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The Department of Social Welfare and Development through the  National Household Targeting System  for Poverty Reduction (NHTSPR)  or Listahanan  has finally launched the database of poor households in Northern Mindanao last July 22,2016.

It was participated in by Planning Officers , Local Social Welfare Officers, and some Local Chief Executives from the five provinces of the region.

Testimonials  on how the old database was utilized  (particularly in the implementation of their various social protection programs and services) were also shared by the Local Government  Unit of El Salvador City and one of the active partners of the Department , the Safer River, Life Saver Fouindation  Inc.

Assistant Regional Director for Operations, Aldersey dela Cruz , presented the Profile of the Poor in the Region while Innovations and Results for Listahanan  2 was also presented by Director Rhodora Alday  of the  Policy Development & Planning Bureau of the DSWD Central Office.

Assistant Secretary Noel Macalalad , who was  the  Keynote speaker for the said launching,  stressed to the participants  the importance of figures and number of beneficiaries served   by the partner stakeholders as proof  of  the credibility of the Listahanan data in identifying  direct and concrete beneficiaries.

In Northern Mindanao, the province of  Bukidnon has the highest number of poor households  totalling to  166,160 households . Lanao del Norte ranked the second with 126,949 poor households .  Third on rank  is the province of  Misamis Oriental with 124,737 poor households.

Listahanan, also known as the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction  (NHTSPR) was established by the Department of Social Welfare and Development to target who and where the poor are.  The comprehensive database  serves as a basis for selecting  beneficiaries of social protection  programs  and services in the country.

Results from the second round assessment conducted in 2015 identified 485,539 poor households  out of the 870,198 households assessed.

 

Written by Mitzie S. Santiago, DSWD