...first semester of 2009 to the first half of the 2012 compared to the 26.0 percent increase between the first semesters of 2006-2009,(NSCB 2012). According to the report of National Statistical Board, poverty incidence among Filipino families estimated a rate of 22.3 percent during the first semester of 2012, and 23.4 percent and 22.9 percent during the same periods in 2006 and 2009. Statistical data showed that poverty in the Philippines increases each year and due to this problem, the 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 payments...
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...Republic of the Philippines Polytechnic University of the Philippines MULANAY BRANCH Mulanay, Quezon ___________________________________________________________________ November 26, 2012 Mr. JOSE MARIO D. AQUINO Municipal Link, 4Ps Department of Social Welfare and Development 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 be used for academic purposes. My acknowledgment is yours in advance. Very truly yours, Ms. CHERYL ANN E. RIVERA Ms. ROCEL C. ROLLOQUE Ms. MYRA L. VILLACRUEL Researchers Noted: Dr. ADELIA R. ROADILLA Approved: Subject Professor, OS224 Director Mr. JOSE MARIO D. AQUINO Municipal Link, 4Ps ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM (4Ps) TO THE FILIPINO FAMILY: THE MULANAY, QUEZON EXPERIENCE QUESTIONNAIRE Part I. THE DEMOGRAPIC PROFILE OF THE RESPONDENTS Please check the answer that best describes you. Name (optional):___________________________________ Address: _________________________________________ ...
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...Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program Poverty is one major problem, not only our government, but everyone of us faces. It deprives people not only of safe water and adequate food, clothing and shelter, but also education and healthcare. It puts people’s life in danger and robs them of their future. Moreover, poverty takes away people’s right, their freedom, dignity and peace of mind. Certainly, in a country well governed, poverty is something to be disgraced of. In line with this, with thinking minds as the ‘raw’ materials, brainstorming as the process, they had come up with a useful product, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps’). This is one of the State’s anti-poverty initiatives under President Benigno Aquino III’s administration. Its objectives are to provide social assistance by giving cash assistance to poor families to lessen their basic needs and to develop social welfare by breaking the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human capital. However, the question we are all interested of is that, how useful and effective is this program in our country? According to the National Statistics Office (NSO) Cebu district officer Gil Melchor Rubia, the poverty incidence among population during the first semester of 2012 was estimated at 27.9 percent. She added that comparing this with the 2006 and 2009 first semester figures estimated at 28.8 percent and 28.6 percent, respectively, poverty remained unchanged. It is still a mystery of how the...
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...Transfer Program in the Philippines: Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Maryjoy Mella, Floren Camille Osido and Lemarie Suing INTRODUCTION Dr. Virola (2011), Secretary General of the National Statistical Coordination Board, said in his presentation of the 2009 Official Poverty Statistics that a Filipino needed PhP 974 in 2009 to meet his or her monthly food needs and PhP 1,403 to stay out of poverty. In 2009, a family of five needed PhP 4, 869 monthly income to meet food needs and PhP 7, 017 to stay out of poverty. Results of the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey also revealed that one in every five Filipino households, or an estimated 4.3 million families, experienced involuntary hunger in the third quarter of the year 2011 (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/84129/more-filipinos-going-hungry-survey-shows). The Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs serves as the government’s answers to the pressing issues regarding poverty. Calvo (2011) defines the CCT as programs that provide cash benefits to finance the basic needs and foster investment in human capital to extremely poor households. These benefits are conditioned on certain behaviors, usually related to investments in nutrition, health, and education. The emergence of CCT programs occurred during the late 1990s, with Mexico’s innovative Progresa (now Opurtunidades) program emerging as one of the earliest schemes in 1997. The evidences highlighting the effectiveness of Progresa motivated a rise in similar programs across...
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...of the 4Ps”. First and foremost, let me state again the very essence of 4Ps (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) of the government according to DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development) as the administrator of the said program -- 4Ps as a poverty reduction and social development strategy that provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition, and education particularly in children. Conditional (as highlighted) in a sense that the government will do its job by giving financial assistance to its people and on the other half, the people (especially parents) also have to do their part by ensuring and improving the health and well-being of the young one’s. This helps the government to invest in human capital, which is the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value. The Prime Minister of the government side stated that “we should stop the implementation of 4ps because it develops a culture of laziness and dependency of the people to the government”, and I fail to agree with this inaccurate statement because the 4Ps beneficiaries were also introduced into livelihood programs also known as SEA-K (Self Employment Assistance – Kaunlaran). And I can give you one of some success stories about this program to support the fact that I had given. Here is this woman named Maribel Baccay, a mother of six, from Paracelis, Mt. Province. As one of the first batch of beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program...
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...National Statistical Coordination Board, 27.9 Million Filipinos or one-third (l/3) ofthe entire population are poor. To address this problem the 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, thus, breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty. The conditions attached to the grants require parents to undergo trainings on responsible parenthood, have their children undergo health check-ups and ensure school attendance. The program ensures that there is sufficient resource for the health, nutrition and education of children aged 0-14 year old. An initial study on the pilot areas of the program shows promising results. In Esperanza and Sibagat, Agusan del Sur for example, two of the pilot areas of the 4Ps elementary school enrollment has increased by fifteen percent (15%).Children covered by 4Ps have higher attendance compared to the general...
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...STUDENT Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 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. The 4Ps has dual objectives as the flagship poverty alleviation program of the Aquino administration: *social assistance, giving monetary support to extremely poor families to respond to their immediate needs; and *social development, breaking the intergenerational poverty cycle by investing in the health and education of poor children through programs such as: -health check-ups for pregnant women and children aged 0 to 5; -deworming of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14; -enrollment of children in daycare, elementary, and secondary schools; and -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. The 4Ps operates in all the 17 regions in the Philippines...
