At least 200 urban poor families stand to benefit from the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor’s (PCUP) sustainable livelihood program.
The PCUP has come up with a list of potential beneficiaries from nine target cities in the National Capital Region to receive various livelihood development packages with the completion of the
community-based capacity building initiative tagged or the sustainable livelihood program.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) would validate the authenticity of those in the list belonging in the marginalized sector considered the poorest of the poor.
Under the program, training and capacity-building seminars would teach the qualified beneficiaries on how to pool their resources and would allow them to establish a cooperative.
PCUP has put in place a flow chart to ensure that after the program’s completion, the cooperative to be created would be strengthened through provisions and financial sourcing, networking and marketing in a bid to ensure progressive development of the urban poor toward sustainable livelihood.
The success of the program would lead to more opportunities for the marginalized sectors as a lending program would also be institutionalized under the DSWD’s Enhance Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty initiative.