Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program

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The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is a human development

measure of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to the
poorest of the poor, to improve the health, nutrition, and the education of children
aged 0-18. It is patterned after the conditional cash transfer (CCT) schemes in
Latin American and African countries, which have lifted millions of people around
the world from poverty.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is the lead
government agency of the 4Ps.
OBJECTIVES
The 4Ps has dual objectives as the flagship poverty alleviation program of the
Aquino administration:
1. social assistance, giving monetary support to extremely poor families to
respond to their immediate needs; and
2. social development, breaking the intergenerational poverty cycle by
investing in the health and education of poor children through programs
such as:
o health check-ups for pregnant women and children aged 0
to 5;
o deworming of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14;
o enrollment of children in daycare, elementary, and
secondary schools; and
o family development sessions.
The 4Ps also helps the Philippine government fulfill its commitment to the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)specifically in eradicating extreme
poverty and hunger, in achieving universal primary education, in promoting
gender equality, in reducing child mortality, and in improving maternal health
care.
COVERAGE
The 4Ps operates in all the 17 regions in the Philippines, covering 79 provinces,
143 cities, and 1,484 municipalities. Beneficiaries are selected through the
National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), which
identifies who and where the poor are in the country.
In general, the following criteria must be satisfied to become eligible for the
program:

Residents of the poorest municipalities, based on 2003 Small Area

Estimates (SAE) of the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB)
Households whose economic condition is equal to or below the provincial
poverty threshold
Households that have children 0-18 years old and/or have a pregnant
woman at the time of assessment
Households that agree to meet conditions specified in the program

COMPLEMENTING THE 4PS IS THEMODIFIED CONDITIONAL CASH

TRANSFER
(MCCT)
PROGRAM,
WHICH
CATERS
TO
FAMILIES
IN
NEED
OF
SPECIAL
INDIGENOUS
PROTECTION.
FAMILIES,
THESE
FAMILIES
INCLUDE
DISPLACED
STREET
BY
FAMILIES,
NATURAL
AND
ITINERANT
MANMADE
CHILD
LABORERS,
DISASTERS,
CHILDREN
FAMILIES
IN
WITH
CONFLICT
A PERSON
WITH
WITH
THE
LAW,
DISABILITY
AND
FAMILIES
(PWD),
TRAFFICKING.
WITH
MEMBERS
WITH
TERMINAL
DISEASE
AND
VICTIMS
OF
HUMAN
As of August 26, 2015, there are 4,353,597 active household-beneficiaries, of
which 570,056 are indigenous households and 217,359 have at least one PWD.
The program also covers 10,235,658 schoolchildren aged 0 to 18, from the total
registered with an average of two to three children per household.
CASH GRANTS
The 4Ps has two types of cash grants that are given out to householdbeneficiaries:

health grant: P500 per household every month, or a total of P6,000 every
year
education grant: P300 per child every month for ten months, or a total of
P3,000 every year (a household may register a maximum of three children
for the program)

For a household with three children, a household may receive P1,400 every
month, or a total of P15,000 every year for five years, from the two types of cash
grants given to them.
These cash grants are distributed to the household-beneficiaries through the
Land Bank of the Philippines or, if not feasible, through alternate payment
schemes such as Globe G-Cash remittance and rural bank transactions.
As of August 2015, a total of P27.15 billion cash grants were paid to eligible and
compliant beneficiaries for the first to third period of 2015 covering January to
August disbursements. From this amount, P13.23 billion was paid for education,
and the remaining P13.92 billion was disbursed for health.
CONDITIONS AND COMPLIANCE

