(Delivered during the awarding ceremonies of the Open Government Award in the United States of America, September 25, 2014) For 2014 USD 450.9 million and in 2015, about USD 470.1 million in projects were discussed, debated and agreed by citizens, elected duty bearers of  the  government local  level, national government implementers – built consensus on continue reading : Acceptance Speech of DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman received the Philippines’ Gold Open Government Award for Grassroots Participatory Budgeting (GPB) in the inaugural Open Government Partnership (OGP) Awards on September 24  at the United Nations Head Quarters in New York City. The country was recognized for its outstanding efforts to deepen citizen engagement continue reading : PH cited for promoting people’s participation in budget process

“Ang Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program ay nagbukas ng napakaraming oportunidad sa amin. Lugmok kami sa kahirapan noon na akala ko ay hindi na kami makakabangon, pero, ngayon, kami ay nagawaran bilang Huwarang Pantawid Pamilya dahil kami mismo ay nakakatulong na din sa pag-unlad ng aming komunidad (Pantawid Pamilya opened a lot of opportunities for us. continue reading : Pantawid Pamilya Model Family: A blessing to their community

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will  award the Gawad Listahanan to local government units (LGU) that have registered the most number of beneficiaries for their locally-funded programs based on thedatabase of poor households of Listahanan. Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is an information management system that continue reading : DSWD to award top LGU data users in the first Gawad Listahanan

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through the National Committee on the Filipino Family (NCFF) in partnership with the city government of Valenzuela will conduct today the 3rd National Family Conference to tackle emerging issues affecting the Filipino household. Some 200 family advocates from the NCFF member-agencies and representatives of local government units continue reading : Family conference tackles disaster management

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has already released some 49,508 family food packs to augment the resources of local government units (LGUs) for families affected by Typhoon Mario, as of 4 am today. As of press time,  the number of affected families is already 273,198 families or 1,226,053 persons from the National continue reading : Nearly 50,000 food packs provided to ‘Mario’ evacuees