a. How will you classify this project?

State your reason

The Social Welfare Development and Reform Project
After reading the article about the Social Welfare Development and Reform Project we
have came into a conclusion that this project may either be an Operational or
Strategic Project. It is hard to classify this kind of project since it focuses more on the
well-being of Filipinos but with further research and also with the help of the given
written material to us, we would classify the Social Welfare Development and Reform
Project either of the both. First and foremost, we would classify this as an operational
project since the objective of it are daily, weekly or monthly project benchmarks that
implement larger strategic objectives. Operational objectives, also called tactical
objectives, are set out with strategic objectives in mind and provide a means for
management and staff to break down a larger strategic goal into workable tasks and
when we try to analyze the Social Welfare Project we would see that the World Bank
has generated a system in where they have broken down work tasks into different
aspects in order to sustain and grow a program like this. Moreover, as what it is
discussed in the written material an operational project is considered necessary in order
to give full support to the present operations in terms of upgrading for efficiency and
enhancing performance and that is what the Social Welfare Development and Reform
Project is all about it aims to enhance the living of individuals who are financially
unstable most especially through the education of our children and also, it has
enhanced what our government started (4P’s) which has brought change and made it
more efficient and effective. To move forward, we have also classified this project as a
strategic project because as what we have learned the objective of a strategic project
are long-term organizational goals that help to convert a mission statement from a
broad vision into more specific plans and projects. They set the major benchmarks for
success and are designed to be measurable, specific and realistic translations of the
mission statement that can be used by management to guide decision-making. The
main purpose of this project is to create a lifetime help for our fellow Filipinos who
struggle to put their child on school, they have plans for our children’s future and
through this they will make it happen. Benchmarks have been set in order for them to
ensure the success of this project and they have also proven that the Social Welfare
Development and Reform Program together with the government’s project and plans
that there is a future waiting for every kid. Lastly, we have pertained that this program
can be either of the two because even though strategic and operational objectives are
substantially different, it is important to recognize that they are closely related. An
organization is unlikely to achieve a strategic objective if it fails to effectively translate it
into workable operational objectives. At the same time, operational objectives will lack
cohesion with each other and with the overall organizational mission if they are not
designed to affect the achievement of strategic objectives. Let us just put it this way,
strategic objectives only become useful when translated into operational objectives and
operational objectives are only effective when designed to serve a strategic objective.
b. In what particular phase of its life cycle is the project undergoing? Justify your answer
In the East Asia and Pacific region, the Philippines is one of the fastest-growing
economies. Poverty has been slow to decrease, however, and remains high at 21.6
percent. Poverty in the Philippines is concentrated in rural areas and, due to factors
such as disaster threats, vulnerability to poverty is a major concern. Upon reading the
full article on the Social Welfare Development and Reform Project, we concluded that
the project is in the execution process. Execution Phase, is the third phase of the life
cycle of project management, and it is typically the project's longest phase. The project
team designs the product or service during the execution process and provides the
client with the finished product. The Social Welfare Development and Reform Project
turned their plan into action. They developed programs that will help the Filipino Citizens
get out of poverty. The Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program, or the 4Ps, which provides
cash grants to poor households as incentives for parents to keep their children healthy
and in school. The 4Ps are a long-term investment that helps break the cycle of inter-
generational poverty by helping the children of today become active members of
society.

c. Characterize the projects as to its

1. Importance
The Importance of this Social Welfare and Development Reform Project in the
Philippines is to strengthen the effectiveness of Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD) as a social protection agency to efficiently implement the
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program, Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)
and expand an efficient and functional National Household Targeting System (NHTS) of
social protection programs.
2. Scope
The Social Welfare Development and Reform Project is implemented in 145 cities and
1,482 municipalities in 80 provinces in the Philippines. Beneficiaries have been
objectively selected through the targeting system called Listahanan, a social registry for
the poor which covers 75 percent of the population.
The projects have also supported the roll out and scale up of the country’s CCT
program, the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program, or the 4Ps, which provides cash
grants to poor households as incentives for parents to keep their children healthy and in
school. There are two requirements: children aged 14 and under and pregnant women
should have regular health checks; and school-aged children between 6 and 18 years
old should attend school classes at least 85 percent of the time.
The social development sector with the project shall and also will focus on ensuring an
enabling policy environment for inclusive growth, poverty reduction, and convergence of
service delivery and access to healthcare. Priority strategies include the following:
(i) Attaining the Millennium Development Goals;
(ii) Providing direct CCT to the poor;
(iii) Achieving universal coverage in health and basic education;
(iv) Adopting the community-driven development approach;
(v) Converging social protection programs for priority beneficiaries and target areas;
(vi) Accelerating asset reform;
(vii) Mainstreaming climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in social
development;
(viii) Mainstreaming gender and development;
(ix) Strengthening civil society-basic sector participation and public-private partnership;
(x) Adopting volunteerism; and
(xi) Developing and enhancing competence of the bureaucracy and institutions”(PDP
2011–16).

To achieve its objectives the project proposed a specific investment loan aimed at
supporting the CCT program and the institutional elements fundamental for its success,
including establishing the poverty registry and strengthening the national social
protection system. The project was also complemented by two programmatic technical
assistance programs that operated in parallel to assist in the operational implementation
of the project activities and the rapid expansion of the CCT. Moreover, funding was also
provided by the Asian Development Bank through a $400 million loan approved in
September 2010.

3.Lifespan
Poverty in the Philippines is popular in rural areas and due to factors like disaster risks
resulted in low human capital investment they implemented The Social Welfare
Development and Reform Project on 2009 and still ongoing until now. The Pantawid
Pamilya Pilipino Program, or the 4Ps, provides poor households with cash grants as
incentives for parents to keep their kids safe and in school implemented on 2007 and
still ongoing until now.

4. Resources
The conditional cash transfer program in the Philippines offers cash grants to poor
families to ensure that children remain safe and in school, thus decreasing dropout
rates and discouraging child labor. In order to continue funding for the CCT program
from2016-2019, the World Bank has given US$450 million. In order to continue
expanding and improving the program through 2021, another US$300 million is being
given.
The World Bank has used its institutional experience and expertise in the design and
implementation of large-scale CCTs and targeting schemes around the world to support
the government's social welfare reform initiatives. In order to better guide the social
programs implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)
and other government agencies, the projects have funded the development of an
objective, rigorous national household targeting framework called Listahanan. The
projects have also sponsored the introduction and scale-up of the CCT program in the
country, the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program, or the 4Ps, which provides poor
households with cash grants as incentives for parents to keep their children safe and in
school. The project has helped improve the capacity of the DSWD to conduct social
protection policy research and strategic planning.