The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program’s (4Ps) Caraga Regional Program Management Office (RPMO) won big during the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) 70th anniversary celebration at The Pavilion, Butuan City, as it bagged 8 major PRAISE Awards given during the event.

The PRAISE (Program on Awards and Incentives for Service Excellence) Award is given to honor men and women who devoted their lives to partner-beneficiaries; and who continue to use all their strength, skill intelligence and compassion to uphold a standard of professionalism that fully benefits the poor and marginalized sectors.

Below is the list of major PRAISE Awards won by 4Ps Caraga:

• Best Knowledge Management Initiative (Regional Winner) – Pantawid Pamilya Dashboard & Briefer Information System (Hulagway sa Caraga)
• Best Convergence Action Team Regional Winner – Bayugan City Convergence Action Team
• Best Convergence Action Team Second Placer – Tandag City Convergence Action Team
• Best Operations Office (Regional Winner) – Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program RPMO
• Best Social Worker Community-Based – Ruth P. Tambura, SWO IV
• 1st Placer Gawad HUWARAN (MaHUsay, WAsto at Responsableng Lingkod BayANi ng DSWD) – Crislea D. Celeste, PDO V
• Regional Director’s Choice Award – 4Ps Assistant RPC Jehmymah Luminarias Moscatiles
• Regional Director’s Choice Award – 4Ps Head Training Specialist Anafe Ancheta Lecciones

Crislea D. Celeste, 4Ps Caraga Regional Program Coordinator (RPC), said it is her “great pride and joy to have been working with the brilliant people of 4Ps Caraga, all 637 of them.”

“Forever thanks to DSWD Caraga for these PRAISE Awards. We humbly share these to all our partners – NGAs, LGUs, CSOs. And most importantly, we share these to our program partner beneficiaries, for these shall only motivate us to SERVE you more,” Celeste posted on her Facebook account.

Pantawid Pamilya (4Ps) is a human development measure of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to the poorest of the poor, to improve the health, nutrition, and the education of children aged 0-18.

Meanwhile, other PRAISE Regional winners are the following:

• 25 years in service Loyalty Award – Vilma U. Bare, SWO IV
• 30 years in service Loyalty Award – Margie Rose D. Gundaya, SWA
• Second Placer Best Knowledge Management Initiative – Caraga Disaster Response Reporting Information Management System (CDRRIMS)
• Best Center – Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth
• Best Support Office (Regional Winner) – Policy & Plans Division
• 2nd Placer Best Support Office – Cash Section
• 3rd Placer Best Support Office – Procurement Section
• 2nd Placer Best Operations Office – KALAHI-CIDSS RPMO
• Best Administrative Staff – MOA Category – Jowina M. Olorosicimo, AA III
• Best Social Worker– MOA Category – Mark Louie Gaputan
• Best Administrative Staff – Danilo C. Lauro, AA III
• 2nd Place Best Administrative Staff – Charie B. Vargas, AA II
• Best Technical Staff – Aldie Mae A. Andoy, SWO IV
• 2nd Place Best Technical Staff – Maria Rea R. Sampiano, AO II
• Best Social Worker Center-Based – Anecita B. Amparo, SWO I
• 2nd Place-Best Social Worker Center-Based – Michael John B. Andohuyan, SWO II
• Best Technical Social Worker – Melanie G. Juan, SWO III
• Best Center Head – Marissa A. Garay, SWO III
• 2nd Placer Gawad HUWARAN (MaHUsay, WAsto at Responsableng Lingkod BayANi ng DSWD) – Gretchen F. Escala, Accountant III
• 3rd Placer Gawad HUWARAN (MaHUsay, WAsto at Responsableng Lingkod BayANi ng DSWD) – Eval B. Makinano, TS III
• Regional Director’s Choice Award – Janelee B. Entrada, SWA