by magnolia_eic | Sep 18, 2010 | Headlines, National News
President Benigno S. Aquino III bared on Thursday that two additional funding sources to
increase the coverage of the government’s poverty alleviation program, the Kapit Bisig Laban
sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-Cidss) to include
1.3-million more Filipino families.
The President said the new funding sources are part of the administration’s renewed drive to
garner more funding sources through public-private partnerships.
Without specifying an amount, the President said the World Bank had agreed to provide
fresh funds for the Kalahi-Cidss program, one of three poverty alleviation measures the
government is implementing through the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
The other two programs are the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) which allocates
conditional cash grants to qualified families provided certain requirements concerning
maternal health and the education and health of their children, are met; and the Self
Employment Assistance-Kabayan (SEA-K) – a sustainable livelihood project that aims to
enhance the socio-economic skills of qualified Filipino families.
The President pointed out that the number of additional Filipino families who will get the
chance to improve their lives through the anti-poverty program is still far from his target of
4.6-million families.
President Aquino added that the Millennium Challenge Corporation, an innovative and
independent U.S. foreign aid agency that is helping lead the fight against global poverty will
give a total of P5-billion for the Kalahi-Cidss program. (PCOO/PIA)
by magnolia_eic | Sep 18, 2010 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
PERHAPS an out-building made of coconut and nipa leaves for a toilet merits no news at all.
But when it eloquently shows a community’s first tentative steps to break a habit that kept generations from
learning the benefits of sanitation and hygiene, it surely gives them the print space.
In Danao, Bohol, communities have started to dig the truth behind health, sanitation and clean environment,
a fact that makes Danao Mayor Thomas Louis Gonzaga hopeful in his drive to bring his town off the hooks of
poverty.
“I believe in good health starts with a clean environment” the mayor said and adds, “education is the key to
good health.”
Unsuccessful in their initial attempt to get the people digging for their own sanitary toilets despite the
town providing toilet bowls, cement and technical help, the need to get people understanding the value of
cleanliness finally got to them through the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino program (4PS).
Implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the 4Ps in Danao town also
allowed beneficiaries, whom the town granted toilet construction materials, to sit on community assemblies
and family development sessions.
It was through DSWD’s Family Development Sessions (FDS) that program partners sa Department of Health,
LGU and Department of Education picked the opportunity to deal with educating the beneficiaries the
importance of having toilets.
Here, what the town could not do: educating their people was unwittingly advanced by the 4Ps.
Educating the people to contribute to a cleaner environment in line with the town vision of a brisk extreme
eco-tourism activity as an engine for over-all development was then a big problem, Mayor Gonzaga admitted.
We want the communities to install sanitary toilets for health and hygiene purposes, but habit seems to get on
the way, the athletic town chief executive confessed.
Adopting an approach called community driven development, communities identify their problems and map
out solutions to them, explains a municipal social welfare officer of one of the DSWD 4Ps beneficiary towns.
4P is a national government poverty alleviation program that provides social assistance in conditional cash
grants to extremely poor households to help them break the intergenerational cycle of poverty.
Its long-term objective is for communities to improve their health and education particularly of children aged
0-14 years old.
To continually avail of the cash grants, the government ascertains that family beneficiaries attend health and
pregnancy assistance sessions, regular preventive health check-ups and vaccines for children, responsible
parenthood sessions, mother’s classes, parent-effectiveness seminar and family development sessions.
To keep the children informed, children of beneficiaries must attend day-care, pre-school, elementary and
high-school at least 85% of the time. (rac/PIABohol/DSWD7)
by anyajulia | Nov 14, 2008 | Headlines, National News
AGI ug abag sa mga labing kabus nga banay sa nasud, ihatag sa kagamhanan ang 2.1B nga pundo alang sa Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
Mokabat sa tag P15 mil kada tuig ang madawat sa kabus nga banay kon matuman niini ang mga kondisyones nga nalatid alang sa mga banepisaryo sa programa.
Kini maoy unod sa Memorandum of Agreement nga gipresentar ni DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral uban sa mga gobernador ug city mayors nagdto sa Malakanyang.
Ang DSWD maoy mangulo sa pagpatuman sa 4Ps aron ugmaron ang kahimtang sa mga kabus.
Cash grants nga mokabat sa tag P500 matag buwan alang sa galastuhan sa health un nutrition, P300 alang sa galastuhan sa pagpaeskwela sa matag usa ka anak.
Ang 4Ps, usa na usab ka flagship project sa administrasyon ni Arroyo aron kunhoran ang kawad-on. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Nov 11, 2008 | Headlines, National News
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.
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