- community groups consisting of unemployed or underemployed persons in communities with high poverty incidence - low wage workers seeking to improve their income.156 Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) (DSWD) The SLP is a capabilitybuilding program for poor, vulnerable and marginalized families and individuals in acquiring the necessary assets to engage in and maintain thriving livelihoods that help improve their socio-economic conditions.158 The SLP has two components: the business development service (BDS), which provides participants with funds and training to set up their own microenterprise and the employment facilitation (EF) track, a job search assistance style program that provides employable individuals access to locally available jobs through public-private partnerships.159 The target population consists of poor individuals living in households, identified by Listahanan, with the potential and willingness to establish a microenterprise or look for employment. Families from households not included in the Listahanan registry may still be covered by the program through a proxy means test to determine if they are poor. This includes individuals who technical and business advisory services. TUPAD is a shortterm intervention geared towards long term employment for the displaced workers, the underemployed and unemployed poor.157 Benefits consist of both cash assistance and services and inputs to support incomegeneration activities by participants. The material benefits consist of a oneoff, in-kind injection of inputs such as raw materials, tools, or equipment to beneficiaries. Modalities available: - Skills Training Fund (training fee, living allowance, training supplies and materials) - Seed Capital Fund (working capital for small tools, raw materials, startup expenses, permits to operate, and 156 Target Population p.64, "Social Protection Review and Assessment" 157 Ibid. Program Objectives p.66 158 Sustainable Livelihood Program, South-South Knowledge Collaboration: Designing and Implementing Social Protection Programs for Employment, available from http://socialprotection.org/system/files/DSWD %20Sustainable%20Livelihood%20Program_0.pdf 159 Program Objectives p.71, "Social Protection Review and Assessment" by Acosta, P. Yemtsov, R. Honorati, 49

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