The Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is now on its ending phase for the Second Round nationwide assessment.
In Northern Mindanao, 793,989 households were targeted for assessment.
The first round of household Asessment was conducted in 2009.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) clarifies to the public that the household assessments conducted were purposely for data gathering and not for possible inclusion to the PantawidPamilyang Pilipino Program (PantawidPamilya) or any government program.
This clarification was made due to the rising number of questions regarding Listahanan’s household assessment.
The data gathered during the Second Round Assessment will serve as the database of who and where the poor households are in the region and will be the basis for other government agencies and stakeholders in identifying potential beneficiaries for their various social protection programs and services.
To date, 652,657 households have been assessed and 491,267 households encoded to the database system.
For those households who have not been assessed, enumerators will be assessing them during the validation phase sometime this August. (pia 10)
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