KALAHI bows out to 4Ps as DSWD leads program
The end of the Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan (KALAHI) Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Services (CIDSS) also marks the entry of the country’s pro-poor poverty mitigation program now billed as Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), DSWD reports. According to sources, the 4Ps would be in 14 provinces and 75 cities.
The 4Ps, is a poverty-reduction plan of the Arroyo administration implemented by the DSWD, provides cash transfers to extremely poor households complying with program conditions needing household members to meet certain human development goals. It hopes to break the poverty cycle and targets the poorest of the poor based on the poverty data gathered. Though beneficiaries have to conform to specific conditions to receive cash assistance.
