ILOILO CITY — Development partners are satisfied with the way the DSWD is implementing the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) in the country.

Director Vincent Andrew Leyson, national project manager of NHTS-PR or Listahanan, revealed that both World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) expressed satisfaction and said the project is “doing well and constantly improving.”

Speaking before at least 100 participants to the Review and Evaluation Workshop on Special Validation on Social Pension and MCCT beneficiaries, Leyson commended the staff from the different regions for their accomplishment. The activity was held at Punta Villa Resort, Iloilo City recently.

“Relative to the comments of World Bank, we are doing well. The ADB also said our system is improving and they are looking at experiences and they say overall, we are on track,” Leyson announced.

Among these accomplishments are the successful conduct of the special validation of Social Pension and MCCT Beneficiaries last June, the increase in number of national government agencies, local government units and other stakeholders that are using the Listahanan database and the preparations being done for the 2nd Round of Assessment of Poor Households./dswd6/Wenna B. Bendol