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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 ...
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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 numerous civic society groups. Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s nine-year term saw the birth and growth of one of her foremost anti-poverty programs – the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program – popularly known as the 4Ps. Pantawid Pamilya is a conditional cash transfer program that provides incentives for poor families to invest in their future by ensuring that mothers and children avail of healthcare and that children go to school. It 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. The program aims to provide social assistance and social development to its beneficiaries. By providing opportunity for the development of the young, it envisions to prevent the vicious transmission of the cycle of poverty. Pantawid Pamilya helps to fulfill the country’s commitment to meet the Millennium Development Goals. The aforementioned program has been around for quite some time...
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...PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM (4Ps) December 27, 2012 at 11:35am 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...
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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. The five arguments include: (a) the problems that the Pantawid had been designed to address continue to be high priority issues; (b) Pantawid remains credible as an effective and valuable instrument for poverty alleviation in the short run and for reducing the transmission of intergenerational poverty in the long run; (c) the extension could provide great opportunities to produce a much greater positive impact on the welfare of the poor; (d) the extension could buy much-needed time for developing and implementing an adequate and workable transition promotion strategy to help beneficiaries outgrow their need for CCT assistance and, therefore, facilitate its termination; and (e) secondary education enrollment and completion produces high returns in terms of increased earning and is achievable with a moderate amount of subsidy. The paper ends with cautionary notes including articulating that Pantawid remains a bridging program; the need for a careful study to ensure affordability and maximize...
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...why, the government thinks of some ways to give every Filipino youth the education they deserve. The proclamation of SB. no. 3412 has been a big help not only to the youth of Metro Manila but also the youth of the whole country. Our government aims to eradicate extreme poverty in the Philippines by investing in health and education. This proclamation would expect to help this situation in coping with everyday life of the Filipino people. Furthermore, it is something new in government program that will not just help today’s family but to inspire the country’s next generation. Conceptual Framework * Profile of the Respondents 1.1. Age 1.2. Sex 1.3. Grade level 1.4. Total number of children in the family * Family socio-economic status 1.1. Main source of livelihood 1.2. Family monthly income Input Process Output Academic Performance of the Pupils Questionnaire Interviews 4Ps Program Schematic Diagram of the Conceptual Framework of the Study This study used schematic diagram shows...
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...4P’s PROGRAM AND THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF ELEMENTARY PUPILS IN CABULISAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, INOPACAN DISTRICT S.Y. 2014-2015 Introduction Research Questions This economic paper seeks to determine the 4P’s program and the academic performance of the Elementary pupils. Specifically, it seeks answers to the following questions. 1. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of? 2.1. Gender 2.2. Age 2.3. Grade 2.4. Total number of children in the family 2.5. Total number of class attendance 2. What is the socio-economic status of the respondents? 3.6. Main source of livelihood of the parents 3.7. Monthly income of the parents 3. Is there a difference between the average of class attendance among pupils who are 4P’s recipients and the non- 4P’s recipients? 4. Is there a difference between the academic performance of the pupils who are recipients of 4P’s program and not recipients of the 4P’s program? 5. Is there a significant relationship between 4P’s recipients and not 4P’s recipients to their academic performance? Review of Related Literature Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (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. It has dual objectives namely; Social Assistance – to provide cash assistance to the poor, to alleviate their needs (short term poverty alleviation)...
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...cademic Performance of 4ps Pupils 4P’s PROGRAM AND THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF ELEMENTARY PUPILS IN CABULISAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, INOPACAN DISTRICT S.Y. 2014-2015 Introduction Research Questions This economic paper seeks to determine the 4P’s program and the academic performance of the Elementary pupils. Specifically, it seeks answers to the following questions. 1. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of? 2.1. Gender 2.2. Age 2.3. Grade 2.4. Total number of children in the family 2.5. Total number of class attendance 2. What is the socio-economic status of the respondents? 3.6. Main source of livelihood of the parents 3.7. Monthly income of the parents 3. Is there a difference between the average of class attendance among pupils who are 4P’s recipients and the non- 4P’s recipients? 4. Is there a difference between the academic performance of the pupils who are recipients of 4P’s program and not recipients of the 4P’s program? 5. Is there a significant relationship between 4P’s recipients and not 4P’s recipients to their academic performance? Review of Related Literature Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (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. It has dual objectives namely; Social Assistance – to provide cash assistance to the poor, to alleviate...
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... AVENILLA, VAN NIEL A., BELLEZA, MARIA FATIMA A., CASALLOS, MICHELLE JAMIE B., “IEC STRATEGY OF THE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT SESSION OF THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM OF BRGY. BALATAS, NAGA CITY”. (An Undergraduate Thesis in Partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Development Communication. Adviser: Karlos Jerome N. Llorin, MDC The 4Ps is a human development program and the poverty reduction strategy of the national government that provides CCT grants to extremely poor families in order to improve their health, nutrition and education especially the children aged 0- 14. The said program has two objectives: 1) Social Assistance, which aims to grant cash assistance to the poor to address their immediate need; and 2) Social Development, which aims to break the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human capital. One of the conditions under the said program before the beneficiaries will receive their CCT is the Family Development Session (FDS). It aims to widen the knowledge and boost the skills of parents and help them to understand and meet the health and education conditions of the program. The FDS is being done by the 4P’s workers through home visits, the use of modules on modular sessions guide for parents, family drug prevention program, parent effectiveness service and empowerment and viii reaffirmation of paternal abilities. The role of the parents in helping their children attain their...
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