ASSESSING STATUS.

A member of the Department of Social Welfare and Development

(DSWD) in Central Visayas staff administers the Social Welfare and Development Indicators
(SWDI) assessment on one of the 65,930 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)
beneficiaries. The results of the SWDI assessment will determine the level of living conditions of
4Ps households. DSWD Secretary Erwin T. Tulfo instructed the 4Ps National Program
Management Office to clean up its list of program beneficiaries by identifying the 4Ps families
with children who have finished their studies and have no monitored eligible children. /
CONTRIBUTED

August 30, 2022

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD 7)

is currently conducting household validation for the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino
Program (4Ps) partner beneficiaries in Central Visayas.

The target priority to validate are the 65,930 4Ps beneficiaries in the region who are
identified as non-poor households under the third Listahanan nationwide assessment,
or Listahanan 3.

“We have to revalidate these 4Ps households using the Social Welfare and
Development Indicators (SWDI) to determine the progress of the households,” said
DSWD 7 Officer-in-Charge Shalaine Marie S. Lucero.

Lucero said the beneficiaries will be evaluated based on the employable skills of
members, employment and salary, source of income, membership in social security,
and access to financial institutions.

She added that on social adequacy, families were rated based on the members’ health
condition, nutrition and education; access to safe drinking water and sanitary toilet
facilities; house construction and ownership; and awareness of social issues.

The result of the SWDI will determine the level of living conditions of 4Ps
households. The levels include Level 1 or survival, Level 2 or subsistence, and level 3
or self-sufficient.

“The results of the revalidation will serve as a reference if they get to stay in the
program. This will also serve as a reference for the planning of other possible
interventions by the DSWD and partner national government agencies and local
government units to sustain their level of well-being. Hence, we are fast-tracking the
conduct of the activity until September,” Lucero said.

The household validation will be conducted by DSWD field staff that include the City
and Municipal Links using the SWDI General Intake Sheet (GIS) and the SWDI
Score Sheet.
The SWDI GIS is a one-page profile of the household that compiles the family’s
demographics and socio-economic characteristics, while the SWDI score sheet is a
four-page form that gathers information on the family’s score for each indicator
corresponding to economic sufficiency and social adequacy.

Since 2009, the DSWD 7 has already delisted a total of 55,076 4Ps households for
being inactive 4Ps households; households that no longer have eligible members for
education monitoring; households that have waived from the program; households
that are non-compliant; and households that graduated due to an improved level of
well-being.The result of the SWDI will determine the level of living conditions of 4Ps
households. The levels include Level 1 or survival, Level 2 or subsistence, and level 3
or self-sufficient.

“The results of the revalidation will serve as a reference if they get to stay in the
program. This will also serve as a reference for the planning of other possible
interventions by the DSWD and partner national government agencies and local
government units to sustain their level of well-being. Hence, we are fast-tracking the
conduct of the activity until September,” Lucero said.

The household validation will be conducted by DSWD field staff that include the City
and Municipal Links using the SWDI General Intake Sheet (GIS) and the SWDI
Score Sheet.

The SWDI GIS is a one-page profile of the household that compiles the family’s
demographics and socio-economic characteristics, while the SWDI score sheet is a
four-page form that gathers information on the family’s score for each indicator
corresponding to economic sufficiency and social adequacy.

Since 2009, the DSWD 7 has already delisted a total of 55,076 4Ps households for
being inactive 4Ps households; households that no longer have eligible members for
education monitoring; households that have waived from the program; households
that are non-compliant; and households that graduated due to an improved level of
well-being.

Secretary’s order

DSWD Secretary Erwin T. Tulfo instructed the 4Ps National Program Management
Office to clean up its list of program beneficiaries by identifying the 4Ps families with
children who have finished their studies and have no monitored eligible children,
whom he emphasized are already considered ineligible to become program
beneficiaries.

Based on the existing program guidelines, those who have graduated or exited from
the program and were assessed as self-sufficient are being removed from the roster of
active members, and they should no longer receive any cash grants.

Following the current implementation of the program, the list of beneficiaries is

regularly updated in the Beneficiary Data and Management System to reflect active
beneficiaries who are entitled to receive cash grants, subject to the monitoring and
evaluation of their compliance with the conditions provided by the 4Ps Act or
Republic Act 11310.Secretary’s order

DSWD Secretary Erwin T. Tulfo instructed the 4Ps National Program Management
Office to clean up its list of program beneficiaries by identifying the 4Ps families with
children who have finished their studies and have no monitored eligible children,
whom he emphasized are already considered ineligible to become program
beneficiaries.

