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NAMFREL Signs Grant Agreement with the Partnership
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for Transparency Fund
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6 September, 2010
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Manila, Philippines (NAMFREL) September 6,
2010- On September 6, the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections
(NAMFREL) signed a grant agreement with the Partnership for Transparency
Fund (PTF) for the second phase of a project aimed at monitoring the
procurement, delivery and stocking of essential drugs and medicines. The
project, entitled Medicine Monitoring II, will build on the experience
gained through the first project phase in reducing corruption in a vital
area of public service. NAMFREL will continue to work with the
Department of Health and deploy volunteers at critical stages in the
cycle from procurement to management of stocks of drugs and medicines.
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The first phase in 2005, over 1.7 billion
pesos worth of Department of Health (DOH) procurement items and services
were successfully monitored under Medicine Monitoring Project. In 2006,
after NAMFREL reported that there were hospitals that published
incomplete bid ads, DOH issued an order to all hospitals and health
offices to observe the provisions in the Government Procurement Reform
Act of 2003. In the same year, after the discovery by NAMFREL volunteers
of unadvertised procurement worth P11 million, the DOH, through its
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halted the said procurement and the
bidding was declared a failure. The following year, volunteers endorsed a case
of procurement irregularities to the office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas (the
case remains active).
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The second project phase will focus on 21 hospitals and 7 regional
health offices, selected on the basis of reports from the government’s
Commission on Audit. The grant agreement was signed by Mr. Eric Jude O. Alvia,
Secretary General of NAMFREL, and Mr. Geert van der Linden, PTF Board member.
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