The cluster commissioned the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) to assess social welfare and protection programs in the country. The study results recommended that the programs need to be in concert in order to avoid overlaps in target beneficiaries. It was also recommended that the government needs to integrate poverty reduction with social protection programs and strategies. As a response, the NSWP core group drafted the Social Protection Strategy Paper which paved the way for the creation of the Sub-Committee on Social Protection (SCSP) under SDC Resolution no. 2, series of 2009. The inter-agency mechanism was created to operationalize the identified imperatives for action under the Social Protection Strategy.28 In 2012 a draft for a Social Protection Operation Framework was endorsed by the SDC Technical Boards and consequently approved by the SDC Cabinet in May 2012 under SDC Resolution no. 3: Approving and Adopting the Social Protection Operation Framework.29 Significant contributions to the finalization of the framework are the results of workshops conducted in 2011 participated by Civil Society Organizations, Local Government Units, the SCSP, and DSWD among others. 28 Ibid. “The Philippine Social Protection Framework and Strategy: An Overview”, Note No. 26 29 Ibid. Page 3 8