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1. Good day, everyone! Project Presentation of the NATIONAL FOOD AUTHORITY EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION (NFA-EA) November 2013

2. Subsistence Wage Rising poverty incidence No food security High Cost of living Low salary Inflation Introduction

3. to benefit around 1.0 millionFilipino families nationwide A Project

4. Project Title: BIGAS SARILING ATIN (BSA) MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM (MRAP) FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES Proponents: National Food Authority Employees Association National Board (NFA-EA NB) National Food Authority (NFA) Title and Proponents

5. BIGAS SARILING ATIN MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES Why ‘BigasSarilingAtin’? In the 2011 SONA, H.E. President Benigno Simeon Aquino declared as national policy the Food Staples Sufficiency Program and emphatically stressed: “Una, hindinatayoaangkat ng hindikailangan. Ikalawa, ayawnanatingumasasapag-aangkat. Angisasaingni Juan dela Cruz ditoipupunla, ditoaanihin, ditobibilhin.” Why BSA?

6. BIGAS SARILING ATIN MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES To provide a MONTHLY supply of the staple food to around 1 million families of government employees (or GEs) nationwide. Core objective Core Objective

7. BIGAS SARILING ATIN MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES Improve morale and productivity of GEs Increase productivity of local rice farmers Sustain the Food Staples Sufficiency Program Provide NFA with a new marketing “battlefield” Other objectives Evenly spread rice supply in circulation Produce a positive multiplier effect in the economy Other Objectives

8. BIGAS SARILING ATIN MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES • NFA Road Map 2014-2016 • Organizational Performance Indicator Framework (OPIF) Log Frame of the commissioners of the Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) • NFA Mission/Vision, Societal Goals and Sector Outcome • DA-FSSP-Rice Program, Vision/Mission Conformity • Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) • of the Aquino Administration Conformity

9. BIGAS SARILING ATIN MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES • Issuance of an Administrative Order (AO) by the President of the Philippines • Enactment of a law in order to sustain this project along with the FSSP even beyond the current Administration. • Supreme Court decision of BFAR Employees Union, R.O. VII vs COA, G.R. No. 169815, August 13, 1998, compliance with Sec. 4.5 of Department Budget and Management (DBM) Circular No. 16 dated November 28, 1998. • “Section 4.5. All agencies are hereby prohibited from granting any food, rice, gift checks or any other form of incentives/allowances except those authorized via Administrative Order by the Office of the President (Emphasis Supplied)” Legal Basis Legal

10. BIGAS SARILING ATIN MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES • Rice supply from domestic source only • WMR, Long Grains, 90 percent whole grains and aromatic variety, similar to the MSI rice supplied for LBP employees • Contained in a yellow colored bag with markings of • “BIGAS SARILING ATIN (BSA) • Monthly Rice Allowance Program (MRAP) • for Families of Government Employees • NOT FOR RE-SALE” Product Specifications Specs

11. BIGAS SARILING ATIN MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES SAMPLE BAG OF RICE WITH MARKINGS Sample Packaging Packaging

12. BIGAS SARILING ATIN MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES 50kg bag of rice per employee per month thereafter Distribution Phase Phases

13. BIGAS SARILING ATIN MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES • Civilian employees in national government agencies (NGAs) • Military personnel of AFP, DND, uniformed personnel • of the PNP, BFP, and BJMP • Employees in GOCCs, SUCs and GFIs • Employees of the Senate, House of Representatives, • Judiciary, Office of the Ombudsman, and • Constitutional Offices vested with fiscal autonomy Beneficiaries • Employees in LGUs and barangay governments Beneficiaries

14. BIGAS SARILING ATIN MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES • If AO: Required funds shall be included in the President’s Budget for approval of Congress (General Appropriations Act) and possible realignment of Senators’ and Congressmen’s 2014 Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF). • If enacted into Law: (it will strengthen the Administrative Order or AO of the President to sustain the MRAP-BSA even beyond 2016) Project Funding • Budget for the procurement of MRAP BSA RICE requirements • shall be given to NFA separate from its regular procurement of • palay intended for buffer stocking and food security Budget

15. BIGAS SARILING ATIN MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES • If AO: DBM, DA, FO/COOP representative and NFA shall jointly issue guidelines to implement the AO. Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) • If enacted into law: DBM, DA, FO/COOP representative and NFA shall jointly issue the IRR not later than thirty (30) days from the approval of the Act Implementation

16. End of Presentation BIGAS SARILING ATIN (BSA) MONTHLY RICE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM (MRAP) FOR FAMILIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES National Food Authority Employees Association National Board (NFA-EA NB) National Food Authority (NFA) End