Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program
is a human development program of the national government that invests in the health and education of poor households, particularly of children aged 0-14 years old.
Patterned after the conditional cash transfer scheme implemented in other developing countries, the Pantawid Pamilya provides cash grants to beneficiaries provided that they comply with the set of conditions required by the program.
Pantawid Pamilya has dual objectives:
- Social Assistance -
to provide cash assistance to the poor to alleviate their immediate need
(short term poverty alleviation); and
- Social Development - to break the intergenerational poverty cycle through
investments in human capital.
Pantawid Pamilya helps to fulfill the country’s commitment to meet the
Millennium Development Goals, namely:
- Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
- Achieve Universal Primary Education
- Promote Gender Equality
- Reduce Child Mortality
- Improve Maternal Health
Targeting
System
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 determines the socio-economic category of the families by looking at
certain proxy variables such as ownership of assets, type of housing, education
of the household head, livelihood of the family and access to water and
sanitation facilities.
Eligible
Households
- Households who are classified as poor based on the
NHTS-PR at the time of assessment
- Households that have children 0-14 years old and/or
have a pregnant woman at the time of assessment
- Households that agree to meet conditions specified in
the program.
Set of
Co-Responsibilities
To avail of the cash grants
beneficiaries should comply with the following conditions:
- Pregnant women must avail pre- and post-natal care and
be attended during childbirth by a trained health professional;
- Parents must attend Family Development Sessions (FDS);
- 0-5 year old children must receive regular preventive
health check-ups and vaccines;
- 3-5 year old children must attend day care or
pre-school classes at least 85% of the time.
- 6-14 year old children must enroll in elementary or
high school and must attend at least 85% of the time.
- 6-14 years old children must receive deworming pills
twice a year.
Program
Coverage
Pantawid Pamilya operates in 79 provinces covering 1,261 municipalities
and 138 key cities in all 17 regions
nationwide.
The program has 3,014,586 registered
households as of 27 June 2012.
Program
Coverage
Pantawid Pamilya operates in 79 provinces covering 1,261 municipalities
and 138 key cities in all 17 regions
nationwide.
The program has 3,014,586 registered
households as of 27 June 2012.
Program
Cycle
The implementation of Pantawid
Pamilya Program follows the 8-step cycle starting from the 1)
selection of target areas, 2) supply side assessment, 3) selection of household
beneficiaries, 4) registration and validation of beneficiaries, 5) Family
Registry preparation, 6) initial payment, 7) verification of compliance and 8)
2nd and succeeding release of cash grants.
Program
Package
Pantawid Pamilya provides cash grants to the beneficiaries to wit:
- P6,000 a year or P500 per month per household for
health and nutrition expenses; and
- P3000 for one school year or 10 months or P300/month
per child for educational expenses. A maximum of three children per
household is allowed.
A household with three qualified
children receives a subsidy of P1,400/month during the school year or P15,000
annually as long as they comply with the conditionalities. The cash grants
shall be received by the most responsible person in the household, usually the
mother, through a Land Bank cash card.
In cases where payment through cash
card is not feasible, the beneficiaries shall be provided their cash grants
through an alternative payment scheme such as over-the-counter transactions
from the nearest Landbank branch or offsite payments through
Landbank. Cash grants are also released through other rural banks, Globe
Remit, Philpost, First Consolidated Bank and other Cooperative Financial Institutions
(CFI) especially in far-flung areas.
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this program implemented by the government is nice and helpful..
it help a lot of people especially poor filipino people...
I salute to this...:-)
implementing this makes the poor filipinos to uplift their lives!:):)
-I dint think so that 4P's is a life sustaining program of the government because for me it all depends in the availability of funds wherein a lot of poor Filipino family are enjoying it.
-The 4P's program only helps the poor people thus preventing the concern people in doing bad and making problems in the society. It will not just eliminate the poverty but it will minimize the poverty as well because the family has a support from the government.
-But one thing that bothers in my mind is that what kind of people does the government really help? They say they help the poor families but there are families(considering they are poor even if they are not)pretending to be a poor even if they can sustain their own lives.
Establishing Livelihood programs is more fit to do the job. In this way, each capable family member can work without being dependent on the government's money.