By Juju Manubag-Empuerto
CEBU CITY, Feb. 14,(PIA) --The
province of Bohol has been identified as one of the best local government units
implementing the community-drive development (CDD) in the country.
A statement from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said
Bohol recently received a national citation from DSWD for being the best LGU in
the social welfare delivery.
This is the reason why out of the many Kalahi-CIDSS areas in the Philippines,
the Asian delegates chose the Bohol province as the destination of their recent
cross-learning visit for the Kalahi-CIDSS learning visit.
The Developing Member Countries (DMC) participants, together with selected DSWD
and Asian Development Bank (ADB) staff, visited Carmen and San Miguel
municipalities of Bohol.
The participants were given the opportunity to talk with the beneficiaries of
the program to learn the program’s effects to the communities.
During the first day of the cross-learning visit in Bohol, DSWD-7 Assistant
Regional Director Nemia Antipala said that CDD was implemented across three
different island provinces in Central Visayas for almost ten years now.
Antipala said she hopes that the earned and the varied experiences of the
beneficiary communities and the regional and municipal teams will contribute to
the CDD implementation in their respective countries.
CDD is a poverty alleviation strategy that puts power back in the hands of the
people by giving them the opportunity to have active control in deciding which
sub-projects are to be implemented in their communities.
(rmn/JSME/PIA-Cebu/DSWD)