Update 2025
On provide quick disaster response
Department of Social Welfare and Development, DSWD ready for new storm; 3M food packs prepositioned in 938 warehouses nationwide, June 6, 2025
Department of Budget and Management, General Appropriations Act (GAA) FY 2025, January 2, 2025
On strengthening Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations (AICS) program
House of Representatives, House passes bill institutionalizing AICS program, June 6, 2025
Department of Budget and Management, General Appropriations Act (GAA) FY 2025, January 2, 2025
Department of Social Welfare and Development, Guidelines to strengthen the implementation of the AICS, Feb. 17, 2014
On cleansing list of 4Ps beneficiaries
Philippine News Agency, 4Ps supports nearly 9M kids — DSWD, February 12, 2025
Philippine Statistics Authority, PSA Champions Data-Driven Action Against Poverty at the Philippine Poverty Reduction Summit 2025, July 14, 2025
On sustaining and enhancing feeding programs
Radio Television Malacañang – RTVM, PCO Press Briefing with DSWD, June 17, 2025
Department of Social Welfare and Development, DSWD hikes feeding program budget to meet 1.5M kids’ nutritional needs, June 17, 2025
On passing a bill establishing a Medical Reserve Corps
Senate of the Philippines, Bills – Senate of the Philippines, n.d.
Senate of the Philippines, HEALTH EMERGENCY AUXILIARY REINFORCEMENT TEAM (HEART) ACT, n.d.
Senate of the Philippines, Senate Bill No. 1131, 19th Congress, Nov. 8, 2022
House of Representatives, House Bills and Resolutions, n.d.
On strengthening VAWC programs
Philippine Commission on Women,
PCW Unveils New National Action Plan to End Violence Against Women on the 20th Signing Anniversary of the Anti-VAWC Act (RA 9262), November 28, 2024
On fund centers for vulnerable sectors
Department of Budget and Management, General Appropriations Act (GAA) FY 2025, January 2, 2025
Department of Budget and Management, General Appropriations Act (GAA) FY 2024, December 23, 2023
On passing a bill creating a Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Vaccine Institute
House of Representatives, Rep. Romualdez bill seeks to create Philippine Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, June 30, 2025
House of Representatives, NEARLY 700 HOUSE MEASURES FILED ON DAY 1 OF 20TH CONGRESS, July 1, 2025
Senate of the Philippines, PHILIPPINE CENTER FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL (CDC) ACT, February 13, 2023
On establishing specialty hospitals like Heart Center and Lung Center in regions outside Metro Manila
DOH Health Facilities and Services Regulatory Bureau, List of Hospitals, June 30, 2025.
Philippine Information Agency, The Clark Multi-Specialty Medical Center: World-class hospital care goes to the barrios, Feb. 26, 2025.
Clark Development Corporation, PBBM’s Healthcare Expansion Advances as Clark Pediatric Building Tops Off, May 9, 2025.
On improving welfare of health care professionals
Department of Budget and Management, Healthcare workers to receive remaining HEA claims PANGANDAMAN APPROVES RELEASE…, July 5, 2024
Department of Budget and Finance, On the additional funding requests for HEA; DBM, DOH requests COA Special Audit for HEA, Feb. 28, 2025
Inquirer.net, Emergency allowance of healthcare workers now 90% paid, says DOH, Sept. 21, 2024
Manila Bulletin, DOH: 90% of health emergency allowance paid to frontline healthcare workers, Sept. 21, 2024
Philippine Information Agency, Health emergency allowance, 90% paid by DOH, Sept. 22, 2024
On ordering Philippine Competition Commission to remove cartels among pharmaceutical companies to lower prices of medicine
Philippine Competition Commission, TAKING IT UP A NOTCH: 2024 ANNUAL REPORT, Feb. 26, 2025
On encouraging everyone to get booster shots vs COVID-19
Presidential Communications Office, Malacañang Press Briefing of Palace Press Officer and Pco Undersecretary Claire Castro with Department Of Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa, National Kidney Transplant Institute Director Dr. Jose Dante Dator, PhilHealth President & CEO Dr. Edwin Mercado, June 19, 2025
Presidential Communications Office, DOH closely monitoring COVID Nimbus variant, June 20, 2025
Commission on Audit, Performance Audit Report COVID-19 NATIONAL VACCINATION PROGRAM (CNVP), December 2024
On enrolling children of OFWs in good schools
Philippine News Agency, OWWA opens applications for scholarship program for OFWs, families, November 4, 2024
Philippine Information Agency, Qualified OFW dependents in Soccsksargen receive OWWA’s scholarships, June 18, 2025
On passing a bill creating a National Virology Institute of the Philippines
Senate of the Philippines, Senators Alan and Pia Cayetano lead push for Virology Institute in Senate, February 3, 2025
