Program Objectives
Main Objectives
Wage employment
Food security
Financial inclusion
Self-employment
Market access
Social services
Income diversification
Women's empowerment
Social cohesion
Productivity
Social inclusion
Climate resilience
Program Description
Transform is a capacity-building program for ultra-poor communities targeted through a proxy-means test. Over four months, participants receive lessons on health, livelihood skills, and values building, and form savings groups and election of leaders who can join the Prevail program.
Program Components
Transfer
Coaching
Business capital
Financial services facilitation
Wage employment facilitation
Market links
Skills training
Climate resilience support
Average program duration for participants
Under one year
Between one and three years
More than three years
Do participants access components in a specific sequence?
Digitization
COMPONENTS DELIVERED DIGITALLY
Transfer
Coaching
Business capital
Financial services facilitation
Market links
Skills training
Climate resilience support
Wage employment
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
TARGETED POVERTY GROUPS
Extreme poor
Ultra-poor
PRIORITY VULNERABLE GROUPS
Women
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
PARTICIPANT IDENTIFICATION METHODS
Community-based targeting
Geographic targeting
Proxy Means Test
Basic Program Information
Country
Philippines
Region
East Asia & Pacific
Lead implementing agency
International Care Ministries
Type lead implementing agency
NGO
Start date
End date
Open-ended
P-code (WB programs)
DNA
Global Practice (World Bank)
Non-WB
Country Information
Lending category (WB only)
IBRD
FCV country (WB FY24 list)
No
Total Population (million)
113.88
Poverty headcount (NPL) (%)
18.10%
Poverty headcount ($2.15/day (2017 PPP)) (%)
3.00%
Poverty headcount (MPI) (%)
5.80%
No. Economic inclusion programs in the country
3
No. beneficiaries (direct & indirect) of economic inclusion programs in the country
187,668
PLANNED RESEARCH AND EVALUATION
EVALUATION/RESEARCH TYPES
Process evaluation
Institutional assessments
Economic evaluation
Impact evaluation
IMPACT EVALUATION TOPICS
Overall impact
Cost effectivness
Scalable delivery modalities
Dynamics over time
Optimal combination of components
Applicablity to other settings
Timing, sequencing, and intensity of components
Name research partners
De La Salle University Innovations for Poverty Action University of Toronto Yale University
Date when impact evaluation results available
Implementation studies are ongoing with most of the RCTs currently at the midline analysis stage. Final and endline analyses are anticipated to be made publicly available by 2026.
Data submitted as of , through
PEI’s Landscaping Survey.
For more information on the survey
click here.
Program Coverage
Direct participants
41,456
Direct & indirect beneficiaries
175,220
Percentage female participants
76-99% of participants
Share of country population (%)
: 0.15
Share of poor (national poverty line) (%)
: 0.85
Area/s
: Mix (urban & rural)
Geographic coverage
: Several states/regions
Institutional Arrangements
| Organizations | Involved In Implementation | Providing Financing |
|---|---|---|
| National/central government | ||
| Regional/district government | ||
| Local/municipal government | ||
| Non-governmental organization | ||
| Community | ||
| Financial Service Provider | ||
| World Bank | ||
| Multilateral (not WB) | ||
| Bilateral organization | ||
| Private sector organization |
Community Engagement
Components Delivered Through Community
- Transfer
- Business capital
- Wage employment facilitation
- Skills training
- Coaching
- Financial services facilitation
- Market links
- Climate resilience support
Community Structures Leveraged for Program delivery
- Informal community groups
- Formal community groups
- Local governance groups
- Community individuals
- Other community structures
| DNA: Does Not Apply; FY: Fiscal Year; FCV: Fragility, Conflict, and Violence; MPI: Multidimensional Poverty Index; NPL: National Poverty Line; N/A: Not available; WB: World Bank |