ADB Meets the Bold Women of Pantawid in Cebu
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:47 | 
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“We were looking forward to meet the women empowered by the CCT program but it went beyond our expectation” said Joanne C. Asquith, Senior Evaluation Specialist of Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) during her visit in Cebu City last May 10, 2012 together with Nadejda Kondratiev, their Multi-media Specialist and Minerva M. Dacanay, Consultant for their Independent Evaluation Department.
It took one press release and the efforts of Pantawid Pamilya women to have their stories told for the ADB to take particular interest on how the program empowered them, giving a purpose and a renewed drive to give their children and community a better future long after they have graduated from the program.
Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is the Philippines version of the conditional cash transfer implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development. It provides cash grants to poor household who complies with the set conditions of the program namely 85% attendance in school for their children to receive
LGU Officials Adapt Gender LensesMonday, 14 May 2012 05:12 | | |
To mainstream gender in the development activities of local government units, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-7 called a Gender Sensitivity and Development Training for local government officials in Bohol and Siquijor last May 9-11, 2012 at Crab House in Tagbiliran City. The gathering of government officials also willed the recall of their five percent (5%) annual budget allocation to be utilised for Gender and Development (GAD) activities which would make local governance more gender inclusive and participatory.
Majority of Negros Or Officials Unite for DSWD's Poverty Reduction ProgramMonday, 14 May 2012 04:51 | | |
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-7 called on its partners, the Provincial Inter-Agency Committee (PIAC), for a coordination meeting recently at the Royal Suites Inn in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.
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Social Welfare Agency Partners with Philippine Army (PA) for Special Project in Neg OrMonday, 14 May 2012 05:06 | | |
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-7 has deployed project staff in the municipalities of Negros Oriental to facilitate the activities of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) project implementation. Since the project is community-driven development, the Kalahi-CIDSS personnel will be visiting communities, meeting local people and integrating with them as part of the process of community empowerment activity cycle. As some of the hinderland communities in Negros Oriental have been identified with safety challenges due to the existence of groups with opposing ideologies, the 79th Infantry Batallion, 3rd Infantry Division of the Philippine Army (PA), together with the social welfare agency, has come up with a strategy to ensure a secure and safe conduct of project implementation activities in the said province. With this new partnership, DSWD-7 will be able to reach all communities in Negros Oriental and address its goal of alleviating poverty by 2015. Kalahi-CIDSS is a national project of the Government of the Philippines (GOP) directly managed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development
LINDA’s CHANCEMonday, 14 May 2012 02:31 | | |
Linda, is a grade four student of Kagawasan Elementary School in Carmen, Bohol. A product of a broken family, she was forced to live apart from her sister. While Linda lives with grandmother, her sister lives with an aunt because her parents can’t take of two children and has both remarried with no room for the past. Though Linda’s grandmother loves her dearly, she is simply too old and worn to work round the clock to make ends meet which is why sometimes goes to school on an empty stomach with only a root crop waiting for her when she gets home. “Pagka-apil ni Lola sa Pantawid Pamilya na-a na koy maka-on kada buntag hasta pud inig uli nako. Ug sa unang panahon naka bag-o ko ug uniform pag sugod sa klase, na-apilan pa gyud nako akong igsoon. Musugot na gani si Lola nga usahay muanha sa balay akong manghod kay na-a man si Lola mapaka-on namo” (When Lola became a member of Pantawid Pamilya, there is always food in the morning and even when I get home. For the first time I have a new uniform at the beginning
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