PIA Davao Region

DAVAO DEL NORTE, Feb. 14 (PIA) -- Two people's organizations in the Municipality of San Isidro received a livelihood program funding from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through its Sustainable Development Program (SLP) in response to Executive Order 70 or the Whole-of-the-Nation Approach signed by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. The Igangon General Merchandise EO70 SLP Association in Barangay Igangon and the Barangay Monte Dujali General Merchandise EO70 SLP Association in Barangay Monte Dujali received early this year their seed capital funds to start their proposed livelihood programs for their constituents. The turnover ceremony for the livelihood program to the beneficiaries of the Igangon General Merchandise EO70 SLP Association took place on February 8, 2022. Meanwhile, the turnover ceremony for the barangay Monte Dujali General Merchandise EO70 SLP Association was held on February 11, 2022. Both organizations chose to have a variety store where the me

DAVAO CITY, January 31 (PIA) - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), together with other national government agencies such as the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), and the Department of Agriculture (DA) highlighted in the One Davao Virtual Presser insitiated by the Philippine Information Agency XI the various support services provided to the first batch of Balik Probinsya Bagong Pag-asa Program or BP2P in 2021 in the region. DSWD XI BP2P Focal Lee Mercris Berdos emphasized that there are many applicants of the program or those individuals/families who wanted to relocate to the Davao province from Manila after being severely affected by the impact of the pandemic. The BP2P is a long term program of the government providing certain packages for the beneficiaries upon their return or relocation to their provinces for good. Each beneficiary family of BP2P received a transportation/relocation assistance of P3,000 to P35,000; a Transitory Family Support Package am

DAVAO DEL NORTE, Oct. 21 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is among the first to implement the RA 11036 or the Mental Health Law signed into law by President Rodrigo R. Duterte on June 21, 2018. In a radio program Pamana ng Pagbabago Series,  DSWD Home for the Aged - Psychological Services Unit Head, Viel Jan W. Apog, RPm, cited the DSWD Administrative Order No. 5, Series of 2021 implementing the provisions of the Mental Health Law  covering its personnel nationwide. "Aduna tay Administrative Order No. 5, s. of 2021, kana sya nga AO gikan sa national or the central office nagapromote ni sya for the mental health programs of the DSWD personnel. So naa ddto ang mga mandate unsa ang dapat buhaton, unsa ang mga activities, programs nga pwede mabuhat sa agency para mapromote ang mental health  (We have the Administrative Order No. 5 s. of 2021 from the central office promoting the mental health programs for the DSWD personnel. It contains the mandates for

DAVAO CITY, October 14 (PIA) – The Department of Social Welfare and Development XI (DSWD) recorded high compliance of the 4Ps (Pantawid Programa ng Pamilyang Pilipino) beneficiaries to the different conditions on health and education despite environmental challenges brought by the COVID19 pandemic. In yesterday’s One Davao Virtual Presser, DSWD 4Ps Regional Program Coordinator Margie Cabido said beneficiaries of the program significantly scored better in complying the conditions of the 4Ps, the 12-year old conditional cash transfer program of the agency which was enacted into law last 2019 thru Republic Act 11310. “From April 2020 to November 2020, beneficiaries were not expected to strictly comply with the conditions set by the programs because the COVID19 pandemic is considered a force majeure. However, it was lifted in November and beneficiaries then start to be given their grant once they complied with the different program conditions,” Cabido said. Since the lifting of the 4Ps for