UP DAP funds efficiently used, all accounted for - University of the Philippines Open University

UP corrects report on DAP funds.The Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) funds given to UP were efficiently used and resulted in the upgrading and improvement of university facilities and programs.
This is the University of the Philippines' response to a 2013 Commission on Audit (COA) Report that was used in several news reports which allege that as much as P928M of DAP funds given to the national university were not used properly.
The same news stories allege that the University was not able to upgrade and modernize facilities in its campuses in Diliman, Manila, Baguio, Los Baños, Cebu, Visayas, Mindanao, and the Open University.
UP received P1.29B of DAP funds from the Commission of Higher Education (CHED) on 13 September 2012. The funds were then earmarked for infrastructure projects which would take 2-3 years to complete.
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