Company Description

A. History, Nature of Business, Mission, Vision and Objectives

i. History

In 1915, the Public Welfare Board (PWB) was created and was tasked to study, coordinate
and regulate all government and private entities engaged in social services. In 1921, the PWB was
abolished and replaced by the Bureau of Public Welfare under the Department of Public
Instruction. On November 1, 1939, Commonwealth Act No. 439 created the Department of Health
and Public Welfare and in 1941, the Bureau of Public Welfare officially became a part of the
Department of Health and Public Welfare. In addition to coordinating services of all public and
private social welfare institutions, the Bureau also managed all public child-caring institutions and
the provision of child welfare services.
In 1947, President Manuel Roxas abolished the Bureau of Public Welfare and created
the Social Welfare Commission, under the Office of the President, in its place.
In 1968, Republic Act 5416, known as the Social Welfare Act of 1968, created
the Department of Social Welfare, placing it under the executive branch of government. In 1976,
the Department of Social Welfare was renamed Department of Social Services and
Development (DSSD) through Presidential Decree No. 994. This was signed into law by
President Ferdinand E. Marcos and gave the department an accurate institutional identity. On
June 2, 1978, the DSSD was renamed Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) in
line with the change in the form of government.
In 1987, the MSSD was reorganized and renamed Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD) through Executive Order 123, which was signed by President Corazon C.
Aquino. Executive Order No. 292, also known as the Revised Administration Code of 1987,
established the name, organizational structure and functional areas of responsibility of DSWD and
further defined its statutory authority.
In 1991, the passage of Republic Act No. 7160 otherwise known as the Local Government Code
of 1991 effected the devolution of DSWD basic services to local government units.

ii. Nature of Business

The Philippines Department of Social Welfare and Development (Filipino: Kagawaran ng

Kagalingan at Pagpapaunlad Panlipunan, abbreviated as DSWD) is the executive department of
the Philippine Government responsible for the protection of the social welfare of rights of Filipinos
and to promote the social development.

iii. Mission and

Vision Mission
To lead in the formulation, implementation and coordination of social welfare and
development policies and programs for and with the poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged.
Vision

The department of social welfare and development envisions all Filipinos free from hunger
and poverty, have equal access to opportunities, enabled by a fair, just and peaceful society.

Values

• Maagap at Mapagkalingang Serbisyo

• Serbisyong Walang Puwang sa Katiwalian
• Patas na Pagtrato sa Komunidad

Objectives

To provide guidelines in the implementation of the partnership between DSWD and DA for
the agricultural livelihood interventions and skills development of the beneficiary’s households of
the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program thru the Agrikulturang Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino.

A summary of the company’s existing corporate environmental initiatives/programs may

also be included in this part, if data is available.

DSWD contributes to a responsive policy environment for social welfare and development
concerns through improvement of the capacity of and increased opportunities for the poor, the
vulnerable, and the disadvantaged sector. The policies formulated and plans, and programs
developed are adopted by intermediaries (NGOs, Pos, LGU’s), including NGAs, in the delivery of
SWD services.

Through the various social welfare assistance and social wok interventions provided to
disadvantaged and vulnerable individuals in the different centers and institutions maintained by
DSWD, these individuals are restored to normal functions and are enabled to be mainstreamed
into society. For families improved quality of life.

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or "4Ps" (conditional cash transfer) is a human
development program that invests in the health and education of poor families, primarily those with
children aged 0–18.
Kalahi CIDSS – NCDDP
The Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services –
National Community-Driven Development Program (Kalahi CIDSS–NCDDP) is the community-
driven development program of the Philippine Government implemented through the Department
of Social Welfare and Development. Supplemented by the government of the Philippines.
Sustainable Livelihood Program
The Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) is a community-based capacity building effort that
seeks to improve the program participants’ socio-economic status through two tracks: Micro-
enterprise Development and Employment Facilitation.
Listahanan
An information management system that identifies who and where the poor are in the country. It is
being operated by the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR).

