Zamboanga City 4/25/2014 – More than 300 jobs are now being offered by the Department of Social Welfare and Development Region IX. These positions are to fill up the vacancies in Kalahi-CIDSS-NCDDP.

The Program needs forty (40) Area Coordinators, thirty five (35) Deputy Area Coordinators, thirty six (36) Municipal Financial Analysts and 236 Community Facilitators who will be deployed in different municipalities in the Region. (See poster for qualification standards)

The deadline for submission of applications is on May 2, 2014. Those who are interested may send their resumes, Transcript of Records and letters of application addressed to Regional Director Zenaida L. Arevalo at the DSWD Regional Field Office IX located at General Vicente Alvarez Street, Zamboanga City.

The applicants who will be hired will be trained mainly on Community Development Works both in the aspect of organizing people and finances and as well as developing rural infrastructures.

The Kalahi-CIDSS will scale up to NCDDP or the National Community Driven Development Program. Thus, its implementation will cover more municipalities in the region from 2014 until 2019.

NCDDP uses the CDD (Community Driven Development) Approach to help communities in poor municipalities identify challenges around reducing poverty and make informed decisions on a range of locally identified options for development, including how this is made and in what form. NCDDP aims to have communities of targeted municipalities become empowered to achieve improved access to basic services and to participate in more inclusive local planning, budgeting, and implementation.

The National Community Development Program was approved on January 18, 2013 by the NEDA board headed by President Benigno Aquino III.