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Energy
• Provide electricity to 1,500 barangays to attain
85% electrification level: The DOE reports that the
electrification level has reached around 84% or 35,218
barangays of the country’s 41,995. Of the 1,500
target, at least 1,513 have been energized.
• Implement power sector reform law
to reduce power rates: The 0.30/kwh mandatory rate reduction
was implemented but was wiped out by the increased power
purchase agreement (PPA). In June, the President announced
a 10 point agenda to reduce cost of power. IPP contracts
are now being reviewed.
Environment
• Resolve garbage problem in Metro Manila: It remains
a perennial problem. With the present waste disposal
capacity of approximately 3,280 tons per day, MMDA can
only handle 55% of Manila’s daily garbage of 6,000
tons.
Finance
• Restore policy of providing government guarantees for
SME loans: Policy of granting guarantees including those covering
loans to farmers, fisherfolk, rural workers, small and medium
enterprises, cooperatives, associations was restored in August
2001.
Governance
• Reduce corruption in the Executive Branch: At least
12 department and 19 government agencies submitted measures
to reduce red tape. The goal was to encourage more investment
by making government transactions faster and more transparent.
• Prosecute motu propio corruption in high places: The
Presidential Anti Graft Commission has resolved more than
791 docketed cases. PAGC linked up with DAP, NGOs and civil
society groups to conduct studies on measures to prevent graft
and corruption.
• Make BIR and BOC showcases against graft and corruption:
The BIR has so far recommended at least 33 cases for dismissal
of erring revenue employees. They’ve also implemented
the Document Decentralization Program with the issuance of
11 Revenue Delegation Authority Orders decentralizing the
signing authority for transactions. It has likewise implemented
the E-Bidding Procurement Program as well as the E-Filing/E-Payment
Systems. The BOC gathered private sector support in resolving
issues at the Subic Freeport and the Port of Cebu.
• Fast-track e-procurement program: At least 1,164 government
agencies and 1,557 suppliers were registered in the EPS from
January 2001 to March 2002.
• Relentless drive against smuggling: The BOC continues
to automate processes to decrease procedural steps and signatures.
Housing
• Set up a secondary housing mortgage market by the end
of 2002: The Securitization bill version was approved in the
House but is still pending in the Senate. The measure hopes
to create the needed infrastructure to establish a market
environment for a wide range of asset backed securities in
the country.
Health
• Enroll 500,000 indigent families with the National
Health Insurance System: Some 1.47 million beneficiaries or
320,724 poor families have been enrolled under the National
Health Insurance Program in 373 of the 526 target cities and
municipalities. At least 1.7 million poor beneficiaries were
enrolled in the countryside.
• Cut medicine prices by half: Through the Parallel
Drug Importation (PDI) Program of the Pharma 50 Project, the
DOH and DTI were able to cut the prices of medicines, but
not by half as checked by the House Oversight Committee. However,
all 73 DOH retained hospitals are now stocked with selected
half-priced quality drugs as claimed.
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