Department of Social Welfare and Development launches the Panahon ng Pagkilos: Philippine Community Resilience Project (PCRP) during the 2025 Local Chief Executives Forum in Cebu City, gathering more than 500 local leaders and partner agencies nationwide. The event also marked the 20th year of the KALAHI-CIDSS program, which will serve as the backbone of the new resilience initiative. DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian said PCRP targets local governments with high poverty incidence, significant environmental hazards, and communities with indigenous population representation. He said the project expands KALAHI-CIDSS by integrating stronger climate and disaster preparedness measures, ensuring that communities remain in charge of identifying, procuring, and managing their own projects while including resilience planning in all activities.
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00:00So the program today consists of three parts. One was a launching of a coffee table book that commemorated the Kalahi Seeds or the Community Driven Development.
00:13Kalahi Seeds is the name that people know but it's called really the platform is Community Driven Development.
00:19Over the years, Kalahi Seeds has brought much needed developments or sub-projects in the farthest, poorest municipalities of the country.
00:29And this year, it marks the last year of Kalahi Seeds. So that was the first thing we did.
00:35We launched the coffee table book that commemorates the whole program.
00:41The Community Driven Development is all about community empowerment.
00:46Making communities choose the type of projects they think their communities need.
00:52Them procuring it, building it, and then later on partnering with local government units to operate and maintain it.
00:59So this is the community driven development model.
01:03Now, I said last year because it's already 20 years in the making, running, and it's already constructed 92,000 sub-projects nationwide.
01:16These sub-projects are micro in nature. They're small but they're impactful.
01:20We're talking about hanging bridges that will connect communities to schools, water systems in the farthest areas, community daycare centers, small micro projects that people use everyday.
01:33Now, that was the first part. The second part is, for us, it's the last year, but we're opening the next chapter of it. It's called Pagkilos.
01:43Now, Pagkilos employs the same mechanism which is the Community Driven Development, where again, communities identify the project.
01:51After they identify it, they procure it, build it themselves, and then they maintain it and operate it.
01:58Now, what's the difference? It still targets the poorest, farthest communities, 5th class, 4th class, 3rd class municipalities, but at this time, their projects will take into account community resilience.
02:13In the face of climate change, and all these natural disasters, we want to understand how to plan the projects that are going to be in the future of climate change and natural disasters.
02:27So that their communities become resilient.
02:29So, the project menu is still the same. We don't have a negative list. There's only a negative list.
02:34But when they do choose a project, let's say a water system, for instance, we want them to understand is where to build this properly, how to build it properly in light of climate change.
02:47If they're building a hanging bridge, they also have to think, but are they building something that is climate change resilient?
02:53So, union added layer. Now, when we target, like I said, poorer poverty incidents is looked into, resilience, there are risks, vulnerability to climate change, and last, the presence of indigenous people.
03:06The reason why indigenous people is because most often, these are the communities that we don't listen to or be not in the reading.
03:14So, it's time to bring them to the planning table. So, that's what we did. So, any questions?
03:19Any questions? So, let's talk about the benefits of it, the impact, the positive impact.
03:25You already said transparency. So, it's one, empowering the communities.
03:30Kasi sila ang ipili ng proyekto na angkop sa kanilang komunidad.
03:35It employs a bottom-top approach rather than a top-to-bottom approach. Diba?
03:41This emanates from the communities that's funded, yung ideas that are funded,
03:46rather than the national government funding it.
03:50Second, it brings in development. Malalayong lugar to. Diblib na mga pook to.
03:55If you do not, uh, if we do not, uh, use this development platform,
04:00baka sila yung hindi napapansin. Kasi so far from city centers,
04:04ito yung mga nasa marami sa nila nasa geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas.
04:10Mountains, islands. Three, it's transparent.
04:13Because again, the procurement is done by the community itself.
04:17It's not the national government. Uh, it's not government.
04:20We capacitate them, they choose, they procure, they build.
04:50It only means that everyone needs to work with as one-to-specific device.
04:53And so this is the truth wants sort of dismantling the system.
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