Pantawid Pamilya Program

PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM (4Ps)

December 27, 2012 at 12:35pm

What is it all about?

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (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 by providing incentives for poor families to invest in their future by ensuring that mothers and children can avail the free healthcare as well as the free education for children. As such, it is a human development program that invests in the health and education of children. It aims to provide monetary aid to poor beneficiaries with the hope that these investments in human capital would lessen the great financial divide among the haves and the have nots.

GOALS:

(1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

(2) Achieve Universal Primary Education

(3) Promote gender equality and empower women

(4) Reduce child mortality, and

(5) Improve maternal health and to promote Department’s commitment to United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Children

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

THE BENEFITS

* Health and Nutrition Grant

 A household receives a total of P6,000 per year or P500 per month intended for health and nutrition needs of the family such as food, medicine, and vitamins.

* Education 

Every household receives a total of P3,000 per year or P300 per month per child for 10 months a year, to a maximum of 3 children per household.

A household with three qualified children receives a subsidy of P1,400/month during the school months or P15,000 for the whole year for as long as they comply with the conditions set by the program. The amount of grants that they would be receiving...