Readiness of the Beneficiaries to Engage in Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) as basis for intervention

— The study centers on the readiness of the beneficiaries to engage in Sustainable Livelihood Program as basis for intervention. Specifically, it gathered data on the profiles of the respondents as to age, gender, combined family Income, family size, and other sources of income, including the level of readiness of the beneficiaries and the community in the establishment of the Sustainable Livelihood Program their locality. Moreover, the study revealed that the community is fully ready in identifying the project and in project implementation. Additionally, the beneficiaries are ready for Microenterprise Development and in the aspect of Employment Facilitation. It was also revealed that there is no significant difference on the perception of the respondents ’l evel of readiness of community, microenterprise development, and employment facilitation. Hence, the study concludes that the beneficiaries are indeed eager to start-up their SLP plan and the community is very much willing to provide the necessary support for the endeavor.The income of the family might push some families to be motivated and encouraged as members of the SLP. Families are also motivated to join because they see the creation of the SLP as an opportunity to improve their live and earn a living especially during this COVID-19 Pandemic. The real implementation of the SLP is a good evolving process of an organization that merits keen observation for additional knowledge in business management and administration especially in a rural locality with families of minimal income and education.


I. INTRODUCTION Back ground of the Study
The Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) is a community-based capacity building program that seeks to improve the program participants' socio-economic status.
SLP is implemented through a two-track program.The first track, the Microenterprise Development Track, supports micro-enterprises in becoming organizationally and economically viable.Meanwhile, the second track, the Employment Facilitation Track, assists participants to access appropriate employment opportunities.
Both tracks are executed based on the Community-Driven Enterprise Development (CDED) approach, which equips program participants to actively contribute to production and labor markets by looking at available resources and accessible markets.The CDED approach promotes the Local Economic Development (LED) strategy and Value Chain Production of each community.
LED, as defined by The World Bank, "offers local government, the private sector, the not-for-profit sectors and the local community the opportunity to work together to improve the local economy.It aims to enhance competitiveness and thus encourage sustainable growth that is inclusive…The purpose of local economic development (LED) is to build up the economic capacity of a local area to improve its economic future and to improve the quality of life for all.It is a process by which public, business and non-governmental sector partners work collectively to create better conditions for economic growth and employment generation."2Thus, the microenterprises and job matches to be developed under SLP shall be based on the LED strategy for each community.
A value chain, on the other hand, is "a sequence of production, processing and marketing activities: products pass through all activities of the chain in a certain order and, with each activity, the product gains value.In a wellmanaged value chain, the value of the end-product is often greater than the sum of valued-added" (Porter, M. 1985).3SLP endeavors to create and develop value chain productions for its program participants.Through SLP, the program participants' community resources are transformed into products and services and linked to local and national markets through extensive networks of partnerships in both the public and private sector.
Motivated by the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) which was successfully crafted by the Department for International Development (DFID) in the United Kingdom, the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) which is a community-based capacity-building program was formed in the Philippines.Adopting the key principles, structures, and processes, the SLP was tailored to fit in the setting of communities especially the people and their culture.It is a program aimed for poverty alleviation by providing identified poor families the appropriate income-generating opportunities through microenterprise or employment, to help improve their level of economic sufficiency.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is the lead agency in the implementation of SLP which was initiated in January 2011 in the Philippines.The three core programs in the convergence strategy for poverty reduction of the DSWD are the PantawidPamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), Kapitbisig Laban saKahirapan-Community Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS), and the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP).The SLP is being developed as the graduation program for beneficiaries of the PantawidPamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program of the Philippine government.Participants of the program are chosen based on a list known as the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction or the NHTS-PR, which identifies the poor, including their geographic location.Priority is given to the conditional cash transfer or the PantawidPamilya Pilipino beneficiaries in order to link them to income-generating opportunities enabling them to sustain development and thus transition from survival to self-sufficiency.
As a program to alleviate poverty, the Sustainable Livelihood Program, requires multiple strategies to be able to respond to a variety of poverty contexts and situations.
The livelihood strategies must be based on informed choices and rooted in the context of the community's environment, culture, and concerns.This challenges the National Program Management Office together with the implementers (Regional Program Management Office) to continuously innovate and develop new methods and strategies to provide the most appropriate and most effective set of interventions and achieve the intended results of the program.Since its implementation from January 2011 to April 2019, SLP served a total of 723,090 families, of which 620,874 PantawidPamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries were linked with public and private partners for either microenterprise development or employment facilitation (Dacio, 2019).Former DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman said that to complement the cash grants provided by PantawidPamilya to the beneficiaries, DSWD also provides them with sustainable livelihood support through SLP to ensure that they will continue to improve their economic well-being (DSWD,2015).
The SLP operates in a two-track system: 1) the Microenterprise Development (MD) and the (2) Employment Facilitation (EF).The MD Track uses the microcredit scheme, wherein participants are provided assistance in the establishment and expansion of their microenterprise.In this track, interventions would help participants to: acquire / improve their entrepreneurial skills; gain knowledge and access to the different opportunities for supplier and client relationships; prepare for enterprise management like group formation, business planning, asset acquisition; establish a new microenterprise or enhance existing microenterprises.
On the other hand, the EF Track facilitates the employment of participants through job matching and skills trainings.It focuses for the participants to: acquire / improve their employable skills; gain knowledge and access to the available job opportunities; prepare for employment, like processing of documents, job application; and, enter employment.After participating in the social preparation and capacity-building activities, the participants are provided with the corresponding assistance based on their chosen tracks.Further trainings are conducted during the implementation process of the program, as well as monitoring and evaluation (Malaya, 2019).
In the implementation of the program, there are six main stages: 1) Area Identification, 2) Participant Identification, 3) Project Identification, 4) Project Review and Approval, 5) Project Implementation, and 6) Monitoring and Evaluation.Stages 1 to 3 are very closely interrelated that during actual implementation, all three IJELS-2022, 7 (6) To be eligible for SLP assistance, a person should meet minimum age requirements (at least 16 years for MD and at least 18 years for EF) and must belong to a household assessed as poor in the Listahanan, DSWD's poverty registry.Current guidelines limit the number of SLP participants in the same household to two members, and each one should be on a different SLP track than the other.SLP prioritizes assisting household beneficiaries of the PantawidPamilya program -DSWD's conditional cash transfers (CCT) program.5 Indeed, one of the program's specific objectives is to "sustain and expand the benefits gained" by CCT beneficiaries through the program (DSWD 2011).CCT households clear the poverty requirement because they were identified as CCT beneficiaries using the same poverty registry.CCT households comprise 80.2 percent of all SLP beneficiaries as of end 2019 (DSWD 2019).
Motivated by the request from the 4Ps beneficiaries who graduated from the program and to extend the help of the Provincial General Services Office and part of the monitoring function of the PGSO, the researcher is motivated and encouraged to pursue the research.Being a member of the community, it is also hr personal responsibility to help the communities establish an income generating project so that they will not experience economic dislocation as they graduated from the 4Ps program.

Statement of the Problems
The study centers on the readiness of the beneficiaries to engage in Sustainable Livelihood Program as basis for intervention.
Specifically, this study sought answers to the following questions: The study in tends to assess the readiness of the SLP proposed beneficiaries in the barangays under consideration.It also intends to organized the SLP among 4Ps graduated families to create other avenue for income generation.

