Social Assistance Program
Cash transfer program for pregnant women and children under 2 years old
(start date of the program is from 2 February 2020 to present)
The Royal Government of Cambodia has a long-term vision for social protection by
building an effective and financially sustainable social protection system to serve poverty reduction, vulnerability and inequality policies through the introduction of a National Social Protection Policy Framework 2016-2025,
which focuses on two pillars: the social assistance system and the social security system. To improve the social assistance system, the Royal Government of Cambodia has launched a cash transfer program for pregnant women and children under 2 years old through a Sub-Decree. No. 245 ANK/B.K, dated 31 December 2019.
From February 1, 2020, the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation will be fully implemented, including commune / sangkat registrars and public health facilities as implementers.
Objective
Participate in improving the well-being of mothers and infants, and contribute to solving the problem of malnutrition of children in poor families, from the unborn child to the age of 2 years, to promote physical and mental growth.
Target group
Pregnant women and children under 2 years old in poor households with equity cards or priority cards.
Terms and conditions and registration for the program:
Pregnant women must have equity or priority cards and maternal health books
Children must have equity or priority cards and child health books (Children’s yellow card)
The implementation of cash-payout conditions:
In order to be eligible for pregnant women and children under 2 years of age in poor families,
the health check-ups must be performed according to the following schedule:
Health check service
Service time
Allowance
Stage
Pregnancy screening
- The first time
- 2nd time
- 3rd time
- 4th time
Pregnancy
- Less than 12 weeks
- 20 to 24 weeks
- 30 to 32 weeks
- Less than 12 weeks
Provides 40,000 Riels per visit for antenatal care, which provides a maximum of 4 times before delivery
Stage
Childbirth
In real time
Provide 200,000 Riel support only once during childbirth
Stage
Postpartum examination
- First time (check both mother and child)
- Second time (check both mother and child)
- Third time (check both mother and child)
- 4th time (Child health check)
- 5th (Child Health Check)
- 6th (Child Health Check)
- 7th (Child Health Check)
- 8th (Child Health Check)
- 9th (Child Health Check)
- 10th (Child Health Check)
Postpartum
- Day 7
- Day 14
The child is old
- 1 month and a half
- 2 and a half months
- 3 and a half months
- 6 months
- 9 months
- 12 months
- 18 months
- 24 months
Provide 40,000 Riels at a time, but provide a maximum of 10 times (including 3 times when receiving health services after childbirth and 7 times when taking Children come to be vaccinated until they are 2 years old)
The registration and cash payout
A. First registration
- Pregnant women and children under 2 years of age with the above documents must register at the commune to receive a WING card from the program and pay at the Wing counter.
B. Implementation of the conditions at a later time
- Beneficiaries must go to a public health facility to receive scheduled health check-ups with a maternal or child health book and a bank account card.
- Local public health staff must confirm the implementation of health examination conditions in the information technology management system and send to the institution
- Institutions open to transfer cash immediately to the beneficiary’s bank account
- Beneficiaries can withdraw money from opening agents anywhere in the country.
Message: Allowances should be used to purchase health food for mothers and children. Do not use this allowance to buy breast milk. Breast milk is the best food for a baby in the first 1,000 days of life.