Based on the existing program guidelines, those who have graduated or exited from
the program and were assessed as self-sufficient are being removed from the roster of
active members, and they should no longer receive any cash grants.

Following the current implementation of the program, the list of beneficiaries is

regularly updated in the Beneficiary Data and Management System to reflect active
beneficiaries who are entitled to receive cash grants, subject to the monitoring and
evaluation of their compliance with the conditions provided by the 4Ps Act or
Republic Act 11310.

Pantawid Pamilya is the national poverty reduction strategy of the national

government. It invests in the health, nutrition and education of poor households for
improved well-being.

Beneficiaries are entitled to receive cash subsidies provided that the conditions for
health, nutrition and education are followed. These include sending and keeping their
school-aged children in school, pre- and post-natal care for mothers, regular and
preventive check-ups for children aged five years and below, deworming for children
aged 14 years and below, and attendance at the monthly conduct of the Family
Development Sessions.

"Ang Social Welfare Indicator o SWDI ay isang tool na ginagamit ng Pantawid Pamilya upang
malaman kung ano na ang estado ng buhay ng ating mga benepisyaryo: sila ba ay nasa
SURVIVAL, SUBSISTENCE, o SELF-SUFFICIENT level? Matutulungan ng SWDI na ma-
identify kung ano ang mga kakayahan ng mga beneficiaries at kung anong intervention ang
pwedeng maitulong ng DSWD at ng iba pang mga ahensya ng gobyerno."
-ANN JOLO
Social Welfare Officer III

DSWD 7 assesses well-being level

of pantawid pamilya beneficiaries
August 30, 2022·3 min read

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central

Visayas (DSWD 7) is currently conducting household validation
for the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) partner
beneficiaries in Central Visayas.

The target priority to validate are the 65,930 4Ps beneficiaries in

the region who are identified as non-poor households under the
third Listahanan nationwide assessment, or Listahanan 3.

“We have to revalidate these 4Ps households using the Social

Welfare and Development Indicators (SWDI) to determine the
progress of the households,” said DSWD 7 Officer-in-Charge
Shalaine Marie S. Lucero.
Lucero said the beneficiaries will be evaluated based on the
employable skills of members, employment and salary, source
of income, membership in social security, and access to
financial institutions.

She added that on social adequacy, families were rated based

on the members’ health condition, nutrition and education;
access to safe drinking water and sanitary toilet facilities; house
construction and ownership; and awareness of social issues.

The result of the SWDI will determine the level of living

conditions of 4Ps households. The levels include Level 1 or
survival, Level 2 or subsistence, and level 3 or self-sufficient.

“The results of the revalidation will serve as a reference if they

get to stay in the program. This will also serve as a reference for
the planning of other possible interventions by the DSWD and
partner national government agencies and local government
units to sustain their level of well-being. Hence, we are fast-
tracking the conduct of the activity until September,” Lucero
said.

The household validation will be conducted by DSWD field staff

that include the City and Municipal Links using the SWDI
General Intake Sheet (GIS) and the SWDI Score Sheet.

The SWDI GIS is a one-page profile of the household that

compiles the family’s demographics and socio-economic
characteristics, while the SWDI score sheet is a four-page form
that gathers information on the family’s score for each indicator
corresponding to economic sufficiency and social adequacy.

Since 2009, the DSWD 7 has already delisted a total of 55,076

4Ps households for being inactive 4Ps households; households
that no longer have eligible members for education monitoring;
households that have waived from the program; households that
are non-compliant; and households that graduated due to an
improved level of well-being.

Secretary’s order
DSWD Secretary Erwin T. Tulfo instructed the 4Ps National
Program Management Office to clean up its list of program
beneficiaries by identifying the 4Ps families with children who
have finished their studies and have no monitored eligible
children, whom he emphasized are already considered ineligible
to become program beneficiaries.

Based on the existing program guidelines, those who have

graduated or exited from the program and were assessed as
self-sufficient are being removed from the roster of active
members, and they should no longer receive any cash grants.

Following the current implementation of the program, the list of

beneficiaries is regularly updated in the Beneficiary Data and
Management System to reflect active beneficiaries who are
entitled to receive cash grants, subject to the monitoring and
evaluation of their compliance with the conditions provided by
the 4Ps Act or Republic Act 11310.

Pantawid Pamilya is the national poverty reduction strategy of

the national government. It invests in the health, nutrition and
education of poor households for improved well-being.

Beneficiaries are entitled to receive cash subsidies provided that

the conditions for health, nutrition and education are followed.
These include sending and keeping their school-aged children in
school, pre- and post-natal care for mothers, regular and
preventive check-ups for children aged five years and below,
deworming for children aged 14 years and below, and
attendance at the monthly conduct of the Family Sessions.

