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==DSWD launches regional database of nat’l household targeting system== | |||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=58818 | |||
*By: Suzette R. Adduru | |||
*''October 12, 2011'' | |||
As the mandated agency to provide social protection and anti-poverty programs and projects, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continues to enhance and strengthen the capacity to meet the challenge through its National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR). | |||
The NHTS-PR is an information management system which is an initiative of the DSWD to further improve the service delivery systems to the public particularly to the poor. | |||
Regional Director Arnel B. Garcia of DSWD Field Office 02 said the NHTS-PR will be used in identifying beneficiaries of social service programs of the government and lessen exclusion or under-coverage of the poor in social protection programs. | |||
“The NHTS-PR facilitates the sharing of high quality database to public and private social protection stakeholders and reduces leakage of non-poor in social protection services,” Garcia added. | |||
The director likewise said that although the government has limited resources, it could still have a unified, objective and transparent targeting system for the government to accurately distribute its resources and services to the real poor. | |||
Through the NHTS-PR, poor households are identified using four phases the preparatory phase- selection of provinces, municipalities and cities and identification of data collection strategy; data collection and analysis phase - determination of poverty status; validation and finalization phase and; data report generation phase. | |||
In the magnitude of poor households in the national level, region 2 is the second region with the least number of identified poor households at 118,118 for a percentage of 2.25%, Garcia noted. | |||
Garcia disclosed that the highest number of poor households in region 2 comes from the province of Isabela at 54,678 while the lowest comes from the province of '''Batanes''' at 178. | |||
But in terms of percentage, the highest comes from the province of Quirino with 35% while the lowest comes from the province of '''Batanes''' at 12%, he added. | |||
NHTS-PR may be used by the LGUs and other stakeholders as reference in identifying beneficiaries of their social protection programs and services by entering into Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the DSWD to ensure that all data are used for the appropriate purposes and that the rights of the households are protected, he clarified. | |||
Meanwhile, Dr. Robert T. Reyes, Philhealth regional vice president, thanked the DSWD for extending assistance to them in providing the list of poor families culled from NHTS-PR to ensure that accessible and quality health care is provided to underprivileged constituents of region 2. | |||
The launching marked the 22nd celebration of National Statistics month which highlights social protection statistics with the theme, “Quality Social Protection Statistics for Focused Targeting: Improving Outcomes, Changing Lives. | |||
==House panel seeks to renegotiate IPP contracts== | ==House panel seeks to renegotiate IPP contracts== | ||
*Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/10/11/11/house-panel-seeks-renegotiate-ipp-contracts | *Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/10/11/11/house-panel-seeks-renegotiate-ipp-contracts | ||