In order to receive the abovementioned subsidies, all the succeeding conditions

must be met by the household-beneficiaries:
1. Pregnant women must avail pre- and post-natal care, and be attended
during childbirth by a trained professional;
2. Parents or guardians must attend the family development sessions, which
include topics on responsible parenting, health, and nutrition;
3. Children aged 0-5 must receive regular preventive health check-ups and
vaccines;
4. Children aged 6-14 must receive deworming pills twice a year; and
5. Children-beneficiaries aged 3-18 must enroll in school, and maintain an
attendance of at least 85% of class days every month.
High compliance rates were recorded for the months of March and April 2015:
99.91% for the deworming of children aged 6-14; 98.99% for school attendance
of children aged 6-14; 98.33% for school attendance of children in daycare aged
3-5; 97.05% for school attendance of children aged 15-18; 95.95% for health
visits of pregnant women and children aged 0-5; and 94.84% for attendance in
family development sessions.
PARTNERSHIPS WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
In partnership with the Commission on Higher Education, the Department of
Labor and Employment, and the Philippine Association of State Universities and
Colleges, 4Ps has enrolled 36,003 beneficiaries in state universities and colleges
as of June 2015.
Additionally, in partnership with PhilHealth, 4Ps has covered 4.4 million
beneficiaries under the National Health Insurance Program.
FAQs on the Conditional Cash Transfer program
Visit the DSWD website on the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program to learn
more.

Understanding the 4Ps

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VIEW COMMENTS

By: Randy David

@inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer
12:07 AM January 17th, 2016
About four years ago, Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman invited
me to join the national advisory committee of the Pantawid Pamilyang
Pilipino Program, or 4Ps, the social protection program initiated by the
Arroyo administration that President Aquino decided not only to
continue but also to expand. I knew that this program was heavily
politicized. Like many other things under the previous administration,
the 4Ps was just another tool of patronage, a way of rewarding loyal
followers.
Dinky is a friend from long ago, and Im sure she sensed my hesitation.
I have always been skeptical of state-led foreign-designed
redistributive schemes that do not involve any meaningful change in
the societys property system. Indeed, the first time I heard of the
conditional cash transfer program (the term by which it is known
abroad) was from a European social scientist, who had written to me
about a possible research collaboration on the rightwing ideology
behind the CCT. He pointed to the strong support given to the program
by multilateral institutions like the World Bank and the Asian
Development Bank. For a host of reasons, however, the study did not
materialize.
But I had begun to read about the CCT. I was also intrigued by P-Noys
early decision to pursue the program despite the fact that it bore the

dubious thumbprint of his predecessor. If it succeeded, he would be

reminded that this was not his project. If the program continued to be
undermined by leakages and integrity issues, critics would say his
daang matuwid was a sham.
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When I accepted Dinkys invitation to be part of the 4Ps national

advisory committee, I guess part of me wanted to know the inside
story of how programs like this were bound to fail. But the other part
also wished to be surprised by what people were capable of doing
when they trusted their government. The first thing that struck me
about the program was its ambition and its vulnerability to political
manipulation at every stage. Its declared aim was to interrupt the
transmission of poverty from one generation to another by investing in
the education and health of children from poor families. But how does
one determine which families were the most deserving? A laborious
national household targeting system or listahanan was the answer.
The number of beneficiary households enrolled in the 4Ps grew from
less than 800,000 in 2010 to 4.4 million in 2015. The budget allocation
likewise increased from P10 billion in 2010 to about P62.7 billion in
2016, making the 4Ps easily the centerpiece program of the P-Noy
presidency. This year, the program seeks to enlist another 200,000
households belonging to the near poor. It is no joke running a
payment system that reaches out to the most nomadic street dwellers
and the remotest indigenous communities.
I cannot say that the unpaid advisory role in which I had found myself
transformed me into a true believer. But I think I now have a better
appreciation of what it means to govern a nation riven by mass poverty
and deep inequalities, and what it takes to run a program of such
magnitude and complexity as the 4Ps. For this reason, I am annoyed
whenever I hear dismissive comments about the program from people
who know nothing about how beneficiaries are chosen, how
compliance with the conditions of the cash grant is verified, how parent
leaders are regularly brought together in sustained conversation in

