The CCT program implemented by DSWD aims to reduce poverty by providing conditional cash grants to poor households to improve health, nutrition, and education of children aged 0-14. Poor households are identified through a proxy means test and must have pregnant women or children aged 0-14 to qualify. Beneficiaries receive a P500/month health grant and a P300/month education grant per eligible child for a maximum of 3 children. Compliance with conditions like school and health clinic attendance are monitored through a verification system to ensure continued receipt of benefits. The program has expanded nationwide and aims to also provide livelihood assistance to beneficiary households.
The CCT program implemented by DSWD aims to reduce poverty by providing conditional cash grants to poor households to improve health, nutrition, and education of children aged 0-14. Poor households are identified through a proxy means test and must have pregnant women or children aged 0-14 to qualify. Beneficiaries receive a P500/month health grant and a P300/month education grant per eligible child for a maximum of 3 children. Compliance with conditions like school and health clinic attendance are monitored through a verification system to ensure continued receipt of benefits. The program has expanded nationwide and aims to also provide livelihood assistance to beneficiary households.
The CCT program implemented by DSWD aims to reduce poverty by providing conditional cash grants to poor households to improve health, nutrition, and education of children aged 0-14. Poor households are identified through a proxy means test and must have pregnant women or children aged 0-14 to qualify. Beneficiaries receive a P500/month health grant and a P300/month education grant per eligible child for a maximum of 3 children. Compliance with conditions like school and health clinic attendance are monitored through a verification system to ensure continued receipt of benefits. The program has expanded nationwide and aims to also provide livelihood assistance to beneficiary households.
The CCT program implemented by DSWD aims to reduce poverty by providing conditional cash grants to poor households to improve health, nutrition, and education of children aged 0-14. Poor households are identified through a proxy means test and must have pregnant women or children aged 0-14 to qualify. Beneficiaries receive a P500/month health grant and a P300/month education grant per eligible child for a maximum of 3 children. Compliance with conditions like school and health clinic attendance are monitored through a verification system to ensure continued receipt of benefits. The program has expanded nationwide and aims to also provide livelihood assistance to beneficiary households.
1. What is the CCT program being implemented by the DSWD?
It is a rights-based and social development program of the
natonal government which aims to contribute to poverty reducton; Provides conditonal cash grants to poor households to improve their health, nutriton and educaton, partcularly children aged 0-14; Invests in human capital to break the intergeneratonal cycle of poverty among poor households; and Paterned afer the conditonal cash transfer program in Latn American and African countries which have been proven successful as a poverty reducton and social development measure. 2. How were the poorest households identfed? Per DSWD, as of 1 July 2011, the Natonal Household Targetng System for Poverty Reducton (NHTS-PR) has identfed 5,255,118 poor households out of the total 10,909,456 households enumerated. The number of poor households (5,255,118) were identfed based on the Proxy Means Test (PMT) result. 3. Who among the poor households may avail of the CCT program? Those located in the municipalites and barangays selected for the program; With children aged 0-14 years old or have pregnant woman at the tme of registraton into the program (children aged 6-14 years old must be in school); Willing and able to commit to meet the conditons specifed by the program; Those who passed the Eligibility Check Routne 2, which delineates those with regular income and subjects them to further validaton. 4. What are the type of grants that can be availed by Pantawid Pamilya benefciaries? Health Grant: P500 per month per household or a total of P6,000 per year. Educaton Grant: P300 per month for ten (10) months or a total of P3,000 in a year for children 3-14 years old with a maximum of three (3) children per household. Each household benefciary will receive the cash grants of P1,400 per month (health P500/month and educaton P900/month) for fve (5) years as long as the conditons are complied. 5. What are the program conditonalites? For Educaton: Children 6-14 years old shall enroll in schools and atend at least 85% of the tme; and Children 3-5 years old shall atend daycare/preschool program at least 85% of the tme. For Health: Children 0-5 years old shall get regular preventve health check- ups and vaccines; Pregnant women shall get pre-natal care, child birth is atended by skilled/health professional and mother shall get post-natal care in accordance with standard DOH protocol; and Children 6-14 years old must received de-worming pills twice a year. For Family Development Sessions: Parent/guardians shall atend responsible parentng sessions, mothers classes on health and nutriton, parent efectveness services and other topics ft for their needs and interest at least once a month. 6. How do the benefciaries receive their grants? The Land Bank of the Philippines is the authorized bank to manage the disbursement of grants to the benefciaries. With the limited Land Bank branches to cater to all the benefciaries natonwide, the Land Bank has engaged the services of other fnancial insttutons and telecommunicaton companies to help them disburse the grants to the benefciaries. To date, benefciaries may receive their grants thru Land Bank (cash cards, over-the-counter, of-site), G-cash remit and other rural banks. Benefciaries with cash cards may also withdraw their grants in Cooperatve Financial Insttutons, First Consolidated Bank and M. Luillhier. 7. How is the compliance of the benefciaries to their co-responsibilites being monitored? The program has set-up its own system to monitor the compliance of the benefciaries. This is called the Compliance Verifcaton System (CVS). The Municipal links in partnership with the teachers and health workers fll-up the CVS forms. The CVS will serve as the basis in computng the grant of each household 8. There were households who are included in the program but are not qualifed. What will happen to them? Households will be delisted from the roster of benefciaries. The program has established various mechanisms where benefciaries and non-benefciaries can fle grievances such as inclusion errors. This can be done by textng 0918-912-2813, sending an e-mail to [email protected] or by flling-up grievance forms.
9. Give them jobs or livelihood instead of providing them cash grants? The DSWD employs a convergence strategy which merges poverty-reducton programs of the department with Pantawid Pamilya as its backbone to ensure sustainability and to serve as an exit strategy. The sustainable livelihood program provides entrepreneurial capacity building for all Pantawid Pamilya benefciaries. The program ofers two tracks of assistance namely: Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) and Guaranteed Employment. SLP will enable the Pantawid Pamilya benefciaries to establish and manage their own micro-enterprises through an entrepreneurial skills training program that includes the provision of non-collateral and interest-free loan amountng to P10,000 per family-benefciary as seed capital.
Status Update: Pantawid Pamilya is already on its ffh year of implementaton. The program started in 2008 covering 160 cites and municipalites in 28 provinces in all 17 regions. As of 26 June 2013, the program is being implemented in all 1,627 cites and municipalites in 79 provinces in all 17 Regions. The registered households have reached 3,927,917 or 103.10% of the 3,809,769 Sets 1-6 target households for 2013. Of the total number of households, 3,927,917 are covered by the regular Pantawid Pamilya program while 95,593 are covered by Pantawid Modifed Conditonal Cash Transfer (MCCT). Of the 3,927,917 households, 41.85% or 1,643,975 are coming from Luzon, 37.75% or 1,482,649 from Mindanao and 20.40% or 801,293 are from Visayas.
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