Wednesday, September 28, 2011

DSWD's Reply to Anti-Trapo Movement's Letter of Intent to Participate in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program

Leon Estrella-Peralta
Anti-Trapo Movement of the Philippnes

Dear Mr. Leon Estrella-Peralta:
Greetings of Peace!
Thank you for the interest in partnership.

In the State of the Nation Address delivered by President Benigno S. Aquino III at the start of his term, he underscored the importance of public participation in the fulfillment of his platform of Good Governance and Poverty Reduction.


Presidents Aquino's commitment to engage the citizenry was reaffirmed when he directed the National Agencies to designate a focal person from their respective Departments who shall be in charge of fostering a mutual cooperation between the government and volunteer organizations, and institutionalizing mechanisms for their participation.

For DSWD in particular, "Public Private Partnership" is a system for cooperation between the two parties for the purpose of delivering basic social services to the poor, implementing development projects of the Government and instituting transparency and accountability mechanisms to fight corruption. This may be done in any of these four ways: (1) "Bantay" or projects and activities geared towards fighting corruption; (2) "Gabay" a mechanism for extending technical assistance; (3) "Kaagapay" or anti-poverty projects and activities; and (4) "Tulay" which refers to facilitating action, feedback and monitoring.
I am the focal person in the Department in terms of engagement of CSOs and volunteers with our programs. We are now on the process of partnership with different CSOs and volunteer organization who wish to engage the DSWD on the mentioned above framework .

The output of partnership will be the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the DSWD and the CSOs/ Volunteers Group.  

Please find attached documents (MOA and Powerpoint Presentation Inputs, and please don't hesitate to call me at Tel. No.--- or CP No. -- or reply in this email.

Also copy furnish is Ms. Myla Loza, the NCR Focal Person for CSOs/Volunteers based in DSWD NCR Field Office, Legarda, Manila and with CP No. --. We can set meeting with our focal person on this matter.


Thank you and looking forward for partnership.


Sincerely yours,



Roy A. Calfoforo

Executive Assistant for Volunteer Concerns
Office of the Secretary
Department of Social Welfare and Development

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