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Perception of Beneficiaries towards the Implementation of Conditional Cash Transfer (4p’s) in the Municipality of Sapian, Capiz, Philippines

MARIA AURORA G VICTORIANO

 

Abstract:

The Philippine government shows its serious effort to combat poverty through the continuing expansion of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Progam (4Ps), the Philippines’ version of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program modeled by Latin American countries. The 4Ps program now operates in 17 regions, 79 provinces, and 1,261 municipalities and 138 key cities covering 3,014,586 household beneficiaries. The study was conducted to determine the perception of beneficiaries towards the implementation of 4Ps in the Municipality of Sapian, Capiz with 285 respondents taken from 989 recipients. The independent variables were the demographic characteristics of the respondents. The dependent variables are the perceptions in terms of qualification, distribution, evaluation, monitoring, and political intervention. The research instrument used to gather data were the structured survey questionnaire and interview. To analyze and interpret the data, several statistical tools were used namely: frequency count, mean, percentage, and Pearson R. Fifty-six percent of the respondents were female. Most of them were between 20 to 35 years of age, and majority of the number of their children were four to six. Most of them were high school level and unemployed. The data shows that from among the six perceptions of the recipients, the qualification, monitoring of the program, political interventions, utilization of the aid, and efficiency in the distribution of aid are moderately favorable. The actual benefit of the aid was verbally interpreted as slightly favorable. The findings show that respondents have a positive view and acceptance on the PPP program only they met difficulty in receiving the aid in the sense that there are so many recipients, so they cannot be accommodated in the same time. The results show that despite the differences of the respondents in terms of their sex, age, number of children, educational attainment, occupation, and estimated family income, but still they have the same rates of information given to the PPP program.