Notes for The report in WORKSOC

Introduction:

What is the Conditional Cash Transfer Program?

o State the conditions required to be eligible for the program
Beneficiary households must comply with specific health and education
conditionalities in order to receive cash transfers through the program
poor households with children 0-14 years of age or pregnant women, as well as
the corresponding transfers are as follows:
health transfer:
o all children under the age of five follow the Department of
Health (DOH) protocol by visiting the health center or rural
health unit regularly;
o pregnant women attend the health center or rural health unit
according to DOH protocol
o all school-aged children (6-14 years old) comply with the deworming protocol at schools
o For households with children 0-14 years old, the household
grantee (mother) and/or spouse shall attend Family
Development Sessions at least once a month.
Education transfer:
o education transfer is PhP 300 (about US$ 6.50) per child per
month (for a period of 10 months/year), for up to a maximum of
three children
o each child must be enrolled in primary or secondary school, and
attend 85% of school days every month.
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What is the Sustainable Livelihood Program?
o Participants of the program are chosen based on a list known as the National
Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction or the NHTS-PR, which identifies
the poor, including their geographic location.

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Originally conceived of in the 1980s in the context of Farming Systems Research and
Education, the approach was developed through the 1990s and crystallized as SLA in
the late 1990s by the Department for International Development (DFID) (Carney, 1998;
1999).
From Survival to self-sufficiency, one family at a time
State the definition provided by Department of Social Welfare and Development
A program that aims to improve the socioeconomic capacity of the participants
through micro-enterprise development and employment facilitation activities
that shall ultimately provide a sustainable income source
Objectives:

To improve the socio-economic capacity of the poor to enhance access to basic social
services and improve their standard of living
Various Livelihood activities
Carinderia
Livestock
Vegetable, fruit or crop farming
Trade and commerce
Carpentry and furniture making
Transportation services

Track 1: Microenterprise Development. This is a capacity building program that focuses

on community development, skills enhancement, network building and capital
assistance to poor families included in the NHTSPR list, prioritizing the PantawidPamilya
beneficiaries in order to improve their opportunities for managing a sustainable
microenterprise.
Track 2: Employment Facilitation provides assistance to unemployed poor families
included in the NHTSPR list, prioritizing the Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries who are
seeking for job opportunities. They shall be provided with skills profiling, job matching,
occupational guidance and counseling and job referrals. The DSWDs job matching
services will be provided through the assistance of City/Municipal Social Worker
designated by the LGU as the Livelihood Focal Person and DSWD Project Development
Officer II. The field implementers are tasked to determine the training needs and job
qualifications of the participants relative to the existing employment demand in the
locality. They are also required to network with existing job placement agencies from
both government and private sector. - See more at:
http://www.fo5.dswd.gov.ph/programs-services/core-programs/sustainable-livelihoodprogram/#sthash.LpVnnBkD.dpuf

What are the indicators? Well there are a lot

General Indicators of Poverty Reduction

o Improved income levels of poor and non-poor
o Changes in household food security
o Improved basic needs (shelter, health, nutrition)
o Changes in income distribution and decreases in inequities
o Diversification of income sources
o Changes in income security
o Improved human rights
o Increased access to public goods and services
o Increased yields
o Changes in consumption and diet
o Improved quality of life

Indicators of Increased Resilience and Reduction in

Vulnerability/Volatility
o A reduction in frequency/severity of shocks.
o An increase in risk preparedness.
o Increased capacity to cope with/prepare for/adapt to natural or economic shocks.
o Increased capacity to cope with/prepare for/adapt to seasonality (IMM, 2004 )
Indicators of Long Term Sustainability
o Increase in environmental sustainability
o Reduction in conflict or increase in peace/resolution
o Changes reflecting livelihood sustainability
o Sustained Post Project Activities
o Sustained Post Project Institutional Changes
o Sustained Post-Project poverty reduction
o Sustained or permanent removal of groups from social exclusion
o Addressed inequities faced by disadvantaged groups

Position: The Sustainable Livelihood Program is more effective in poverty reduction compared to the
Conditional Cash Transfer
Framework: compendium of the catechism of the catholic church (The Principle of Subsidiarity)

On the basis of this principle, all societies of a superior order must adopt attitudes of help
("subsidium") - therefore of support, promotion, development - with respect to lowerorder societies. In this way, intermediate social entities can properly perform the functions
that fall to them without being required to hand them over unjustly to other social entities of
a higher level, by which they would end up being absorbed and substituted, in the end
seeing themselves denied their dignity and essential place.
Subsidiarity, understood in the positive sense as economic, institutional or juridical
assistance offered to lesser social entities, entails a corresponding series
of negative implications that require the State to refrain from anything that would de facto
restrict the existential space of the smaller essential cells of society. Their initiative, freedom
and responsibility must not be supplanted.

Next, define terms:

what sustainable means
Sustainable:

It is able to maintain at a certain level or rate.

You can relate this to being SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD. Meaning they have a sustainable
source of income and welfare for their families thanks to the program.
Livelihood: a livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (including both material and
social resources) and activities required for a means of living. A livelihood is sustainable
when it can cope with and recover from stresses and shocks, maintain or enhance its
capabilities or assets while not undermining the natural resource base (DFID, 1999).

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2010). Rethinking Poverty: Report on the World
Social Institution. (Chapter 1 and 3) New York: United Nations Publications.

According to this author

To live a life free from poverty and hunger is one of the human rights and fundamental
freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Extreme poverty is a violation of human rights.
People in poverty must be given assistance to live lives that are worthy and dignified for
humans.
Humans are the centre of development!
o It is important to empower them.
o Make them participate in economic, political and social spheres.
Poverty is not only about money
It can mean inability to participate in social and political life.
What is poverty?
o It is the deprivation of ones ability to live as a free and dignified human being with the
full potential to achieve ones desired goals in life.
o Poverty is also RESTRICTION IN OPPORTUNITIES, VULNERABILITY TO SHOCKS
Without the capabilities and opportunities, a person will have limited ability to escape poverty.
Human capital is the stock of competencies, knowledge, social and personality attributes,
including creativity, embodied in the ability to performlabor so as to produce economic value
o Usually related to Job training or basically making people better and more
productive
o Its the government that invests in things like this.