The Community-Driven Development (CDD) approach has been a strategy employed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in addressing poverty. As it continues to empower communities, the agency’s poverty alleviation program Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) has become a model of good local governance. The strategy has continue reading : Corella continues to shape a people-driven community
The KALAHI-CIDSS, a poverty alleviation program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), has inspired the local government of Basay in Negros Oriental to formulate a strategic development plan that will forge a future growth. A fourth-class municipality with approximately 30,000 people included in its Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP), Basay LGU allocated from continue reading : Basay invests Php 5 Million for development, uses KALAHI-CIDSS’s CDD approach
The Pantawid Pamilya Expanded Regional Advisory Council (ERAC) will integrate the Youth Development Session (YDS) in schools to support the Pantawid and non-Pantawid youths to achieve holistic and optimal adolescent development. The YDS is a convergence effort led by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) for continue reading : Youth Development Session empowers youth, reduces school dropout
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VII calls Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) children-beneficiaries to join the ‘Likha ng Bata, Para sa Bata.’ The contest is in line with the National Children’s month celebration in November. The ‘Likha ng Bata, para sa Bata’ aims to echo the voice of the 4Ps continue reading : DSWD-7 calls entries for Likha ng Bata, Para sa Bata
As a Department mandated to help the poor, vulnerable, and disadvantaged individuals and families, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) implemented programs, services, and incentives to senior citizens. According to a study, the average life expectancy in the Philippines is around 71 years old, but three women from Tagbilaran City, Bohol, surpassed it. continue reading : A century of reminiscence from women in Tagbilaran City
She joined KALAHI-CIDSS not of personal desire but on how she saw the lack of changes that undoubtedly stuck her community from progress. The small barangay of Canagahan has found an ally in Wenina Rosellosa or ‘Nanay Wennie’, a senior citizen community volunteer of Barangay Canagahan, San Remigio in Cebu. She believes that there should continue reading : Small town finds a champion
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 7 received donations from the Bureau of Customs (BOC) on October 6, 2021. Regional Director Rebecca P. Geamala received the goods together with Assistant Regional Director for Administration Antonio R. Dolaota, Disaster Response Management Division Chief Lilibeth A. Cabiara, and Sustainable Livelihood Program Regional Coordinator Rizalina continue reading : DSWD-7 receives BOC donation
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) together with partner agencies implement the Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa Program (BP2P) to help decongest urban communities where poverty continues to rise as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. With the ongoing health emergency, people living in highly-urbanized communities are exposed to health and safety risks and other continue reading : DSWD-7 and partner agencies implement BP2P
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continues to empower communities by providing access to basic social services and participation in various project implementations through the KALAHI-CIDSS Additional Financing. This new endeavor will continue to provide municipalities with different interventions such as prevention, response, recovery, and rehabilitation type of sub-projects that will respond to continue reading : DSWD-7 inks MOA with partner areas of KALAHI-CIDSS for implementation of projects
It has been more than a year since a group of farmers ventured into General Merchandise and Agrivet Supplies store. It is a triumphant story that came about through hard work. The story is about a group of 32 farmers in a conflict-affected area who, despite the lack of knowledge, experience, and expertise, managed to continue reading : Uswag Casala-an SLP Association: From farming to selling
