Rey Anthony H. Chiu
TAGBILARAN
CITY, June 29 (PIA) – A total
of P221-M has been allotted by the government for Bohol under the Department of
Social Welfare and Development's (DSWD) livelihood support for the
underpriviliged.
Of the total, P4.8-M is available for each town
here.
The program is called Sustainable
Livelihood Program (SLP), a micro-enterprise development and employment
facilitation.
She said the SLP aims to provide sufficient and
sustainable source of income for the poor for them to get opportunities
and feel the inclusive growth and recover from poverty.
The fund can also help them get the skills and
trainings that would land them jobs and earn for their needs.
Prioritized for the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino
Program (4Ps) beneficiaries, SLP is also available for families identified
by the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) and
intends to help families get into micro-enterprise development.
SLP’s key interventions include agribusiness and
tourism, commodity clusters, tourism, partnerships, employment assistance and
cash for building livelihood assets, Ronquillo said.
Through these, SLP seeks to improve the
socio-economic status of the most vulnerable by enabling them to participate in
production and labor markets through available resources from the government.
Speaking at the Kapihan sa PIA Thursday,
Ronquillo added that from the P4.8 million, a funding of P2.4 million
is available as cash grants for organizations putting up livelihood ventures,
while another P2.4 million is set aside to help fund skills trainings and
capacity building for them to be gainfully employed.
The fund is part of the total P221,603,248
funding which DSWD poured to Bohol to help those identified
beneficiaries, she added during the radio forum aired live over DyTR.
Earlier, the NHTS PR identified 10,992
households eligible for the funding, the project development officer said.
At the same forum, Ronquillo said the
fund can be released as individual interventions.
DSWD, however, prefers to give the grant to
groups to ascertain responsibility and accountability in the community.
By grant, the beneficiaries do not necessarily
pay for the capital, but have to work to make the capital sustain and profit,
DSWD said.
Ronquillo said in Bohol, microbusiness groups
have benefited from SLPs funding hog raising or swine production as well as
general merchandise. (rmn/rac/PIA-7/Bohol)