Northern Mindanao -The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through the Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) will be conducting the Second Round Assessment within the month of May of this year.

A total of 793,989 households will be assessed for the Second Round Assessment. The first Round Household Assessment was conducted in 2009 wherein a total of 338,749 households were identified as poor.

Enumerators will be assigned in the various barangays and municipalities to conduct the household assessments.

Assessment will be conducted through “pockets of poverty” for the urban areas that is, identifying and assessing the areas only with the most number of households while for the rural areas, saturation assessment will be done, meaning, all of the households will be covered for the assessment.

Courtesy calls will be done to local government units and barangay officials to solicit support and ensure smooth implementation of the nationwide assessment.

A total of 2,505 Field workers comprising of Area Coordinators, Area Supervisors, Enumerators, Encoders and verifiers were trained and hired for the Second Round assessment.

Everyone is encouraged to cooperate and answer the questions accurately during the assessment . Eligible respondents of the assessment includes parents and children aged 18 years old and above.

Written by Mitzie S.Santiago, DSWD