Presented to the Faculty of the College of Engineering Saint Vincent’s College Dipthe “Nego-Kart”. The “Negosyo sa Kariton” (Nego-Kart) project is one of the DOLE’s Priority Projects for 2009-2010 in line with poverty alleviation program of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo which is intended to provide decent livelihood mainly for the benefit of marginal workers in the country’s informal sector, specifically the ambulant workers in major cities of the country.
A total of 596 nego-karts for ambulant vendors were initially distributed nationwide during the launching of the project in all regional offices of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Basically, the Nego-Kart project will provide the vendors with services that will enable them to increase, upgrade and diversify their products and services, and market the same to more buyers or customers.
Each vendor-beneficiary is provided with a total of P15,000 in assistance including a vending cart and accessory livelihood tools costing P12,000 ( 1 unit Nego-Kart w/ 3 wheeled bicycle, 1 unit Kerosene Stove, 1 pc Frying Pan, 1 pc Strainer, 1 pc Ladle), along with working capital amounting to P2,500 and training assistance worth P500.
Not only vending carts are provided the beneficiaries of the project, the DOLE also provides the recipients appropriate training in production, entrepreneurship and management skills, and initially pays for their enrolment with the Social Security System, PhilHealth and the necessary local government business permits. A total of 1,188 nego-karts are expected to be set up before the said project ends. The project is being implemented by the DOLE in partnership with accredited co-partners (ACPs) like the local government units (LGUs) and the private sector. Conceptual Framework
The governments launch this kind of project so that it can help the Filipinos to learn appropriate trainings in production, entrepreneurship and management skills. It also provides them with a sustainable and a good quality of a livelihood that can be helpful to the beneficiaries. It can also affect to beneficiaries annual income by increasing and developing their skills. The Nego – Kart will cater to ambulant vendors in the City of Dipolog, Municipality of Sindangan, Liloy and Labason of legal age who trade their goods or service without necessary business permits in sidewalks, community market places and other public market.
Dipolog, Sindangan, Liloy, & Labason Recipients Increase Family Income Nego – Kart Project IVDVOutput Name, Age, Gender Annual Family Income Intervening V Fig. 1 Schema of the Study / Schematic Diagram of the Study Statement of the Problem The main purpose of this study is to know how effective the livelihood project the Nego– Kart to its recipients. Further, the study will include the beneficiaries of the project from the City of Dipolog and the Municipality of Liloy. Specifically the study seeks to answer the following questions: 1.
What is the profile of the respondents in terms of: 1. 1 Age; 1. 2 Gender; 1. 3 Annual Family Income? 2. What are the benefits brought about by the Nego Kart to the beneficiaries? 3. How effective is the Nego – Kart project? 4. Is there a significant relationship between the benefits of the Nego – Kart project and the profile of the recipient? Hypothesis Ho1 There is no significant relationship between the benefits of the Nego – Kart project and the profile of the recipients. Scope and Limitation of the Study
This is a study that aims to know the effectiveness of the Nego – Kart on the recipients livelihood. This study is limited to the different processes to be used to know the effectiveness of the Nego – Kart on their recipients livelihood here in the City of Dipolog in the Municipality of Sindangan, Liloy and Labason. Significance of the Study If the Nego – Kart have benefits in the lives of the beneficiaries, everyone can find out (how can helps) the benefits of the Nego – Kart in their lives and can find more idea on what the other benefits of the said project are more learning about it.
The result of the study will make the beneficiaries aware or to know how effective are the Nego – Kart project in increasing their annual income and to have a profitable and sustainable business. Making their income level at par with that of the minimum wage earners at the least. Definition of Terms Ambulant. It is moving from place to place. Alleviation. It is to make lighter or mitigate. Beneficiaries. It is one that benefits from something, the person designated to receive the income of a trust estate or the person named (as in an insurance policy) to receive proceeds or benefits. Diversify.
