Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian, together with Program Management Bureau Director Edmond Monteverde, meets with representatives of Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc. to discuss possible collaboration that could augment the agency’s various programs and initiatives at the DSWD Central Office on Tuesday (August 27). The meeting explored how the group of companies could assist microbusinesses managed by the beneficiaries of the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP), provide more job opportunities to the Persons with Disabilities sector, and expand the digital grant disbursement of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in partnership with Go Tyme bank. Discussions on […]

The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Field Office-8 ( Eastern Visayas) has constructed 274 water harvesting facilities and 210 community gardens around the region under the Project LAWA (Local Adaptation to Water Access) and BINHI (Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished), an agency official reported on Wednesday (August 28). “Based on the recent report we received, the DSWD’s Eastern Visayas  Field Office has already constructed 11 fish ponds in Northern Samar, 11 in Eastern Samar, and 252 in Southern Leyte under the Project LAWA and BINHI,” Asst. Secretary for Disaster Response Management Group (DRMG) Irene Dumlao, […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian has vowed to continue coordinating with the members of the inter-agency committee involved in the provision of benefits to solo parents as mandated by Republic Act (RA) 11861 or the Expanded Solo Parents’ Welfare Act and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). The DSWD chief has told members of the House Committee on Appropriations that other agencies are yet to provide their own guidelines needed to start the programs and services for solo parents. “Mayroon na kaming na-publish na benefits ng solo parents together with other departments, pero we will […]

A total of 71 barangays in 25 municipalities in the Caraga Region have benefited from the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Projects LAWA (Local Adaptation to Water Access) and BINHI (Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished), an agency official said on Tuesday (August 27). “Through our Field Office Caraga, our partner-beneficiaries have constructed 81 water impounding facilities under Project LAWA and 109 food security initiatives under BINHI in the identified municipalities in the region,” said DSWD Asst. Secretary for Disaster Response Management Group  (DRMG) Irene Dumlao, who is also the agency spokesperson. According to the DSWD […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian has assured the members of the House Committee on Appropriations that the agency is intensifying efforts to provide job security to employees, particularly those who are under contracts of service (COS) and job orders (JOs). Secretary Gatchalian told the House committee that the Department is embarking on the gradual transition of COS and JOs into more stable positions, citing significant progress with the recent mass contractualization of COS and JOs who have been working with the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) for many years now. “In fact, sa 4Ps lamang […]

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is set to streamline and ease the process of application for the agency’s Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP). DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian gave this assurance during the interpellation of Marikina 2nd District Rep. Stella Quimbo at the House Committee on Appropriations’ deliberation of the agency’s proposed 2025 budget last August 21. “We’ve commissioned technical experts. Focus group discussions have been done to try to eliminate unnecessary steps. If you will give us until the end of the year, we will furnish this committee and your office a comparative step by step procedure of […]

More than 30 Information Officers (IOs) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Central Office participated in a meeting and workshop on basic news writing and photo captioning held at the Auditorium last August 13. Special Assistant to the Secretary (SAS) for Strategic Communications Raymond Robert Burgos served as the resource speaker in the IO meeting and workshop. He was assisted by Division Chief Myla Monsod of the Public Affairs and Advocacy Division (PAAD), which is under the Digital Media Service (DMS) of the Strategic Communications office. Among the topics SAS Burgos discussed were basic concepts on journalism, […]

Members of the House Committee on Appropriations have expressed support for the reinstatement of the Php18 billion budget-cut in the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) National Expenditure Project (NEP) for 2025. “I will move not only for the approval of this best performing agency with the best Secretary of our country, we are going to move for the restoration of at least the Php18.3-billion that were reduced. Madame Chair, Vice President Arroyo, our distinguished colleagues, let us join hands to make sure that the Php18 billion be restored to the DSWD,” 2nd District Cagayan De Oro Rep. Rufus […]

As the agency tasked with safeguarding the well-being of our nation’s most vulnerable, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) cannot stay silent in the face of the serious charges against Mr. Apollo Quiboloy. The allegations of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and abuse of minors strike at the very core of what we stand for: protecting those who cannot protect themselves. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has often expressed how deeply he is affected by the suffering of the innocent. He speaks for so many of us when he says that nothing is more painful than seeing a child […]