PALO, Leyte - The World Food Program (WFP) will implement Cash Based Transfers (CBT) among community- based volunteer workers (CBVWs) in Limasawa Island in Southern Leyte.

CBVWs included Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) and Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) in the municipality.

A cash-based transfer is money given to vulnerable people who can use it to buy what they most need in their local markets. It is simply a payment from the government to help improve the lives of its citizens.

Cash transfer payments can be made in a lump sum or in many smaller installments.

It is a poverty reduction measure in which government subsidies and other benefits are given directly to the poor in cash rather than in the form of subsidies.

The impact of administering cash transfers shows that it can substantially improve the lives of the extreme poor.

Cash transfer programs have been shown to have many benefits, including reducing poverty, increasing school enrollment, and improving nutrition. The CBT will be a platform for other nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions as the same time as conditionalities for the cash transfers.

Conditionalities would include maternal and infant health and nutrition services, home backyard gardening, and nutrition education classes.

With the implementation of CBT in the island will improve the maternal and child health and nutrition services. Subsequently, it will also help reduce maternal and child undernutrition. #RNPC-CPD