The Social Welfare Development and Reform Project

The project has enabled the government to accelerate the pace of the government’s social protection reform agenda, through the expansion of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program and the updating of a unified targeting system. A total of 20 million Filipinos representing 4.4 million households with children under 18 years old have been enrolled in the CCT program that provides incentives for parents to invest in the health and education of their children. The program is currently the fourth-largest CCT in the world. Beneficiaries have been objectively selected through the targeting system called Listahanan, recognized by the World Bank as a leading example for other countries to emulate. This social registry for the poor has covered 75 percent of the country’s population.