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Monitoring and evaluation is crucial to continually improving program design. ADB has provided valuable support to impact evaluations of the Philippines' CCT program since 2010. These have helped identify progress as well as challenges requiring attention. For example, the lack of impact on children’s immunization rates requires revisiting the health conditionalities for all CCT beneficiary children. Similarly, reported school attendance rates remain high without necessarily being affected by the program.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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Enhancement of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) needs continuing innovation. ADB-supported innovations have also helped strengthen the Philippines’ CCT. The digitally supported Pantawid Pamilya Information System, compliance verification, and grievance redress mechanism brought the program well within reach of the beneficiaries. Additionally, ADB’s continued support to the proxy means test models used for identifying beneficiaries and impact evaluation has ensured a data-driven approach to measuring progress and informing program implementation.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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Enforcement of CCT program conditionalities should be continuously reviewed and improved. Enforcement of health conditionalities under the Philippines' CCT program is hampered by low registration of new births and compounded by manual data collection procedures for compliance verification. The executing agency may need to review program conditions so that the checklist of conditions includes reporting all births and submitting data for all children in the household.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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Social protection can be integrated with broader digital and financial inclusion. Strengthening social protection payment delivery systems can promote broader financial inclusion goals, allowing poor and vulnerable populations to save, borrow, and better plan consumption and investment decisions. In this way, social protection can be an effective tool not just to reduce poverty and build resilience, but also to promote economic empowerment and social inclusion. This requires expanding IT solutions, digital payment options, and financial literacy training for program beneficiaries.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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Incomplete registration and compliance monitoring and unjustified ceilings on the number of eligible beneficiaries can limit the outreach and transformative potential of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs. Unde the Philippines' CCT, all target beneficiaries and children within 4Ps households should be registered and monitored.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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Women could contribute meaningfully to construction works.

Project Number: 46420-002
Project Name: KALAHI–CIDSS National Community-Driven Development Project
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ADB coordination with relevant government agencies is critical to getting assistance to the beneficiaries quickly during emergency operations.

Project Number: 46420-002
Project Name: KALAHI–CIDSS National Community-Driven Development Project
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Adequate supervision, consistent dialogue, and close coordination are crucial to timely and effective project implementation.

Project Number: 46420-002
Project Name: KALAHI–CIDSS National Community-Driven Development Project
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CDD-based livelihood and enterprise development requires increased training and coaching and the involvement of other service providers and technical agencies

Project Number: 46420-002
Project Name: KALAHI–CIDSS National Community-Driven Development Project
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Effective implementation of emergency assistance loans (EALs) requires greater attention to financial risk assessment and management.

Project Number: 46420-002
Project Name: KALAHI–CIDSS National Community-Driven Development Project
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Community-driven development (CDD) approaches are effective but require intensive capacity building support.

Project Number: 46420-002
Project Name: KALAHI–CIDSS National Community-Driven Development Project
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Aid agencies need to make the criteria for their support clear to the government counterpart, while understanding why the government is seeking assistance in the first place. In the case of Danida, they held the funding as they wanted TESDA to (i) receive an adequate budget allocation, and (ii) seek reimbursement from Danida after spending their own budgetary resources. However, the government had a budget problem. Danida spent 2 years trying to encourage the budget allocation for TESDA, but that did not happen. Danida eventually canceled their portion after 2 years.

Project Number: 23229-013, 23229-023
Project Name: Technical Education and Skills Development Project and Fund for Technical Education and Skills Development
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More innovative cost sharing arrangements should be developed to ensure that very poor local government units (which find it difficult to provide counterpart equity) are not hindered from participating in programs similar to SEDIP.

Project Number: 25182-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Development and Improvement Project
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