Davao City (DSWD XI) –The Kapit Bisig- Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) recently conducted a two-day consultation and planning workshop for IP communities at Apo View Hotel. Dubbed as Indigenous Peoples – Community Driven Development (IP-CDD) and Planning Workshop, the continue reading : Mobilizing IP participation through IP-CDD

Monkayo, Compostela Valley – The Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continues to provide basic social services in poor communities as it pursues operations in three (3) towns in Compostela Valley Province for the Tier 2 implementation of the program. The continue reading : 42 barangays in ComVal get 60-M Kalahi-CIDSS funds

VERSUS ABUSE OF SENIORS. Visually-impaired Margarita Mangguyod, 97, talks about her hog raising project under ReSPPEC or Reporting System and Prevention Program for Elder Abuse Cases. A social technology initiative of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), ReSPPEC is piloted in barangays Cabinuangan and Elizalde in Maco, Compostela Valley and in San Carlos continue reading : ReSPPEC fights abuse of seniors

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Davao Region said that the Office of the President vowed to replenish the budget allocated for the two hospitals in Davao City for the Lingap sa Mahirap program of the National Government. DSWD-Davao director Mercedita P. Jabagat said in an interview that initially, the Office of continue reading : Lingap budget to be replenished

(Davao City) – Out of approximately 836,000 households surveyed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the Davao region, a total of 280, 224 households are identified as poor during the period May 2015 to January 20, 2016. The DSWD has identified approximately 5,000,000 households considered as poor out of 15,000,000 households continue reading : 280,000 households pinpointed as poor