The Department of Social Welfare and Development through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction or Listahanan is currently conducting an updating of  1,977 Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries regionwide .

The said beneficiaries were those households  that were not assessed during the regular assessment schedule and validation phase of the Listahanan Second Round Assessment.This was conducted  in coordination with the Pantawid Municipal Action Team and the City Action Teams assigned in the Local Government Units who were mobilized to conduct the updating and monitoring of the said beneficiaries.

To date, the DSWD is now on the process of finalizing and encoding of the  accomplished forms used during the validation. Review and rectification of household records are also being done in the process.

The First Round Assessment which was conducted way back 2009 was the basis for identifying the present Pantawid beneficiaries.

The Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System is an information management system that identifies who and where the poor are. Its database serves as basis for the Department, Local Government Units, Partner Agencies , academe, and other stakeholders who have entered into a  Memorandum of Agreement with the Department of Social Welfare and Development, in identifying potential beneficiaries of their programs and services.

The Second Round household assessment was conducted in the middle of the previous year.  Validation of the initial list of poor households identified during the assessment was done with the support of the Local Verification Committees in all the Local Government Units.

 

Written by Mitzie S. Santiago, DSWD