Vision

Mission
 Core Values

• Maagap at Mapagkalingang Serbisyo

• Serbisyong Walang Puwang sa Katiwalian
• Patas na Patrato sa Komunidad
 Brand

“DSWD May Malasakit”

 Programs and Services

Protective Services
Frontline Services  Community-Based Welfare
Programs & Services
 Center-Based Services

Regulatory Services Promotive Programs

 Frontline Services

Assistance to individuals and Adoption

Families in Crisis Situation
(AICS)

TRAVEL CLEARANCE for Foster Care

Minors Traveling Abroad (MTA)
 
TRAVEL CLEARANCE for Minors Traveling
Abroad (MTA) – issuance of Travel Clearance to a
child below 18 years old traveling alone to foreign
countries or accompanied by somebody other than
his/her parents is a measure designed to prevent the
occurrence of child trafficking. This aims to protect
the child from abuse, exploitation and trafficking by
ensuring that he/she is traveling for legitimate and
with authorized person.
 
Adoption is a socio-legal process of
providing a permanent family to a child
whose parents have voluntarily or
involuntarily relinquished their parental
authority over the child.
Foster Care – The provision of a temporary
substitute parental care for children (new-born to
below 18 years old) to a licensed foster family
when their biological parents cannot care for
him/her temporarily or permanently. Licensed
foster families provide stimulating environment for
the growth and development of the children in their
care while awaiting return to their biological
parents or adoption.
 Protective Services

Community-Based
Center/Residential
Welfare Programs
Care Services
& Services
 Center/Residential Care
Services

Reception and Study Center for Children (RSCC) – A

child caring facility that provides social work interventions
to neglected, abandoned, surrendered and foundling
children aged 0-6 years old including those victims of
abuse and exploitation, and those with special needs.
 Center/Residential Care
Services

Home for Girls - A child-caring facility that

provides temporary shelter, protection, care,
treatment and rehabilitation services to
disadvantaged, abused and exploited girl-children
aging 7 to below 18 years old.
 Center/Residential Care
Services
Regional Haven – A substitute home care for women that
provides direct interventions to women victims of gender-
based violence or those vulnerable to abuse and
exploitation. The center responds to the needs, problems,
and aspirations of these victims to enable them to regain
their psychosocial functioning and contribute/participate in
national development efforts.
 
 Center/Residential Care
Services

Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth (RRCY) – A

residential-based facility that serves as venue for promoting
the total development of male children below 18 years old
who are in conflict with the law and prepares them for
independent living and reintegration in the community.
 Community-Based Welfare
Programs & Services
Provision of special protective interventions to children who have
been grossly violated and are in need of basic and specialized social
welfare services to our Children in Need of Special Protection,
Women in Especially Difficult Circumstances, and other needy adults.
Children in Need of Special Protection (CNSP) are those victims of
sexual abuse & exploitation, child labor, children in conflict with the
law, children in situation and involved in armed conflict, children with
disabilities, children from indigenous/ethnic communities, victims of
child trafficking, abandoned & neglected.
Supplementary Feeding Program
Provision of food in addition to the regular meals, to target children
as part of the DSWD’s contribution to the Early Childhood Care and
Development (ECCD) program of the government.  The food
supplementation will be in a form of hot meals to be served during
snack/meal time to children five (5) days a week for 120 days.

The feeding program will be managed by parents based on a

prepared meal cycle using available indigenous food supplies. 
Children beneficiaries will be weighed at the start of the feeding and 3
months thereafter and after the completion of 120 feeding days to
determine improvement and sustenance in their nutritional status.
 Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens – a
government’s social protection program to protect and
improve the living conditions of indigent senior citizens;
augment their capacity to meet their daily subsistence; reduce
incidence of hunger; and to protect them from neglect, abuse,
or deprivation. The program provides P500.00 cash assistance
to indigent and non-pensioner senior citizens 60 years old and
above.
Disaster Risk Reduction & Management
Program - capacitating the LGUs on disaster
preparedness for response for them to effectively
& efficiently respond during disasters, and
provision of relief goods/family packs as part of
augmentation support for their relief &
rehabilitation efforts.
Core Shelter Assistance Project (CSAP) – a part of disaster
rehabilitation efforts that intends to provide core shelter assistance
to poor families rendered homeless by disasters. As part of disaster
mitigation endeavor, poor families located in disaster prone areas
are being relocated in a safe place and are provided core shelter
units. This project shall be spearheaded by the LGUs with the active
involvement of the community, while DSWD provides the
augmentation funds and technical assistance for the construction of
the core shelters.
Regulatory
Services
The Standards Unit is responsible for fulfilling the
regulatory and quality assurance roles of the Department @
the Field Office level.