Significance of the Study
In a general perspective, this research is of significance to the domain of enterprise development studies as it extends the knowledge base that currently exists in the field.Practitioners, researchers and policy makers have recognized the potential of national economic prosperity and development through the impact of entrepreneurial activity and growth of small enterprises.Huge amounts of development funds have been spent and are being spent on a range of initiatives designed to stir entrepreneurial activity and build the capability of small enterprises.Therefore, research which intends to assist, guide and direct enterprise like SLP are power-house for rural empowerment and economic development.
SLP Implementers.The result will give more insights for a better implementation of the program.Inconsistencies or flaws in the process of implementation could be improved through the facts gathered.SLP Participants.The participants will understand more if not to appreciate the importance of the program which is to uplift their level of well-being or economic sufficiency through the income-generating opportunities.
IJELS-2022, 7 (6) The Researcher.This study will enrich the writer's knowledge about the in-depth of the program.Furthermore, it will help her in preparing recommendation/s that could be useful in the improvement of the program.The researcher being a member of the community will be able to provide more information that can help in the establishment of the SLP.
Future Researchers.The result of this study may also be a basis for similar studies in other educational institutions dealing with related research topic.
The Social Action Commission.The outcome of this study will provide more specific information on the sustainable livelihood program of DSWD which may serve a guide for better administration and management of the said program.

Scope and Delimitation of the Study
The study is delimited on the assessment of readiness of the barangay folks in the establishment of a SLP in their communities.It does not venture into a full-blown feasibility study and any connections to financial capability of the community folks.

III. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
A large strand of the literature examines the impact of microcredit in promotingentrepreneurial activity and improving well-being among the poor.A review by Banerjee(2013) of recent studies on microcredit note that while there is some evidence thatmicrocredit access leads to enterprise creation or expansion, there is no strong evidencethat microcredit has a positive impact on income or total consumption.A review by Banerjee,Karlan and Zinman (2015) of a largely different set of studies echo the same patterns ofimpacts on intermediate and final household outcomes.Impacts on specific types ofexpenditure such as education and health are also absent.Though somewhat moreencouraging, there is some evidence of negative effects on income from remittances andgovernment transfers, suggesting increased selfreliance.Systematic reviews ofmicrofinance by Duvenback et al (2011) and Stewart et al (2010) also note mixed impacts.
Several experimental studies show the potential of grants to existing microentrepreneurs togenerate increases in business profits, but suggest differential impacts in terms of gender,ability, mode of the grant, and initial firm size.For instance, in De Mel, McKenzie andWoodruff (2008a), cash or in-kind grants of USD 100 or USD 200 were randomized amongsmall non-agricultural microenterprises in Sri Lanka.Treated firms saw a significant increasein profits of about 5 percent per month relative to a grant of USD 100, but returns were lowerfor female entrepreneurs and those with less ability (in terms of years of schooling andworking memory).
In a similar study, Fafchamps et al (2014) randomized a cash or in-kind grant of about USD120 to male-and female-owned microentrepreneurs in Ghana.They find that cash grantshad less impact on profits compared to in-kind grants.This result suggests that giving capitalin-kind helps microentrepreneurs overcome the temptation to consume or liquidate the grant.
Moreover, the authors find that in-kind grants only increased profits of female-ownedmicroenterprises with higher initial profits or higher initial capital stock.Owners of such firmstend to be more educated, had been in business somewhat longer, and are likelier to havehad a formal loan relative to female microentrepreneurs with low initial profits.Their resultssuggest that cash or in-kinds grants would be less impactful on subsistencemicroentrepreneurs who may be less able to resist the pressure to consume the grant.
A related line of research provides evidence that livelihood programs combining an assettransfer with a package of supporting interventions, which have come to be known as"graduation" programs, can have transformative and durable effects on the poor.InBangladesh, Bandiera et al (2013) randomize rural communities to evaluate the impact of aprogram that provided eligible poor rural women with a productive asset (livestock),classroom training, and regular visits by a livestock specialist and program officers.Both twoand four years after the program, target women experienced an increase in labor forceparticipation and total hours worked, and a substantial shift from seasonal wage employmentto less seasonal self-employment both in the extensive and intensive margins.Targetwomen also experienced an increase in income, and their households saw an increase inconsumption expenditure and food security.
Microenterprises and self-employment are major sources of employment and income forpoor and lowincome households in the Philippines.In 2017, 28 percent of employedmembers belonging to the bottom third of the income distribution were self-employed(Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) 2018).Moreover, 56.6 percent of families in the saidincome group engage in entrepreneurial activities, which accounted for 25.2 percent of thegroup's total income (PSA 2018).
Several government agencies implement microentrepreneurship programs in order tocreate livelihood opportunities for poor and marginalized households.The design and analysis implemented has several major weaknesses.First, the preintervention variables used for matching do not include our outcomes of interest because ofthe absence of such data.This may mean that treated and comparison households areimbalanced on preintervention outcomes.Second, there is possible bias from participantself-selection and from possible non-random selection target of barangays by the program,both of which we are not able to account for in the matching and analysis.Third, the decision to match households within the same city/municipality may have resulted inspillover effects to untreated households which we do not account for in the analysis.Fourth,we are not able to control for confounding from participation in similar livelihood programs in2018.Fifth, the impact analysis does not take into account the effects of barangay-orneighborhood-level market size and the quality and timeliness of