Around 1,000 community leaders representing the 14 basic sectors in Mindanao convene in four key locations here from September 20-21 to push for sectoral agendas in the second leg of the regional sectoral assemblies organized by the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC).
The assemblies, held in four hotels here, aim to discuss priority sectoral agenda, accomplishments, issues, and concerns and map out the next set of NAPC basic sector representatives.
Leaders for Women, Youth, Senior Citizens, and PWDs gather at the Grand Regal Hotel; Coops, formal economy, and migrant workers gather at the TUCP-ALU Hotel; fisherfolk, farmers, and landless rural workers, Indigenous Peoples, and workers in the informal sectors gather at the Pinnacle Hotel; and victims of disaster and calamities gather at the Panorama Hotel.
“This assembly is in preparation for the national sectoral assembly, ” Aurora Archavez, OIC sectoral representative for women said, adding that 15-25 representatives per sector from different regions have been invited.
She added that with the RSAs, participants per sector will select names to be endorsed by the president as sectoral representatives that will join the national assembly.
Other than representation, reporting of accomplishments and continuation of good practices of NAPC sector leaders is the main point of the assemblies. The RSAs, under Administrative Order No. 21 Series of 2011 the revised implementing rules of the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act (RA 8425), are to be conducted at every end of the term sectoral representatives.
Archavez added that region-wide gatherings help NAPC gather issues and concerns from each sector and even issues that cut across sector and regional issues.
NAPC, as an agency pushes for advocacy and policy-making to address these issues and concerns, in cooperation with various agencies. CIO
