She said they also purged 36 of the 22,894 households under the expanded or modified 4Ps in the region.
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.
It provides beneficiaries cash grants of P500 a month for health and nutrition expenses and P300 a month per child for educational expenses, as well as P600 in monthly rice subsidy.
The modified program covers families and children who are in difficult situations and those in “pockets of poverty” not covered by the regular 4Ps.
These are families that are either homeless or stay in the streets where they earn their living, indigenous peoples migrant families, victims of disasters and those in need of special protection like families with children who were abused, abandoned, exploited and orphaned.
Taha assured that they are continually finding ways to improve the implementation of 4Ps and ensure that its intended benefits will reach the “poorest of the poor” households.
She cited the continuing rollout of the Sustainable Livelihood Program component, which was launched to help beneficiaries get into sustainable livelihood activities.
