In its continuing effort to strengthen the social protection system in the country, the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) National Household Targeting Office (NHTO), conducted a test run of the i-Registro, a dynamic social registry (DSR) for the agency’s potential beneficiaries. “The i-Registro will streamline the delivery of social protection services, standardize targeting systems, and facilitate information exchanges and interoperability with other social protection program databases,” the DSWD’s NHTO Director Jimmy Francis Schuck II said on Wednesday (August 14). The DSR was piloted in the municipalities of Pateros in Metro Manila, Cordova in Cebu, and Floridablanca in Pampanga […]

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation Inc. (PDRF) that aims to establish a harmonized data-sharing infrastructure synergizing the disaster preparedness and response efforts between the two agencies. “We know that disaster response and wide-scale disasters can be overwhelming, but with the private sector being able to tailor-fit and complement our efforts it becomes easier,” DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian said in his message during the ceremonial signing held at the Central Office on Friday (August 9). The MOU signing aims to strengthen the collaboration between […]