It is to engage in a variety of commercial operation to reduce risk. Entrepreneur. It is a person who invest in a new business or one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise. Income. It is a gain or recurrent benefit usually measured in money that derives from capital or labor, it also the amount of such gain received in a period of time. Investment. It is a purchase by a producer of a physical good, such as durable equipment or inventory, in the hope of improving future business. Livelihood. It is a means of supporting one’s existence, especially financially or vocationally.
Management Skill. It is the practice of understanding, developing and deploying people and their skills. Well-implemented skills management should identify the skills that job roles require, the skills of individual employees, and any gap between the two. Vending – Is an act of selling goods for a living. CHAPTER 2 Review of the Related Literature This chapter discusses all about the guidelines of the Nego – Kart project by the DOLE and its effectiveness to the projects recipients from selected beneficiaries in the City of Dipolog, Municipality of Sindangan and Liloy.
Related Literature The government come up with a simple solution of one of the major problem in our country. A project that surely makes the skills of the recipients in business to be develop and make them a great boosting income. This project is one of the latest livelihood initiatives of the labor department that is designed to help uplift the financial condition of rural residents by providing the deserving beneficiaries with livelihood grant through the provision of a push cart, tools, equipment, and raw materials to serve as their working capital.
The Nego – Kart, a short term for “Negosyo sa Kariton”, is one of the priority projects of Dole that is aimed to provide the marginal workers, especially the ambulant workers, with decent livelihood to augment their income and it is a project for the ambulant vendors in major cities of the country. The project will assist the ambulant vendors in making their existing livelihood undertakings grow into profitable and sustainable business.
This project in line with poverty alleviation program of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo which is intended to provide decent livelihood mainly for the benefit of marginal workers in the country’s informal sector, specifically the ambulant workers in major cities of the country. A total of 596 nego-karts for ambulant vendors were initially distributed nationwide during the launching of the project in all regional offices of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Basically, the Nego-Kart project will provide the vendors with services that will enable them to increase, upgrade and diversify their products and services, and market the same to more buyers or customers. Each of the beneficiary of this project is provided with a total of P15,000 in assistance including a vending cart and accessory livelihood tools costing P12,000 ( 1 unit Nego-Kart w/ 3 wheeled bicycle, 1 unit Kerosene Stove, 1 pc Frying Pan, 1 pc Strainer, 1 pc Ladle), along with working capital amounting to P2,500 and training assistance worth P500. Not only vending carts are provided the beneficiaries of the project.
The DOLE also provides the recipients appropriate training in production, entrepreneurship and management skills, and initially pays for their enrolment with the Social Security System, PhilHealth and the necessary local government business permits. The beneficiaries of this project are known ambulant vendors selling “kwek-kwek, tempura, fish balls, ice cream and etc. ” in the City of Dipolog and in the Municipality of Sindangan, Liloy and Labason with inadequate or low income, have no access to productive resources, and with less equipment used in selling.
DOLE encouraged the recipients to make their food vending activities grow into a more productive and profitable business and also reminded them of the responsibilities as recipients, adding that DOLE will keep on monitoring them through their City/Municipality Mayor and give them on-hand guidance. EFFECTS The Nego – Kart project by the DOLE are really of great help to the project beneficiaries it is because the said project makes the beneficiaries existing livelihood grow into profitable and sustainable business.
It also gives a great boosting income to their family that it will surely helps in their financial problem and to have a little savings for the family future. It helps the beneficiaries of the project to have a less capital but a great and a sustainable business and also the project will encourage the vendors to work harder to earn out from selling their products as the income is wholly their own. SERVICES The Nego – Kart project by the DOLE provides the ambulant vendors with services/assistances that will enable them to increase, upgrade and/ or diversify their products or services and market these to greater number of buyers or costumers .
The services/assistance are as follows: ? Acquisition of vending cart and accessory livelihood tools; ? Provision of working capital for procurement of production of marketable goods or services ? Trainings on production skills, entrepreneurship and business management ? Business permit to operate in designated area. The ambulant vendors will be assisted in informing their organization that will promote mutual aid and protection such as collective savings mobilization for social protection coverage under SSS/PhilHealth and other common concerns. Target Areas and Clients
The Nego – Kart project will be implemented in major cities of the country with heavy concentration or large number of ambulant vendors. One of the LGUs recipients are the LGU of Dipolog City and the Municipalities of Sindangan, Liloy and Labason. It will cater to ambulant vendors of legal age who trade their goods or services without the necessary business permits in sidewalks, community market places and other public places. Program Implementers The Nego – Kart project implemented by the DOLE in partnership with the LGUs, private sectors and other interested parties which shall co-share the provision of the aforesaid services/assistance.
