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Inter-American Social Protection
Network (IASPN) Technical
Consolidation Meeting
Mexico City, Mexico
August 10th -12th , 2011
Trinidad and Tobago: IASPN and Cooperation in the Caribbean
The Rights of Individuals to Social and Economic Security,
Universal Prosperity (RISE-UP)
Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
Presented by
Inshan Mohamed
National Director
Ministry of the People and Social Development
Trinidad and Tobago’ s
Framework for Sustainable Social Development
Millennium Development Goal 1:
To Eradicate Extreme Hunger &
Poverty
T&T National Strategic Plan
Pillar 2: Poverty Eradication
& Social Justice
Core Social Sector Ministry:
Ministry of the People & Social
Development
Target 1 A: Halve the
proportion of people
living in poverty by
2015
Preference for the Poor
and DisadvantagedTo reduce poverty by 2%
per annum
Corporate Objective 1:
To reduce the incidence
of poverty in society
Trinidad &Tobago’s Social Situation: Poverty Information
Year
Population
(1,262,366)
Living above
poverty line
(1,051,551)
Non-Poor
(937,939)
Vulnerable
(113,612)
Living below
poverty line
(210,815)
Poor
(195,667)
Indigent
(15,148)
Year
2000
Unemployment
Rate
12.17
Unemployment
Rate
2001
10.83
2007 5.6
2002
10.4
2008 4.6
2003
10.47
2009 5.1
2004
8.37
2010 5.5*
2005
7.97
2006 6.22
Level of Poverty and
Vulnerability lines
TT$ Per Month
TT$ Per Annum
Revised Poverty
Line 2009/2010
Indigence line
$255.00
3,060.00
479.75
Poverty Line
$665.00
7,980.00
1247.34
Vulnerability Line
$831.25
9,975.00
Poverty Demographics for Trinidad & Tobago
PERCENTAGE OF POOR BY REGIONAL CORPORATION 2005 - Trinidad
Diego Martin 14.9
Tunapuna/Piarco 10.5
Sangre Grande 39.1
San Juan/Laventille 14.7
Port of Spain 18.0
PERCENTAGE OF REGIONAL
CORPORATION POOR 2005 - Tobago
Arima 4.5
Chaguanas 8.9
Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo 10.5
San Fernando 11.2
Penal/Debe 12.0
Point Fortin 24.6
Siparia 27.7
Princes Town 30.0
Mayaro/Rio Claro 26.6
T&T’s Investment in the Social Sector 2004-2010
Percentage of Budgeted Allocations to the Core Social Sector Ministries in Trinidad and Social Services
Divisions of the THA for the period 2004-2010
40%
35%
30%
36%
31%
32%
23%
25%
34%
28%
23%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
2004
2005
2006
2007
Allocations to Core Social Sector Ministries in Trinidad and
Social Services Divisions of the THA in Relation to GDP
(2004-2009)
TT$ Billion
100
86
75.8
71.3
90
92.1
88.7
50
7
7.7
0
2004
2005
10.3
2006
10.9
2007
15
15.7
GDP
Allocation
2008
2009
2008
2009
2010
Core Social Sector Ministries involved in Poverty Reduction in T&T
Ministry of the People and Social Development
Social Welfare; TCCTP; Poverty Reduction Programme
Community
Development
-Non Traditional Skills Training
for Women
-Defining Masculine Excellence
Public Utilities
-Utilities Assistance
-National Social
Development
Programme (NSDP)
Science,
Technology and Tertiary
Education
-Youth Training and Employment
Partnership Programme (YTEPP)
-Mulit-Sector Skills Training
Programme (MuST)
-Retraining Programme
Education
-School Nutrition
Programme
-Textbook Rental/Loan
Programme
National Security
-Civilian Conservation
Corps
-MYPART,
-MILAT
Food Production,
Land & Marine
Affairs
-Youth Apprenticeship
Programme in
Agriculture
Health
-Chronic Disease
Assistance Programme
-Surgical Waiting List
Housing & the
Environment
-Home Improvement
Grant/subsidy
-Government Housing
Programme
-Squatter Regularization
Finance
Unemployment Relief
Programme (URP)
The SSN Landscape in Trinidad and Tobago
Social Assistance
Old Age Pension, Public Assistance, Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer
Program, Utilities Assistance Program, Disability Assistance, Urgent
