Rey Anthony Chiu
TAGBILARAN CITY,
Bohol, February 25 (PIA)—The Department of Social Welfare and
Development allocated over P110 million for its Sustainable Livelihood Program
it would be implementing in Bohol in 2015, according to the Regional Program
Coordinator.
During the recent Convergence Strategy Orientation to the Media,
DSWD’s SLP Bohol coordinator Cherry Merin revealed this to Bohol media gathered
at the Reynas Garden and Haven, February 24.
The Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) is a community-based
capacity building program that seeks to improve the program beneficiaries’
socio-economic status, implemented through a two-pronged program,.
SLP pours focus on microenterprise development, where it empowers
communities into micro-enterprises development by capacity building people in
small venture organizations to become organizationally and economically viable.
On the other hand, it is also into job facilitation, when it
helps community members access appropriate employment opportunities.
As the DSWD empowers through template called community driven
development, it implements its SLP by an approach called Community-Driven
Enterprise Development (CDED), with the end goal of creating 2.3 million
self-sufficient Conditional cash Transfer families in 2016.
This trains and capacitates the program beneficiaries to actively
contribute to production and labor markets by looking where these workers are
necessary, where markets and employment chances are open.
For its SLP, DSWD puts in Self Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran
(SEA-K), which provides entrepreneurship trainings, facilitates access to
business service providers, provides start-up capital and increase business
portfolio through mentoring and coaching, Merin points out.
For SEA-K, DSWD allocates as much as P25, 470, 000 capital seed
fund for Bohol in its 2015 budget.
This however pales in comparison to the P77, 940, 000 for
technical-vocational trainings, which should get family member beneficiaries
the right skills to land in jobs.
In fact, another allotment for pre-employment assistance at DSWD
SLP reached P1,945,000, according to DSWD.
Again, DSWD allots Cash for Building Livelihood Assets (CBLA) at
P1,683,000. This would be in form of compensation to members who work to build
communal or privately owned livelihood assets from DSWD assistance.
Project community mobilization fund sums up as a locally
counterparted amount of P3, 225, 960.00 from the DSWD and P32,000 from Local
Government Units.
Over all, the SLP budget runs to P110, 305, 960.0, Merin said.
(rmn/RAC/PIABohol)