Ensuring completeness, correctness, consistency and compliance to existing project guidelines and processes are the main objectives of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) in holding its First Regional Fiduciary Review.

Kalahi-CIDSS Regional Financial Analyst (RFA) Clarito Logronio, emphasized in the recently-concluded activity, that conducting the Fiduciary Review is crucial for the project because it talks and involves big amounts of money and those who … Click here to read more...

Male employees of DSWD Field Office grabbed the limelight, in a series of activities lined-up for the past two weeks now, to celebrate the National Women’s Month. Among these were the jingle/poem competition in tribute to women, and the Speakers Bureau Contest, with them as advocates on Republic Act 9262 or the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act.

The Field Office also conducted various gender competition, both for men and … Click here to read more...

Tacloban City, March 5 – DSWD Region Eight Director Leticia Diokno was Guest of Honor in this Monday’s Flag Ceremony program of the Philippine National Police Regional Command, held at Campetic in Palo, Leyte.   Her talk principally focused on women, with this month’s observance of the National Women’s Month.

The following is her full – length speech that highlights on gender equality and empowerment, and the role of women in … Click here to read more...

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) US-Washington based Senior Adviser Cassandra Butts, with the MCC Country Director Matt Bohn, Millennium Challenge Account-Philippines (MCA-P) Managing Director and CEO Marivic Aňonuevo, and party visits Region Eight to witness the signing of Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office Eight (DSWD FO 8) and Alangalang Local Government Unit (LGU) for the implementation of the Kapit Bisig Laban … Click here to read more...

Tacloban City, March 5 – The adoption process now takes a shorter time than before, revealed Alicia Advincula, the Adoption Resource and Referral Unit (ARRU) Head of the DSWD Field Office Eight, to some 25 adoptive couples, local social workers, and medical social workers gathered in a one – day Adoption Forum held late February in Baybay, Leyte.

In said Adoption Forum, the ARRU Head stressed that the DSWD has … Click here to read more...

The DSWD Field Office Eight, under the leadership of Regional Director Leticia Diokno, will make March truly eventful for women, as the nation celebrates Women’s Month this month. Theme for this year is “ Women Weathering Climate Change: Governance and Accountability, Everyone’s Responsibility.”

Diokno emphasized that there’s a need for Field Office Eight employees and workers to be well – equipped with knowledge on women’s laws and issues so they … Click here to read more...

The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office Eight (DSWD FO 8) partnered with the Local Government Unit (LGU) of Alangalang for the implementation of the department’s banner anti-poverty project, the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS).

The DSWD and Alangalang LGU entered into a memorandum of agreement on February 28, of this year, at the covered court of the said municipality.

Stipulated in … Click here to read more...