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Help
the poor help themselves through the STEP-UP Program Components
Strategic
Partnership Building
Establishment of Business Consensus Groups, Multi-Sectoral Coalitions
and Homeowners’ Associations that can sustain planning, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation of community development programs even after
STEP-UP ends.
Loan
Assistance for House Upgrading and Micro-Enterprises
Provision of loan assistance and viable revolving funds for housing
improvements for more than 4,000 households and livelihood enterprises
to reach more than 2,500 households.
Grant
for Community Infrastructure
Access to improved road, drainage, multi-purpose centers, water
and other facilities for 23 communities.
Risk
Reduction Management
Development of site-specific risk reduction plan that will improve
the mitigating capacity of homeowners’ associations to deal
with natural and man-made disaster. Disaster teams with systems
and basic support will be established.
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“I
am proud of the project because unlike many for so-called
poverty reduction, here the help is pinpointed… there
is accountability, there is a scorecard. We are departing
from the mentality of a dole out.”
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Juan
B. Santos,
Former
PBSP Trustee and Chair of STEP-UP Program, Chair
Nestle Philippine |
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