Legazpi City— DSWD has been hosting regular provincial forums for the municipal local government units (LGUs) implementing Kalahi-CIDSS to guarantee their full engagement in the completion of ongoing construction of community sub-projects. Kalahi-CIDSS- Kapit- Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) is a DSWD program that seeks to help alleviate poverty continue reading : DWD strengthens LGU support to Kalahi-CIDSS

Even the most destitute member of the community can contribute to its development. For someone who lost a home and a husband, helping others is just normal. Marites Soquino, 42, a solo parent of Brgy. San Isidro Iraya, Malilipot, Albay was abandoned by her husband five years ago. Their romance ended with five sons and continue reading : Poor solo parent helps village through volunteerism

DSWD conducted the first batch of the Sustainability Evaluation Orientation for the local government units (LGUs) last September 13-15 at Ninong’s Hotel, Legazpi City. Lectures and discussions on sub-projects’ sustainability were presented during the training. There was an on-site application of sustainability evaluation and actual administration of sustainability evaluation tool on the identified sub-projects. The continue reading : DSWD readies LGUs for the conduct sustainability evaluation of completed Kalahi-CIDSS projects

  Four villages in Sorsogon were visited by the team of DSWD’s development partner to review the environment and social safeguards aspect of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) during the two-day monitoring visit last August 18-19, 2016. The team of Asian Development Bank (ADB), one of the development continue reading : DSWD foreign partner checks Kalahi-CIDSS in Bicol

The DSWD convened local government units (LGUs) during the Kalahi-CIDSS Mid-Year Review, Re-Orientation, and Planning Workshop in Naga City Regent Hotel and Convention Center last July 21-22, 2016. The first day tackled in-depth Kalahi-CIDSS program orientation, Cycle 1 (2014-2015) implementation status, lessons and challenges, key support needed to complete the implementation, present targets for the continue reading : DSWD encourages continuous LGU support to Community-Driven Development

The Government funded 712 disaster mitigation sub-projects in Bicol from 2002 to present in response to the communities in Bicol who identified these as their priority. A total of PhP1,062,110,051 was allocated to construct the said projects in 94 municipalities that will benefit more than 180,000 households. Under the Kapit- Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and continue reading : Communities in need of disaster mitigation sub-projects in Bicol receive 1 billion

Mapaco is one of the 44 communities of Guinobatan, a first class municipality. The said village is located at the mid upland area of Guinobatan where the lush mountains provide food, shelter and livelihood to its 1,815 inhabitants. Indigenous People (IP) or the Agta Tabangnon from Baao and Iriga City in Camarines Sur were brought continue reading : Village completes evacuation center for IPs in Albay

The people of Purok Villarin, the coastal section of Brgy. Narangasan in Milagros, Masbate used to cringe in fear for their children’s safety. Parents send their children to Day Care in three ways. They either choose Villarin’s decrepit and makeshift building along the sea, get to the neighboring purok with a 30-minute walk along the continue reading : Getting rid of seclusion through empowerment in a Masbate village

Poor villages in need of additional classrooms in Bicol received a total grant of Php688,986,604.7 for the construction, rehabilitation and repair of 473 school buildings from 2002 to present under the community driven development program of DSWD’s Kalahi-CIDSS (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services) that seeks to help alleviate poverty. Out continue reading : Poor villages in Bicol get Php689 million for school buildings, to benefit 115,737 households

Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS), a community-driven development (CDD) program of DSWD aimed to reduce poverty in poor villages, had already hired thousands of residents in the construction of community-managed projects in almost 99 poor municipalities in Bicol from 2015 to present. 47,283 workers were employed with total labor continue reading : DSWD employs thousands of residents for construction of community-managed projects under Kalahi-CIDSS program