Kalahi gets US award

From the Visayan Daily Star (Jul 29): Kalahi gets US award

The Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services was awarded at the second Development Impact Honors Awards of the United States Treasury at the Main Treasury Building in North Washington, USA, recently.

Kalahi-CIDSS was commended as an “especially high-impact and noteworthy development intervention”, with around 5,876 small-scale community projects catering to about 1,345,767 households in the 42 poorest provinces of the Philippines.

It was also cited for having improved community participation rates in project activities that made the delivery of services of local government units more participatory, inclusive and transparent. Kalahi-CIDSS also improved household income per capita consumption of beneficiary communities by five percent, based on studies made by the World Bank in its Impact Evaluation Report in 2012.

In the Central Visayas, the National Community Driven Development Program of Kalahi-CIDSS will cover 104 towns whose poverty incidence rates are greater than the national average of 26.5 percent, according to the National Statistics Coordinating Board. These towns will undergo an enrolment process this year.

Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, said, “We are honored to have the Kalahi-CIDSS chosen as one of the awardees by the U.S. Treasury. We are optimistic that, with NCDDP, we will be able to help more families and communities rise from poverty”.

Regional Director Mercedita Jabagat of DSWD in Region 7 said Central Visayas is the third region with the most number of towns covered by the NCDDP.

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