Question: What is the flagship program of that agency that would address the poverty situation in the Philippines?

Evaluate the program will it meet its target? Has it met its target?
DOE Rural Electrification Program In support of the Governments efforts to alleviate poverty, Department of Energy launched a massive and focused action to increase and accelerate access to electricity services by the countrys unelectrified communities. In 1999, the Accelerated Barangay Electrification Program (ABEP) was launched with the initial partnership of the following energy agencies: DOE, National Electrification Administration (NEA), National Power Corporation through its Small Power Utilities Group (NPC-SPUG), and PNOC-Energy Development Corporation (PNOC-EDC). Prior to the launching of ABEP, barangay electrification level only stood at 76.9%, having energized only 32,281 out of 41,945 total barangay coverage. In 2000 the ABEP was renamed the OIlaw Program. Under the OIlaw Program, the IPPs were encouraged to participate as part of their corporate social responsibility. To further strengthen and integrate efforts on rural electrification by both the Government and the private sector, and to further assist the DOE develop innovative and sustained policies and strategies consistent with the power sector reforms embodied in the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 or EPIRA, the Expanded Rural Electrification Program (ER Program) was established and an ER Program Team was created in April 2003. Unlike its predecessors, which focused was on barangay electrification; the ER Program involves the electrification of sitios and households. Program Evaluation: Current Performance ( Has it met its target?) The government is bent on providing electricity access to barangays, households and sitios throughout the country. As such, it has targeted the achievement of 100 percent barangay electrification by 2012, 90 percent household electrification by 2017 and 100 percent sitio electrification by 2015. The overall barangay electrification level as of 31 October 2012 stood at 99.98 percent. Of the total 41,974 barangays, only nine (9) are left to be provided with electricity access. Most of these unenergized barangays are in Mindanao and are located in the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) particularly in the provinces of Maguindanao (6 barangays) and Tawi-Tawi (3 barangays). Based on NEAs Status of Energization, Household electrification level as of 30 September 2012 was at 77.6 percent. About 9,549,145 of the potential 12,305,500 are with connections. This cover those under the franchise of electric cooperatives (ECs) and do not include those under private distribution utilities (DUs). NEAs data covers residential, commercial, industrial, public building, etc. DOE data for electrification (based on 2010 Census) that concerns only the residential (including those covered by NEA and DUs) is at 70.18 percent as of 31 December 2011. This means that 14.41 million of the potential 20.53 million are with electricity leaving 6.12 million more to be energized. As for sitio electrification, the energization level has reached 72.54 percent as of 30 September 20123 which means that 83,492 out of the potential 115,092 are with electricity service.

Program Evaluation: Future and Possible Opportunities (Will it meet its target?) According to the Department of Energy (DOE) and Shell Philippines Exploration B.V. (SPEX), aggregate remittance to the controversial Malampaya Fund, via the National Treasury, already reached more than $6 billion (roughly P263 billion). Last year, the remittance to the Malampaya fund which accounts for the 60-percent royalty share of the national government from the gas project, hovered at $1.1 billion.
It was expressly stated in the EO 848 that the collections in the fund shall be ''used to finance energy resource development and exploration programs and projects of the government and for such other purposes as may be directed by the President of the Philippines pursuant to Section 8 of P.D. (Presidential Decree) No. 910.'' Thus, with Malampaya Fund, theres no reason that the government cannot achieve its target of the Rural Electrification Program.