PGMA orders creation of Local Anti-Hunger Task Force

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued on Wednesday Executive Order No. 825 creating the Local Anti-HungerTask Force

During his weekly media briefing today at the New Executive Building in Malacanang, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the President ordered the creation of the Local Anti-Hunger Task Force in line with her commitment to eradicate all forms of deprivation, including that related to hunger, by pursuing the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The latest quarterly survey on hunger conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) in the first quarter of 2009 showed that hunger incidence in the country declined dramatically from 23.7 percent (estimated 4.3 million families) in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 15.5 percent (estimated 2.9 million families out of 86 million Filipino
population).

According to Ermita, the Accelerated Hunger Mitigation Program (AHMP) is the landmark program of the Arroyo government to address hunger both on the aspect of supply, or the unavailability or insufficiency of food to eat, and on the aspect of demand, or the lack of money to buy food.

The AHMP is implemented by national government agencies based on the hunger-mitigation program framework, in cooperation with local government units.

Ermita said the National Anti-Hunger Task Force was created through EO 616 on April 3, 2007. It is composed of 29 national government agencies and faith-based organizations which implement one or more AHMP component programs and headed by the Secretary of Health to ensure the hunger-mitigation measures of the government.

Ermita explained that President Arroyo ordered the creation of the Local Anti-Hunger Task Force from the regional and provincial levels as counterpart of the National Anti-Hunger Task Force.

The regional/provincial anti-hunger task force shall be created in provinces covered by the AHMP to facilitate coordination,complementation and convergence of services and resources, and to
widen the reach of the program among the poor and hungry households in the identified priority areas in the country (PIA- Pagadian City)

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