Rapid Assessment of DSWD Devolved Facilities
With the passage of Republic Act No. 7160 otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) was one of the national agencies affected to devolve to the local government units its implementing functions together with its programs and services, direct service workers, assets and liabilities, and budget corresponding to the salary and funds of corresponding staff and devolved programs. In 1996,
Department Order No. 22, Series of 1996 laid down the policies and guidelines in the devolution of DSWD centers/institutions which signaled the devolution of the Productivity Skills and Capability Building and Lingap centers.The PSCB is a program meant to provide skills training to disadvantaged women that would enable them to gain employment either through self, open employment or sheltered workshop.
The Lingap Center, on the other hand, is a transitional home for street children aged seven (7) to 17 years who are abandoned or whose parents cannot at the time provide for their
needs adequately.
Sixteen years after the passage of the Local Government Code of 1991, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) commissioned the Ateneo School of Governance in November 2007 to conduct a study aimed at assessing the implementation of the devolved DSWD programs and services.
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