Core Social Assistance and Livelihood Programs

• Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS)
  •  A social safety net providing immediate medical, burial, educational, transportation, food, or outright cash relief.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Individuals and families suffering from unexpected life crises, economic shocks, disasters, illnesses, or deaths. 
• Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)
  •  The flagship national conditional cash transfer program investing in human capital through monthly health and education grants.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Extreme poor and near-poor households with pregnant women or children aged 0 to 18, verified through the national targeting system. 
• Ayuda sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP)
  •  An emergency financial intervention engineered to buffer the severe economic impacts of inflation on low-wage workers.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Minimum wage earners and low-income individuals earning below the statutory minimum wage who do not quality for traditional poorest-of-the-poor subsidies. 
• Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP)
  •  A capability-building program providing seed capital, technical vocational training, and employment facilitation.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Poor, marginalized, or unemployed individuals seeking to establish micro-enterprises or transition into formal employment. 
• Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens (SocPen)
  •  Direct, regular monthly cash stipends to support daily subsistence and medical needs.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Frail, sickly, or disabled senior citizens with no permanent income, regular pension, or financial support from relatives. 

Food Security and Community Development

• Walang Gutom Program (Food Stamp Program)
  •  An initiative providing electronic benefit cards to purchase select nutritious food commodities from accredited retailers.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Food-poor households experiencing involuntary hunger and severe food insecurity. 
• Kalahi-CIDSS
  •  A community-driven development project empowering local citizens to identify, design, and manage basic infrastructure projects like water systems and school buildings.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Residents of Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDAs), poverty-stricken municipalities, and disaster-prone communities. 
• Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP)
  •  Provision of hot, nutritious meals on top of regular meals to address undernutrition in early childhood.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Children aged 2 to 5 enrolled in Supervised Neighborhood Play (SNP) groups and Community-Based Child Development Centers.

Newly Launched Social Protection and Youth Initiatives

• ProtecTEEN
  •  A comprehensive social protection framework offering psychosocial counseling, health guidance, and social re-integration support.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Adolescent mothers, young parents, and their immediate families.
• Project Aruga
  •  Direct community-based specialized care management providing financial support and customized social services.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Families actively raising and caring for children with disabilities.
• Tara, Basa! Tutoring Program
  •  An educational assistance program where college students receive cash-for-work stipends by tutoring elementary schoolers.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Low-income college student tutors, and elementary students struggling with reading literacy.
• Pag-Abot Program
  •  An aggressive street reach-out campaign transitioning individuals into safe shelters while equipping them with life skills.
  • Target Beneficiaries: Children, families, and unattached individuals living or begging in street situation