Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian and representatives from World Bank gather for a meeting on Friday (May 23) to discuss the proposed enhanced exit strategies for graduating beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). Secretary Gatchalian is optimistic that the package of services in the updated strategies will be able to cater to the varying needs of exiting 4Ps beneficiaries and lead them toward their sustained socioeconomic development. This is part of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s thrust at ensuring that all graduating 4Ps beneficiaries will not slip back to poverty, and ultimately thrive […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian kicks off his Friday schedule (May 23) by joining the early morning reach-out operation of the agency’s Pag-abot Program along NIA Road in Quezon City. Secretary Gatchalian personally spoke with families and individuals in street situations emphasizing the government’s commitment to helping them by bringing them back to their places of origin and providing them with immediate assistance and long-term interventions. Signed on January 18, 2024, the Pag-abot Program became one of the government’s flagship programs through Executive Order No. 52. The EO institutionalized the program as a platform for […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian emphasizes the power of children’s voices in shaping a more open, inclusive, and transparent government as he actively answers questions from children-participants during an Open Government session held at Luxent Hotel in Quezon City on Thursday (May 22). Carrying the theme, “Making Spaces: Children Driving Change for Open Governments,” the session featured a panel discussion where over 30 children from different sectors were able to connect and raise their queries to various officials from the government and the private sector. The event is part of the celebration of Open Gov […]

The Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), an attached agency of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), presents to reporters the revised Guide for Media Practitioners on the Reporting and Coverage of Children during the DSWD Thursday Media Forum on May 22 at the Central Office’s New Press Center in Quezon City. CWC Undersecretary Angelo Tapales said the guide aims to assist the Media in reporting children-related contents fairly and in promoting children’s rights and welfare while exercising press freedom. The guide includes practical tips and self-assessment questions based on five key principles: upholding children’s right to […]

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through the Laboratoryo, Konsulta at Gamot Para Sa Lahat (Lab For All),received on Wednesday (May 21) four new mobile coaster clinics and a mobile water station from a private donor. DSWD Central Office officials who were present to receive the donations, on behalf of Secretary Rex Gatchalian, include Undersecretaries EduPunay of the Innovations and Program Development Group (IPDG), Monina Josefina Romualdez of the Operations Group (OG), Diana Rose Cajipe of the Disaster Response Management Group (DRMG); Assistant Secretary for Regional Operations Paul Ledesma; Special Assistant to the Secretary (SAS) for DRMG and […]

Bureau Directors of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) signed a Quadripartite Memorandum of Agreement (QMOA) with GCash, Land Bank of the Philippines, and the Bureau of Treasury on Monday (May 19) to improve the streamlining and digitalization of regulatory services through the DSWD Harmonized Electronic License and Permit System (HELPS) online platform. Held at the Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City, the QMOA signing formalized the standing agreement of the DSWD with GCash as an online payment gateway of the agency’s regulatory services available through the HELPS online platform. Among the frontline services covered by the agreement […]

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Assistant Secretary Elaine Fallarcuna of the agency’s International Affairs, Attached and Supervised Agencies (IAASA) participates in the Consultation Meeting with Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) Dr. Christophe Bernasconi and the Philippine Central Authorities of HCCH Conventions on Thursday (May 15) at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in Pasay City. Asst. Secretary Fallarcuna discussed the progress and shared good practices in the implementation of the HCCH International Child Support Convention which seeks to establish a modern, efficient and accessible system for the cross border recovery of child […]

Social workers of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 3-Central Luzon responded swiftly to assist eight individuals who were rescued in an anti-human trafficking entrapment operations led by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Wednesday (May 14) at a bar in East Dirita, San Antonio, Zambales. The three minor victim-survivors were provided with psychosocial intervention upon rescue while the remaining five were reunited with their families and will be assisted by the DSWD through the agency’s Recovery and Reintegration Program for Trafficked Persons (RRPTP) # (MBM)