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Enabling the Disabled

Walk the Talk: Implementation gaps in Angeles City programs and services for PWDs

Patricia Irene Patdu & Eula Marie Mangaoang

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Angeles City Office for Persons with Disability (ACOPDA) was created in 2012 through an ordinance. Budgetary constraints and limitations imposed by the LGC hindered its institutionalization, particularly the creation of plantilla positions. The city hopes to address the problem with another ordinance amending and expanding the previous ordinance including the creation of new plantilla positions, added qualification standards, and increase in ACOPDA budget.

Twenty-one staff are employed in ACOPDA, including one social welfare assistant from the City Social Welfare and Development Office, on detail assignment. Most staff are orthopedic-impaired and were only able to finish high school. ACOPDA is led by an officer-in-charge (OIC), aged 68 years old and a teacher by profession.

The annual ACOPDA allocation is supposed to be PhP7 million but the actual program budget was only PhP2 million. The amended ordinance provides for a higher budget - PhP10 million. It is yet to be seen whether this would be enforced.  The lack of reliable funding did not hinder ACOPDA in implementing a variety of programs and projects.


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