The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) made significant strides in enhancing the lives of impoverished families in 2024 through its targeted social protection and human capital development programs.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) improved the well-being of poor families in 2024 through its social protection and human capital development programs, an agency official said. Through the provision of interventions centered on human capital development, the DSWD’s social protection programs enhanced the economic and social conditions of poor Filipino families and their communities this year, said Irene Dumlao, the DSWD’s spokesperson.
Established in 2008 and officially institutionalized in 2019 through Republic Act No. 11310, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) continues to invest in the health and education of poor and vulnerable households to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty in the country. The 4Ps currently serves more than 4.2 million active households, utilizing more than P77 billion program funds from January to November 2024, the DSWD spokesperson reported. Dumlao said the DSWD provided livelihood programs that support some 67,307 households through the various modalities of the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) in 2024. The SLP is the Department’s capacity-building program that provides access to opportunities that increase the productivity of the livelihood assets of the poor, vulnerable, and marginalized communities, helping them improve their socio-economic well-being. Through the SLP, participants were given the option to take either the micro-enterprise development track, which supports microenterprises to become organizationally and economically viable, or the employment facilitation track, which assists Filipinos to access appropriate employment opportunities, said Dumlao. Another human capital development program of the DSWD is the Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS)
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