Foster self-sufficiency by equipping target populations with livelihood skills

• Strategies
• Center-based livelihood skills training
• Community-based livelihood skills training

• Specific Projects
• Vocational skills training

• Other Possible Projects/Partners
• Enhancement of skills in line with current main sources of livelihood of target families

Enhance capability for self-help

• Strategies
• Technical education with life skills and Reproductive Health component
• Risk Management skills for children and women in difficult circumstances

• Specific Projects
• Integrated Technical Education (ITE) projects
• Provision of training tools and equipment
• Accreditation and Equivalency

• Other Possible Projects/Partners
• Basic literacy
• Risk management training for Internally Displaced Persons, street children, trafficked children

Foster self-reliance by equipping target populations with entrepreneurial skills

• Strategies
• Entrepreneurship development
• Integration of entrepreneurship training in technical education

• Specific Projects
• Entrepreneurship training and mentoring
• Incorporated in ITE for Out of School Youth (OSY)

• Other Possible Projects/Partners
• Entrepreneurship training and mentoring for:
• Families of abused and neglected children
• Children and women survivors of abuse and neglect

Make accessible resources for implementation of entrepreneurial projects

• Strategies
• Adoption of Healthy Start and Growing Great Kids curricula

• Specific Projects
• Healthy Start Project

• Other Possible Projects/Partners
• Integrated family strengthening

Improve living environment of children and women undergoing treatment or rehabilitation programs

• Strategy
• Upgrade shelter or home facilities to make the living environment more conducive to healing

• Specific Projects
• Building/expansion of shelters
• Provision of equipment

These elements must be examined prior to the development or conceptualization of projects. Constant monitoring of these elements must also be ensured in the implementation process.

• Inventory of organizations engaged in economic productivity services and projects for poorest of the poor


• Identification and/or development of models/project designs appropriate and effective in developing capabilities of:
• Families of survivors of abuse and neglect and those at-risk
• Of-age survivors of abuse and neglect
• Persons with specific types of disabilities


• Identification of available local partners willing and could contribute resources in enhancing economic productivity of target populations


• Preparation of situation on differently-abled persons in the Philippines