Butuan City – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga is expected to disburse a total of Php161,968,531.62 in the first two quarters of this year through its anti-poverty program called KALAHI-CIDSS, it was learned Monday, January 16. The total amount comes from the World Bank loan of the government given to the region continue reading : DSWD Caraga to disburse P161.9–M for anti-poverty project

Butuan City – As part of its scale-up implementation this year, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga welcomed new staffs of community-driven development (CDD) projects in the region through an orientation last Jan. 13 at Almont Hotel’s Inland Resort. The participants – news staffs together with the renewed and returning staffs alike – continue reading : DSWD Caraga orients new hires of CDD projects

Butuan City – It has been a fruitful year for the government’s poverty alleviation project called KALAHI-CIDSS as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) presented its regional accomplishment for 2011 during the project’s yearend assessment activity. “We will end the year with a lot to be proud of in terms of achieving the targets continue reading : DSWD Caraga bares KALAHI-CIDSS year-end gains

Butuan City – With nine (9) new municipalities in Caraga who will be implementing the government’s poverty alleviation project KALAHI-CIDSS for 2012, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) recently conducted a forum on the project’s modality for local government units, this city Dec. 13-15. The LGU forum provided the participants with the operational framework, continue reading : FO Caraga conducts LGU Forum on KALAHI-CIDSS

Butuan City – Children here may have just found themselves a group of defenders as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) field office Caraga spearheaded the Consultation Dialogue with Children Leaders at Luciana Inn, October 21. Students leaders from different schools in Butuan City met with officials of the Regional Council for the Welfare continue reading : Children leaders uphold to end VAC

Loreto, Agusan del Sur – For a 36-year old elementary teacher, life is a matter of choice and with that sacrifices are bound to happen. This was what Alberta Ramos has realized in her one year voluntary work serving as the barangay sub-project management committee (BSPMC) chair of the KALAHI-CIDSS Makamasang Tugon project of the Department continue reading : A dream worthy of a sacrifice

BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development Caraga region conducted its second Regional Social Welfare and Development (SWD) Forum for this year on October 27 with  emphasis on the three big tickets projects of the department – Pantawid Pamilya, KALAHI-CIDSS, and SEA-K. Held at the Almont Hotel’s Inland Resort, the forum was attended continue reading : FO Caraga conducts SWD Forum

Butuan City – Another government program is set to implement projects in Caraga region through the Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan or PAMANA program of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP). A total of 58 conflict-affected barangays (CABs) will receive funding from the government for community-driven peace-building and development interventions. It was continue reading : Conflict-affected brgys to receive govt’s PAMANA