Cebu Chamber to Complement DSWD’s KC-NCDDP Implementation

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 7 has officially partnered with Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) through a memorandum of understanding which was signed recently at the DSWD regional office.

Regional Social Marketing Officer Simeon Arbas Remata III of DSWD-7 said the partnership aims to contribute in the effective implementation of the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Delivery of Social Services – National Community-Driven Development Program (KC-NCDDP), a Community-Driven Development (CDD) national program covering 847 municipalities all over the country with 108 municipalities in the Central Visayas.

Remata also quoted DSWD-7 Regional Director Mercedita P. Jabagat’s statement saying that “Public-Private Partnership done at the local levels has an encouraging rate of success through the enhancement of project implementation activities and an increase of quality of services and programs being delivered. adding that she is very thankful of this new found partnership.”

Remata said that as supported by the Philippine Development Plan (2011-2016), the development objective of KC-NCDDP is to have grassroots communities of targeted municipalities become empowered to achieve improved access to services and to participate in more inclusive local planning, budgeting, and implementation.

He added that the national program will also be aligned to support community-driven post-disaster response and development operations in disaster-affected municipalities brought by Typhoon Yolanda and Earthquake.

Remata explained that as part of the agreements, CCCI will promote and link the community projects of DSWD needing support to its members.

CCCI President Teresa B. Chan also hinted how their member companies have been initiating civic initiatives in the past, including the construction of school building, training centers and water systems that would complement in the implementation of KC-NCDDP.

“We enable our members to carefully choose their corporate responsibility programs that it should be something that can contribute to the social and economic aspect of communities,” Chan said.

“I think this partnership with DSWD and its CDD program is manna from heaven, and because of that we are very thankful to have this opportunity so that we can effectively implement our civic initiatives right where it is needed,” she added.

Part of CCCI’s vision is to be known as the enabler of commerce and become the engine for economic growth for Cebu.

Remata also said that KC-NCDDP covered municipalities in the Central Visayas are now undertaking the enrollment procedures to for joining the CDD program implementation for 2014.

The national program will be officially launched in the second quarter of this year.

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