Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), De La Salle College of St. Benilde and the Lyceum University of the Philippines competed for the First Convergence Documentary Film-Making Contest of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) last March 14, 2014 at the National Center for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). The documentary-making competition was launched to showcase the gains and success of the Department’s three core social protection programs namely Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP), and ...

MANILA, Philippines – The country's fight against poverty still has a long way to go, but the success stories of some of the conditional cash transfer grantees seem to indicate that the government is on the right track. This was the key message conveyed during the awarding of the First Convergence Documentary Film Competition of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) held last March 14 at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). The goal of ...

Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said that the agency continues  to locate beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program affected by Typhoon Yolanda who have relocated. “Since December, we have started locating the beneficiaries of the Program. It is important that the beneficiaries inform us of their location so that we can update their information, most especially for those who intend to permanently relocate. We also need to locate them so we could ...

Tanauan, Leyte - This was the statement of Rowena Burines, a Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiary, during the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) joint press conference for the DSWD-WFP cash assistance pay-out held in this municipality on Wednesday,  January 8. The DSWD and WFP earlier forged a partnership that aims to provide the 100,000 households beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilya with an additional P1,300 per family per month on top ...

The government is set to expand its core social development strategy, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), the Aquino Administration’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program, by including in its coverage children aged 14-18 years of its 3.9 million family-beneficiaries to help them finish high school. About 2.2 million children are expected to benefit from the age expansion. The 4Ps currently covers eight million children aged 0-14, including 6.3 million children in elementary and pre-school levels, and 1.7 million in high ...