Cagayan de Oro City — As the registration period for the barangay and Sanggunian Kabataan elections started on July 15, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is supporting the introduction and institutionalization of significant reform under the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the SK Reform Act 2016. Formulated by the National Youth continue reading : DSWD supports ‘reform’ SK election

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 10 continues to extend support to beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program and tribal communities such as this rice distribution in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon. Bukidnon province was among the badly hit areas of the country during the recent onslaught of the El Niño phenomenon. Photos continue reading : Photo: DSWD continues to assist dry spell victims

  The Department of Social Welfare and Development through the Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTSPR), will be officially launching the  data of poor households in Northern Mindanao. Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction  (NHTSPR) is an information management system that the government uses in identifying continue reading : Officlal Launching of Poor households Data scheduled

  The empowered Community volunteers of Barangay Barra together with Ms. Merly C. Molo, Municipal Social Welfare and Development Officer of Tudela, Misamis Occidental and Keene Barquin Area Coordinator of Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services – National Community Driven Development (Kalahi CIDSS-NCDDP), pose for posterity after the successful groundbreaking continue reading : PHOTO: Volunteers Encourage Community-Driven Development through DSWD’s Kalahi-CIDSS

Nanette Gonzalez, a 50 year-old mother of ten children proudly presents her certificate on Food Processing NCII during her culmination day along with other one hundred thirty Lumads from the indigenous tribes of Manobo and Umayamnon, last May 2016 in the municipality of Quezon, Bukidnon. Gonzales is one of the recipients of the MCCT-IP or continue reading : DSWD empowers Lumads for a better livelihood

Evelyn Pacana, a community volunteer of the Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services – National Community Driven Development (Kalahi CIDSS-NCDDP), of Barangay Cosina, Talakag, Bukidnon shares her experiences being a volunteer of the program during the 5th barangay assembly. She recounts her experiences during the Kalahi-CIDSS activities. Evelyn said continue reading : Volunteer shares her thoughts on CDD

Another one hundred beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program finish Automotive Servicing NC II in Valencia City, Bukidnon. DSWD through the Sustainable Livelihood Program funded the training of the grantees in coordination with DATS Technical School. Photo by Rhandy Ladoroz of SLP, DSWD Field Office 10.

The findings of a research study done by the team of Dr. Lourdes S. Adriano, a former professor at the University of the Philippines, for the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) were discussed during the  Public Forum entitled, “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program: Stimulus to Local Economic Growth?” held jointly by the DSWD, Ateneo continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya boosts local economy says research study