The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through its Finance and Management Service, launched on Feb. 14 the Finance and Management Service-For Your Information or FMS-FYI page—a resource site that will serve as a repository of all finance and management-related resources of the agency.
This is in response to the directive of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to digitalize government processes, DSWD said in a statement.
It said the FMS-FYI, developed in collaboration with the DSWD-Information and Communications Technology Management Service (ICTMS), can be accessed by various stakeholders to gather information and knowledge resources, such as published news and press releases, copies of speeches and quote cards, photo and video galleries, announcements, downloadable forms, copies of issuances, and FMS standard operating procedures.
DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian expressed his support for the digitization initiative.
“I am happy that I got invited to a digital push initiated by the FMS itself. From my understanding, this is a homegrown program developed within the department because we want to comply the President’s directive to digitalize everything. Whenever I hear homegrown, that means you are innovating by yourself,” Gatchalian said.
“You want to better yourselves, you want to better the improvement in the delivery of services, that is why you made this homegrown FMS system and I’m very, very impressed because the very spirit, is the spirit of innovation, the spirit of wanting to be better than what we are,” he added.
DSWD expressed hope that internal staff and other stakeholders will make good use of the FMS-FYI resource site on all DSWD finance-related concerns.
The public can access the FMS Resource Site via bit.ly/FMSFYI.