GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
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Facilitate community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities;
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Assist and facilitate provision of community care services including:
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registration of persons with disabilities;
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assistance to the elderly;
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personal social welfare services;
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hospital welfare services;
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assistance to street children, child survival and development;
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socio-economic and emotional stability in families;
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Assist to maintain specialized residential services in the districts;
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Facilitate the registration and supervision of non-governmental organizations and their activities in the district;
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Justice administration – assist children and adults in contact and conflict with the law;
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Register and supervise early childhood development centres;
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Assist to organize community development programmes to improve and enrich standard of living through:
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Mobilise voluntary contributions and communal labour for the provision of facilities and services such as water, schools, library, community centres and public places of convenience;
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Teach deprived women in home management, child care
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Offer employable and sustainable skills training for the youth.
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Organise literacy and adult education programme;
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Promote and provide alternative livelihood empowerment skills for the deprived in the communities
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Promote entrepreneurial skills, business support services and linkages to financial institutions to beneficiaries of skills training programme
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Mobilise and train voluntary leaders and community-based organisations as change agents in the communities
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Provide extension services to governmental and non-governmental organisations
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Facilitate the roll out of the Child Protection tool kits through community engagement and dialogue