interventions received bytreated households, which may have differential effects on entrepreneurial outcomes.Sixth,the study has insufficient power to detect significant impacts in income, expenditure andsavings.SLP has been subject to a number of process evaluations, but there has been noquantitative evaluation of its impact to date.Our research fills this gap.We evaluate theimpact of SLP MD assistance on the labor supply, income, expenditure, income, savings,and capital investment of poor households.MD assistance consists of capacity building,group formation, and a grant or grants for microenterprise development.We focus on MDassistance where the grant component consists solely of the Seed Capital Fund (SCF)agrant amounting to a maximum of PhP10,0002 per beneficiary that can be used to start amicroenterprise or as additional capital for an existing livelihood activity.The microenterpriseproject may be individually-managed or group-managed.The evaluation is implementedthrough a matching design: SCF recipient households from January 2018 to June 2018 werematched with non-recipient but similarly eligible poor households.Data for the analysis wascollected through a survey of 2,592 households in 39 cities/municipalities from February2020 to July 2020.91 percent of sample treated households implemented a group-managedbusiness project.
The SLP recognizes the need to converge efforts with other stakeholders.To achieve the best outcome possible, the DSWD enlists the help of the public sector through National Government Agencies (NGAs), Local Government Units (LGUs), and legislators.It also promotes public-private partnerships with development partners, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), People's Organizations (POs), the academe, and the business sector(livelihood.dswd.gov.ph/).
In the contest of the SLP, the services and activities the SLP renders are called projects.Project is a set of interrelated initiatives or activities to attain a pre-identified and pre-determined goal or goals.Particularly for the program, a project is a planned and executed to be able to address the participants' need for an improved level of economic sufficiency.(SLP Operations Manual,2015) The SLP is an extended program for those who have graduated from the 4Ps to sustain their family.This is a part of the micro-enterprise to sustain the beneficiaries of the 4Ps after they are considered off from the 4Ps program.The beneficiaries of the 4Ps after thorough evaluation of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, are delisted from the 4Ps beneficiary level and enrolled in the Sustainable Livelihood Program.They may either establish a cooperative or any enterprise they find sustainable in their locality.
There SLP micro-enterprise already established in the entire province, and as monitored and evaluated by DSWD and then PGSO shows that these are progressing and developing.The Offices are continuously, monitoring these stores and are routinely conducting activities to further the knowledge of the members.These activities include simple book-keeping, financial management, enterprise management, strengthening organization and prospecting new ventures.
The experience of other barangays prompted the beneficiaries to embark in establishing their own SLP to sustain their living and in furtherance of the 4Ps program.The beneficiaries before the on-set of the SLP should be evaluated so that they will be guided and directed in which enterprise to start.However, the beneficiaries are devoid of the knowledge to start their SLP.It is at this point that the beneficiaries of the concern barangays requested the Provincial General Services Office for support and help.Heeding to such request, the PGSO of Kalinga initiated the organization of the SLP and as an employee working with the PGSO, the researcher is requested to conduct this research as an initial move of the PGSO to help the barangays concern in establishing there SLP.
IJELS-2022, 7( 6), (ISSN: 2456-7620) https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.76.46 336 The research is very timely for the proposed establishment of the SLP in barangays BadoDangwa, Calanan, Malin-awa and Binongsay, Tabuk City.It will also motivate the beneficiaries to organize their SLP because of the help and support of the Province of Kalinga through the Provincial General Services Office (PGSO).
The paradigm of the study consisted of the independent variables such as the level of awareness on the programs of the Sustainable Livelihood Program; level of interest on the programs of the Sustainable Livelihood Program; and, support services needed in the implementation of the Sustainable Livelihood Program.The dependent variable on the other hand is the establishment of an SLP in selected barangays of Tabuk City, Kalinga.The research paradigm serves as the ultimate guide in the conduct of the research.It is a capsulized presentation of the objectives of the study.

