THE second round of enumeration under the Listahanan project of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has already covered 1,000,774 households.
Records of DSWD Field Office VI show that these households were reached from second week of May to last week of June in house-to-house assessment.
The DSWD hopes to complete its target of 1.3 million households soon.
The 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 in program and project implementation.
If broken down, a total of 310,763 were reached in Iloilo; 96,075 in Antique; 101,943 in Capiz; 390,235 in Negros Occidental; Aklan, 73,835 and 27,923 in Guimaras.
The first round of assessment was conducted in 2009 and identified around 385,000 poor households in the region.
The DSWD hired 2,571 enumerators, 551 area supervisors, 110 area coordinators and more than 1,000 encoders to implement the second round of assessment.
Also, the agency made use of tablets to conduct the assessment in urban areas./dswd/May Grecia-Rago and Merry Jezzel Brendia