Observatory of Social Development
Pacific Alliance

2005-

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Conditional cash transfer programme (CCT) with emphasis on nutritional aspects. Since 2007, the programme is part of the National Strategy "Crecer", whose objective is the fight against poverty and child malnutrition, coordinating social programmes on the basis of three pillars: restitution of fundamental rights, promotion of productive development and social safety net. The participants have access to the Food Supplement Programme for Higher-Risk Groups (PACFO). In 2009, the programme established an automatic membership process for the participants (current and new) to the Integrated Health Service (SIS). Since 2012, the programme is managed by the Ministry of Social Development and Inclusion, in coordination with other Ministries related to social affairs, such as Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Women and Vulnerables Population. This enables participants to get involved with the public services.

Households in extreme poverty with pregnant women, widowed parents, elderly and / or children up to age 19. Before 2014 the age limit of the adolescents was 14. Indigenous families inhabitants of the Amazon.

National, but mainly in rural areas

1) Geográfica: Distritos y centros poblados con un nivel de pobreza mayor al 40% según el Índice de Ponderación Geográfico (IPG). In addition, the entire indigenous population of the Amazon (see comments).
2) Proxy means test: Families in a situation of poverty according to the Socioeconomic Classification of the Household Targeting System (SISFOH).
3) Categorical: The household must have at least one member of the target population and must have lived for more than six months in the district until the date of enrollment in the program. In addition, families must have an adult representative with a valid ID.
4) Community: The Communal Validation Assembly (ACV) is in charge of validating in public consultation the categorical criteria of households registered and not registered in their community.

Geographic Weighting Index (IPG) of the poverty maps of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI); and the Unique Socioeconomic Card (FSU), with which information is obtained to make the Socioeconomic Classification of families and its incorporation into the Household Targeting System (SISFOH).

General Registry of Households (PGH) affiliated with Juntos, which is incorporated in the Household Targeting System (SISFHO).

Due to reiterated breach of conditionalities in health and / or education. When the household loses eligibility.
There is a process of recertification. Recipient families can be part of the program for 4 years, point at which it is evaluated whether they have overcome their condition of poverty, those who have not achieved it remain in the program but considering a gradual reduction of of the grant.

The districts are selected by the Board of the programme based on a poverty map developed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and the application of variables such as violence, unsatisfied basic needs, poverty gap, extreme poverty and chronic child malnutrition. Then a Socio Economic Assessment is applied to shorten the list.
In 2009, the pilot program "Promoting Savings, through the use of their savings and access to financial services" was implemented. This includes non-monetary prizes for the promotion of savings.
Beginning in 2009 additional incentives for human capital formation were implemented in Valle de los Ríos Apurímac y Ene (VRAE), areas declared priority for public intervention. Two incentives exist: An annual incentive of $ 100 per child 14 years or older who has passed secondary grade and another of $ 68 per child 14 years old or older located in the upper third of the class at the respective secondary level (minimum score 14 out of 20).
The Central Focalization Unit proposed (in the 277-2014-MIDIS report) to categorize the entire indigenous population residing in the Amazon as extreme poverty, to facilitate their access to social programs.
As part of the measures to face the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and social isolation, the families of JUNTOS received an advance payment, equivalent to the value of the transfers for the second bymonthly payment (April-May) and the third (May -June) of 2020. Additionally, JUNTOS user families were part of the target population of the Universal Family Allowance, which delivered a transfer of PEN $ 760 (approximately USD $ 221), once per family, as of May 2020.

DS Nº 032 PCM-2005; DS Nº 062 PCM-2005; DS N° 036-2005-PCM; DS N° 012-2012-MIDIS; DS N° 09-2012-MIDIS and N°277-2014-MIDIS

Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion

Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion

Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion

Government of Peru; Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)