Seventy-four newly-hired field staff will be deployed next month for the region-wide special validation of the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction better known as “Listahanan” of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
The newly- hired field staff will gather socio-economic and household members’ information for the database.
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The enumerators, area supervisors and encoders will undergo a 3-day intensive training on June 4-6, 2014 to equip them in gathering correct, complete and credible information from the respondents during the upcoming special validation.
The training will be facilitated by the National Household Targeting Unit of the DSWD Field Office VIII.
The area supervisors will be trained on the general supervision of the entire assessment activity and his/her enumerating team. Enumerators will be trained to be adept and efficient in data acquisition during fieldwork interviews, while encoders on fast and accurate data entry.
“This training will prepare each field staff on their functions. It will provide them better understanding on how crucial their particular roles in achieving the Listahanan project objectives”, says Yvonne Serrano-Abonales, the Deputy Regional Project Manager of the Listahanan or NHTS-PR.
The Listahanan special validation will verify the poverty status of the unregistered social pensioners and the beneficiaries of Modified Conditional Cash Transfer-Families in Need of Special Protection (MCCT-FNSP) to legitimize the resumption of their monthly stipends and to justify their inclusion to the the regular CCT program.
The department would like to emphasize that full cooperation of every local chief executives, barangay captains and the residents of region eight is needed to guarantee high-quality data that will be collected during validation.
The Listahanan is an information management system spearheaded by the DSWD that provides data on poor households eligible to be classified beneficiaries of the department’s social protection programs and other social protection national agencies, non-government organizations (NGOs) and the local government units (LGUs).