Over 1M families are assessed via ‘Listahan’ of poor families in Central Visayas

MINERVA BC NEWMAN

CEBU CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Field Office 7 has already assessed 1,012,513 households/families in the provinces of Cebu, Bohol, Negros Oriental and Siquijor through the National Household Targeting Section (NHTS).

According to DSWD-7 regional information officer Leah Quintana that the ‘Listahanan’ is an information management system of DSWD that identifies who and where the poor are and out of those assessed households, more than 600k are identified poor on the initial list.

 DSWD-7 has assessed/included in the Listahan 229,708 households/families in Bohol; 524,428 in Cebu; 240,205 for Negros Oriental and 18,172 households in Siquijor.

Quintana said that all encoded information in the household assessment form (HAF) is subjected to Proxy Means Test (PMT) to generate the initial list of poor households.

The initial lists of poor households were posted in the barangays for the public to check and appeal, for corrections, if there are any. Quintana added. 

“So far, the NHTS-7 has received 194,895 grievances, this process of Listahanan ensures the quality of the final list of poor families or ‘Listahan 3’ data to be launched in the second semester of 2021,” she said.

‘Listahanan 3’ data will be launched and be made available to partners and other stakeholders, who will be needing the data of poor households for their programs, services, projects, or reference for any, relevant studies. 

 NHTS-7 head, Hillton John Edrial clarified that any agency, LGU, or anyone, who wishes to have the Listahanan 3 data must forge a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with DSWD. (Photos; DSWD)