The Standards Unit conduct assessment and recommend

issuance of corresponding certificates for the registration
and licensing of NGOs, and accreditation of service
providers and Social Welfare and Development Agencies
(SWDAs) implementing social welfare and development
programs and services.
PROMOTIVE PROGRAMS
Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and
Integrated Delivery of Social Services: National
Community Driven Development Program (KALAHI
CIDSS - NCDDP) – The KALAHI CIDSS - NCDDP is the
government’s flagship poverty alleviation program that aims
to empower communities, improve local governance and
provide economic opportunities for the poor.
The KALAHI CIDSS - NCDDP is the expansion into a
national scale of operations of the community-driven
development (CDD) approach, which was tried and
proven effective by Kalahi-CIDSS, its predecessor,
which started in 2003.
Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) is a poverty

reduction, and social protection and development
strategy that provides conditional cash grants to poor
households

Cash Grant HEALTH

NUTRITION
EDUCATION
of children 0-18
Patterned after CCTs in Latin American
countries such as Mexico, Columbia, and
Brazil which have been proven successful
as a poverty reduction and social
development measure

Promotes and supports

Philippines’ commitment to the UN
Convention of the Rights of the Child
(CRC) through provision of health,
education, and other basic rights of children.
Program GOALS
SOCIAL
ASSISTANCE
Provide assistance to the poor to alleviate their immediate
needs (short term)

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Break the intergenerational cycle of poverty through

investment in human capital, e.g. education, health, and
nutrition (long term)
 Program CONDITIONALITIES

CO-RESPONSIBILITIES OF HOUSEHOLD
BENEFICIARIES

HEALTH AND NUTRITION

Pregnant Household Member

 Visit their local health center to avail

of pre- and post-natal care

 Avail of appropriate delivery services

by a skilled health professional

 Avail at least one post-natal care

within 6 weeks after childbirth
 Program CONDITIONALITIES

CO-RESPONSIBILITIES OF HOUSEHOLD
BENEFICIARIES

HEALTH AND NUTRITION

Children 0-5 years old

 Visit the health center to avail immunization

 Have monthly weight monitoring and

nutrition counseling for children aged 0-2
years old

 Have quarterly weight monitoring for 25 to Children 6-14 years old

73 weeks old

 Have management of childhood diseases for  Must receive deworming pills twice a year
sick children
 Program CONDITIONALITIES

CO-RESPONSIBILITIES OF HOUSEHOLD
BENEFICIARIES

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS

Parents or Guardians
 Must attend family development sessions at
least once a month

 Must ensure attendance in Responsible

Parenthood Sessions and Family Counseling
Sessions

 Must participate in community activities,

promote and strengthen the implementation of
Pantawid Pamilya
 ABOUT SLP
Who We Are

A community-based capacity building program

that aims to improve the socio-economic
Sustainable conditions of the participants through micro-
Livelihood enterprise development and employment
Program facilitation activities that shall ultimately
provide a sustainable income source
 ABOUT SLP
What We Do

Ensuring that no Filipino is left behind, the program encourages the participation of:

 Household beneficiaries of the Pantawid Program (Priority participants)

 Households identified by Listahanan (National Household Targeting System)
 Members of the vulnerable sector (PWDs, senior citizens, disaster affected, etc)
An information management system that identifies who
and where the poor are nationwide. This database of poor
households, started in 2009, promotes the efficient and
economical use of government resources along social
protection. Through the NHTS-PR database, DSWD
ensures that the right beneficiaries are identified and
provided with the appropriate services.
MAAGAP at
MAPAGKALINGANG

SERBISYO!
fo8@dswd.gov.ph