The Department of Social Welfare & Development’s 73rd founding anniversary celebration culminated on February 6, 2024, with the Awarding Ceremonies for the national winners of the Programs on Awards and Incentives for Service Excellence (PRAISE) at the Landbank Plaza Auditorium in the City of Manila.
The celebration’s theme, “Angels in Red Vests: Empathy in Action, Integrity in Service, Unity in Community,” was specially highlighted among others by the Best Knowledge Management Initiative Awards. These were given to Field Offices that developed outstanding Knowledge Management Initiatives that were adjudged to have enhanced the institutional capacity of the Department as a learning organization thereby providing an environment of continuing innovation, learning, benchmarking, and knowledge sharing with its internal and external stakeholders.
Outstanding Initiatives are adjudged only after undergoing a rigorous selection process, which measures responsiveness; innovativeness; sustainability & replicability; monitoring & evaluation; and, documentation or knowledge translation. Responsiveness determines whether the practice that contributes to achieving target/s or milestones and addresses organizational outcomes of the Department; Innovativeness, pertains to the practice that challenges or reinvents the usual way of doing things. Sustainability and Replicability, looks into mechanisms in place for sustaining and replicating the practice. Monitoring and Evaluation determines if mechanisms exist that include reporting and conduct of evaluation activities to determine the extent to which the initiative brings impact. Documentation or Knowledge Translation identifies if all stages of implementation are well documented with complete and up-to-date information, including the distillation of key knowledge transformed into a knowledge product for easy access of potential users. This also involves writing and delivering Knowledge Products that are more responsive, understandable and actionable by their intended users.
For Calendar Year 2023, Field Office XI garnered First Place with its "A Convergence Strategy Featuring the Experiences of Kilalag SLP Corporation of Malita, Davao Occidental", spearheaded by PDO III Angelie L. Rodriguez. Second Place went to Field Office I’s “"SLP TALINO: Pagyabong sa Gitna Pandemya", with PDO II Chad Everrett Q. Llanes as Team Leader; Finally, 3rd Place went to Field Office-Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) with its “Valuing Partnership: The CSO Partnership Assessment Tool’, which was developed by a team under PDO III John Eric B. Escalante.