The Sustainable Livelihood Program is a capability-building program run by the Department of Social Welfare and Development that provides skills training, seed capital funding, and job placement assistance to poor and vulnerable families. The program aims to strengthen participants' skills and resources to access income opportunities and improve their socioeconomic conditions. It operates in provinces covered by the Pantawid Pamilya conditional cash transfer program and offers microenterprise development and employment facilitation tracks. The implementation process involves social preparation, project approval, development, implementation, and sustainability stages.
The Sustainable Livelihood Program is a capability-building program run by the Department of Social Welfare and Development that provides skills training, seed capital funding, and job placement assistance to poor and vulnerable families. The program aims to strengthen participants' skills and resources to access income opportunities and improve their socioeconomic conditions. It operates in provinces covered by the Pantawid Pamilya conditional cash transfer program and offers microenterprise development and employment facilitation tracks. The implementation process involves social preparation, project approval, development, implementation, and sustainability stages.
The Sustainable Livelihood Program is a capability-building program run by the Department of Social Welfare and Development that provides skills training, seed capital funding, and job placement assistance to poor and vulnerable families. The program aims to strengthen participants' skills and resources to access income opportunities and improve their socioeconomic conditions. It operates in provinces covered by the Pantawid Pamilya conditional cash transfer program and offers microenterprise development and employment facilitation tracks. The implementation process involves social preparation, project approval, development, implementation, and sustainability stages.
The Sustainable Livelihood Program is a capability-building program run by the Department of Social Welfare and Development that provides skills training, seed capital funding, and job placement assistance to poor and vulnerable families. The program aims to strengthen participants' skills and resources to access income opportunities and improve their socioeconomic conditions. It operates in provinces covered by the Pantawid Pamilya conditional cash transfer program and offers microenterprise development and employment facilitation tracks. The implementation process involves social preparation, project approval, development, implementation, and sustainability stages.
LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM Department of Social Welfare and Development The Sustainable Livelihood Program is a capability- building program for poor, vulnerable and marginalized families and individuals in acquiring necessary assets to engage in and maintain thriving livelihoods that help improve their socio- economic conditions. Objectives The Sustainable Livelihood Program endeavors to strengthen the skills, competencies, abilities and resources of poor Filipino families, and create an enabling environment for accessing income- generating opportunities to address basic needs, thereby improving their socio-economic well-being. TARGET GEOGRAPHIC PARTICIPANTS COVERAGE Poor households, prioritizing Pantawid Pamilya The Sustainable beneficiaries Livelihood Program Participants must be caters to at least all provinces 18 years old served by the * however 16 years Pantawid old pax can still be part of any MD Pamilyang Pilipino projects provided Program that they have (conditional cash written legal consent transfer program). from parents or legal guardian. PROGRAM PROGRAM TRACKS MODALITIES
Micro-enterprise Development üParticipants Livelihood entrepreneurship who exhibit Cash for Building potential and willingness for Assets (CBLA) may opt to ü Technical-vocational 1 Employment Facilitation proceed with the Micro- skills training enterprise Development Participants who are qualified ü Seed capital fund track ü Technical-vocational and ready for available skills training employment opportunities ü Employment assistance may opt to proceed with the
2 fund Employment Facilitation track. IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS ü Availability of two tracks and modalities from which the RESULTS/ participants can benefit IMPACT ü Availability of project identification Business Process Review tools and monitoring forms, and By MicroSave systems to support the implementation of the program
ü Availability of reliable training
partners to capacitate the program participants
ü SLP as a graduation program for
conditional cash transfer beneficiaries, and as linkage to mainstream livelihood opportunities RESULTS/ ü Field implementers have easy access of basic data on no. of CCT IMPACT beneficiaries in each barangay from the information system and the Business Process Review municipal link. However, skills By MicroSave profiles are not easily and accurately accessible.
ü To collect data on external market
opportunity there is no formal arrangement with the local government employment office, Department of Labor and Employment, and the Department of Trade and Industry. ü Participants, typically choose the MD track due to their poor RESULTS/ employability (given age factor, IMPACT inadequate skill and willingness to travel). The provision of seed Business Process Review capital further attracts By MicroSave beneficiaries towards the MD track.
ü The opportunities of field
implementers to introduce SLP and orient potential participants is limited since these are dependent upon the schedule and availability of Family Development Sessions through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program ü Strengthening community organizing principles and LEARNING practices ü Continuous social preparation POINTS among program participants throughout the implementation process ü Improvement of capability building initiatives for program participants prior to engaging in enterprises and employment ü Simplifying tools and ensuring their applicability to users and local context PROGRAM IMPROVEMENTS ENHANCED IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS
The Sustainable Livelihood Program shall operate through five major
stages:
SOCIAL PROJECT PROPOSAL PROJECT
PREPARATION REVIEW AND APROVAL SUSTAINABILITY
1 3 5 2 4 PROJECT PROJECT DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION
