In this aerial photos shows the town of Lutayan in Sultan Kudarat. A second class municipality covered by the DSWD Conditional Cash Transfer, Lutayan has a population of 56,179 people.  Province-wde, the DSWD CCt covers about 50, 436 households. This lakeside town shares Lake Buluan with its neighboring municipality, Buluan, Maguindanao.      

KORONADAL CITY, March 29 — The Department of Social Welfare and Development spent over 2.7 billion peso last year for Conditional Cash Transfer, the government’s signature anti-poverty program. Bai Zorahayda Taha, DSWD 12 regional director, said Wednesday the money were used to fund the grants of 233,435 households covered by the program also known Pantawid continue reading : DSWD spent over 2.6 billion peso for cash grants program in Central Mindanao

GENERAL SANTOS CITY, March 28 — When he was born, her mother discovered him different from other kids in their village.  At two years old, Jualina Soriano says her son, Marlito Jr., could already identify most of the names of animals. Her son, who most of the time go to school without taking a breakfast continue reading : Poor B’laan teen among top students in US university

KORONADAL, Philippines, March 22 — The Department of Social Welfare and Development reported Wednesday more than 32,000 households in Central Mindanao region can now stand on their own without the government’s assistance under the government’s cash transfer scheme. Naifa Balindong, regional program coordinator for operation of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, said based on their latest continue reading : Life of over 32K households improve under cash transfer program in Central Mindanao

SOCCSKSARGEN – The Listahanan of the Department of Social Welfare and Development identifies about 914,012 women across the region or 48.4% from the total 1,890,202 assessed individuals belong to poor households in SOCCSKSARGEN Region. The identified poor women of the region from the 2016 Listahanan data were in North Cotabato with total poor women of continue reading : SOCCSKSARGEN has almost a million poor women – Listahanan identifies

The entire town is covered by Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, the country’s conditional cash transfer program (CCT) which is one of the best-targeted social safety net programs in the world. Social safety net programs, according to the World Bank study, include cash and in-kind transfers targeted to poor and vulnerable households, with the goal of continue reading : In this picture show fishermen on the Lake in lake Sebu, South Cotabato.