The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)

Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)

is a poverty reduction and social development strategy of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-14.

• Social Assistance - to provide cash assistance to the poor to alleviate their immediate need (short term poverty alleviation); and
• Social Development - to break the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human capital.

4Ps helps to fulfill the country’s commitment to meet the Millennium Development Goals, namely:

1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
3. Promote Gender Equality
4. Reduce Child Mortality
5. Improve Maternal Health