The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) here
will start implementing the Kalahi–CIDSS (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa
Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services) in 11
municipalities in Davao Region with 80 field workers ready for deployment.
DSWD 11 Regional Director Priscilla Razon welcomed the
latest batch of Kalahi-CIDSS staffs during the week-long orientation-training
early this month at Island Garden City of Samal. This development is in line
with the Kalahi-CIDSS goal of empowering communities down to the grassroots
level.
The DSWD recently deployed in every town an Area
Coordinating Team (ACT) composed of an Area Coordinator (AC), Technical
Facilitator (TF), Finance Analyst (FA), and Community Empowerment Facilitator
(CEF).
The team will lead the implementation of the program in the
municipality in coordination with the Municipal Coordinating Team, the ACT
counterpart installed by the LGU in every Kalahi-CIDSS area.
Kalahi-CIDSS will operate in Baganga, Lupon (Davao Oriental);
Kiblawan, Jose Abad Santos, Malalag, Sta. Maria, Don Marcelino, Sarangani
(Davao del Sur); and Montevista, Braulio E. Dujali and San Isidro (Davao del
Norte).
Kalahi-CIDSS, one of the three core programs of DSWD, is a
community-driven development project of the Philippine Government that aims to
empower communities through their enhanced participation in local governance
and poverty alleviation projects.
According to Kalahi-CIDSS Deputy Regional Program Manager
Ma. Annabelle Jabla, choosing applicants to lead the program is one of the most
scrutinizing processes in the program.
“The people who should take up the task should have the
heart to help other people. The work in Kalahi-CIDSS is not a typical job that
we have inside the office. It’s a call for something deeper, they should have
the passion to be a catalyst for change, carrying on the goal of the program
and that is to empower the community in alleviating poverty.”
Approved by President Benigno Aquino on January 18, 2013,
Kalahi-CIDSS has expanded into a national scale of operations and opened in 16
municipalities in Region XI in 2014, in its pilot implementation.
Jabla added that the new workers have been capacitated using
the Community Driven Development (CDD) approach. ACTs are expected to empower
ordinary citizens to directly participate in local governance by identifying
their own community needs and collectively responding to it.
The 11 municipalities will receive a cash grant of Php 173,
980,750.00 that would benefit 197 barangays.
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