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AT LEAST P32.23 billion of taxpayers’ money had been released under the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) for projects and activities that had no funding cover or were not enrolled as approved expenditure items in the national budget or General Appropriations Act (GAA) for 2011 and 2012.
As far as the available documents allowed, PCIJ reviewed the list of the DAP-funded projects of the Department of Budget Management against budget items enrolled in the agency’s appropriations for 2011 and 2012 that received DAP monies.
This review focused on DAP projects that DBM had identified in official documents listing DAP-funded projects.
These DAP-funded projects without appropriations cover include: