The Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan - Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) is one of the Philippine government’s primary community empowerment and poverty alleviation programs. While KALAHI-CIDSS has various modalities, they all have one thing in common: all KALAHI-CIDSS modalities are implemented through the Community-Driven Development (CDD) approach.
It’s the first time for Brgy. Bayabason in Maramag, Bukidnon, to implement a road concreting project under the KALAHI-CIDSS NCDDP, and according to its officials, their learning experience will take them far in leading development projects in the future.
“Napintas unay ti KALAHI" (KALAHI is exceptionally good).
A volunteer of barangay Cabaruyan, Daguioman in the Province of Abra shares how the KALAHI-CIDSS Project changed her life as an individual and her community as a whole.
What was once criticized as poor decision-making and a waste of limited and valuable resources turned heads and proved critics wrong, gathering praise and accolades along the way.
Residents of Brgy. Sua, Camaligan, Camarines Sur, has a deep and complicated relationship with the Bicol river. It gives them bountiful harvest, but it is also a cause for their woes. Through KALAHI-CIDSS, the community were empowered to face whatever challenge the mighty river has in store.