AIM’s Center for Development Management (CDM) joined the World Bank and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in organizing a forum on “Protecting the Poor: Conditional Cash Transfers” held last December 4, 2008 8:30-12NN at the SGV Hall of AIM Conference Center Manila.
The forum focused on the global and Philippine experience in developing a program of safety nets for the poor, specifically Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT). CCT aims at reducing poverty in the short term through cash transfers, while at the same time encouraging investments in human capital by making these transfers conditional upon regular school attendance or the regular use of preventive health care services.
Resource persons from government and the World Bank shared their perspectives on CCT and other social safety nets: Secretary Esperanza Cabral of the Department of Social Welfare and Development; Ariel Fiszbein, Chief Economist for Human Development at the World Bank; and Margaret Grosh, Social Protection Specialist and Lead Economist for Human Development at the World Bank. Mr. Alberto Lim of Makati Business Club and Dr. Mahar Mangahas of the Social Weather Station served as the reactors to the presentations. Prof. Ernie Garilao, Executive Director of Team Energy Center moderated the discussions.
More than 200 representatives from various sectors, government agencies, civil society, NGO’s, the private sector, academe and media participated in the event. Participants from Tuguegarao province also participated via the AIM Global Distance Learning Center’s video conferencing facility. Mr. Bert Hoffman, Country Director of the World Bank Office Manila, opened the event. Prof. Nieves Confesor, Associate Dean of the Center for Development Management, closed the event with a very remarkable synthesis and closing remarks.
- Ador Torneo
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