Major Accomplishments

With the National Anti-Poverty Commission and our respective base organizations, we are proud to note some major accomplishments:

• NSCB Reso. No. 15, series of 2002 defining the informal sector
• NEDA Board Reso. No. 3, series of 2002, crea-ting Sub-committee on the informal sector under the Social Development Council
• NEDA Board Reso. No. 2: “Approving the Country Program for the Informal Sector”
• Mapping/Profiling tool development
• NSO survey for the Informal Sector
• Helped government agencies in crafting anti-poverty monitoring and planning tools and anti-poverty projects and programs
• Improved access to social security for the informal sector
• PHIC indigent and independent paying programs
• Representations in national, regional and local planning and development bodies, defining social protection
• Improved access to productive resources of the poor such as credit training, technology, market and common production centers
• Collaborated with trade unions and other civil society groups in the elimination of child labour, prevention from human trafficking and other acts of violence against women and children
• Collaborated with local governments to provide vending places for the side walk and ambulant vendors
• Drafted model ordinances for the local constituents for the localization agenda
• Collaborated with relevant government agencies and international organizations for reform bills on PhilHealth, SSS, amendatory bills on RA 9178 or the Barangay Micro-Business Enterprise Act of 1998, implementation of the Magna Carta for the Barangay Health Workers, legislating NHTPS as the official poverty targeting system, etc…..
• Initial draft of “Magna Carta for the Workers in the Informal Economy/Sector or MACWIE”