Department of Agriculture

• Gulayan ng Masa and the Integrated Services for Livelihood and Advancement of the Fisher folks (ISLA)
  • These two programs will strengthen backyard food production and will also assist our fishermen in making their existing livelihood grow into viable and sustainable businesses. Efforts to implement these programs are underway with the help of local government units and PAGCOR.
    
    
    

Department of Education

Beginning November 2008, DepEd has deployed some 1,500 OSYs as utility workers in public schools while more than 12,300 OSYs are beneficiaries in the production of health soaps for school children. They come from the districts or barangays where the schools are located.

Meanwhile, under the cash-for-health-care livelihood project, some 12,300 OSYs are expected to start producing bars of citronella, acapulco/guava, and calamansi soap in January 2009. They have already been trained on how to prepare the medicinal soap as formulated by the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC).

Also, to strengthen the Negosyong Pang-Eskwela Project where a cooperative run by teachers can cater to the needs of over 500,000 DepEd personnel and more than 20 million public elementary and high school students

The development of teachers’ cooperatives at a time when the country is facing the global economic crisis is a real example of how cooperatives can be insulated from the effects of recession.

Department of Environment and Natural Resources

The Department of Energy and Natural Resources (DENR) is set to hire some 111,536 "green collar" workers from families in the upland areas across the country. DENR Secretary Lito Atienza said these workers will operate under two major components of the DENR-CLEEP: the Upland Development Program (UDP) and the “Bantay Gubat” (BG) project. Farmers will plant forest and fruit tree seedlings under the UDP, while qualified residents will act as forest guards under the BG component, keeping an eye out for signs of forest fires and timber poaching. 

Other employment packages included in DENR-CLEEP are:

• Jatropha planting and the replanting of coconut farms to ensure stable and sustainable biofuel feedstock;
• LPG retrofitting of tricycles and public utility vehicles (PUVs);
• Barangay electrification using solar panels or connecting them to hydroelectric powered grids.

Department of Foreign Affairs

• Programs in partnership with the Department of Labor and Employment
  • Laid-off overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) could also now avail of FAME – financial assistance and microfinance for expatriates.
    
    
  • Seminars are being conducted to provide OFWs with useful insights on sustainable investments for themselves and their families back home. The emergency employment program also includes “training with income support at half of minimum wage” in in-demand skills for workers.
    
    
  • Around 50,000 job opportunities will be given to laid-off OFWs so as to provide for the financial needs of the OFWs and their families.
    
    

Department of Health

• Botika ng Bayan
  
  
  • The Botika ng Bayan has been an ongoing project since its inceptionin 2004. It aims to promote equity in health by ensuring the availability and accessibility of affordable, safe and effective, quality, essential drugs to all, with priority for marginalized, underserved, critical and hard to reach areas.

• Nurses Assigned in Rural Service (NARS)

• Launched in February of 2009, NARS is a training-cum employment program wherein the hired nurses would be deployed to their hometowns in rural areas to undergo six-month training in providing public health services and in performing clinical functions under the guidance of participating nearby hospitals and other medical facilities.

• NARS aims to address the surplus of inexperienced nurses and the rise of “volunteer nurses” working in hospitals with no pay, but instead pay the hospitals to obtain a certificate of work experience. It also promotes the health of the people and bring the government closer to them.