PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM (Conditional Cash Transfer in the Philippines) HISTORY Pantawid Program started in 2008 is one of the responses of the Philippine Government to the challenge of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The program works to attain 5 out of the 8 MDGs namely: Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Goal 4: Reduce child
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government developed the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4P’S) that has now become its flagship social assistance program to help the poor. Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is a Modified Conditional Cash Transfer for the poor families in the Philippines. According to Lucy Basset in her discussion paper entitled “Can Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Play a Greater Role in Reducing Child Undernutrition?, October 2008, Conditional Cash Transfer Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) provide cash
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government developed the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4P’S) that has now become its flagship social assistance program to help the poor. Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is a Modified Conditional Cash Transfer for the poor families in the Philippines. According to Lucy Basset in her discussion paper entitled “Can Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Play a Greater Role in Reducing Child Undernutrition?, October 2008, Conditional Cash Transfer Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) provide cash
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Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) together implemented a Conditional Cash Transfer Program known as Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) inspired by the successes of similar programs in Latin American countries such as Bolsa Familia in Brazil, Familias en Accion in Colombia and OPORTUNIDADES in Mexico. The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is more than a welfare program; it addresses structural inequities in society and promotes human capital development of the poor,
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Abstract When the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program was designed, the government publicly promised to limit to five years the giving of the education and health grants. This five-year limit is almost over for the first set of beneficiaries by 2013. The natural policy question then is: Would it be wise to keep the promise or would an extension be better? This paper presents five arguments and evidence why the extension of the program is better than keeping the promise to limit it to five years
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Chapter I INTRODUCTION Poverty remains a critical problem that needs to be addressed. All over the world, it remains number 1 problem to all states especially in South Africa where more than half of the population lives below the poverty line. The gap between the rich and the poor is among the worst in the world. (Oxfam, 2015) Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ranks as the poorest country in the world based on its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita over the 2009-2013 period. Out of the
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ABSTRACT Title: THE INFLUENCE OF PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM TO THE GRADE 7 STUDENTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF TAMPILISAN DISTRICT: ITS IMPLICATIONS TO EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT 1. Total Number of Pages: 107 Text Number of Pages: 88 2.Author : WILFREDA DEYSOLONG-NALZARO 3.Type of Document : Thesis 4.Type of Publication : Unpublished 5.Host Institution : Southern Capital Colleges
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Mulanay, Quezon Dear Sir: We are third year Bachelor in Elementary Education (BEED) students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Mulanay who are presently working on our research study entitled, “ ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM (4Ps) TO THE FILIPINO FAMILY: THE MULANAY, QUEZON EXPERIENCE”. In view of this, we would like to ask permission to conduct the said in your barangays under your supervision. Rest assured that the information we will gather will only
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THE Effects of THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM (4P’S) on the economic status OF THE THIRTY (30) BENEFICIARIES OF BARANGAY LATI, BALINDONG, LANAO DEL SUR CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM A. Rationale Poverty has been a problem in the Philippines since time immemorial. Unfortunately, the number of Filipinos suffering from the aforementioned social problem is increasing every year. This is in spite of the poverty alleviation interventions being implemented by the government and
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1.1 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 1.1.1 Introduction Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino program is a human development program of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-14. The poorest households in the municipalities are selected through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) implemented by the DSWD using the Proxy Means Test. This test
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