CEDAW/C/PHL/7-8 102. A network of PESOs nationwide also provides employment facilitation services for both women and men workers. PESOs are a non-fee charging multiemployment service facility that offers the following services: Job Fairs, Livelihood and Self-employment Bazaars, Special Credit Assistance for Placed Ove rseas Workers, employment of students and out-of-school youth, Work Appreciation Program, Workers Hiring for Infrastructure Projects. As of May 2013, a total of 1,835 PESOs were established all over the country. Reintegration programs for returning OFWs 103. The State Party, through DOLE, launched the BalikPinay! Balik -Hanapbuhay! (Return Filipina! Return to Livelihood!) Project as a reintegration project for displaced overseas Filipino women workers. With a PhP 24 million budget ($571,000) allocation, the Project prioritized 2,400 women beneficiaries accessing short-period entrepreneurship training and job referrals including social protection services such as social security and health insurance. 104. The State Party likewise implements a Reintegration Program for OFW Returnees through the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). The program addresses the psycho-social and economic needs of both the OFW returnees and their families by organizing families of OFWs, providing business counselling, technology skills and entrepreneurship development training and providing economic packages to OFW. Improving social safety nets and social protection 105. Social protection in the Philippines has been defined as “policies and programs that seek to reduce poverty and vulnerability to risks and enhance the social status and rights of the marginalized by promoting and protecting livelihood and employment, by protecting against hazards and sudden losses of income, and improving people’s capacity to manage risks.” The four components of social protection include (1) labour market programs; (2) social insurance; (3) social welfare; and, (3) social safety nets. Workers in the informal economy are considered as a distinct major category whose needs and concerns should be addressed by a package of intensified and strengthened social protection programs and services. In 2007, the State through DOLE developed the DOLE Framework for Women Workers, and came up with a vision of socially protected women workers by 2010. Its goals were: improved workplaces for women; better lives for women and their families; and women as active partners in the community. 106. The State Party, through the DSWD, employing a convergence strategy (TATSULO) to harmonize its core poverty reduction programs — the Pantawid Pamilya Program or the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program, the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan — Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services Programs (KALAHI-CIDDS) recently transformed into the National Community Driven Development Program (NCDDP), and the Sustainable Livelihood Program to help address the root causes of migration. By identifying who and where the poor are, through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), maximization of resources and the timely, effective and efficient delivery of services to the marginalized is viewed could be achieved. 107. The CCT is a rights-based program that focuses on human capital investment through provision of health and education cash grants to eligible poor households. It 15-03079 25/36