This programme has rapidly developed and currently benefits more than 11 million poor households (estimated to include 47 million people), providing them with a social security network by means of direct transfers. Families fulfilling the conditions receive family income support and must observe the conditions laid down relating to human development in return. For example, they undertake to send their children to school and undergo various types of vaccinations.

This is aimed chiefly at women who engage in Agriculture and men who pursue fishing as a principle means of making a living and others who are involved in small businesses and industries, but who may not be covered or are only partially covered.

Temporary agricultural workers are affected by diverse vulnerability conditions: job insecurity, seasonality in their tasks, high turnover rates, internal and external migration, and the lack of registry that deprives them from social security. This situation is compounded by the weather contingencies that can threaten the crops and, hence, the revenue.