The Department of Social Welfare and Development, through the Listahanan, is currently conducting simultaneous training across all regions for field staff who will implement the 2nd round of assessment in the 2nd quarter of 2015. In 2009, the DSWD conducted the first assessment which resulted to the identification of 5.2 million poor households out of continue reading : DSWD training of field staff for household assessment ongoing
The Government of Nepal will send a delegation to the Philippines to learn from the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) experience in implementing the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), also known as the Listahanan. The study visit will be conducted from March 9 to 13, 2015. Listahanan is an information continue reading : Nepalese delegation to visit Philippines for Listahanan Implementation
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
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is in need of 47,644 field workers to implement the Listahanan 2nd nationwide assessment. These comprise of 1,277 area coordinators, 6,383 area supervisors, 31,908 enumerators, 4,038 encoders and 4,038 verifiers, who will be tasked to collect information from 15.3 million households in 1,490 municipalities and 144 cities continue reading : DSWD now hiring staff to do survey of poor families
More than 33,000 poor fisherfolk identified through the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Listahanan shall be prioritized in a livelihood support program of the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR). The program, known as the Targeted Actions to Reduce Poverty and General Economic Transformation (TARGET) in the fishery sector, aims to provide continue reading : 33,000 DSWD-identified poor fisherfolk to get livelihood aid
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
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
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
Reposted from Philippine Star CEBU, Philippines – The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office-7 is supporting the health insurance coverage of indigent families enrolled in the National Health Insurance Program of PhilHealth. This after the Department of Budget and Management has approved the release of the subsidy’s budget. “This is indeed good news continue reading : DSWD-7 backs insurance coverage for poor families
In light of the upcoming 2nd round of a nationwide assessment of poor families, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through the ‘Listahanan’ or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), engaged national government agencies (NGAs) in an orientation forum last week. The forum aimed at enlisting their support on the continue reading : DSWD enjoins nat’l gov’t agencies to support 2nd assessment of poor families
