Bulacan, DSWD sign MOA on data sharing for poor’s social protection

CITY OF MALOLOS, Bulacan — The Provincial Government of Bulacan headed by Governor Wilhelmino M. Sy-Alvarado signed recently a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on Data Sharing with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for its “Listahanan” or poverty database at the Capitol, here.

The DSWD Listahanan is an information management system that provides national government agencies, development partners, and other social protection duty-bearers with information on who and where the poor are in the country.

Alvarado assured that under the MOA, both parties must guarantee the confidentiality of data and take into consideration the Republic Act No. 10173, also known as the Data Privacy Act (DPA) of 2012.

For its part, the DSWD said that accessing the Listahanan database can only be used for social protection activities like provision of social services or enrollment in poverty reduction programs and the development of programs or projects including the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) and the Social Pension Program.

Under the MOA, the provincial government is mandated to provide social protection programs and services for the poor, disadvantaged, and vulnerable sectors of the locality, said Alvarado.