Senate of the Philippines, VIROLOGY INSTITUTE OF THE PHILIPPINES (VIP) ACT, June 9, 2025
Update 2023
Presidential Communications Office, Media Interview by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. Following the Cebuana Lhuillier Kanegosyo Center Launch, June 29, 2023
Philippine Statistics Authority official YouTube channel, Press Conference on January 2023 Inflation, Feb. 7, 2023
Bank for International Settlements, The impact of the global financial crisis on the Philippine financial system – an assessment, accessed July 7, 2023
Presidential Communications Office, Speech by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. at the 72nd Founding Anniversary Celebration of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and Inauguration of the New Multi-Purpose Building, Jan. 31, 2023
Philippine News Agency, DSWD puts up warehouse in Aurora for quick disaster response, Oct. 17, 2022
On strengthening VAWC programs
On providing quick disaster response
- Department of Social Welfare and Development, DSWD ready on possible effects of Mawar; more than 1M food packs prepositioned, May 26, 2023
- National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, Document, July 12, 2023
- Department of Social Welfare and Development official website, DSWD prepositions 200k food packs for Bicol, Calabarzon amid Mayon, Taal activities, June 7, 2023
- Department of Social Welfare and Development, DSWD, Catanduanes LGU inaugurate new warehouse, satellite office to serve as central hub for relief goods, June 2, 2023
- Philippine News Agency official website, DSWD puts up warehouse in Aurora for quick disaster response, Oct. 17, 2022
- Philippine Information Agency, DSWD – CAR bolsters disaster response with new warehouse, delivery truck, Dec. 5, 2022
- Department of Social Welfare and Development official website, DSWD Chief joins inauguration of inter-agency warehouse in Tabuk City, Kalinga, Oct. 11, 2022
- Department of Social Welfare and Development, Personal Communication (email), July 6, 2023
On strengthening the AICS
- Department of Social Welfare and Development official website, Memorandum Circular No. 16 Series of 2022, Aug. 23, 2022
- Philippine Information Agency official website, DSWD opens two satellite offices in NCR for the processing of AICS, April 28, 2023
- Philippine Information Agency official website, DSWD’s AICS satellite office in Pasig City, now ready to serve the public, June 19, 2023
- Department of Social Welfare and Development official website, DSWD opens Baclaran satellite office, April 27, 2023
- Department of Social Welfare and Development official website, AICS satellite office in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan now accepts clients, May 3, 2023
- Department of Social Welfare and Development official Facebook page, PAALALA sa PUBLIKO, June 21, 2023
- Senate of the Philippines official website, 19th Congress Senate Bills search query about “assistance to individuals” (archive), accessed July 5, 2023
- House of Representatives official website, House Bills and Resolutions search query about “assistance individuals crisis” (archive), accessed July 5, 2023
On cleansing the list of 4Ps beneficiaries
- GMA Integrated News, DSWD to delist only 800,000 from 4Ps rather than initially planned 1.3 million, Jan. 14, 2023
- Manila Standard, DSWD cuts 4Ps beneficiaries list from 1.3m to only 500,000, Jan. 15, 2023
- The Philippine Star, 800,000 4Ps beneficiaries to be delisted, Jan. 15, 2023
- Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) official website, DSWD assures 4Ps graduates of continued support from LGUs, gov’t agencies, private sector, June 23, 2023
On sustaining and widening supplemental feeding program
- Department of Budget and Management official website, DBM earmarks P3.7 billion for DSWD’s feeding program of 1.8 million kids, accessed July 5, 2023
- Department of Social Welfare and Development official Facebook page, Ang Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP)…, March 14, 2022
- Department of Social Welfare and Development Transparency Website official website, Quarterly Physical Report of Operation as of March 31, 2023, accessed July 7, 2023
- Department of Social Welfare and Development Transparency Website official website, Quarterly Physical Report of Operation as of December 31, 2022, accessed July 7, 2023
On ensuring capacity of healthcare system
- Department of Health, Personal communication (email), July 6, 2023
- Department of Health, Personal communication (email), July 14, 2023
On encouraging everyone to get booster shots vs COVID-19
- Department of Health, Personal communication (email), July 7,2023
- Department of Health official website, Vaccination tracker, accessed July 2, 2023
On passing a bill creating a Center for Disease Control and Prevention