Supplemental Feeding Program

Provision of food in addition to the regular meals, to target children as part of the DSWD's ECCD
program of the government.
Disaster Response Operations
Life-saving emergency relief and long-term response.
RRPTP
Recovery and Reintegration Program for Trafficked Persons (RRTP) is a comprehensive package
of programs and services, enhancing the psychosocial and economic needs of the beneficiaries.
PAMANA
Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) aims to improve access of poor communities to
basic social services and promote responsive governance.
Protective Services Program
Provides a range of interventions to individuals, families, and communities in crisis or difficult
situations and vulnerable or disaster-affected communities.
ISWSFN
International Social Welfare Services for Filipino Nationals is a program for migrant Filipinos
and other overseas Filipino nationals who are in crisis situation and in need of special protection
are encouraged to seek assistance in the Philippine Embassies in their countries of destination.
Residential and Non-Residential Facilities
Services rendered in facilities 24-hour that provide alternative family care arrangement to poor,
vulnerable, and disadvantaged individuals or families in crisis.
Adoption and Foster Care
The act of adoption, of permanently placing a minor with a parent or parents other than the birth
parents in the Philippines.
Gender and Development
Gender is about relations—between men and women, women and women, also between men and
men and boys and girls. The GAD as perspective recognizes that gender concerns cut across all
areas of development and therefore gender must influence government when it plans, budget for,
implements, monitors and evaluates policies, programs and projects for development.
BUB
Pilot tested in 2013 and now on its 3rd cycle, the Bottom-Up Budgeting (BUB) Process is proposed
to ensure implementation of priority poverty reduction projects.
I. Stakeholder Review
a. A detailed assessment of the company’s stakeholders that covers stakeholders’
expectations from the organization and the possible results/impacts to
environmental management once the identified expectations were met.

Applicable
Stakeholder type Expectations Result
(Yes or No?)
s

Employees Yes DSWD is committed to Experiences under

uphold the highest various programs that
ethical standards have remained only in
among employees the minds of knowledge
holders
Unions Yes The organizational unit The Union Work Time
in-charge of personnel may be availed of by
administration in the SWEAP officers and
Central Office and in the members in the
field Offices are Central Office
responsible for ensuring
proper implementation
Shareholders Yes In a show of solidarity DSWD reached out to
through public-private the private sector for
cooperation, several assistance in finding a
companies in the warehouse to use for the
private sector, re-staging closer to
infrastructure business Pampanga (from Metro
unit Republic Cement. Manila) of ten metric
tons of rice (24,000
sacks) in order to
prepare the rice for
repacking and
distribution to
communities in need of
food assistance
Bank Yes DSWD has SAP online DSWD said that
banking or Gcash, engaging FSPs to
Paymaya Starpay to undertake digital
receive their subsidies electronic
and for donations disbursement through
restricted transactional
accounts, like bank or
e-money
accounts, ensures
that the cash
subsidies will
 reach the beneficiaries
in the most expedient
and reliable manner
while still complying
with the existing health
and safety protocols
Insurance company Yes Philam Life One of the leading life
insurance companies in
the country, recently
signed an agreement
with the Department of
Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD)
NCR to insure the
beneficiaries of its
Pantawid Pamilyang
Pilipino Program (4Ps).
The 4Ps is a human
development program
of the national
government that
invests in the health
and education of poor
households. Philam
Life was entrusted by
DSWD NCR to provide
life and accident
insurance, including
medical reimbursement
due to accidents, to
4Ps
beneficiaries.

Local community Yes Formulates policies and The Department of

plans which provideSocial Welfare and
direction toDevelopment (DSWD)
intermediaries and otherprovides assistance to
implementers in theother national
development andgovernment agencies
delivery of social(NGAs), local
welfare and
government units
development services.
(LGUs), non-
government
organizations
(NGOs), peopleТs
organizations (POs),
and members of civil
society in the
implementation of
programs, projects,
and services
Environmentalists Yes Kapit-Bisig Laban sa The workshop is a
Kahirapan- learning forum on the
Comprehensive and Thematic
Integrated Delivery of Environmental
Social Services (Kalahi- Management System
CIDSS), recently (TEMS), the
conducted an mechanism set up by
environmental Kalahi-CIDSS in
protection and partnership with the
management workshop Millennium Challenge
Corporation (MCC) and
the Millennium
Challenge Account-
Philippines (MCA-P) in
order to ensure that
environmental and
social safeguards are
maintained in the
implementation of the
program, down to the
grassroots level.
Local authority Yes Mandated by law to Recognizes that gender
develop, administer concerns cut across all
and implement areas of development
comprehensive social and therefore gender
welfare programs must influence
designed to uplift the government when it
living conditions and plans and evaluates
empower the policies, programs and
projects for
disadvantaged
development.
children, youth,
women, older persons,
person with
disabilities, families in
crisis
Customers Yes On the next pillar that DSWD also known as
talks about targeting or the Revised
the identification of Administration Code of
beneficiaries. It is 1987, established the
noteworthy to share name, organizational
with everyone that structure and functional
DSWD up to this time is areas of responsibility
maintaining the of DSWD and further
Listahanan, a defined its statutory
authority and
contraction for
responsible for ensuring
“Listahan ng mga proper implementation.
pamilyang
nangangailangan” or
the database of poor
households nationwide
 II. Assessment of Issues
a. A comprehensive evaluation of the company’s activities, products, and services
and their corresponding environmental aspects (negative impacts on the
environment).