Independent Variables
Dependent Variable

IV. METHODOLOGY Locale of the Study
The study was conducted in the City of Tabuk, Kalinga.The study included the barangays of BadoDangwa, Calanan, Malin-awa and Binongsay, Tabuk City, Kalinga.These four barangays were chosen because of the intention of the 4Ps members who graduated to form and establish a Sustainable Livelihood Program to continue and sustain their family income.This research is the response of the Provincial General Services Office of Kalinga to the request of the 4Ps officers for the establishment of a micro-enterprise for the members after they have failed to organized one in their first attempt.

Research Design
The study made use of the descriptive method in the presentation of data on the readiness of the beneficiaries to engage in sustainable livelihood program in the barangays BadoDangwa, Calanan, Malin-awa and Binongsay.

Respondents/Information/ Research Participants of the Study
There are 80 total number of respondents representing the members of the 4Ps who have already graduated.

The total enumeration technique was used.
The distribution of the 4Ps in the four barangays is herein presented in a table form.

Instrumentation
The questionnaire was the main data gathering instrument.The questionnaire was formulated with the help of the adviser, the Department Head, Assistant Department Head and the two presidents of the 4Ps and presented to the research panel for finalization.
The contents of the SLP Field Manual were reviewed first focusing on the stages and preparation in organizing the SLP and the possible programs offered by the SLP.The group agreed to lift the SLP Field Manual content of stages and possible programs to be introduced.After a series of convergence, the final draft of the questionnaire was designed.

Data Gathering Procedure
A letter-request was forwarded to the Office of the Barangay Captains of the four barangays to inform them of the conduct of the research in their area and to ask for help to facilitate the involvement of the members.A letter was also sent to the four presidents or parent leaders of the 4Ps in the same barangays for the conduct of the study and its IJELS-2022, 7 (6) Thirty-one or 39% of the families have 3 to 5 members; Twenty-five or 31% of the families have 6 to 8 members; and, 24 or 30 have 9 and above family members.
Thirty-six percent or 29 have rice production as other source of income while twenty-six percent have vegetable gardening as source of income augmentation.
Twenty percent said that basket weaving is their other source of income, while 14 or 18% replied that their other source of income is sari-sari store.As shown on the table, the community is fully ready in identifying the project and in project implementation.
They are, however, ready in identification of the area where the membership will originate and the participants or members of those who are willing to join.
They are also ready project review and approval and monitoring and evaluation.
In the over-all analysis, they are ready for the establishment of the Sustainable Livelihood Program.The beneficiaries are ready for Microenterprise Development as evidenced by the man of 3.18.
They are also ready in the aspects of gaining knowledge and access to the different opportunities for supplier and client relationships with a mean of 3.15 and also ready in preparing for enterprise management like group formation, business planning, asset acquisition; establish a new micro-enterprise or enhance existing micro-enterprises with a mean of 3.04.
On the other hand, the same beneficiaries are fully ready to individually acquire or improve their entrepreneurial skills in preparation to the establishment of the Sustained Livelihood program in their locality.As to age those within the age brackets of 20 to 50 are ready while those above 50 years old are fully ready.
As to family income of the beneficiaries, those whose family income falls between PHP4,000.00 to 8,000.00 are ready, while those whose income is above PHP8,000.00are fully ready.
Those who are engage in Rice Production, Vegetable Gardening, and Sari-sari Store are ready, while those whose other source of income is basketry are fully ready.
This section presents the results on the level of readiness of the beneficiaries in the establishment of the sustainable Livelihood Program.In the aspect of Employment Facilitation, the beneficiaries are ready.
They are also ready in all the sub-aspects such as: to acquire / improve their employable skills; facilitates the employment of participants through job matching; gain knowledge and access to the available job opportunities; and, gain knowledge and access to the available job opportunities.The statistical data reveled that there is no significant difference on the perception of the respondents Level of Readiness of Community; Microenterprise Development; and, Employment Facilitation.Further, the hypotheses are accepted.

