The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office V announces that the screening of applicants under the Listahanan program is still on-going.

“Since we are on a massive hiring we are scheduling the applicants on a per batch basis” said Regional Director Arnel Garcia.

“We will shortlist once we finished interviewing all applicants. For the applicants please wait for the notification as to the schedule of your exam and interview. “explained Garcia

It may be recalled that early this year, DSWD Field Office 5 posted job vacancies for around 3,450 field staff comprised of 91 Area Coordinators, 453 Area Supervisors, 2266 Enumerators, and 320 Encoders and Verifiers for the conduct of the 2nd round of family assessment this semester.

This activity aims to update the list of poor families in the region. Through this assessment, a new batch of poor families will be identified and might become beneficiaries of social protection programs. This will also enable the department to track changes or developments in the lives of poor households who were identified in the previous assessment.

DSWD Bicol will cover 1.08 million households for this enumeration.

Listahanan is an information management system that identifies who and where the poor are. The system makes available to national government agencies, local government units, and other social protection stakeholders a comprehensive list of poor families in need of assistance.

Screening and processing

All applicants will undergo examination and interview to ensure that the most qualified individuals will be hired. Screening is conducted at the DSWD Regional Office and will go down to the satellite offices in the provinces for the convenience of the applicants.

“ We want to work with competent and dedicated individuals because the task requires commitment to maintain the highest quality standard of generating correct, complete, and credible information from the respondents” Garcia said.

Once hired, they will be given intensive training on their specific roles in the assessment. They will also be deployed in areas where they are not from to ensure objectivity in conducting the assessment.

In 2009, DSWD Bicol identified 461,242 poor households out of the 775, 014 assessed all over the region.###crbarrameda