DAVAO City –The Department of Social Welfare and Development through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTSPR) currently conducts rapid and intensive duplicity checking as baseline of social protection programs for ‘Pablo’ victims. It is evident that there has been a progress of families receiving assistance because of the masterlist. Despite some problems continue reading : DSWD PREPARES UNIFIED MASTERLIST OF POOR FAMILIES

Pantawid Pamilya children-grantees at the Children’s Congress. Almost 400,000 children in Davao Region are in school and kept healthy because of the cash assistance provided by the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). An identified poor household with three qualified children is entitled to receive P 1,400 continue reading : CCT CHILDREN-BENEFICIARIES SAY ‘THANK YOU’

Bottom row, from L-R Congresswoman Maria Carmen Zamora, Kalahi-CIDSS National Project Manager Edgar Pato, ComVal Governor Arturo Uy, and DILG Undersecretary Francisco Fernandez sign the Memorandum of Agreement. The provincial local government unit (PLGU) of Compostela Valley recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the continue reading : IMPROVING GOVERNANCE, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION: A MUST FOR DEVELOPMENT -DSWD

COMPOSTELA, Compostela Valley -Volunteers of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) project in Compostela Valley have called on the government to intensify the implementation of the project as this has become an agent in bringing back the normal lives of the people affected by Typhoon Pablo. “Sa karon human continue reading : KALAHI-CIDSS AS AGENT OF UNITY