Activitie Impact Impact Impact Energ Wast Noise Others

s/ on air on water on land y e / odor
Product issue issue issue
s/ s s s
Services

Seen these Seen the There is no Seen the The Seen there Seen they
activity need supplement negative supplement supplement are many are locking
al feeding a
to deliver make by impact on program l feeding people to be of budget
the chemical it supplement use vehicle program are served they some
a and people
Supplemental supplement effect the l feeding electricity to using more are making are not
deliver and being
feeding they using water so it program. make the packaging tonoises and served.
program vehicle. create a supplement prevent the the feeding
water. contaminatiois always
n where the held by
plastic are daylight the
been used people are
cannot be making odor
recycled
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Statement of the problem

1. To what extent are the social benefits received by the beneficiaries as to:

- Health condition of the children;

- Education condition of the children; and

- Other benefits?

2. What are the problems encountered by both DSWD workers and

- Program beneficiaries in the implementation of the program.

3. What enhanced program and policy can be proposed based on findings?

ii. Alternative Course of Action

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is the primary government agency mandated to
develop, implement, and coordinate social protection and poverty reduction solutions for and with the poor,
vulnerable, and disadvantaged. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and their Social
Welfare Programs Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. Pantawid Pamilya is a conditional cash transfer (CCT)
program that provides cash grants to poor households with children 0‐14 years old and/or pregnant mothers,
provided that they comply with the conditions set by the program. Also, this CCT program is a social assistance
program that provides conditional cash assistance to the poor families to alleviate their immediate needs (short-term
poverty alleviation); and a social development program that aims to break the intergenerational poverty cycle
through investments in human capital. KALAHI-CIDSS (Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and
Integrated Delivery of Social Services. The Kapit‐Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan ‐ Comprehensive and Integrated
Delivery of Social Services or Kalahi‐ CIDSS is a poverty alleviation initiative of the DSWD that uses a
community‐driven development (CDD) approach. The said program provides resources to poor rural municipalities
for public goods investment and promotes people’s participation in governance. It empowers the group by giving
them a chance to identify their problem, recommend solutions and implement such. Listahanan (National
Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction) NHTS-PR is an information management system that
identifies who and where the indigent households are in the region and in the whole Philippines.   It generates and
establishes a socio-economic database of indigent households. We need this to ensure that the limited resources of
the different social protection agencies reach the poorest individuals. Also, the strategy aims to improve
coordination among social protection agencies and it unifies the criteria for the selection of the poorest population.

Sustainable Livelihood Program, the DSWD believes that the indigents can't rely on conditional cash transfers
alone to prevent them from under‐investing in wellness and education. They also need to be productive, whether as
entrepreneurs or employees/workers, which is the ultimate and ideal way out of poverty. It's is a community‐based
program that provides capacity building to improve the program participants’ socio‐economic status. First, it
supports micro-enterprises to become organizationally and economically viable. Second, it links participants to
employment opportunities. Supplementary Feeding Program, the Supplementary Feeding Program is the provision
of food, in addition to the regular meals, to currently enrolled daycare center children.  It comes in the form of hot
meals, as recommended by Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), and served during break time in daycare
centers. The beneficiaries are three-year-old and four-year-old kids that are not included in the Department of
Education Pre-school range but in daycare.

Action Plan

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Environmental Policy

Policy Review
a. Policy Guidelines - Are rules and regulations issued to carry out DSWD's mandates. It is designed to
supplement provisions of a certain law and to provide means for implementing the law. DSWD policy
guidelines are referred to as Administrative Issuances pursuant to Administrative Order No. 3 series of
2014.
b. Policy Development Framework- Refers to the set of principles, long term goals, processes and
strategies that are undertaken or considered when making rules and guidelines. It provides an over-all
direction in the formulation and issuance of DSWD's policy guidelines.
c. Policy Agenda - A document that outlines the priority SWD issues and concerns that need appropriate
policy responses from DSWD.
d. Policy Analysis Refers to the process and strategies employed in identifying possible policy
alternatives to address a particular SWD issue/concern vis-à-vis the mandate and long term goals of
DSWD.
e. DSWD Legislative Agenda - A document which outlines the legislative priorities of the DSWD for the
current Congress It contains, among others, the DSWD priority legislations, legislations requiring
DSWD's major participation, and, legislations requiring DSWD's inputs.