Temporary Assistance, Secondary School Book Grants, Government
Assistance for Tertiary Education
Social Security
National Insurance Scheme (NIS)
Widow and Orphan Fund (State)
Gratuity & Severance
Annuities
Health & Nutrition
School Nutrition Program, Financial Assistance to Necessitous Patients,
Patient Care Program, Chronic Disease Assistance Plan, Government
Subsidy for Adult Cardiac Surgery, Special Diet Assistance
Labor Market
Unemployment Relief, Youth Training &Employment, Multi-Sector Skills
Training, Adult Education, Civilian Conservation Corps, Adolescent
Mothers Program, multiple Micro Enterprise programs
Community-based
Community Development Fund, Micro-project Fund
Housing
Home Improvement Grants, Low Income Settlement Program, Low
Income Housing
Care & Protection
Care and Protection Services
General Subsidies
Oil and gas
Benefits of the IASPN Cooperation in the Caribbean to T&T
The Network has created opportunities for building awareness and dialogue in
support of major social development issues relevant to member states;
The Network has allowed Caribbean nations to share experiences and learn
from each other;
The effort of the Network, through its various training initiatives in the area of
social development and poverty alleviation, has helped to strengthen human
resource capacity in the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction
initiatives;
This exchange of experience reduced the challenges/pitfalls experienced and
helped us to expand social capital in our programme;
 Improved capacity building - study visits, internships, workshops, seminars and
the virtual platform was valuable in the transfer of social technology
Initiatives of the MPSD based on Cooperation Initiatives
facilitated through the OAS and by formalising of the IASPN
Consolidation and Integration of Social Services Delivery
Integrated Social Enterprise Management System
The Way Forward: RISE-UP
Development of a Policy for RISE-UP
Rights-based Approach
Multiple-Grant Card biometric
Main Tasks to be Addressed by Technical Teams
Towards the development of a RISE-UP Framework for
effective & integrated social protection from the sharing of
experiences through the Network
Evolution of the RISE-UP Programme in T&T
Social Help
And
Rehabilitative
Efforts
(SHARE)
• Basic Support
for the
Socially
Vulnerable
through
hamper
distribution
PUENTE
Learning
Experience
• Adaptation of
Best Practices
derived from
the Chile
Solidario
System
TCCTP/
STEP-UP
• Holistic
Approach to
Poverty
Reduction with a
conditional
component
TCCTP/Rights of
Individuals to Social
and Economic
Security –Universal
Prosperity (RISE-UP)
• Sustainable
Poverty
Reduction/
Rights-based
Approach
The T.C.C.T.P is intended to provide social protection by promoting nutrition and
food security to vulnerable households, thereby reducing the incidence of poverty.
The T.C.C.T.P addresses food insecurity via a cash transfer while simultaneously
spearheading rehabilitative and developmental activities by ensuring that recipients
are afforded skills training as well as referrals and assistance in finding employment
as a prerequisite for receiving the cash transfer.
The programme also provides training in specific areas including: budgetary
planning, family planning, career guidance and life skills and is governed by Policy
Guidelines
RISE-UP Model: Trinidad and Tobago
Client Assessment
(Eligibility)
Programme Offer
Family Worker
& client will
begin to examine
the key areas
of family life &
construct the
STEPS to a higher
standard of living:
Minimum
conditions
established.
The Rights of Individuals to
Social and Economic SecurityUniversal Prosperity was
designed to implement the
conditional component of the
TCCTP and is to be executed
via the Family Intervention
Network (FIN).
Minimum
Conditions
Achieved
Graduation
Social
Protection
Programmes
Developmental
Programmes
FIN
Life Skills
Employment
Opportunities
RISE-UP utilises family
caseworkers to provide ongoing
psychosocial support to clients
by addressing eight dimensions:
personal identification, health,
education, housing, employment,
family dynamics,
safety/security and
income
8 Pillars of RISE-UP: Conditional Component of TCCTP
Personal
Identification
Safety &
Security
Housing
Income
RISEUP
Education
Employment
Health
Family
Dynamics
Programme Logic
Exposure of family
members to Skills
Training in areas
required by the market
Participation
of families
living in
Poverty in the
TCCT
Programme
Exposure of the family
members to Life Skills
Development Sessions
Direct Psycho-social
support based on
Family Casework
Short term cash
transfer/access to
other grants
Overall
Goal
Increased
Income earning
capacity of the
family
Reduction in
psychosocial
barriers to
development of
family members
Transformation
of families
living in
Poverty into
self-sustaining
entities with
improved
quality of life
for all
members-strong
families
Linkages among Social Protection measures in T&T
-Utilities
Assistance
-National Social
Development
Programme
Health
-Public
Assistance
Grant
-General
Assistance
Grant
Public
Utilities
Social Sector
Community
Development
Housing
Social
Welfare
MPSD
-Women in
Harmony
Poverty
Reduction
Programme
TCCTP/
RISE-UP
-Electronic debit
Card
-Life skills training
-Developmental
programmes
-Psycho-social
support
Education
Microenterprise
Grant
Microenterprise
Loans
National
Director
Assistant
Director
RISE-UP Secretariat (National Training
Coordinator (1) & Human Development
Officers (3)
Database Administrator (1)
Data Entry Clerks (5)
Clerks (15)
Clerk Steno (15)
Outreach
Coordinator
(1)
Monitoring and
Evaluation Specialist(1)
Executive
Assistant (1)
Project
Secretary (1)
Drivers (2)
Regional Managers (4)
Regional Coordinators/
Offices (15)
Liaison Officers / Family
Case Workers (105)
Programme Needs
New Approaches in RISE-UP
Outcomes
New Targeting Model
•Geographic Targeting-:
Direct Impact- Reaching Out to the
People/Seeking out the People
•Community Targeting
•Means Testing
•Self Selection
•Referred Clients
A more pro-active approach to targeting the vulnerable by
meeting them at their doors and within communities
A co-responsibility framework
with beneficiaries to achieve
their commitments during the
process
Social Contract
A system that allows clients to become agents of their own
change instead of assuming the role of passive recipients
Comprehensive approach to
poverty reduction
•RISE- UP/ Life -Skills Training
•Linkages with other Social Sector
Programmes
•Rights-based Approach –
Conducting research to guide the
legislative framework
Greater emphasis on the family unit-addressing the
individual’s problems in the context of the family’s
situation
Basic support which enables
beneficiaries to function within
the system.
Multiple Grant Card
Integration of the various offerings into a coordinated and
coherent system. This will allow the TCCTP to address the
diverse expressions of poverty and make a comprehensive
offering to beneficiaries to promote sustainable poverty
reduction.
Reorganization of existing
resources with a focus on the
vulnerable
Family Intervention Network
Preferential access for vulnerable families to a suite of
social services
Agent of change who commits
to the families during the
Integrated Enterprise Case
Management System
Psychosocial support through the provision of a social
worker who works directly with the families: the Family
Direct Impact-Reaching Out to the People
Ministry of Social Development
on community visits.....
The Ministry of the People and Social
Development has embarked on a series
of community visits aimed at reaching
out to the people
The initiative is entitled ‘Direct Impact’
Other ministries have also come on
board, and even members of civil society
have been prompted to reach the most
vulnerable in society and ensure they
are given a better quality of life.
At the visits, the public is informed
about social services that are currently
available such as the TTCARD and social
welfare as well as how to access them.
Govt plans multiple application card for
needy By MELISSA DASSRATH Sunday, October 10 2010
The Princes Town community visit came
off as planned and Minister of the People
and Social Development, Glenn
Ramadharsingh had an opportunity to
speak with residents
Review of TCCTP
-Survey of over 15,000 households
Review of TCCTP
Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (TCCTP) Recipients
- Trinidad
POS
Diego Martin
San Juan/Laventille
Tunapuna/Piarco
Chaguanas
San Fernando
Sangre
Grande
Couva
Tabaquite
Talparo
Point Fortin
Penal/Debe
Siparia
Princes Town
Mayaro
Rio Claro
TCCTP CARD RECIPIENTS - TOBAGO
2
2,372
2,372
2, 372 Cards distributed throughout country
Thank You