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Community-Based Training Manual for Women and Children’s Rights Advocates: Improving Governance to Reduce Poverty: Access to Justice for the Poor Project

The manual is a work intended to provide community workers and volunteers the tools they need to empower poor and marginalized groups especially women and children. The manual touches on topics such as gender sensitivity, raising awareness on the rights of women and children as well as on how to advocate for the rights of both groups.
Learning Material

Aeta Maternal and Early Childhood Development

This module was created in 1998 as part of the Parent Effectiveness Service of the Department of Social Welfare and Development. The service encourages both parents to take part in the upbringing of their children. As part of the need to inform families from all parts of the country on responsible parenthood, this module was created in 1998 for Aeta parents and volunteers. The modules and...
Research and Development Material

Parenting Roles, Responsibilities and Styles: Perception and Practices of Filipino Mothers and Fathers

The research study, published in 2006; aims to find out what the perceptions of Filipino mothers and fathers are of their roles as parents and the practices they undertake within their roles. Through a mix of structured interviews, focus group discussions (FGDs) and case studies, the researchers from the UP Social Action and Research for Development Foundation, Inc. gathered data that painted a...
Research and Development Material

2022 Social Welfare and Development Journal

The Social Welfare and Development (SWD) Journal is the official journal of the Department of Social Welfare and Development. The journal highlights studies initiated by DSWD and other stakeholders in regards to social protection and social welfare and development. For the journal’s 2022 issue, two of the articles in the journal feature studies that examine the COVID pandemic’s impact on SWD...
Good Practice and Success Story Documentation

Gulayan ng Pantawid Pamilya: A Public-Private Convergence Initative

This good practice document highlights the convergence initiative between the government agencies and a private organization through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program's (4Ps) Gulayan. The implementation of the Gulayan sa Barangay ensures that 4Ps program participants have access to fresh, organically produced, and nutritionally rich foods at the household and community level. This endeavor...
Good Practice and Success Story Documentation

Growing Old With Care: Caring for the Senior Citizens Towards a Healthy and Proactive Community

The Home Care Program in the Municipality of Mahatao, Batanes aims to provide the elders in their community access to good health and sustained care, especially for those whose families cannot sustain them. The positive results of the Home Care Program has prompted the LGU to consider extending its services to other vulnerable groups such as People With Disabilities.
Advocacy Material

Day Care Service Primer

Children have the right to a safe space to grow and develop, especially during their formative years. Day care services provide supplementary parental care to young children with parents that find it difficult to care for them during the day due to work and other reasons. This primer, which was first printed in 1998, provides an overview on essential information regarding day care services for...
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Mainstreaming Child Rights in Local Development Planning: A Guide to Localizing Child 21

The Philippine National Strategic Framework for Plan Development for Children, 2000 - 2025 also known as “Child 21”, aims to integrate children’s rights into the interventions and programs that will be created by policy makers for children. This work is intended for policymakers from local government units (LGUs) to serve as their guide in localizing Child 21 in their communities.
Good Practice and Success Story Documentation

Together, We Can Build the Bridge of the Future: Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program’s Good Practice Documentation

This compendium showcases the efforts of the stakeholders of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program in improving the well-being of the poor and protecting the rights of vulnerable sectors. The compendium features good practices from Field Office CAR, Field Office NCR, Field Office VI, Field Office VIII and Field Office X. They feature practices that address concerns on the food security and...
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Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD): A Primer

This primer gives the information you need to know about Republic Act 8980 or the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Act. RA 8980 - which was passed in 2000; provides a comprehensive national policy for the implementation of ECCD and institutionalizes the ECCD system which addresses the threats on children’s health, nutrition, education and psychosocial stimulation. The ECCD act ensures...
Learning Material

Helping Street Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances: A Guidebook for Social Work Practitioners

The guide book which was published in 1992, is intended to help social work practitioners as they handle cases of street children. In the course of their work, practitioners may come to realize that working with street children, especially those with special problems would require advanced practice. The case studies presented in the guide book were contributed by social work practitioners. These...
Advocacy Material

Primer on Child 21

This primer serves an introduction to better understand the Philippine National Strategic Framework for Plan Development for Children, 2000 – 2025 or “Child 21”. Child 21 is a strategic framework which integrates the rights of each child in the planning of programs and interventions for them. The framework sets a precedent for future endeavors by policymakers for children.
Good Practice and Success Story Documentation

Compendium of Good Practices on Efforts Against Online Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children in the Philippines

The compendium contains the good practices implemented by the government and private sectors in the Philippines addressing the issue of online sexual exploitation of children. The purpose of this document is to help program implementers learn from the models of practice that can be used for replication on addressing child pornography and its various modalities.
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ESCAP HRD Course on Psychosocial and Medical Services for Sexually Abused and Sexually Exploited Children and Youth

This training guide aims to provide personnel that work directly and indirectly with sexually abused and sexually exploited children with knowledge and tips to help support their clients’ needs. The guide provides personnel with knowledge on medical and psychosocial needs of abused and exploited children and youth and helps them in designing, managing and evaluating services intended for them.
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Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Checklist Technical and Administration Manual

The Early Childhood Care and Development Checklist is intended for the use of midwives, child health development workers, day care workers and mothers to determine their child’s growth and development. The Checklist consists of two Child’s Records, one for children ages 0-3 and the next for children ages 3 years and 1 month to 5 years and 11 months. Children are monitored according to seven...
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Empowering Learning Sessions for Indigenous Peoples Initiative (ELIPI)

The Empowering Learning Sessions for Indigenous Peoples Initiative or ELIPI module was crafted to address the vulnerabilities of the Sama-Bajau to all forms of discrimination and exploitation. It will be used by social workers who manage the cases of Sama Bajaus and other Sama Bajaus who may facilitate ELIPI sessions. The module focuses on building on the inherent potential and capabilities of the...
Advocacy Material

Jail Is No Place for a Child

The pamphlet presents information on juvenile justice and the welfare of children in conflict with the law (CICL). Excerpts from news articles as well as case studies are included to present the situation of CICLs in the country.
Good Practice and Success Story Documentation

Compendium on Process Improvement: Good Process Documentations of DSWD Field Offices

The Compendium on Process Improvement shows the various initiatives from the DSWD Field Offices in enhancing the Department’s systems, technologies and processes to fit their needs. Initiatives such as Field Office CAR’s information system for indigent senior citizens, Field Office XI (Davao region)’s Institutional Development and Capacity Building – Automated System Training and Technical...
Good Practice and Success Story Documentation

A Home Away from Home, True Freedom Begins at Cabanatuan CIty Bahay Pag-Asa

Bahay Pag-Asa, a real "home away from home", is where the child residents can experience home life while undergoing rehabilitation. It is a 24-hour rehabilitative child-caring facility that caters to male Children in Conflict with the Law (CICL) and Children ar Risk (CAR). It ensures the protection of the juveniles.
Good Practice and Success Story Documentation

Seeing and Embracing Pantawid Through UMET

The UMET or Unified Monitoring and Evaluation Tool is a collaborative mechanism that aims to ensure that all data relevant to the implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program are captured at all levels. This tool encourages active engagement and collaboration of all units within the program and will help ensure the achievement of strategic goals.

The DSWD KM Portal is a dynamic facility founded to promote the development and sharing of knowledge within the DSWD and its partners. The Portal has vast collection of DSWD Knowledge Products (KPs) and other learning resources on social welfare and social protection.