All set and ready to go – Team 2 of Lanao Del Norte headed by Ms. Maylyne L. Factor (Area Supervisor) recently conducted a courtesy call and orientation with the Local Government officials of the municipality of Poona Piagapo, Lanao del Norte . This is part of the protocol that field staff of the Department of Social Welfare and Development does when deployed in the field.
During the said courtesy call, Mayor Farhana Palawan along with the 26 Barangay Chairmen and representatives, were very much receptive of the team’s presence and the conduct of the validation as a whole. They pledged to support the team in whatever way they can to make the validation successful.
The team , along with Ms. Factor is composed of Mr. Al-Nor Limpao, Laisandra Macarimbang, Rocky Jane Metuda, Sarah Taping, and Candelario Patalinghug is one of the seven teams deployed in the five provinces of Region 10 who will be conducting the validation for Social Pension.
In region 10, a total of 15, 392 indigent Senior citizens have availed and enjoyed the P500.00 monthly stipend since 2011. Unfortunately, after a cross matching by the National Household Targeting Unit and the Social pension Unit, it was found out that only 4,068 of the social pensioners were found in the Listahanan or the the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) database. Thus, the need to validate the 11,324 indigent social pensioners.
Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is an information management system that the government uses in identifying who and where the poor are and is being spearheaded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development. It aims to address poverty reduction through a scientific and target- focused strategy.
A total of 66 field workers comprising 47 enumerators, 9 encoders, and 10 Area Supervisors were hired for the said validation.
To date, the Area Supervisors have already conducted the Barangay Community Characteristics as the enumerators are preparing for the actual validation.
Written by Mitzie S. Santiago,DSWD