Social Protection

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SOCIAL WELFARE

The Department of Social Welfare is decentralized and operates under the Regional Coordinating Council of the Local Government Service. It is mandated to carry out programs and projects to address the needs and concerns of the vulnerable, disadvantaged and marginalized.

The Department in the region is headed by a director and assisted by three program

Heads who co-ordinate the activities under the three-core programs namely, Justice Administration (J/A), Child and Family Welfare (CFW), and Community Care (CC)

This four-member team supported by the Personnel and Accounts sections constitute the Regional Directorate that monitors and supervises the activities of the field staff in the districts and hospitals, and gives them technical backstopping as and when needed.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development is a Government statutory Agency under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP). The Department was first established in 1946 by Local Ordinance Order No. 66 as Department of Social Welfare and Housing and later as the Department of Social Welfare in 1950.

Against the back drop of decentralization and the operationalization of the Local Government Act (1993) (Act 462), Local Government Service Act 2003  and the LI 1961, all implementing functions and activities that are delivered to individuals and communities directly by the Department were ceded to the Local Government Service and to the districts in 2011.

 

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