family development sessions, and how the entire program is

scrupulously shielded from politicians.
Yet, I also cant help feeling incredulous each time I listen to earnest
reports about the quantifiable gains that have been claimed for the
program within very short time frames. In their eagerness to justify
the rising budgetary requirement, some experts involved in the
program tend to be fixated with small increments in school attendance
and improvements in health indicators, forgetting that the original
concept is about breaking the chain of poverty that has bound
successive generations in the same families.
What is unique about this program, after all, is that the government is
transferring cash, not to individuals, but to families with young
children. The concept shifts the focus from the merely poor, or the
unemployed, to the children who are the intended beneficiaries of the
program. The 4Ps is thus far from being a comprehensive antipoverty
program. Indeed, it does not cover the elderly in our society, many of
whom suffer from the triple disability of poverty, disease, and senility.
Still, it would be a mistake to think that the 4Ps is just about families
being paid by government to make sure their children go to school
regularly and get vaccinated and dewormed at the health centers. A lot
of consciousness-raising is taking place in the family development
sessions (FDS) that representatives of the beneficiary households,
mostly women, are required to attend once a month. In these highly
participatory gatherings, parents learn about the rights of children,
gender equality, the handling of domestic conflict, family planning,
basic financial planning, the local sourcing of nutritious foods,
ecological awareness, disaster preparedness, and active citizenship.
The FDS is a unique feature of the Philippine CCT program. Its
curriculum, drawn from the lessons and best practices of Filipino
community organizing, is an intensive course on social awareness,
capacity building, and self-reliance that is attuned to the imperatives of
the modern world. From these meetings, of which thousands are

taking place every day all over the country, one can immediately sense
that something powerful and immeasurable is gushing from the ground
on which the state has planted something important.
***

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DIGOSCITY,DavaodelSur,PhilippinesSenatorGracePoehasvowedtocontinue
thePantawidPamilyangPilipinoProgram(4Ps)ifshewinstheelection.
PoetoldreportershereonMonday,thatcontrarytotheblackpropagandabyan
opponent,shewouldnotscrapthe4Psprogram.Whileshedidnotcategoricallysaywho
thisopponentwas,shewasobviouslyreferringtoLiberalPartystandardbearer,Mar
Roxas.
SeveralTVadsbyRoxasshowed4Psbeneficiariesrecountinghowtheprogramhad
helpedthemchangetheirlivesandimprovetheeconomicstandingoftheirfamilies.At
theendofeachTVad,RoxasaskedwhatwouldbecomeofPantawidPamilyangPilipino
beneficiariesifgovernmentwouldnotcontinuetheDaangMatuwid(straightpath).
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Youcanbeassured,contrarytotheblackpropaganda,thatwewillcontinue(4Ps),Poe
said.
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Shesaidasagovernmentwithaheart,herpresidencywouldmakesuretoprovidehelpto
thoseinneed.
Wewillnotonlycontinueit,wewillstrengthenit.Weneedtoexpandthecoverage
oftheConditionalCashTransferprogrambutwewillmakesurethebeneficiaries
willalsogetlivelihoodtheycandrawadditionalincomefrom,Poesaid.
AsidefromhelpingpoorFilipinosbyexpandingthe4Psprogram,shesaidshewould
makesurethechildrenofpoorfamilieswouldhavemealssotheywouldnothaveskip
school.
Ifyoucanrememberwhenwewerekids,thegovernmenthadthenutribunprogram.We
willcreateasimilarprogramtoensurethatourchildrentaketheirlunch.Itisafactthat
manychildrengotoschoolwithouttakinganymealandtheygotoclassstarving,Poe
said.
ShesaidaPoegovernmentwouldexpandallexistingsocialprograms,notonlythe4Ps,
butwouldmakesurethattheeffectsofthebenefitsfromgovernmentwouldbe
significant.
TheCCTor4PswaspatternedafterasimilarprograminLatinAmericancountries.
ItwasfirstadoptedinthePhilippinesbytheadministrationofformerPresidentandnow
PampangaRepresentativeGloriaMacapagalArroyo.
TheArroyogovernmentsrationaleforadoptingtheCCTwastogivepoorfamiliesa
cashallowancesotheywouldnotwallowinhunger,buttoqualifyfortheprogram,they
hadtoagreetokeeptheirchildreninschool,amongothers.
TheArroyogovernmentsaidwhenthesechildrengrowup,theycouldhelpbreakthe
intergenerationalcycleofpovertybecausetheywouldbeeducatedandwouldgetbetter
jobs.
Bytheendofitssecondyearofimplementation,theArroyogovernmentsaid700,000
familieshadbeenmadebeneficiariesoftheprogramandthedropoutratehad
significantlydropped.
UndertheAquinoadministration,the4Pswasexpandedtoall17regionsinthecountry
andhad4,353,597activehouseholdbeneficiariesasoftheendofAugust2015,
accordingtothegovernmentsOfficialGazette.
FromJanuarytoAugust2015,thenationalgovernmentdisbursedatotalofP27.15billion
incashgrantstothesebeneficiaries.SFM

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