ILOILO Province bested all other provinces in the country in the 2015 GawadListahanan awards of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

The province of Iloilo received a P50, 000 cash prize in the awarding ceremony in today’s awarding ceremony in Makati City.

After being selected as the 2014 Provincial Category entry of Western Visayas for the National search of the 1stGawadListahanan, Iloilo Province continuedutilization of the DSWD Listahanan database in serving the poor in the province of Iloilo.

Listahanan, also known as the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), is an information management system that identifies who and where the poor are nationwide.

According to Iloilo PSWDO chief NenethPador, they used the Listahanan database in prioritizing clients availing of the Aid to Individual for Crisis Situation (AICS), scholarship to Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), as well as distribution of sanitary toilets.

GawadListahanan or Data Utilization Awards is conferred by the DSWD to local government units (LGUs) that registered the most number of beneficiaries of locally funded programs in the Listahanan database of poor families through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR).

The contest has three categories, Municipal, City and Provincial Government Category.
‘In the province of Iloilo, if there is a poverty program, we’re basing our beneficiaries on the Listahanan Database where we can see if who and where the poor are,” Pador said.

Among the awardees is Jaen Nueva Ecija for municipal government category and Baguio City capped the city government category./dswd6/Merry Jezzel Brendia