With the second round of assessment of poor households coming near, the DSWD Field Office Eight, through Regional Director, Nestor Ramos, is calling for greater vigor and rigor from among workers who will soon be involved in the identification of poor households regionwide.

The DSWD regional official announced that the agency will be adopting an innovation as a measure to ensure integrity of the data. He said that the DSWD … Click here to read more...

CCT boy strives to graduate from poverty

Jerome Tolibas, 16 yrs. old, Pantawid Pamilya beneficiary from Brgy. Salvador, Tanauan, Leyte, graduates as Class Valedictorian at Kiling National High School and receives numerous awards such as Academic Excellence Award of the Philippine Senate; Best in English, Science, and Mathematics; JCI Youth Leadership Award for being an outstanding Supreme Student Government President; An Waray Party List Leadership Excellence Award; and Pelagio Tecson, … Click here to read more...

The face-to-face meeting of Leyte Provincial Governor, Dominic Petilla, and all of the province’s 40 municipal mayors, with 26 heads/representatives of national line agencies was a big success in meeting the objective of “Salubungan” of the Accelerated and Sustainable Anti–Poverty Program (ASAPP) of the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster of national government agencies.

With the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) as convenor for the event, held last … Click here to read more...

The DSWD Field Office Eight, under the leadership of Director Nestor Ramos, is bent on developing some 40 male employees to become more gender sensitive family members and strong advocates of anti-violence against women and children (VAWC).

To be able to pursue its end, the agency conducted late March of this year a three – day orientation dubbed as “Gender and Development : Gender Responsiveness in the New Normal Situation.” … Click here to read more...

March 30, 2015, Tacloban City. DSWD Field Office Eight is currently getting ready for the launching of a new strategy called the Accelerated and Sustainable Anti-Poverty Program (ASAPP) on April 10, 2015.

In an initial meeting called by Policy and Plans Division Chief, Yvonne Abonales to key personnel of the Field Office, it was learned that ASAPP will be implemented by DSWD and other agencies like DA, NEDA, BFAR, DAR, … Click here to read more...