Aside from the 10 vending cart of the DOLE’s Project given in Dipolog, the LGU of Dipolog headed by the City Mayor Evelyn Uy use the pattern of the project to have an additional cart to be given to the ambulant vendor in the City. Justification of the Study This studies helped in determining the effectiveness to the livelihood recipients in the City of Dipolog, Municipality of Sindangan, Liloy and Labason, Zamboanga del Norte. Chapter 3 Methodology This chapter contains the method used, research environment, research respondent, research instrument, data gathering procedures and statistical tools.
Research Method Used The Study uses the descriptive method of research. The profile of the project beneficiaries from Dipolog City , Municipality of Sindangan and LiLoy was taken and also some information of the project from the provincial office of the Department of Labor and Employment. The researcher with the help of some experts the questionnaire – and were distributed to the respondent – to supply other data needed in this research. Research Environment The study was conducted in Dipolog City, Municipality of Sindangan and in Liloy in the Province of Zamboanga del Norte.
Dipolog City is a 2nd class and capital city in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. The place sits on the Western edge of Mindanao Island, at the Northwestern rim of the Zamboanga Peninsula, bounded by Dapitan City in the North, Municipality of Polanco in the East, Municipality of Katipunan on the South and Sulu Sea in the West side. As of 2010 survey the City has a population of 113,118 people. The predominant language used is Cebuano by about 97. 00% of the population. Sindangan is a 1st class municipality in he province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. According to the 2010 Survey on Population and Households, it has a population of 94,146 people in 20,217 households. There are plans in making the municipality of Sindangan into a city since the growth of its economy is enough for its conversion to become a city. The people in Sindangan are just waiting for the government officials to work for its cityhood. Liloy is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines.
It has 37 barangays with a total land area of 12,843 hectares with a total estimated population of 39,015 in 2010 survey. It is mainly as agricultural community whose existing economy relies mostly on crop production such us corn, rice, coconuts, peanuts, and root crops. It is also known as “The Peanut Capital of ZaNorte”. Labason is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. According to the 2010 survey, it has a population of 40,375 people in 6,702 households. Research Respondent
The research respondent of this study are 25 beneficiaries from Dipolog City, 20 beneficiaries from the Municipality of Sindangan, 20 beneficiaries from the Municipality of Liloy and 10 beneficiaries from the Municipality of Labason. City/Municipality| Population| Project Beneficiaries| 1. Dipolog City| 113,118| 25| 2. Sindangan | 94,146| 20| 3. Liloy| 39,015| 20| 4. Labason| 40,375| 10| T O T A L| 286,654| 75| Reasearch Instrument The researcher constructed a questionnaire inquiry. This researcher-constructed questionnaire was submitted to the adviser for a review, examine and suggestion.
Data Gathering Procedures When the questionnaire was already valid and reliable then the researcher asked the permission of the different barangay beneficiaries in Dipolog City, Municipality Sindangan, Liloy and Labason in order for the researcher to conduct the study. The researcher personally administered the questionnaire to the project beneficiaries. The questionnaires were administered as soon as the permission was granted by the barangay officials, with 100 percent retrieval of the questionnaire from the respondent. Sources of Method Sources of materials used in this research were pamphlets and handouts.
The researcher also took advantage of bulletins and some information at the website of the DOLE. Other printed materials which showed relatedness to the study were likewise utilized as published and unpublished master’s thesis. However, majority of the data was collected from the provincial office of DOLE, Human Resource department in each City/Municipality’s LGU beneficiaries. It also collected from the responses of the questionnaire, interview and observation. Statistical Tools After the data were collected and consolidated by the statistician for analysis in descriptive and inferential aspect.
