National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR)
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WHAT is NHTS-PR?
The NHTS-PR is a system for identifying who and where the poor families are in the country. This system guarantees the generation and establishment of a socio-economic database of poor households. This includes firming up of a unified, functional, objective and transparent targeting system for the poor who are beneficiaries of social protection programs.
WHY is this project needed?
To formulate a unified and standard criteria for the identification of the poorest families through scientific means in order to reduce the leakage or inclusion of the non-poor and under-coverage/exclusion of the poor in social protection services
WHO is it intended for?
Other than the actual poor themselves who may benefit from social protection programs/services using this targeting system, other government agencies like Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Department of Health (DOH), Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE); Government owned and controlled corporations such as Social Security System (SSS), Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) and the National Housing Authority (NHA)
WHO is DSWD working with to implement this project?
Local government units (LGUs)
WHO can be contacted with regards to this program?
Ms. Elvira Colarina (link to directory of officials), Chief of Technical Assistance Division
Ms. Maricel De La Vega (link to directory of officials) – focal person on NHTS-PR
WHEN did this project start? When will it end?
February 2009 but data sharing will be on July 2010
WHERE is this project implemented?
Five provinces of MIMAROPA
WHAT have we accomplished so far?
A total of 348,881 households have been assessed out of the 397,734 target households in Region IV-B
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