Virtual Orientation on Bayanihan 2 for Basic Education Program’s Implementing Guidelines

Post date: May 20, 2021 1:52:33 AM

The IG wilI have a national application and shall detail the procedures and processes for the purpose of applying the subsidies of qualified students. This includes, among others, the policy statement upon which this IG is based, the roles and responsibilities of DepEd and other key stakeholders, and program.

Bayanihan as to Recover as One Act, or the Bayanihan 2 Act, was promulgated on 11 September 2O2O in cognizance of the adverse impact of the CovlD-i9 Pandemic to the Philippine economy and society. The Bayanihan 2 Act provides for COVID-19 response and recovery interventions, such as mechanisms to further reduce the impact of CovlD-i9 on the socio-economic well-being of Filipinos through the provision of assistance, subsidies, allowances, and other forms of socio-economic relief.

Section 4(n) of the Bayanihan 2 Act mandates the provision of subsidies and allowances to qualified students in private and public elementary and secondary education whose families are now facing financial difficulties brought about by work stoppage and closure of establishments due to the Community Quarantine (CQ), and neither part of the Listahanan of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), nor covered under the Education Service Contracting (ESC) Program, or the Senior High School Voucher Program (SHS VP) as provided in RA Nos. 8545 and 10533, respectively.

A Virtual Orientation on Bayanihan 2 was held last April 28, 2021. It was attended by all the Education Supervisors and School Heads of the Division of Balanga City. Dr. Floredeliza A. Del Rosario, Chief ES – SGOD, gave the welcome remarks and discussed about the Statement of Objectives. On the Implementing Guidelines on the Provision of Subsidies and Allowances to Qualified Basic Education Students Under section 4 (n) of republic Act No. 11494 (Bayanihan to Recover as One Act) were reviewed and elaborated.