The DSWD Field Office V through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) now known as Listahanan is set to conduct another special validation to some 5,180 households next week.

The special validation will target those families that are not included in the Listahanan database for inclusion in the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program. This will cover 56 municipalities in the 6 provinces of Bicol region.

According to DSWD Regional Director Arnel Garcia, the identification of the families was based on the received grievances of the Grievance Redress Division (GRD) of Pantawid Pamilya related to the inclusion/exclusion errors.

The Pantawid Pamilya Grievance Redress System (GRS) is a mechanism to facilitate due process in resolving grievances and complaints of beneficiary households and citizens at large.

“Inclusion error refers to error when a non-poor household was classified as poor while an exclusion error is when a true poor household was classified as non-poor” Garcia explained

Validation is one of the mechanisms employed by Listahanan to minimize the inclusion/exclusion errors.

Listahanan is an information management system that aims to establish a database of poor households that will become beneficiaries of social protection programs.

Meanwhile, Pantawid Pamilya Plipino Program,is a human development program that invests in the health and education of poor households.It provides cash grants to beneficiaries provided that they comply with the set of conditions required by the program. ###