Microenterprise Development
The beneficiaries are ready to engage in the microenterprise development aspect of the Sustainable Livelihood Program.
The term micro-enterprise, also known as a microcompany, refers to a small business with a limited number of people working.A microenterprise typically operates with less than ten employees and is launched by a bank or other entity with a limited amount of capital advanced.Most micro-enterprises are specialized in providing goods or services to their local regions (Sidney, 2018).
The concept of micro-enterprises and microfinance was established in Bangladesh in the late 1970s as a way of providing people in need with a means of financially and economically supporting themselves.
In 1976, Muhammad Yunus founded Grameen Bank to provide microloan financing for the underprivileged, mostly women.Several organizations have since developed microenterprise initiatives, many of which appeal to people in developing nations (Ignacio, 2018).
The Women and Entrepreneurship report examines the state of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Philippines, and the contribution that women-owned businesses make to the Philippine economy.
The report provides an overview of the definitions of the different types of enterprises according to Philippine regulation, and the different classifications of 'small' and 'medium' enterprises based on the total value assets of the business as well as the total number of employees.These small to medium enterprises are viewed as significant contributors to employment and economic growth, and are associated with the formalization of a country's economy.
The report finds there were around 900,000 registered enterprises in the Philippines in 2019.An estimated 10% of these businesses were classified as small, and less than 1% were classified as medium.Less than 1% of businesses in the country were classified as large, while the vast majority (90%) were composed of micro enterprises.While SMEs have small organizations and thus tend to employ fewer people, the collective contribution of SMEs to employment in the country is significant.In 2019, SMEs accounted for around 32% of jobs in the Philippines, whereas large enterprises accounted for only 38% of jobs in that year (Muray, 2018).
Microenterprises are financed by a unique credit facility, who have no collateral credit history or employment.Such companies serve a crucial role in improving the quality of life for people in developing countries.
Usually, they provide good or service in their communities, such as the production of clothing and footwear, or agriculture.Micro The law hereby declared to be the policy of the State to hasten the country's economic development by encouraging the formation and growth of barangay micro business enterprises which effectively serve as seedbeds of Filipino entrepreneurial talents, and inter-granting those in the informal sector with the mainstream economy, through the rationalization of bureaucratic restrictions, the active granting of incentives and benefits to generate muchneeded employment and alleviate poverty (RA 9178).
Barangay Micro Business Enterprise," hereinafter referred to as BMBE, refers to any business entity or enterprise engaged in the production, processing or manufacturing of products or commodities, including agro-processing, trading and services, whose total assets including those arising from loans but exclusive of the land on which the particular business entity's office, plant and equipment are situated, shall not be more than Three Million Pesos (P3,000,000.00)(sec.3,RA 9178).
Problems faced by microenterprise firms under each function area of management (marketing, production, organization and finance) are identified.On the other hand, some of the best practices and coping mechanisms in overcoming the major constraints in the development of MSMEs such as access to finance, technology and skills, information gaps and difficulties with product quality and marketing are also presented (de Vera, 2019).
In the paper entitled "SLPs in the Philippine Manufacturing Industry and Globalization: Meeting the Development Challenges" (Aldaba (2018, p. 19) noted that Philippine SLPs studies have continued to highlight the same major constraints that affect SLP development everywhere in the world such as access to finance, technology, and skills along with information gaps and difficulties with product quality and marketing.
The Senate Economic Planning Office of the Philippines (2018, p. 3) categorizes these constraints as nonfinancial barriers (cost of getting electricity, heavy regulation, high tax rates, and corruption) and financial barriers (access to finance).The lack of access to financing has been identified as the most serious constraint to SLPs growth and development.
In the Philippines, private consultancy firms offer business advisory services to business enterprises whether they are small, medium or large.No comparative study has yet been made on how many MSMEs and large companies have been helped by these private consultancy firms.
Government agencies, on the other hand, are on the forefront of helping MSMEs through the provision of business advisory services.The Department of Trade and Industry maintains MSME Centers across the country through its Regional Operations and Development Group.
According to the official website of DTI (2018), these centers provide the following services: Hazel and Roberto Cabe managed a one-hectare banana plantation in the municipality of Quinapondan.In 2016, under the name Triple L, they experimented with homebased processing of banana chips with just 50 kilos of bananas, worth about €30.One year after the production of their first experimental batch, and as their product gained popularity in the neighbourhood, the Cabes decided to setup a small production facility.They purchased bananas from local farmers, who were happy to have a steady buyer for their products.Gradually, the business grew, and the couple soon had to take on additional employees to keep up with the rising demand.
In The study found that the intervention had a positive impact on the labor supply of CCT grantee spouses, but the impacts are smaller for group-project beneficiaries.Among individual project beneficiaries, the intervention increased the number of hours worked by 9.9 hours per week, and increased the probabilities of being in the labor force and of being employed by 23.1 percentage points and 20.4 percentage points respectively.Among group-project beneficiaries, the estimated increase on the number of hours worked is just 1.6 hours per week, while the impacts on their probabilities of being in the labor force (an increase of 0.5 percentage points) and of being employed (a reduction of 0.5 percentage points) are not practically important.The limited impacts on labor supply suggests that group businesses are not big enough to require employing a large number of their members (Orbeta, et. al. 2019).