Objectives
- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continues to
implement programs to strengthen community resilience to reduce the
damages brought by natural disturbances and calamities due to climate
change.
- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is a department
of the Philippine government charged with the protection and promotion of the
social welfare and development of Filipinos. In case you are wondering what
DSWD does, its functions, programs, and services.

Communication Plan

Environmenta Compliance with Philippine Law

Research Findings
l Yes or No? Explain.
Consideration
s
Natural disasters and human-induced Yes the SULONG Recovery Plan is
Planning and emergencies to the vulnerable sectors that envisioned to contribute to the protection of
land issues the Department serves by providing timely vulnerable sectors through responsive and
and appropriate assistance during these appropriate social protection
situations; increase the capacity of LGUs to programs and services.
improve the delivery of social protection and
social welfare services

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The DSWD is a key agency in disaster reliefYES, The DSWD, pursuant to RA 10121,
Hazardous efforts. It coordinates with local governmentsotherwise known as the Philippine Disaster Risk
substances and other stakeholders to ensure that reliefReduction and Management Act of 2010, is
operations are well- organized and effective.mandated to act as the Vice-chair for Disaster
In this way, the DSWD plays a vital role inResponse. Likewise, as a social welfare agency,
supporting the community during times ofthe Department is mandated to provide various
crisis. interventions and programs to the poor,
disadvantaged, and vulnerable families and
communities primarily in the vision to increase
their adaptive capacities and lessen the
socioeconomic and
environmental impacts and effects of disasters
including climate change.

Air They ensure that selected SPS under theThe environmental and social safeguard
project are designed to avoid or minimizerequirements of subprojects are integrated in the
negative environmental impacts; and identifyCommunity Empowerment Activity Cycle
any negative impacts and develop and(CEAC) and the accelerated CEAC to ensure
implement appropriate mitigation measuresthat the construction and implementation of all
as part of the SP design and implementation. subprojects are in compliance with ADB's
safeguard requirements and with the applicable
laws and
regulations in the country.

Water Same measures for Water Quality to provide Yes the monitoring  LGU/ Community based
sanitary facilities and waste management monitoring and assignment of barangay
facilities for construction worker. Inclusion residents to provide the early warning/signal.
of the construction worker’s basecamps in
the barangay defogging to eliminate disease
vectors, if solid waste is observed to
have accumulated to alarming levels

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The major sources of noise and vibration from the Planning activities in consultation
Noise possible subprojects are from the excavation/drilling of with the community. Secure
wells/boreholes. Noise and vibration may cause disruption applicable permit or clearance
to nearby communities and other sensitive receptors and form of the barangay and/or
damage to other structures in the project municipality before doing their
area. activities
Increased health risk due to improper disposal or lack of Proper timing and frequency of
Waste facilities for management of solid waste and sewage barangay defogging (when
during construction deemed necessary by the
LGUs)

Conclusion and Recommendations

The DSWD it has a mission that lead in the formulation, implementation and coordination of
social welfare and development policies and programs for and with the poor, vulnerable and
disadvantaged. the workplace should have safety instructions and visible signs in building
premises; well-maintained and good housekeeping in offices, machine, and equipment; sanitary
facilities such as comfort rooms and lavatories; maintained indoor air quality; managed safety
and security; and provisions of personal protective equipment and health clinic or treatment
room with complete first aid kits and medical supplies. In addition, emergency preparedness
program, occupational safety and health program, support facilities, and reasonable working
hours, breaks and leave privileges must be given to the personnel in compliance to the said
policy.

Management and Lesson Learned

The Management and Lesson Learned, CDD approach enhances the effectiveness of the local
poverty reduction initiatives as barangay action plans that were prepared by communities serve
as inputs to the local poverty reduction action plan of the LGU, which were instituted under the
KALAHI-CIDSS, enhanced local coordination and multi-sectoral approach to local development.
Community oversight helps ensure smooth sub-project implementation while community
participation lowers cost and improves construction quality of sub-project investments-- with
cost differences ranging from 8 percent for schools and 30 percent for water supply. Further,
community contributions (cash and in kind), foregone wages and local materials help lower
costs and promote greater ownership. Community oversight helps ensure smooth sub-project
implementation while community participation lowers cost and improves construction quality of
sub-project investments-- with cost differences ranging from 8 percent for schools and 30
percent for water supply. Further, community contributions (cash and in kind), foregone wages
and local materials help lower costs and promote greater ownership. The project enhanced local
resource mobilization efforts as some LGUs and communities secured supplemental
contributions from private and public sources such as Priority Development Assistance Fund
(PDAF) of congressmen, provincial government, NGOs, etc. This was also observed in some
cases when the sub-projects identified by communities were not prioritized.

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