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The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said on Wednesday that it will continue to use its Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) to help small agricultural producers in the local community.

“As stipulated in DSWD Administrative Order No. 4, Series of 2016 or the Amended Omnibus Guidelines in the Implementation of the Supplementary Feeding Program,” the DSWD said in a statement, “the Field Offices and other program implementers are encouraged to engage local farmers in the procurement of raw materials for feeding programs.”

According to DSWD standards, field offices should use Community Participation as a Negotiated Procurement Modality to incorporate local farmer’s groups made up of poor and smallholder farmers in the procurement of rice, viands, and non-rice based snacks.

At least 30% of the food requirements of Child Development Centers and Supervised Neighborhood Play areas must be purchased from local producers, according to Administrative Order No. 4.

Through a cooperation with the National Dairy Authority and the Philippine Carabao Center, the DSWD obtains fresh milk from local dairy producers. Last year, 52,013 people benefited from the milk feeding program.

Meanwhile, the National Program Management Office of the Expanded Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) is working with the Government Procurement and Policy Board to improve the Community Participation Procurement Manual.

This effort intends to increase DSWD and local farmer participation in the SFP, allowing poor farmers and fishermen to satisfy the demands of the DSWD’s feeding program.

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the DSWD urged program implementers to obtain food commodities for program beneficiaries from members of the EPAHP, in accordance with Memorandum Circular No. 12, series of 2021 or the Guidelines in the Implementation of the SFP During Community Quarantine and Other Similar Emergencies.

Following the revised implementing guidelines, collaborating local government units and EPAHP partners are encouraged to enlist the help of organized groups such as Sustainable Livelihood Program Associations and Agrarian Reform Beneficiary Organizations, local community cooperatives, or farmers or fisherfolk organizations to provide service or product for their respective feeding programs.

The DSWD is currently in the 11th cycle of the SFP.

More than one million youngsters, or 56 percent of the total objective for the cycle, have received nutritious foods as of October 31.

Similarly, the milk feeding program expects to serve nearly 100,000 children across the country this school year.

According to the DSWD, the SFP will provide opportunities for dairy farmers because it is a guaranteed market for fresh milk.

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