An evaluation of the targeting performances of the Regional offices in the implementation of Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program
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2014-04
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This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in anchoring poor households in
the country out of poverty. We examine whether the actual household recipients of the program benefits are also its intended beneficiaries at the start of its implementation. Thus, we determine whether the program is successful in channeling the benefits it promises the poor to the poor households as determined by the 2011 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS). Using the variables akin to the eligibility criteria used in the program, i.e. poor households with child/ren aged 0-14 and/or have pregnant woman at the time of the assessment, this paper employs the Multinomial Logistic Regression to empirically test for the presence of leakages and under coverage in the program. We then compare the likelihood of the case of leakages and under
coverage per region. By estimating a regression model that use regions to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, the authors generate a ranking of the regions according to the
magnitude of leakage and under coverage that will likely be present in these regions. The results show that Region CAR produce the worst leakage problem while Region 9 produce the least.
Moreover, Region NCR produce the least undercoverage problems while Region CARAGA produce the worst undercoverage problem. Also, the regression results also show that the
undercoverage problem is extensive, also relative to leakage, such that the some regions with large percentage of actual beneficiary households are those of with low probabilities falling
under the right targeting of actual household beneficiaries. DSWD is giving less priority to regions with low right targeted households pertaining to qualified households that are actual
beneficiaries. Using these results, the authors establish that geographical targeting, or targeting that concentrate benefits to poor households in regions based on their poor status/eligibility into the program lessens/worsens the case of leakages and/or under coverage in certain regions. We also find that focusing on Region 9 and 4b will improve DSWD's targeting efforts.
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4Ps, HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::Philosophy of religion, Conditional cash transfer, DSWD