On passing a bill creating a National Virology Institute of the Philippines
On establishing specialty hospitals like Heart Center and Lung Center in regions outside Metro Manila
- Senate of the Philippines official website, Senate Bill No. 2212, accessed July 2, 2023
- House of the Representatives official website, House Bill No. 7751, accessed July 2, 2023
- Department of Health official website, DOH BILL ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIALTY CENTERS RATIFIED, June 1, 2023
- Presidential Communications Operations official website, DOH: Multi-specialty hospital to rise in Clark, Pampanga, July 4, 2023
On creating new Rural Health Units and clinics
- On appointment of nurses in every barangay
- On providing dental unit in every rural, city or municipal health unit
- Senate of the Philippines, Senate Bill No. 2092, 636, accessed July 2, 2023
- House of the Representatives, House Bill No. 1487, 2520, 3986, 5095, 8264, accessed July 2, 2023
On improving welfare of health care professionals
- Department of Health official website, OIC-SOH SINGH-VERGEIRE SETS PRIMARY CARE AS TOP PRIORITY TOWARDS UHC, accessed July 2, 2023
- On amending RA 7035 or the Magna Carta for Public Health Workers
- Senate of the Philippines, Senate Bills No. 798, 727, 320, 162, accessed July 2, 2023
- House of the Representatives, House Bills No. 1725, 2783, 4509, 4602, 6489, accessed July 2, 2023
- On proposal for a housing program for government nurses
- On raising the salary of government and private nurses
- Senate of the Philippines, Senate Bills No. 589, 637, 638 accessed July 2, 2023
- House of the Representatives official website, House Bills No. 8557, 7921, 3037, 4599, 5276, 5806, 6212, 1725, accessed July 2, 2023
- On raising the salary of government doctors
- Senate of the Philippines, Senate Bill No. 953, accessed July 2, 2023
- House of the Representatives, House Bill No. 8057, 6137, 6112, 5130, 1682, 2650, 5130, 1725, accessed July 2, 2023
- On tax incentives for doctor
- Senate of the Philippines, Senate Bill No. 877, accessed July 2, 2023
- House of the Representatives, House Bills No. 1955, 4728, 5135, 5672, 6757, 7200, accessed July 2, 2023
- On creating a Magna Carta for Barangay Health Workers
- House of the Representatives, House Bill No. 6557, accessed July 2, 2023
- Senate of the Philippines, Senate Bills No. 1911, 7200, 1840, 533, 396, 232, 5, accessed July 2, 2023
On passing a bill establishing a Medical Reserve Corps
- Presidential Communications Operations official website, Palace: 10 priority bills adopted for June 2 passage by Congress, Feb. 13, 2023
- House of the Representatives, House Bill No. 6518, accessed July 2, 2023
- Senate of the Philippines, Senate Bills No. 1647, 1475, 1423, 1180, 1131, 1120, 1017, 872, 825, 255, 88, accessed July 2, 2023
On ordering Philippine Competition Commission to remove cartels among pharmaceutical companies to lower prices of medicine
- Philippine Competition Commission, Personal communication (email), July, 4, 2023
- Philippine Competition Commission official website, Republic Act No. 10667, accessed July 2, 2023
On condensing 240-section handbook for migrant workers into a pamphlet
- Department of Migrant Workers, Personal communication (email), July 3, 2023
- Department of Migrant Workers official website, Land-based OFW handbook, accessed July 2, 2023
- Department of Migrant Workers official website, Sea-based OFW handbook, accessed July 2, 2023
On enrolling children of OFWs in programs on financial literacy, mental wellness, sports, arts and culture
- Overseas Workers Welfare Administration official Facebook page, OWWA Board approves Formation of OFW Children’s Circle, July 19, 2022
- Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, Personal communication (email), July 3, July 4 and July 6, 2023
- Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, Scholarship for Dependents, accessed July 2, 2023
On protecting the creative industry
- Senate of the Philippines official website, Republic Act No. 11904, July 28, 2022
- Business Mirror, DTI allocates ₧20M to spark startups in creative industry, March 23, 2013
- The Philippine Star, DTI to allocate P500 million for creative venture fund, March 13, 2023
- Business World, P500-M budget proposed for creative venture fund, March 12, 2023
- Department of Trade and Industry, Filipino artists to have bigger audience among Indonesians as MOU on Creative Economy signed., Sept. 7, 2022
- Presidential Communications Office, PBBM names Paul Soriano as Presidential Adviser on Creative Comms; swears in three Comelec officials, Oct. 17, 2022
- Presidential Communications Office, Speech by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. at the meeting with the Filipino Community, Nov. 19, 2022