Partners express support to DSWD’s new priority programs

Various development partners expressed their support to the new priority programs of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) during its Partnership Forum on Social Welfare and Social Protection held on Thursday (June 29) at the Seda Hotel Vertis North, Quezon City.

In his closing remarks, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative in the Philippines Mr. Lionel Dabbadie also commended the DSWD for organizing the forum.

New Priority Programs

One of the featured programs in the forum was the WALANG GUTOM 2027: Food Provision through Strategic Transfer and Alternative Measures Program (Food STAMP), which aims to decrease incidence of involuntary hunger experienced by low-income households and make them productive citizens of the country.

The DSWD is also strengthening its disaster resilience capability through the Buong Bansa Handa Project, that will establish two parallel supply chains on disaster response.

The first supply chain will feature an expanded network of national and local government warehousing infrastructure, while the other one will be private-sector driven.

The DSWD will also revive its Social Welfare and Development Center for Asia and the Pacific (SWADCAP) into a DSWD Academy to serve as a learning facility that will provide specialized training, capacity-building activities, and other learning development interventions to social workers to enable them to meet the ever-changing social work landscape.

The Oplan Pag-Abot is one of the latest initiatives of the DSWD to reach out to children and families, including indigenous peoples, staying or living on the streets by providing them with the necessary interventions such as livelihood opportunities and shelter assistance to help them live a safer, sustainable, and productive life.

The DSWD is also currently retooling its programs and services through policy reforms, recalibration of its implementation guidelines, streamlining of processes and timelines, as well as rationalizing cost parameters for interventions and modalities, in order to become more responsive to the needs of its clients and beneficiaries.

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