Philippines Pantawid Pamilya conditional cash transfer and sanitation impact evaluation: overcoming barriers to adoption of sanitation for poor households in the Philippines

Increasing access to improved sanitation for poor households in the Philippines through financial savings and subsidies: a cluster randomized controlled trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN40629367

Enrollment

4080

Registered

2017-10-18

Start date

2015-09-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2021-05-03

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Conditions

Sanitation Not Applicable

Interventions

The evaluation is a four-arm cluster randomized controlled trial, where treatment is randomly assigned at the cluster (village / barangay) level. Barangays were randomized within municipality to one o

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Barangays (villages) were selected based on the following criteria: 1. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) priority areas identified for WASH convergence 2. Participation in the national Zero Open Defecation Program 3. At least 20% of households in the barangay having no toilet (defecating in the open) 4. At least 40 households participating in the Pantawid Pamilya. Within each barangay, the NHTS was used as the sampling frame The Pantawid Pamilya utilizes the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) to target beneficiaries. This is a national database of poor households, containing information on household eligibility and includes households’ access to sanitation. This targeting system identifies household eligibility and participation in Pantawid Pamilya, household composition, and proxy-means test. There was no minimum/maximum age and both genders were included.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Does not meet inclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Open defecation habits (proportion of sample that practices open defecation). Data collected through household and barangay level surveys in December 2015 and December 2017 2. Childhood diarrhea (2-day, 7-day and 14-day diarrhea prevalence in children aged less than 5 years). Data collected through household and barangay level surveys in December 2015 and December 2017	—

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Household take-up of improved sanitation (proportion of sample that has access to improved sanitation at the endline); improved sanitation defined using WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Committee (JMP) guidelines. Data collected through household and barangay level surveys in December 2015 and December 2017 The study is powered to detect differences in sanitation take-up both between each treatment arm and the control arm, as well as across treatment arms.	—

Measure

Time frame

Household take-up of improved sanitation (proportion of sample that has access to improved sanitation at the endline); improved sanitation defined using WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Committee (JMP) guidelines. Data collected through household and barangay level surveys in December 2015 and December 2017 The study is powered to detect differences in sanitation take-up both between each treatment arm and the control arm, as well as across treatment arms.

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Countries

Philippines

Contacts

Public ContactEdkarl Galing

egaling@worldbank.org+1 (0)2023440207

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026