TABUK CITY, Kalinga—The city government recently launched a poverty alleviation program to answer the priority needs of its top 10 identified poorest barangays, namely Guilayon, Magnao, Nambucayan, Gobgob, Cudal, San Juan, San Julian, BadAo Dangwa, Bantay and Laya West.
City Planning and Development Officer Maricel Kiley said the barangays were picked based on the 2015 Community Based Monitoring System result, which revealed that 37.3 percent of the city’s total household were below the poverty threshold.
Last October, members of the City Development Council adopted “Oplan Matagoan: Culasa, Babago Sa Guinamma” plan, derived from the names of the barangays, as an intervention to introduce the needed development and uplift their current economic status.
Aimed at improving the quality of life of communities in the 10 barangays, Oplan Matagoan specifically targets reducing the city’s poverty incidence by 3 percent annually during the program period.