Four (4) sectoral committees unanimously endorsed the Listahanan of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office V to the Bicol Regional Development Council.

DSWD Regional Director Arnel Garcia presented the result of the 2015 Listahanan household assessment to the said committees last August 4-5, 2016 at the NEDA Regional Office.

The committees namely Economic Development Committee, Infrastructure Development Committee, Development Administration Committee and the Social Development Committee favorably supported the Listahanan.

According to Garcia, the Listahanan have a unified set of criteria for identifying the poor that would enable synchronization and convergence of all resources.

He encourages to adopt and utilize the data of poor households in the region generated thru the Listahanan as their basis in the identification of beneficiaries for their respective social protection programs.

Meanwhile, Garcia will again present the Listahanan to the Bicol Regional Development Council Full Meeting on September 9, 2016.

Listahanan formerly known as the National Household Targeting for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is the DSWD’s information management system that identifies who and where the poor are.

It makes available to national government agencies and other social protection stakeholders as the reference in identifying potential beneficiaries of social protection programs.###