Conditional Cash Transfer Case Study

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According to the 1991 Local Government Code of the Philippines in Section 17 , the local government is “responsible for the efficient and effective provision of the basic services and facilities such as health services, social services which include programs and projects on child and youth welfare, family and community welfare, welfare of the women of elderly and disabled persons, community-based rehabilitation programs for vagrants, beggars, street children, scavengers, juvenile delinquents and victims of drug abuse; livelihood and other pro-poor projects; nutrition services; and family planning services”. For all intents and purposes all projects identified with vagrancy center serving individuals who are as of now destitute. At the point …show more content…

In 2006 Annual Poverty Statistics of the National Statistical Coordination Board, 27.9 Million Filipinos or 33% (l/3) of the whole populace are poor. To address this issue, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) executed a Conditional Cash Transfer Program known as The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). Despite numerous programs implemented by the government in the past, poverty level in the Philippines continued to rise. During the Arroyo administration, a program was presented to try to address the poverty problem in the Philippines. The Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) was first introduced in 2008. It was patterned on programs from Latin American countries which had been implementing this type of program in an attempt to eliminate poverty and improve human capital. An expanded version, the “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program” (4P’s) was implemented by the succeeding Aquino administration. In this program, the government will give families that are considered poorest of the poor, monetary allowances every month for their health and educational needs of their children. For health grants, per household will receive five hundred pesos every month, or a P6,000 every year. For Education grants, every child will receive three hundred pesos every month for ten months, or a total of P3,000 every year. A household may register a maximum of 3 children for the program.The conditions attached to the …show more content…

It might give poor families the chance to meet their daily needs while enrolled in the program. The 4P’s has the tendency to make these families complacent and very much dependent of the allowances that makes them vulnerable once the program is stopped. There is a risk that some might just be too dependent on the allowances that they might not look for other means of income for their families and worse, make their lives more difficult than it was before the implementation of the program. With the nature of the program, there is an uncertainty as to how long can the government sustain the necessary funds for this program especially that the population continues to grow and the economic standing of the country is still unstable. In fact, in order to sustain the current program, the government needed to secure a loan from the World Bank and the Asian development Bank amounting to a total of $805 billion or equivalent to P 34.6 billion pesos since 2008 (De Los Reyes, 2011). It is necessary that aside from the conditions and benefits that the government is implementing, it should incorporate measures wherein the beneficiaries are given other tools such as livelihood training to go along with the current mode of assistance. The government cannot and should not rely solely in handing out

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