DSWD conducts massive listing of poor households to be served
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has deployed more than 20,000 field staff for the identification of poor households nationwide.
The second round of assessment under National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTSPR) or “Listahanan aims to identify who and where the poor are.
The field staff members have been assigned to collect data from families using the traditional paper and pen in rural barangays all over the country. Households are asked to cooperate in the assessment by providing true and accurate information to the enumerators.
The results of the assessment will be made available to national government agencies and other social protection stakeholders a socio-economic database as basis for identifying beneficiaries of their programs and services.
“We prioritized remote and hard-to-reach areas to ensure that its residents will be included in the database and given an opportunity to benefit from a social protection program or service,” DSWD Secretary Corazon Soliman said.
All households in rural areas will be enumerated, while assessment in urban areas will be done in pockets of poverty or areas in the barangay where clusters of poor reside. Field staff who will be assigned in these areas will use a mobile device as data collection tool.
Around 27,000 more field staff will be trained and deployed to complete the assessment of 15.3 million households within 11 months.
“Results of this assessment will provide the department an update on the poor households who were identified in the first assessment,” Soliman said.
In 2009, DSWD conducted the first assessment of poor households, which led to the identification of 5.2 million poor households out of the 10.9 million assessed.