PANTAWID PAMILYA PILIPINO PROGRAM

2012

PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM

A human development program of the national government that provides
conditional cash grants to extremely poor householdsfor healthcare,
improve nutrition, family development, and the education of children
particularly those aged 0-14.

DUAL OBJECTIVES

SOCIAL
ASSISTANCE
to provide cash assistance to the poor
to alleviate their immediate needs
(short term poverty alleviation)

SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT
to break the intergenerational poverty
cycle through investments in human
capital.

Pantawid Pamilya helps in the countrys

fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals,
namely:

Eradicate Extreme
Poverty and
Hunger

Achieve Universal
Primary Education

Promote
Gender Equality

Reduce Child
Mortality

Improve
Maternal Health

TARGETING SYSTEM
The poorest households in the municipalities are selected through the National
Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), implemented by the
Department of Social Welfare & Development using the Proxy Means Test. This test
determines the socio-economic category of the families by looking at certain proxy
variables, such as ownership of assets, type of housing, education of the household head,
livelihood of the family, and access to water and sanitation facilities.

PROGRAM CYCLE
NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD
TARGETING SYSTEM

Selection of
Provinces &
Municipalities

BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE

The National Household Targeting System
for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is a data
management system that identifies who
and where the poor are in the country.

Supply-side
Assessment

THE SYSTEM AIMS TO:

Formulate a
unified criteria
for the
selection of the
populations
poorest;

Selection of
Households

Facilitate the
Reduce leakages
sharing of a solid
(exclusion and
database for
under-coverage
public and private of poor, as well as
social protection
inclusion of
stakeholders;
non-poor).
and

COVERAGE

Organization of
Community
Assemblies

10,078,232

ASSESSED HOUSEHOLDS
as of april 2011

METHODOLOGY
SELECTION OF AREAS BASED ON
POVERTY INCIDENCE BY PROVINCES,
MUNICIPALITIES AND BARANGAYS
i.e. Geographical targeting, which
identifies where the poor are, such as the
poorest provinces, municipalities and
baranggays.

Family Registry
Preparation

Payment

The HAFs are encoded using a

standardized software application, which
calculates the income of the households.
The software generates a ranking for each
household, based on their approximate
income with reference to the
municipal/provincial poverty threshold.

Verification of
Compliance
with Conditions

Beneficiary does
not comply

VALIDATION AND FINALIZATION OF THE

LIST OF POOR HOUSEHOLDS
via the Local Verification Committee that
will assist in managing complaints and
grievances in terms of possible exclusion
and inclusion errors.

REPORT-GENERATION AND
INFORMATION-SHARING
NHTS-PR is shared with potential end-users,
such as government agencies and private
social protection stakeholders, so they can
be provided with a reference for identifying
program beneficiaries.

Beneficiary
complies
Deductions
Chances

Delistment

HOUSEHOLD ASSESSMENT OR THE

IDENTIFICATION OF WHO THE POOR ARE
Assessed through house-to-house
interviews, using the Household
Assessment Form (HAF).

ELIGIBLE HOUSEHOLDS
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Residents of the
poorest municipalities,
based on 2003 Small
Area Estimates (SAE)
of NSCB.

Households whose
economic condition is
equal to or below the
provincial poverty
threshold.

Households that have

children 0-14 years old
and/or have a pregnant
woman at the time of
assessment.

Households that agree

to meet conditions
specified in the
program.

ELIGIBLE
HOUSEHOLDS

SET OF CO-RESPONSIBILITIES
To avail of the cash grants beneficiaries must comply
with the following conditions:

1. Pregnant women must

avail of pre- and postnatal care and be attended
during childbirth by a
trained health
professional.

2. Parents must attend

Family Development
Sessions (FDS).

3. Children aged 0-5

must receive regular
preventive health
check-ups and
vaccines.

4. Children aged 3-5 must

attend day care or
pre-school classes at
least 85% of the time.

5. Children aged 6-14

must enroll in
elementary or high
school and must
attend at least 85% of
the time.

6. Children aged 6-14

must receive
deworming pills twice
a year.

PROGRAM COVERAGE

As of May 23, 2012, Pamilya is

being implemented in

79

PROVINCES

covering

1,261

MUNICIPALITIES and

138

KEY CITIES.

3.8 million
HOUSEHOLDS

The Pantawid Pamilya targets

3.8 million households by the
end of 2013.

PROGRAM PACKAGE
Maximum cash grants (given that there are 3
children per family) that beneficiaries may
receive:

For health and

nutrition expenses

P6,000
A YEAR OR

P500

PER MONTH PER

HOUSEHOLD

For educational expenses.

A maximum of three
children per household is
allowed.

A household with
three qualified
children receives a
subsidy of

P9,000

P15,000

P900

P1,400

FOR PER SCHOOL YEAR

(10 MOS.) OF 3 CHILDREN

PER MONTH
(P300 PER CHILD)

ANNUALLY

PER MONTH

as long as they comply

with the conditions.

The cash grants shall be received by the most responsible

person in the household, usually the mother, through a Land
Bank cash card.
In cases where payment through cash card is not feasible,
the beneficiaries shall be provided their cash grants through
an alternative payment scheme, such as: over-the-counter
transactions from the nearest Land Bank branch; or offsite
payments through Land Bank and partners such as Globe
G-cash, in areas that have no Land Bank branches (or are
too far from LBP branches).

UPDATES AS OF MAY 2012

HOUSEHOLD
BENEFICIARIES PEAKED TO

3,015,671

97.06%

HOUSEHOLD BENEFICIARIES

OF THE PROGRAM TARGET

OF THE 3,106,979 TOTAL TARGET

Nationwide implementation covering

1,261 138
MUNICIPALITIES

CITIES

79

PROVINCES

LUZON (34.17%)
1,030,320
households

PROGRAM HAS COVERED

7,545,615
CHILDREN AGED 0 TO 14

VISAYAS (22.88%)
689,859
households

MINDANAO (42.96%)
1,295,492
households