Interview with Corazon "Dinky" Juliano-Soliman

Status: Completed
Corazon "Dinky" Juliano-Soliman
Secretary, Department of Social Welfare and Development
Philippines
Areas of expertise: Social Accountability, Governance, Community Empowerment

Corazon "Dinky" Juliano Soliman is the Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Philippines. She is a leader in the civil society community and a practitioner in community organizing and people empowerment working with rural communities for over 30 years. As Secretary, she spearheads projects for poverty reduction and social protection, such as Community Driven Development and the Conditional Cash Transfer. She is a graduate of the University of the Philippines with a degree in Bachelor of Science and Social Work, and completed her Masters in Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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All Questions
Roddie Posu
Papua New Guinea 		What is your suggestion for a best possible soultion concerning Youth Unemployment? A social issue that is faced mostly by developing countries today.
Ikoro Nnenna
Nigeria 		My question is How effective is the monitoring techniques to ensure that development and the community development programmes actually got to the target persons and how do you measure the impact of the programmes in order to follow it up to ensure adequate and expected result?
Katya Canter
Moldova 		Dear Ms. Secretary, how do you think, the new generation Open Government's transparency and citizen engagement initiatives can achieve a real impact if societies in developing countries often lack the culture and capacity of engaging with the government to improve delivery and produce public value?
Victor kiptum
Kenya 		I think some of the strategies used to tackle social welfare issues are insufficient. What have you personally to change that perspective?
Alexander Teabo
Kiribati 		Does Government give monthly stipend to old people? If yes which age receive that stipend.