DSWD-7 to assess level of 4Ps

beneficiaries’ well-being
Published January 7, 2020, 12:00 AM
by manilabulletin_admin
By Minerva Newman
CEBU CITY— The Department of Social Welfare and Development-(DSWD-7)
Regional Field Office VII has conducted the house-to-house assessment of some
270,912 Pantawid Pamilya partner beneficiaries in Central Visayas to manage the
next 4Ps generation programs.

DSWD-7 regional information officer Leah Quintana told the Manila Bulletin that
the agency is using the social welfare and development indicators (SWDI) to
determine and monitor the progress of the Pantawid Pamilya families’ well-being
to facilitate the case management in promoting their sustainable transition out of
povert

Quintana said beneficiaries were evaluated based on the employable skills of

members, employment and salary, source of income, membership to social
security, and access to financial institutions.

On social adequacy, families were rated based on the members’ health condition,
nutrition, and education; access to safe drinking water and sanitary toilet facility;
house construction and ownership; and awareness of social issues, Quintana
added.

“The results of the assessment serve as reference for the planning and expansion of
various government interventions and programs towards the improvement of the
lives of poor families across the nation,” she said.

The assessment also serves as the barometer for the expansion of the 4Ps.
Quintana explained that interventions may include employment facilitation, skills
training, provision of livelihood opportunities, and referral to other programs and
services of the DSWD, other national government agencies, local government
units, and private organizations.

The house-to-house assessment was conducted by the various 4Ps field staff thar
include the City and Municipal Links (C/MLs) using the SWDI General Intake
Sheet (GIS) and the SWDI Score Sheet, Quintana went on.

“The SWDI GIS is a one-page profile of the household that compiles the family’s
demographics and socio-economic characteristics while the SWDI score sheet is a
four-page form that gathers information on the score of the family for each
indicator corresponding to economic sufficiency and social adequacy,” she said.

The 4Ps is the government’s investment in human capital that seeks to break the
intergenerational cycle of poverty by focusing on education and health of the
beneficiaries for almost 12 years now.

 
The SWDI is a tool used to assess the level of well-being of the DSWD’s 4Ps partner-beneficiaries
and to monitor their improvement from Survival to Subsistence to Self-sufficiency. Read more
here

Cash aid empowers women, curbs domestic

violence

MANILA, Philippines — Conditional cash transfers to the poorest Filipino

families have empowered female beneficiaries, reducing the risk of them
becoming victims of domestic violence, the World Bank said.
But the Washington-based multilateral lender said more needs to be done to
address a broader range of gender-based violence threatening women not
only in the Philippines but also worldwide.

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Based on data collected between November 2019 to February 2020 from

1,042 women and their partners who were beneficiaries of the Department
of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Pantawid Pamilyang
Pilipino Program (4Ps), the World Bank affirmed “extensively researched”
consensus that “cash transfers are most likely to reduce intimate-partner
violence.”
Started in 2008, the 4Ps give away cash to poor Filipino households in
exchange of ensuring that their children go to school and are being taken
good care of, while mothers avail of maternal health services.
Higher incomes, less stress
Besides a lower risk of getting hurt by their husbands, women 4Ps
beneficiaries in the country also face smaller chances of domestic violence
by their partners’ relatives, the World Bank’s findings showed.
Published last week, the World Bank policy research working paper titled
“Conditional Cash Transfers and Gender-Based Violence: Does the Type of
Violence Matter?” found out that as 4Ps help improve lives and livelihoods,
women-beneficiaries experience less stress due to their higher incomes, get
more empowered, increase their bargaining power in their households, as
well as build better social networks for support, just like earlier studies on
cash transfer programs elsewhere had shown.
“The 4P cash transfer improved household well-being (both for men and
women), enhanced women’s bargaining power and empowerment—devoid
of any male backlash—and bolstered women’s social networks,” the World
Bank said. “Results suggest that all four mechanisms could have played a
complementary role in impacting violence.”
Findings
“While our findings uphold the promise of conditional cash transfer
programs in mitigating violence, it also cautions us against considering
[such programs] as a panacea for gender-based violence prevention,” the
World Bank said.
“Our results demonstrate that the effect of cash transfers can vary based on
type and form of violence and therefore, a more targeted, fit-to-size
approach needs to be adopted. It is noteworthy that we find a significant
reduction in emotional abuse, which is arguably a less severe form of
violence, in effect, entailing verbal remarks or gestures, but we do not find
any effect on more severe forms of physical or sexual violence, which often
entail violation of the victim’s bodily integrity,” the lender said.