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DSWD VI, CAPSU BURIAS INITIATE PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM 

by Lovelyn Hope A. Leonor

    In a bid to foster collaboration and strengthen partnership in the delivery of a livelihood program, the Department of Social Welfare Development (DSWD) Region VI and CAPSU Burias completed a consultative meeting on Feb. 7 at the Admin Building. 

    Mr. Merlan Lanusga, the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) Partnership Officer, led the DSWD Team that visited the Campus, which included Ms. Louraine Reyes, Project Development Officer (PDO) II, Ms. Rovelyn Paulmanal, PDO II of the Municipal Social Welfare Development Office (MSWDO) Jamindan, and Ms. Johanna Mari Degoma of MSWDO Mambusao. 

    The DSWD Team sat down with Dr. Rodyard B. Madiclum, Campus Administrator, Prof. Mark L. Sibug, Extension Chairperson, and Prof. Salve M. Ferrer from the College of Management Faculty, and initiated talks concerning partnership in the implementation of sustainable livelihood program.

    DSWD through Memoradum Circular No. 22, series of 2019 defines SLP as a capability-building program for poor, vulnerable, and marginalized households and communities to help improve their socio- economic conditions through accessing and acquiring necessary assets to engage in and maintain thriving livelihoods.

    The consultative meeting served as a platform for the exchange of ideas, including the roles of each party, and the mechanisms that the collaboration may establish to address social issues and finding innovative solutions to improve the lives of individuals and communities.