CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 community organizing, total family development, convergence and focused-targeting to help develop the capabilities of families to undertake productive activities. From 1994 to 1998, the department claimed that the top 10 unmet MBN was reduced by 68 percent, on the average. As of December 2000, the program was implemented in 3,250 barangays of 1,084 municipalities and in 100 urban poor communities, benefiting 233,128 families. c. In 2001, the Arroyo presidency launched the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan (KALAHI) as a platform for an accelerated, focused and systematic anti-poverty strategy. The program was designed after consultations with the poor sectors. For 2002, the KALAHI program financed projects that would address the unmet minimum basic needs of the poor in 367 barangays in the lowest-income (fifth and sixth class) municipalities across the country. The projects were principally infrastructure, electrification projects, shelter assistance, livelihood, and other basic service programs of various agencies. In January 2003, the KALAHI was joined by the CIDSS approach. KALAHI-CIDSS is “a community-driven development project where decision-making resides in the community . . . Implementation and management of community projects also reside in the community and is based on values of good governance and sustainability” (DSWD 2004). d. Since January 2003, KALAHI-CIDSS has reportedly reached a total of 1,503 poor barangays in 67 municipalities, or 35 percent of target barangays and 38 percent of target municipalities in only 17 percent of the project’s total life. It also claims to have involved more than the targeted 80 percent of the total barangay population, even reaching 98 percent in some areas. Community volunteers who had been chosen by the barangays designed the barangay action plan, which was subsequently presented to the barangay assembly for validation. To date, KALAHI-CIDSS has funded community development projects of 114 of the 201 barangays in Phase I; the local community counterpart reportedly accounted for 37 percent of the total project cost. As of 15 November 2003, the KALAHI-CIDSS funds had been allocated for water projects (47 percent), road projects (24 percent), school classrooms (7 percent), multipurpose buildings (5 percent), day care centers (4 percent), health centers (3 percent), and others. 486. Meanwhile, the Philippine Congress has enacted laws and deliberated bills that would provide respite or assistance to women in their various family management roles. a. As noted in Article 11, RA 8972, or the Solo Parents’ Welfare Act of 2000, provides for a comprehensive program of social development and welfare services for solo parents and their children. Involved in the enforcement of the law are the social welfare, health, education, labor, and interior and local government departments, as well as the Commission on Higher Education, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, and the National Housing Authority. Implementing Rules and Regulations were adopted in April 2002. b. As also noted in paragraph 158, the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Act of 2000 provides a legal framework for a comprehensive, integrated and sustainable national program that would assist women and men in the care and development of their young children. 132