The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, launches today the official Facebook page and Twitter account of the ‘Kaya Ko ang Pagbabago’ campaign to gather and share stories of positive change from the beneficiaries, workers, partners, and even the public. The ‘Kaya Ko ang Pagbabago’ is an information continue reading : DSWD opens social media accounts for ‘Kaya Ko ang Pagbabago’ campaign
Pantawid Pamilya is effective, say impact evaluation results
Philippine Institute for Development Studies senior researcher Dr. Aniceto Orbeta presented in a public forum the results of the 2014 impact evaluation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Philippine Conditional Cash Transfer Program). The results confirm that the program is on track in achieving its objective of improving the health, nutrition, and education of its beneficiaries. “The evaluation continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya is effective, say impact evaluation results
Proposed 2015 monitoring and evaluation budget of CCT, only P429-M not P4.2-B
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) clarified that the P4.2 billion which Senator Chiz Escudero was quoted to have said as the 2015 proposed budget for the monitoring and evaluation of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is actually the proposed overall incremental operating cost of the program for next year. “The proposed budget for continue reading : Proposed 2015 monitoring and evaluation budget of CCT, only P429-M not P4.2-B
Defying stereotypes: How Tanutan family inspires a community despite the absence of a father
To love and to forgive. These are two things that people of Brgy. Velasco, Lemery, Iloilo learned from Tanutan family, this year’s winner of the National Search for the Huwarang Pantawid Pamilya. The family was able to rise above the challenges brought about by poverty with only one parent taking care of the entire household. continue reading : Defying stereotypes: How Tanutan family inspires a community despite the absence of a father
UNICEF’s unconditional cash grants to benefit Pantawid Pamilya families in E. Visayas
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), will extend financial assistance to beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Eastern Samar who were worst affected by super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. UNICEF’s Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) program will benefit 5,801 4Ps households in Eastern Samar, namely the continue reading : UNICEF’s unconditional cash grants to benefit Pantawid Pamilya families in E. Visayas
From challenges to changes
To embrace it with optimism is what the 33-year-old Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiary Atiya Enting Jumdail always does whenever she faces a new challenge on her life. She says that every challenge that comes her way brings a perfect opportunity to learn through change. To her, learning through challenges is a strategy that has continue reading : From challenges to changes
CCT program still a work in progress
GENERAL SANTOS CITY: The government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program is still a work in progress and its implementor, the Department of Social Welfare and Development, does not pretend to claim that it is being smoothly implemented. Overall, however, the program is seen as a success since the poorest of the poor are saved from continue reading : CCT program still a work in progress
Rising from ‘poorest of the poor’ in T’Boli
Farmer Johnny Tolentino recalls how he was barely surviving hand-to-mouth when he first received five years ago the P4,000 cash assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) under its Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). “You can’t imagine,” the 43-year-old man said. “What we needed to eat for lunch, we still needed to continue reading : Rising from ‘poorest of the poor’ in T’Boli
Pantawid Pamilya inspires violence-free communities
We are no stranger to horrible accounts of violence committed against women and children. Heart- breaking narratives of wives being beaten to death by their jealous husbands and children raped by the people who should be protecting them are sometimes trivialized as nothing extraordinary but a matter of the family. Violence against women and children continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya inspires violence-free communities
Toward ‘better’ families
Subic- Leonie Nervida, 47, lives in a tiny, two-room apartment that lies at the end of a row of similarly small apartments in Barangay New Banicain in this city. She shares the single bedroom with her husband Francisco (“Nanie”) who, at 60, is 13 years older than she. They have eight children (“I had three continue reading : Toward ‘better’ families