Pantawid Pamilang Pilipino Program

Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)

What is 4Ps?

4Ps is a poverty reduction strategy that provides grants to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-14.

4Ps has dual objectives:

• Social Assistance – to provide cash assistance to the poor, to alleviate their needs (short term poverty alleviation)

• Social Development – to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty through investments in human capital (nutrition, health and education

4Ps is patterned after the successful Conditional CashTransfer (CCT) Programs in Latin America and Africa. CCT has been cited as one of the key factors behind the positive socio-economic outcomes achieved by Brazil where 11 million families are currently enrolled in the program, and other countries.

The poorest households in the country selected through a uniform, objective and transparent set of criteria.

What are the criteria in the selection of beneficiaries?

There are three steps in identifying the beneficiaries:

1. Provinces were selected using the following criteria: a) 20 poorest provinces based on the 2006 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES); b) Poorest provinces in six regions without a province in the list of the 20 poorest provinces; c) Five cities in the NCR, two in the Visayas, two in Mindanao and one in the Cordillera.

2. The selection of the poorest municipalities from the above provinces based on the Small Area Estimates (SAE) and FIES where saturation surveys of households are being conducted.

3. Computerized selection of the poorest households based on a ranking system using Proxy Means Test developed for the program.

The PMT Assesses socio-economic characteristics such as:

ownership of assets, type of housing unit, level of educational attainment of

household heads, and access to water and sanitation facilities.

The DSWD selects the beneficiaries based no the targeting

system developed for the program.

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