New anti-hunger
program
targets
1M families
The government will realign the budgets of two anti-hunger projects to the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to raise the number of families covered by the conditional cash transfer program.
NEDA acting Director General Augusto Santos said shifting the funds from the Tindahan Natin and Bagsakan ng Bayan projects will raise the coverage of 4Ps from 700,000 poor families to 1 million.
Santos said Tindahan Natin and Bagsakan ng Bayan were found ineffective.
Santos said government is also considering an end to rice distribution in schools and shifting the funds to 4Ps.
Santos said the idea is to "converge anti-hunger projects to the finely targeted beneficiaries of the cash transfers program."
The Department of Social Welfare and Development, the agency that implements the 4Ps, will conduct a household survey identify the additional 300,000 bottom poor families that will be included in the 4Ps.
The survey will be finished in the first quarter of 2010.
The DSWD earlier said that it needs an additional P5 billion to help the additional 300,000 households. The 4Ps has a budget of P10 billion for the current 700,000 families being aided.
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