VII. CONCLUSIONS
The beneficiaries are indeed eager to start-up their SLP plan and the community is very much willing to provide the necessary support for the endeavor.
The income of the family might push some families to be motivated and encouraged as members of the SLP.Families are also motivated to join because they see the creation of the SLP as an opportunity to improve their live and earn a living especially during this COVID-19 Pandemic.
The real implementation of the SLP is a good evolving process of an organization that merits keen observation for additional knowledge in business management and administration especially in a rural locality with families of minimal income and education.

VIII.
RECOMMENDATIONS It is recommended that proper coordination with concern agencies like the DSWD, DILG and DTI including private institutions and organization should be set as early so lay the foundation for the SLP to be established.
Sizing from the enthusiasms of the beneficiaries, it is proper to motivate them more and start information-education programs to secure their full support and sustained participation and involvement.
Pre-establishment activities such as setting organizational mission, vision, goals and objectives can be done as early to fix the road-path of the SLP to be organized.
More public discourses are encouraged to bring to the door-step of each member the value and importance of the SLP and how it will be operationalized to help each member for better living.
A future study on the economic impact of SLPs establish in the locality is most encourage to unearth the how far the SL Program have contributed in improving the life of the rural folks in the far-flung areas.
(Bose, 2018) last stage, directs the process back to stages 1 to 3, creating a cycle of planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation, to ensure that the necessary additional interventions are carried out, until the participants reach the targeted level of economic sufficiency(Bose, 2018).
One of the program's twotracks1 is the Microenterprise Development (MD) track, where participants are organized intocommunitybased associations and are provided with financial and/or training assistance toengage in household-or groupmanaged microenterprise projects.The program operatesnationwide and is reported to have provided over 1.8 million households with MD assistanceby the end of 2019 (Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 2019).

