Copies of the Regional Profile generated from the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) were distributed to local social welfare officers and planning officers from various towns in Northern Mindanao recently.

According to the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the agency that developed the NHTS-PR, the Regional Profile will serve as a reference for the local officers to determine appropriate social protection programs in their localities.

The NHTS-PR was developed to formulate a uniform set of criteria for identifying poor households in the country through scientific means. It also facilitates in the sharing of high quality database to public and private social protection stakeholders, and reduce leakage or inclusion of the non-poor and under-coverage or exclusion of the poor in the social protection services.

DSWD Partners such as Philhealth, Department of Agriculture, National Economic Development Authority, Department of Health, and all the congressional districts in the region also received the Regional Profile which, the DSWD hopes, will help them in identifying appropriate beneficiaries of their social protection programs.

Written by Mitzie S. Santiago, NHTS-PR AA, and Charmaine P. Tadlas, Regional Information Officer