DSWD and WFP provide cash assistance to Yolanda Survivors
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have so far provided emergency cash assistance to almost 50,000 of the most vulnerable people affected by super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). The cash assistance, which encourages families to purchase food items from the local market, is part of WFP’s and DSWD’s continuing support to those hardest hit by the super typhoon. The intervention targets beneficiaries of DSWD’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Programme who have been ...
DSWD holds forum on hunger mitigation and rural development strategies
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), in partnership with the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), and the Department of Agriculture (DA), in collaboration with the Brazil national government held a forum on hunger mitigation and poverty alleviation last Dec. 13 at the Intercontinental Manila. Dubbed as “Harvest the future: Nourishing Filipino children, empowering Filipino farmers”, the forum aims to present strategies of the Philippines and Brazil on poverty reduction through community-driven approaches and agri-enterprise development. DSWD Secretary Corazon ...
DSWD, WFP to Begin Cash Distributions For Yolanda Survivors
MANILA - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today signed a to provide PHP 260 m (US$ 6 m) in cash assistance to 500,000 food insecure people across 50 municipalities of Leyte and Samar in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda. According to DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman, this partnership with WFP is a proof that during times of adversity, conditional cash transfer programs become a good avenue for humanitarian aid ...
DSWD holds National Children’s Congress
Manila - Some 175 children beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program coming from the different provinces and highly urbanized cities were gathered to attend the second National Children’s Congress (NCC) at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC). The NCC, which was held from October 23 to 25, 2013, was launched by the Department of Social Welfare and Development through the Pantawid Pamilya in partnership with the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) in 2012. This gathering of Pantawid ...
Philippines: cash transfers succeeding where other programmes have failed
As a result of conditional cash transfers school enrollment is up and stunting in recipient communities is down. But doubts remain: is this the best route to development? Despite its long experience in implementing different types of programmes to combat poverty, the Philippines is finding it to be a persistent scourge, with an estimated 28% of its population living in poverty in 2012. In recent years though, ineffective programmes have given way to a large-scale conditional cash transfer scheme that ...
