2021 SWD Journal

The Social Welfare and Development (SWD) Journal is the official journal of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Published annually, the SWD Journal aims to popularize studies initiated by the DSWD and other stakeholders along social protection and social welfare development. This Journal features quantitative and qualitative researches from various disciplines of social welfare and rigorous policy analysis along social development. Aside from research papers, the SWD Journal also articles with relevant policy implications on social development.

Article contributions are open to DSWD offices, staff and all interested partners – individual researchers, institutions, universities and colleges, and schools including those with research extension offices, non-government organizations, national and local government agencies and other research institutions.

The Journal has also shifted from print media to digital publication starting 2021, following the call for digitalization as a response to the new normal.

Any reader who is interested in submitting a manuscript may refer to the Guidelines for the Publication of the Social Welfare and Development (SWD) Journal (Administrative Order No. 10, Series of 2017). Queries or comments may be sent to pdpb@dswd.gov.ph.