Posted on by May Castillo

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development is gearing up for the second round assessment of poor households in Western Visayas.
“We want to prepare the workers for the second round assessment of

LISTAHANAN. A couple answers a question during the Listahanan special validation for senior citizens. Listahanan identifies who and where the poor are in the country. (Photo by Wenna Berondo-Bendol)
LISTAHANAN. A couple answers a question during the Listahanan special validation for senior citizens. Listahanan identifies who and where the poor are in the country. (Photo by Wenna Berondo-Bendol)

poor households,” said Evangeline B. Felecio, Assistant Regional Director for Administration of DSWD Field Office Vi.
A total of 553 Area Supervisors, 110 Area Coordinators and 2,758 Enumerators assigned under the Listahanan program are currently undergoing training in preparation for the house-to-house assessment by June.
Listahanan, also known as National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), is an information system for identifying who and where the poor households are. It guarantees the establishment and management of a national socio-economic database of poor households.
This same database is being used by DSWD, Philhealth, Department of Health, Local Government Units and other institutions in the identification of their target beneficiaries.
The first round of assessment was conducted in 2009 and identified around 385,000 poor households in the region./dswd6/Merry Jezzel Brendia (Photo by Wenna Berondo-Bendol)