Taha said the agency has already released nearly P3 billion in cash grants to the program’s beneficiaries in Region 12 and in Marawi City in the last five years.
She said the released cash grants was up by around P500 million based on its total disbursements as of the end of 2012.[]
Taha said the program’s expansion this year focuses on families of “children in need of special protection” and other marginalized sectors in the area.
In Region 12, she said its beneficiaries presently include families of members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
4Ps is a poverty reduction and social development strategy of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to “poorest of the poor” households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-14 years.
The program provides beneficiaries cash grants of P500 a month for health and nutrition expenses and P300 a month per child for educational expenses. A household with three qualified children could get P1,400 monthly.[]
