that the
pandemic can offer.
September 2, 2022
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