DSWD clarifies enumeration strategy used to assess poor families

Following reports that a congresswoman is calling for an inquiry on the evaluation of households qualified for social protection programs and services such as the Pantawid Pamilya, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) clarified that it applies the enumeration strategy of saturation or total enumeration in all rural barangays and pockets of poverty continue reading : DSWD clarifies enumeration strategy used to assess poor families

DSWD enumerates households in urban barangays using tablet devices

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) or Listahanan is currently conducting tablet-aided enumeration in identified pockets of poverty in 9,997 urban barangays nationwide. The use of the mobile device as a data collection tool is among the Department’s innovations for the 2nd round continue reading : DSWD enumerates households in urban barangays using tablet devices

DSWD cites top LGU users of database of poor families

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through the Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction, awarded the first Gawad Listahanan to the Municipal Government of Dalaguete, Cebu; Escalante City, Negros Occidental; and, Ilocos Norte on January 29 during the Department’s 64th anniversary celebration. Gawad Listahanan is an award conferred to continue reading : DSWD cites top LGU users of database of poor families

DSWD to award top LGU data users

Sixteen local government units nationwide were selected as finalists in the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) first Gawad Listahanan. Gawad Listahanan is an award conferred to local government units (LGUs) that have registered the most number of beneficiaries of their locally funded programs in the Listahanan database of poor families. The Listahanan is continue reading : DSWD to award top LGU data users

2 LGUs in CV tap DSWD’s Listahanan

By Jessa J. Agua/NSA (The Freeman) | Updated November 14, 2014 – 12:00am CEBU, Philippines – Two local government units in Central Visayas have tapped Department of Social Welfare and Development’s National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) data as basis for their programs that target the underprivileged constituents. The municipalities of Dalaguete in continue reading : 2 LGUs in CV tap DSWD’s Listahanan

Palawan, OrMin win 2014 Regional Gawad Listahanan

CALAPAN CITY- The Listahanan of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) MiMaRoPa named Provincial Government of Palawan and Oriental Mindoro as regional champions of the first ever search for Gawad Listahanan Provincial Category. “This award recognizes the effort of the local government units (LGUs) in promoting the Department’s convergence of all social protection continue reading : Palawan, OrMin win 2014 Regional Gawad Listahanan

DSWD to award top LGU data users in the first Gawad Listahanan

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will  award the Gawad Listahanan to local government units (LGU) that have registered the most number of beneficiaries for their locally-funded programs based on the database of poor households of Listahanan. Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is an information management system continue reading : DSWD to award top LGU data users in the first Gawad Listahanan