The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office III (DSWD FO III) is now conducting the second round household assessment to 1,451,248 households.

The second round assessment aims to provide timely and updated data on poor households to public and private social protection stakeholders to enable them to develop and implement responsive policies, programs and services.

As of July 28, DSWD FO III has already assessed 835,556 households or 57.58% from its target both in rural and urban areas. On the other hand, 656,782 Family Assessment Forms (FAFs) or 77.96% from its target were already encoded and verified.

TheNational Household Targeting Unit has already hired and oriented 2,616 field staff, encoders and verifiers. Additional 22 Area Coordinators, 136 Area Supervisors and 700 Enumerators will be oriented for the conduct of tablet enumeration on July 27-29 and August 2-9.

Tablet enumeration will fast-track the assessment process of 608,828 households in urban areas since they can automatically sync accomplished electronic family assessment forms directly to the server.

Listahanan is an information management system that identifies and assesses who and where the poor are. Listahanan makes available to the national government agencies and social protection stakeholders a pioneer database consisting of comprehensive information about poor families nationwide.

The said mechanism is intended for a unified set of criteria in identifying the poor and near poor and to ensure that limited resources for social services surely benefit the poor who really need assistance.###(amid-Social Marketing Unit)