The Department of Social Welfare and Development through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTSPR) or Listahanan is now on its final stages of encoding and finalizing the outputs of the recently conducted validation of poor households in the region.

The validation phase was the last phase of the DSWD’s second round household assessment wherein complaints on the posted initial list of poor households were acted upon with the support of the Local Verification Committees (LVCs) organized in all Local Government Units.

The initial list of poor households was the result of the second round assessment conducted within the months of July to September last year.

With the conduct of the second round assessment and the validation phase per se, it is hoped that potential beneficiaries of various programs and services of the government and other stakeholders will be the ones needing it the most.

As per the Department’s Breakthrough Goal # 2 of the Department which is to increase the number of Listahanan identified poor families covered by at least two Social Welfare and Development (SWD) programs and services by 2015, a total of 270, 999 households (both Pantawid Pamilya and non Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries) have been identified to have availed of at least two Social Welfare and Development programs and services of the Department.

The Listahanan is an information management system that identifies who and where the poor are nationwide.  The database of poor households will be the basis in identifying the potential beneficiaries of various programs and services of national Government Agencies, local government units, non-government organizations and other agencies given that the latter has forged Memorandum of Agreement with the Department.

 

 

Written by Mitzie S. Santiago,DSWD