Social Expenditure Management Project (02). Department of Budget and Management operates in Philippines.
The core objective of the Second Social Expenditure Management Project is to improve basic social services, by enhancing performance, and governance in the three social sector departments - Education, Health, and Social Welfare - which also includes the school building program, and the provision of quality inputs to such services. The components will: 1) strengthen key budgetary programs, covering the provision of educational inputs (textbooks, classrooms, and repairs/maintenance of existing schools); provision of public health services, through the procurement of drugs, vaccines, and supplies for effective public health programs (tuberculosis control, expanded immunization programs, and rabies'prevention and control); and, provision of social services through the comprehensive integrated delivery of social services (CIDSS), an activity centered in poor municipalities to accelerate basic services (water supply and sanitation, drainage systems, and waste disposal); 2) provide technical assistance (TA), and training to implement financial management systems, procurement, and information technology improvement programs. Furthermore, teacher deployment and human resources planning will be implemented under an improved allocation system, targeting teachers to the most needy schools. And, and action plan will improve the Bureau of Food and Drugs, by strengthening capacities, for improved standards; and, 3) provide TA and training to strengthen transparency and accountability of the budget process
