Abstract:
False Hopes: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Comprehensive Livelihood
and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP) in Addressing Unemployment is an
evaluative study that seeks to determine how effective the program is in solving the
problem of unemployment in the country. The research also takes into consideration the
context where this program was implemented, that is. during the global financial crisis.
This program was implemented in Tarlac City through its component program, Basic
Hygiene Package.
With focus on the formative and summative aspect of evaluation, various sources
of information and criteria of effectiveness were considered. Chi-square test was also
employed to determine the statistical difference of the two barangays under study,
Barangay Santo Cristo and Barangay Tarlac West, since the research also adopted the
comparative research design.
In summary, although the program provided financial benefits to its beneficiaries,
it failed to address the deep-seated problems that perpetuate the problem of
unemployment. In the case of CLEEP, these deep-seated problems include the lack of
education among the citizens as well as the foreign state- dependent economic system of
the Philippines. More so, the government and the beneficiaries lack the ability to continue
the program which questions its sustainability. Having said so, the problems of this kind
of program lie on the fact that it is not grounded on the real issues that it should address.
This kind of program only provides limited and short-termed benefits that cause no
significant changes on the lives of its beneficiaries. Furthermore, this lack of effectiveness of the program in addressing
unemployment is true in the case of the two barangays as they established no significant
differences based on the statistical test.
