(b) Provide and integrated welfare package to its contituents on the basis of their needs and coordinate
the service facilities required from such ministries/agencies, governmental and nongovernmental, which
can best provide them;
(c) Arrest the further deterioration of the socially disabling or dehumanizing conditions of the
disadvantaged segment of the population at the community level;
(d) Advocate for policies and measures addressing social welafer concerns.
SECTION 5. POWERS AND FUNCTIONS.To accomplish its mandate and objectives, the Ministry shall have
the following powers and functions:
(a) Formulate, develop and implement plans, programs and projects in the field of social welafer and
deve lopment;
(b) Adopt policies to ensure effective implementation of programs for public and private social welfare
services;
(c) Promote, support and coordinate the establishment, expansion and maintenance of nongovernmental social welfare facilities, projects and services;
(d) Establish, operate, maintain and otherwise support institutional facilities, projects and services for its
constituents;
(e) Promote, build and strengthen people’s organization for a sel-directing welfare system at the
grassroots level;
(f) Promote, support and coordinate networks and facilities for the identification and delivery of
appropriate interventions to its welafer constituents;
(g) Accredit institutions and organizations engaged in social welfare activities and provide consultative
and information services to them;
(h) Undertake researches and studies on matters pertaining to its constituency;
(i) Initiate, promote and maintain bilateral and multilateral linkages for technical coopartion, in
coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
(j) Provide advisory services and develop and implement training standards and programs for personnel,
social workers and students and third-country participants for career and staff development in social
welfare activities;
(k) Disseminate information and publish technical bulletins on social welfare and development;
(l) Deputize law enforcement agencies to assist in the implementation of laws, rules and regulation for
the protection of the rights of the exploited, abused and disadvantaged;
(m) Regulate fund drives, public solicitations and donations for charitable/welfare purposes;
(n) Set standards accredit and monitor performance of all social welfare activities in both public and
private sectors;