Known as 4Ps, a Philippine conditional cash transfer program administered by the Department of Social Welfare and Development and institutionalized into law by Republic Act No. 11310, signed by President Rodrigo Duterte in April 2019. The program aims to reduce extreme poverty by investing in the health and education of children aged zero to eighteen, pursuing both social development, breaking intergenerational cycles of poverty through capability-building, and social assistance, providing cash aid for immediate needs, and it targets the poorest households, identified through proxy-means testing based on asset ownership, housing type, household head education, family livelihood and access to water and sanitation, with eligibility requiring households to have children aged zero to fourteen or pregnant women. As of June 2024 the program covered 4,090,667 household beneficiaries across 17 regions, 79 provinces, 1,484 municipalities and 143 cities, making it one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in Southeast Asia.
Facts
Sponsoring BodyDepartment of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 1 Program status (class) Classification
Program KindSanitation or Water Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
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Sources
1. Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, Wikipedia
Introduction, first sentence
a conditional cash transfer program of the Philippine government administered by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
- Wikipedia 'Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program': 'As of June 25, 2024, the program operates in 17 regions...'; checked 2026-09-27.
Program classification, entity description sentence
The program aims to reduce extreme poverty by investing in the health and education of children aged zero to eighteen, pursuing both social development, breaking intergenerational cycles of poverty through capability-building, and social assistance, providing cash aid for immediate needs, and it targets the poorest households, identified through proxy-means testing based on asset ownership, housing type, household head education, family livelihood and access to water and sanitation, with eligibility requiring households to have children aged zero to fourteen or pregnant women.
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