Digital Mapping System (DMS)

The Digital Mapping System (DMS) is an initiative under the Enhanced Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (EPAHP) coordinated by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in support of food security that seeks to link farmers and Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to prospective markets such as the DSWD’s Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP), and other institutional feeding programs of various agencies. The DMS seeks to position small-scale farmers and CBOs as front suppliers to various institutional buyers and Government feeding centers seeking food provision for nutrition programs, especially in time of crisis, such as during disasters. With the DMS the objective is to register farmers and CBOs with their available products that agencies and organizations can purchase and procure for their anti-hunger programs and food security initiatives. The DMS was suported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations under a Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) implemented with The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)'s EPAHP. The DMS is open to the public and serve to assist CBOs to access government programs needing their commodities, while agencies can utilize the system to easily locate and purchase supplies to feed their intended beneficiaries, forming a digitalized food supply and demand system.

Lead (category)

Government agency

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

Department of Social Welfare and Development

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Agrifood Services

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Business and governance structure

DI ICT-deliverables format

Mobile applications

Web-based platform

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Farmers

Community-Based Organizations (CBOs)

Farm organizations

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

Number of farmers subscribers is still open; number of CBOs to increase past pilot stage

Digital Initiative development Stage

Proof of concept demonstrated - initial operationalization (but institutional, governance incomplete)

Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries

Not fully developed and deployed yet

Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)

National

All over Philippines

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DI webpage

Other useful links

Other useful links

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution