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Community Empowerment Thru Science And Technology

Fully aligned with the national agenda of development enunciated in President Aquino’s Social Contract with the Filipino People, DOST is taking up the challenge for community empowerment puts it more in the frontline of fighting poverty by empowering the marginalized segments of society. To this challenge of community empowerment, the DOST in partnership with other government agencies and working sectors will contribute S&T interventions to help bear against the barriers erected by poverty and deprivation. Five development challenge areas that lend themselves well to S&T responses show the extent of interventions that DOST can introduce in the target communities. The desired results from implemented interventions contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)s being pursued by the country relative to poverty reduction and people empowerment.