LOOK | The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office XI through the Sustainable Livelihood Program, led the turnover and ribbon-cutting of Gatungan Farmers’ EO70 SLP Association at Barangay Gatungan, Davao City on September 29, 2023.

Twenty-nine members received a total of Php 300,000.00 worth of seed capital under the implementation of E.O. 70 or ‘Institutionalizing the Whole-of-Nation Approach in Attaining Inclusive and Sustainable Peace, Creating a National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict and Directing Adoption of a National Framework’. 

The SLP aims to improve the economic well-being of the vulnerable, marginalized, and disadvantaged individuals and families in communities by mobilizing and empowering the same through the support of the local government units and other government agencies.

Since the establishment of EO 70, the programs of DSWD have played a vital role in firming up the government’s win over local communist armed conflicts in the country.