BUTUAN CITY-The Department of Social Welfare and Development Caraga Field Office hosted the National Communication Planning: Communications Audit of the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTSPR). Held at Almont Hotel’s Inland Resort, Butuan City on Oct. 17-21, 2012, the conference participants included the agency’s regional information officers, NHTSPR regional focal persons and admin continue reading : DSWD Caraga hosts national confab

BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga spearheaded the Family Week Celebration.  As chair of the Regional Inter-Agency Committee for the Filipino Family (RIACFF), DSWD led the conduct of several activities in the observance of the Family Week together with other line agencies in the region. With the theme “Ensuring work-Family continue reading : Caraga celebrates Family Week

BUTUAN CITY – More Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries have been benefited as DSWD continues to implement the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP). The SLP  is a community-based program, which provides capacity building to improve the program participants’ socio-economic status. It supports microenterprises to become organizationally and economically viable and it links participants to employment opportunities. The SLP has continue reading : More Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries benefit SLP

BUTUAN CITY – I’ve got an interesting story about entrepreneurship from Darryl Prado, Project Development Officer II of DSWD Caraga assigned in Sibagat, Agusan del Sur. The story is about a group of Manobo women in a very remote mountainous area called Sitio Bantolinao, who, despite low educational attainment let alone a degree in business, has continue reading : Working their way out of poverty

BUTUAN CITY – Assistant Secretary Camilo G. Gudmalin visited the municipality of Pilar, Surigao del Norte  and met the beneficiaries of DSWD’s KALAHI-CIDSS, Pantawid  Pamilya and SEA-K programs. The DSWD Assistant Secretary for Visayas and Mindanao and Deputy Project Director of KALAHI-CIDSS came to Pilar on July 28-29, 2012 to turn-over four sub-projects carried out through the continue reading : Asec. Gudmalin meets beneficiaries in Pilar

BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Caraga region has recently re-organized its Quick Response Team (QRT) and has conducted capability building to its members at a hotel here. DSWD Caraga director Mercedita P. Jabagat said the activity was conducted in two batches and basically done in order to make the members continue reading : DSWD Caraga re-organizes quick response team

BUTUAN CITY – In order to enhance teamwork and strengthen the support system among the people involved in the Pantawid Pamilya program, the Department of Social Welfare and Development  (DSWD) Caraga Region Field Office held a team building workshop on June 20-22, 2012 I Socorro, Surigao del Norte. The team building workshop was aimed at organizing continue reading : Team building workshop for Pantawid Pamilya implementers held