With the 2nd round of household assessment coming to conclusion, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through the Listahanan, a project that identifies who and where the poor are, rolls its sleeves up to find Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries who were not assessed by the project.
A total of 2,537 Pantawid beneficiaries are to be located by the Listahanan field workers in region 9 while 10,884 beneficiaries are not assessed in BASULTA areas.
Listahanan Deputy Regional Project manager, Marilyn D. Fabian, said that the Department wants to make sure that all Pantawid beneficiaries have undergone the household assessment so that appropriate interventions can be provided to them.
“We have recently concluded the regular household assessment and validation activity in Region 9 and BASULTA. However there are still a few households particularly those beneficiaries of the Pantawid program who were not located because of various reasons, such as transfer of residence. That is why the DSWD is doing all its effort to find these beneficiaries,” Fabian said.
As of this writing there is no definite timeframe yet for this endeavor but the Listahanan takes this as an urgent action to accomplish.
Pantawid beneficiaries who were not assessed during the regular and validation period are advised to coordinate with their respective Municipal/ City Links.
This endeavor seeks to further promote transparency in the identification of deserving beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program of the DSWD.
On the other hand, the department would like to reiterate that Listahanan is a separate project and does not form part of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. It is an information management system that makes available a database of poor households to be utilized by agencies in identifying potential and deserving recipients of social protection programs.