The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reaffirmed on Saturday (May 10) the agency’s commitment to intensifying anti-hunger and anti-poverty efforts, attributing the recent drop in self-rated poverty and food poverty to the whole-of-government approach. The April 2025 OCTA survey showed a decline in self-rated poverty and food poverty among Filipino families. The April 10 to 16 nationwide survey showed 42 percent—or approximately 11.1 million families—now consider themselves poor, marking an eight-percentage-point drop from 50 percent, or around 13.2 million families, recorded in November 2024. In the same survey, the percentage of families who consider themselves food poor dropped […]

The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) highlighted the agency’s community-based interventions for persons with disabilities during an online workshop organized by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), in coordination with the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) last Tuesday (May 6). According to Director Bernadette Mapue-Joaquin, KALAHI-CIDSS National Program Manager, the DSWD continues to advocate disability inclusion and empowerment through the Kapangyarihan at Kaunlaran sa Barangay (KKB) – Cash for Work Program for Persons with Disabilities (CFWP-PWD) modality. “Persons with disabilities who belong to economically […]

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continues to celebrate the success of household-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) who have achieved self-sufficiency level. “We are very happy to announce that, as of April 30, a total of 860,471 members of 4Ps have exited the program after achieving an improved level of well-being. These households were tagged as self-sufficient based on the Social Welfare and Development Indicators (SWDI), making them eligible to exit on or before the completion of the seven-year maximum stay in the program,” Asst. Secretary Irene Dumlao, the agency’s spokesperson, said on Friday (May […]

Compassion, respect, and protection should not only be given to human beings but also to our four-legged furry friends who cannot speak for themselves. This was the call sounded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) as they kicked off their advocacy campaign under their collaborative program ‘Angel Pets’ on Thursday (May 8). Division Chief (DC) Darlene Dancel of the Children and Youth Division (CYD) under the DSWD’s Social Technology Bureau (STB) said the one-day event at the PAWS Rehabilitation Center in Quezon City is a ’big step forward’ for the […]

“Public service must be fast, must be fair, and must be free from undue burden.” This was the marching order of Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian as shared by Director Wayne Belizar of the Management Service (MS) and Committee on Anti-Red Tape (CART) Secretariat with the members of the Media during the Thursday Media Forum on May 8 at the Central Office’s New Press Center in Quezon City. In line with the observance of the Ease of Doing Business (EOD) Month this May, Director Belizar discussed at the Media Forum the agency’s transformative governance to […]