Legazpi City—Local press visited the communities implementing the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) of DSWD in Sto. Domingo, Albay last December 11, 2015.
The local tour aims to:
- Share the learnings of the trained Kalahi-CIDSS volunteers
- How the residents will benefit from the program
- Give the media an opportunity to directly monitor the program
- Update the media on the program status
DSWD invited journalists from national government agencies, TV, print and broadcast. They went to Brgy. San Vicente with an ongoing construction of flood control amounting to 1,528,126.10 with 50 household beneficiaries.
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 through community-driven development (CDD).
The operations of the community-driven development (CDD) approach expanded into a national scale, which was tried and proven effective by Kalahi-CIDSS. 101 poor municipalities in Bicol are under its expansion from 2014 to 2019 with a total of grant of Php4,497,448,178.
Moreover, Kalahi-CIDSS operates in eight municipalities in Albay with a total grant of P304, 884, 950.00 with 173 sub-projects for 2014 alone.
Sto. Domingo, a 4th income class municipality, is one of the 101 municipalities currently implementing Kalahi-CIDSS with a total grant of P51,862,400.00 for its three year-implementation. Currently, 22 out 23 barangays received funds for their community-proposed sub-projects.
Community-driven development (CDD) puts power back in the hands of the people by giving them the opportunity to make informed decisions on locally identified options for development and manage resources to implement sub-projects that address needs identified by communities themselves.