Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP)

The Department of Social Welfare and Development as the lead agency for social

welfare and development service is implementing social protection programs to fight the

increasing poverty incidence in the Philippines. As such, the DSWD has consistently

endeavoured to strengthen its social protection programs by continuously introducing new

strategies to respond to the problems.

Aside from the assistance brought by the 4Ps, the DSWD employs a convergence

strategy which merges poverty-reduction programs of the department with Pantawid Pamilya

as its backbone to ensure sustainability and to serve as an exit strategy. The sustainable

livelihood program provides entrepreneurial capacity building for all Pantawid Pamilya

beneficiaries.

The Sustainable Livelihood Program is a community based capacity building

program that seeks to improve the socio economic status of program participants. It is

implemented through the Community Driven Enterprise Development (CDED) approach,

which equips the program participants to actively contribute to production and labor markets

by making use of available resources and accessible markets. Beneficiaries are engaged in

social preparation and capacity building workshops. After which, they are given the option to

take either a Micro Enterprise Development track or an Employment Facilitation track.

Under the employment facilitation track, beneficiaries are provided guaranteed

employment by various public and private partners such as the Trabahong Lansangan

Program of the Department of Public Works and Highways ( DPWH).

The micro enterprise development track provides capital seed fund to the

beneficiaries or link with them with financial institutions who can help them establish their own

small- to medium- scale of businesses. (pantawid.dswd.gov.ph)

With the given tracks,198, 392 beneficiaries have already availed the micro

enterprise development track, 154, 831 from self employment assistance funded, 30, 114
from micro finance funded and 13, 447 from the self funded. Out of the total beneficiaries,

18% coming from the 4Ps program and 82% from non pantawid. (ceap.org.ph)

Definiton of Terms

Community Driven Enterprise Development approch

The Community-Driven Enterprise Development (CDED) approach was a framework

developed by PinoyME Foundation, a social investment banker for microfinance institutions

(MFIs) in the Philippines.

It is a framework that vies for business sustainability and development in the context

of communitys local assets and economy. The framework stresses the importance of value

chain development that includes micro-small-medium enterprises (MSME) in the picture of a

market-driven economy where MSMEs have not been able to penetrate. The role of the

government, therefore, shifts from a funding institution for grassroots enterprises to a

harbinger of opportunities that program participants have lacked access to. (dswd.gov.ph)

Trabahong Lansangan Program

Trabahong Lansangan ng Programang Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino program, which

provides guaranteed employment to beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino

Program. DPWH will employ CCT beneficiaries nationwide for its unskilled labor needs. The

beneficiaries will be employed for landslide maintenance, road maintenance, declogging of

drainage laterals, and street sweeping.

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 socioeconomic conditions. 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.

The program offers two tracks of assistance namely: Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP)

and Guaranteed Employment. SLP will enable the Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries to establish

and manage their own micro-enterprises through an entrepreneurial skills training program

that includes the provision of non-collateral and interest-free loan amounting to P10,000 per

family-beneficiary as seed capital.(DSWD,2017)