THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is working with the members of the newly created Committee on Child Early and Forced Marriage and Unions (CEFMU) under the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) for a unified campaign to prevent early marriage and unions as well as changing the norms that perpetuate the harmful practice of child marriage.
“As part of our efforts to help curb child marriages, the DSWD, through its program development arm— the Social Technology Bureau— is working with development partners in a series of workshops toward the co-creation and model-building of a Child Protection Systems Strengthening (CPSS) for CEFMU,” Asst. Secretary for Disaster Response and Management Group Irene Dumlao said on Tuesday (April 30).