Table 2 .
Level of readiness of the community in the establishment of the Sustainable Livelihood Program

Table 3 .
Level of readiness of the beneficiaries in the establishment of the Sustainable Livelihood Program along Microenterprise Development

Table 4 .
Level of readiness of the beneficiaries in the establishment of the Sustainable Livelihood Program as to Employment Facilitation

Table 4 .
1 Comparison according to moderator variables income, they are ready to engage in the SLP.Those age bracket 20 to 35; those with family size of 3to 5 membership; and those engage in rice production and vegetable production are all ready for the establishment of the SLP.Those whose age are found within 35 to 50 and above; those whose family membership are 6 to 8 and 9 and above are fully ready.On the other aspect, those engage in basket weaving and sari-sari business are fully ready.

Table 5 .
Comparison of respondents' profile and the level of readiness of beneficiaries and community in the establishment of the sustainable livelihood Program (6)LS-2022, 7(6), (ISSN: 2456-7620) https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.76.46 342 value to the local economy.They raise purchasing power, increase sales, and also create jobs (Mola, 2018).The establishment of the SLP in communities is made legal by legislative act of the Philippine Congress with the enactment of Barangay Micro Business Enterprises (BMBE's) Act of 2002.
-enterprises not only help business owners boost the quality of life, but they also add IJELS-2022, 7(6), (ISSN: 2456-7620) https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.76.46 343 2017, as part of PIN's ESIP project, Hazel received training in product development, business management, marketing, and other business-related topics.PIN connected the Cabes to a variety of microfinance institutions and new potential buyers.In 2019, with support from PIN, the couple signed a large contract with a distributor to 190 outlets, mostly supermarkets in the country's capital, Manila.They also attracted an investor willing to invest in a second production facility.By the end of 2019, they were processing two-and-half tonnes of bananas on a monthly basis, with a value of approximately €9,000.With construction of the second facility underway, the Cabe's future looked promising.All in all, the achievements using the Microenterprise track is remarkable with a 106% accomplishment rate, which is over the target for the reviewed period.However, the good performance does not apply to Regions IVA, VIII, and XI which only had less than 50% accomplishment rate.One reason is the insufficiency in human resource assigned to assist the beneficiaries.Other reasons for having these outliers are that some PantawidPamilya Program beneficiaries simply do not want to engage themselves in the two tracks, or prefer to be assisted in landing a job and choose not to participate in the Microenterprise track.It is noted, however, that only 2% of the PantawidPamilya Program beneficiaries served under the SLP SEA-K were assisted in terms of employment in both public and private agencies(Ballesteros, 2018).According to a study on the SLP Microenterprise Development (MD) assistance on labor outcomes, income, expenditure, savings, and capital investment of beneficiaries of PantawidPamilya, DSWD's conditional cash transfers (CCT) program.MD assistance consists of capacity-building, group formation, and grants for microenterprise development.We focus on MD assistance where the grant component consists of the Seed Capital Fund (SCF)a grant worth a maximum of PhP10,000 per beneficiary household that can be used to start a microenterprise project or as additional capital for an existing livelihood activity.The microenterprise project may be individually-managed or group-managed.Beneficiaries form an SLP Association (SLPA) of five to thirty members.The SLPA is required to recover the grant from members through contributions or savings from the group business's income.The evaluation is implemented through a matching design: SCF recipient households from January 2018 to June 2018 were matched with nonrecipient CCT households.We use data from a survey of 2,592 households in 39 cities/municipalities.In our sample, 91 percent of SCF recipient households were part of a group-managed business project.