The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VI will again recognize the Local Government Units (LGUs) for providing services to the Listahanan-identified poor families through the 2ndGawadListahanan.
GawadListahanan is an award conferred to local government units (LGUs) that have registered the most number of beneficiaires of their locally-funded programs using the Listahanan database of poor families.
Listahanan is a national government project being implemented by DSWD. It is an information management system that maintains a database of poor households that will become beneficiaries of social protection programs.
GawadListahananaims to promote the convergence of all social protection stakeholders in effectively addressing the different aspects of poverty.
Qualified LGUs must have a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the DSWD on Listahanan data sharing, LGUs should have locally-funded and implemented social protection program that provides direct service or intervention to the Listahanan-identified poor, such as but not limited to Scholarships, Medical Assistance, and skills or Livelihood Trainings.
LGUs must be 100% compliant with the annual reportorial requirement of data sharing as stipulated in the agreement.
The competing LGU will choose one (1) locally-funded program that uses Listahanan as basis for beneficiary selection as an official entry to the competition.
The contest has three categories: Municipal Government Category, City Government Category and Provincial Government category.
DSWD invites all provinces, cities and municipalities in region VI to participate and send their application form. Acceptance of Application form and write up for the official entry ends on October 20,2015./dswd6/Merry JezzelBrendia