DSWD, DILG equip trainers on social protection handbook

Cagayan de Oro — The Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Department of the Interior and Local Government here met with local planning officers, DILG provincial officers and local social welfare and development officers, yesterday, October 5, 2015, to capacitate the latter on the Social Protection (SP) Handbook, a material prepared by the DSWD.

The SP Handbook serves as the primary reference manual in implementing social protection interventions from national to local government level. It is envisioned to empower and capacitate local government units, civil society organizations, and government agencies implementing SP programs and projects by providing guidelines in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating SP interventions.

DSWD, with its mission to develop, implement, and coordinate social protection and poverty reduction solutions for and with the poor, vulnerable, and disadvantaged, partnered with local government units and national government agencies to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness in advocating, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating social protection programs at the communities.

According to Manuel M. Borres, Assistant Regional Director for Administration, the DSWD will continuously provide technical assistance to the local government units who are the front-liners in providing social services to the communities and families. “We are capacitating our LGUs so that they will be fully equipped in giving standardized and quality social services to the people,” Borres says.

One of the DSWD’s strategic goal is to Increase the number of provinces with majority of their cities / municipalities having a fully-functioning LSWDO to 40 provinces by 2016.

 

Written by Charmaine P. Tadlas, DSWD