SDS-106
Conduct of External Spot Check of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program Operations (Spot Check 2022)
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is a social protection program that aims to build the capacities of poor Filipino families to cross the poverty line thru human capital investment. The 4Ps Act, specifically Section 4, defines 4Ps as the national poverty reduction strategy and a human capital investment program that provides conditional cash transfer for a maximum of 7 years to poor households to improve the health, nutrition, and education aspect of their lives. 4Ps as the national poverty reduction strategy serves as the centerpiece social protection program in which the various poverty reduction programs of the different national government agencies converge. As a human capital investment program, the 4Ps provide cash grants to poor households so that the parents of poor families have an added means to keep sending their children to schools and health facilities so they may grow up healthy and educated.
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program’s goal is to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty by fostering the necessary behavior among parents to adequately perform their parental duties and responsibilities, particularly investing in the children’s future through education, health, and nutrition. Low school and high malnutrition rates are strongly associated with the poverty cycle in the Philippines. With the enactment of Republic Act 11310 or the 4Ps Act, there is now an expanded focus on health, education, and well-being to a sustainable path to financial independence.
Spot Check is an integral part of Pantawid Pamilya’s monitoring and evaluation system, designed to be conducted on an annual basis to ensure effective and efficient program implementation.
For this 18th round of spot checks (Spot Check 2022), the following aspects of program implementation were given priority and special focus. It includes the following:
Spot Check 2022 entailed the conduct of around 1,282 face-to-face interviews among regular conditional cash transfer (RCCT) and MCCT household beneficiaries, and parent leaders; and a maximum of 204 in-person interviews among various stakeholders involved in 4Ps implementation such as city/municipal links, 4Ps Regional Project Management Office’s personnel/officers, local government units, elementary and high schools; rural health units, barangay health stations; and Land Bank’s local servicing branch officers. For a nationwide representation, the spot check covers four areas; one NCR district and three provinces covering the Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao regions.