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*Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

1st Semester S.Y. 2024-2025


2nd quarter WEEK 4
Department of Education
THE GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES Project:
The prevalence of social inequality in any society cannot Education For All (EFA)
be Sdismissed. In fact, President Obama(2013) said  It articulated the country’s national goals,
inequality is “the defining challenge of our time.” It has objectives, policies and strategies, as well as the
been part of us and is ever growing andexpanding as time regional programs for implementation for the
goes by. first decade of the EFA movement. Its thrusts
Social inequality can be describes as a state of social included Early Childhood Development,
affairs in Universalization of Quality Primary Education,
which there is difference in opportunity, status and and Alternative Learning Systems.
treatment Department of Health
among the member of a given society. Project:
As Lee and Rawls (2010) assert it, it is more than just a Service Delivery Network (SDN)
case of geographic difference. While persons from  Under this set-up, every family in a local health
economically advantaged backgrounds have always gone system is designated to a health service provider
to college at higher rates than their less-privileged peers, or health facility within the network to ensure
these gaps have expanded since the 1980s.However sustained access to quality Department of Health
pervasive these inequalities might be, though, it could 4 healthcare across political, geographical and
still be addressed. The government, having identified administrative boundaries.
these inequalities, tries to formulate viable projects and
initiatives to support research on programs, policies, and Department of Agrarian Reform
practices that reduce inequality in different sectors of the Project:
society. It extends to many areas like youth Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
development, reflecting disparities in arenas beyond (CARP)
education such  The developmental program provides for the
as mental health, criminal justice, and workforce disposal of public alienable and disposable (A&D)
development (Alegria, Vallas, and Pumariega 2010; lands with the intent to open up frontier lands
Fader, Kurlychek, and Morgan 2014; Schwartz, Ferguson, while the redistributive program involves the
and redistribution of property or rights on private
Symonds 2010). agricultural lands and the abolition of agricultural
The cry of the minority (any small group in society that is (or share) tenancy.
different from the rest because of their race, religion, or
political beliefs, or a person who belongs to such a group) Despite these, although people recognize that no single
roots from the desire to achieve social inclusion. Social program or project could actually lead to major changes,
inclusion is a fundamental principle of social justice. It is the government should still assure that the measures it is
the process of improving the terms for individuals and taking are toward approaches, programs, policies, and
groups to take part in society” and “the process of practices that work to reduce prevailing inequality in the
improving the ability, opportunity, and dignity of people, country.
disadvantaged on the basis of their
identity, to take part in society” (World Bank, 2013, pp. 3-
4). Prepared by:

MARIA FE B. DOMINGO
UCSP TEACHER
GOVERNMENT INITIATED PROGRAMS
Department of Social Welfare and Development
(DSWD)
Project :
The Philippines’ Conditional Cash Transfer
Program: Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)
 It is a human development measure of the
national government that provides conditional
cash grants to the poorest of the poor, to
improve the health, nutrition, and the education
of children aged 0- 18. It is patterned after the
conditional cash transfer (CCT) schemes in Latin
American and African countries, which have
lifted millions of people around the world from
poverty.

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