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ASSESSMENT. This undated photo shows a field officer of DSWD-Bicol conducting an interview during the household assessment under Listahan 3.0, covering all the rural and urban areas in the six provinces of the region. The result of the Listahanan 3 is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2022. (File photo courtesy of Connie Barrameda/DSWD-Bicol) LEGAZPI CITY - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 5 (Bicol) is now fast-tracking the encoding activities to update the database of the households in the region that are considered poor. In a statement on Wednes...

ISLAMABAD: The government has almost completed a fresh Poverty Scorecard Survey and approximately two million existing beneficiaries are expected to...

One Stop Shop Ehsaas Centres to be opened in 154 districts July 1, 2021 Islamabad : One Stop Shop Ehsaas Centres would be opened in 154 districts to serve Ehsaas beneficiaries, said Special Assistant to Prime Minister Dr. Sania Nishtar while briefing media about the facilities available at One Window Ehsaas Centre in Sitara Market on Wednesday. Dr. Sania held an open house with print and electronic media at the Centre which was followed by a round of the facility by SAPM wherein they explored operations of One Window Ehsaas Centre, learnt about all Ehsaas facilities, and met with staff and ...

How to improve beneficiary targeting in social protection programmes? Photo: Sk Enamul Haq It is widely acknowled-ged that Bangladesh has been successful in making impressive gains in poverty reduction in the past years. Nevertheless, at the end of 2019, there were still about 16.5 million people categorised as extreme poor. This number has gone up substantially since mid-2020, due to the onslaught of Covid-19 pandemic. The sheer number of extreme poor in the country is no doubt a cause for concern. As the Covid-19 crisis was unfolding in early 2020, the government undertook a variety of meas...

SunStar + May 01, 2021 THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Central Visayas, through the National Household Targeting Section (NHTS) or Listahanan team, assessed a total of 1,0125,513 families in the provinces of Cebu, Bohol, Negros Oriental, and Siquijor. Listahanan is an information management system of the DSWD that aims to establish a database of poor household. The DSWD said it will help as basis in the identification of beneficiaries for various social protection services and programs. All encoded information in the household assessment form (HAF) is subj...