Social Protection Program - a Contribution to Poverty Alleviation

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In the conduct of city/ municipal social protection workshop, the participating LGUs were reminded to review their data on risks and vulnerabilities from the secondary materials available in their LGU by cluster, to include; Social Protection and Development Report (SPDR), Socio-economic profile, Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP), Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP), Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) and LGU Sectoral plans.

During the training, the participants underwent four (4) workshops. Outputs were presented and reviewed through comments and suggestions from the resource speakers and participants. The workshops were; Identification of Risks and vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies, Identification of social protection issues/gaps using the identified risks, vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies, Identification of inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and results, and Identification of Local indicators to improve local social condition using the identified risk and vulnerabilities.

Along with the workshops is the familiarization of participants to the Family Survey on Risks and Vulnerability form with 74 questions all anchored to the 4 risks. The form shall be utilized by enumerators who will be conducting house to house visitation in the barangays. To have a common understanding on the form, the questions were explained one by one by the resource speaker from DSWD FO1.

The training also served as venue to provide technical assistance for the participating LGUs in meeting the standards for LSWDO functionality which is a major component in the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)-Seal of Good Local Governance and DSWD-LSWDO Functionality assessments. The participants were reminded to ensure the LSWDO functionality as counterparts from the regional office shall be randomly conducting field visitations.

On the last day of the training, a representative from the DILG assisted the participating LGUs in formulating their action plan for social protection. All LGUs are expected to submit their final and approved SPDR with adopted SP programs in the C/M Development plans. --- (LGOO II Honey Lou C. Baguso, Candon City)