- 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,
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