BY: SALLY A. ATENTO
LEGAZPI CITY, Nov 29 (PIA) – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Bicol has set the implementation of community-led projects in barangay Rawis and Bitano, in this city late December this year.
Jesseshan Marbella, DSWD Bicol information officer, said the local government, barangay officials and community volunteers (CV) of Legazpi City are currently preparing the documents needed to comply with the project’s requirements to download the funds directly to the community accounts.
The grant from the World Bank allotted for each barangay is one million pesos while the counterpart from the local government unit amounts to to Php927,500.
These projects, under the urban version of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) program of the DSWD are identified and decided upon by citizen implementers or CVs through a series of consultation meetings and community investigation to address the most pressing need in their locality.
“Kalahi-CIDSS, one of the core poverty-reduction programs by DSWD, which has originally engaged poor rural communities in the region has scaled-up its operations to reach even the poverty-stricken areas in the urban setting,” said Marbella.
Barangay Rawis and Bitano are the pilot barangays in Legazpi City for the urban version of Kalahi-CIDSS program officially launched last year.
“Bitano has proposed the construction of community development center, skills training on dress making and human resource development which all focuses on improving the income of the unemployed, “she said.
“Similarly, the people of Rawis would like to construct a livelihood center with skills training component and provision of two non-motorized boats with fishing net and six “padyak” or pedicab tricycles,” Marbella added.
Capacity building activities were conducted for 60 CVs from both barangays this year to prepare them for the upcoming implementation of these proposals this December.
The latest training conducted last September was on community finance.
The operations and maintenance training is also scheduled in December to ensure the sustainability of the community subprojects.
The primary purpose of the Kalahi-CIDSS is not only to implement infrastructure-based project but also to develop the capacities of CVs to become productive members of the community. It employs the community-driven development (CDD) approach to promote a more inclusive and participatory development to address poverty. (MAL/SAA-PIA5/Albay)
LEGAZPI CITY, Nov 29 (PIA) – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Bicol has set the implementation of community-led projects in barangay Rawis and Bitano, in this city late December this year.
Jesseshan Marbella, DSWD Bicol information officer, said the local government, barangay officials and community volunteers (CV) of Legazpi City are currently preparing the documents needed to comply with the project’s requirements to download the funds directly to the community accounts.
The grant from the World Bank allotted for each barangay is one million pesos while the counterpart from the local government unit amounts to to Php927,500.
These projects, under the urban version of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) program of the DSWD are identified and decided upon by citizen implementers or CVs through a series of consultation meetings and community investigation to address the most pressing need in their locality.
“Kalahi-CIDSS, one of the core poverty-reduction programs by DSWD, which has originally engaged poor rural communities in the region has scaled-up its operations to reach even the poverty-stricken areas in the urban setting,” said Marbella.
Barangay Rawis and Bitano are the pilot barangays in Legazpi City for the urban version of Kalahi-CIDSS program officially launched last year.
“Bitano has proposed the construction of community development center, skills training on dress making and human resource development which all focuses on improving the income of the unemployed, “she said.
“Similarly, the people of Rawis would like to construct a livelihood center with skills training component and provision of two non-motorized boats with fishing net and six “padyak” or pedicab tricycles,” Marbella added.
Capacity building activities were conducted for 60 CVs from both barangays this year to prepare them for the upcoming implementation of these proposals this December.
The latest training conducted last September was on community finance.
The operations and maintenance training is also scheduled in December to ensure the sustainability of the community subprojects.
The primary purpose of the Kalahi-CIDSS is not only to implement infrastructure-based project but also to develop the capacities of CVs to become productive members of the community. It employs the community-driven development (CDD) approach to promote a more inclusive and participatory development to address poverty. (MAL/SAA-PIA5/Albay)
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