A
regional encoding station will be inaugurated today in Davao City by Mayor Sara
Duterte-Carpio and select officials from the Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD).
According to Sharmayne Maranguit, DSWD
Regional Information Technology Officer, the regional encoding station will
enable the regional department to effectively monitor the encoding activities
of the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), and
as well as properly organise and harmonise the integrity of the Household
Assessment Forms (HAF).
The NHTS-PR, a project by DSWD, aims to
establish a unified, functional, objective, and transparent targeting system
that would identify the poorest households and where they are, as basis for
identifying beneficiaries of social protection programs.
It is a system used for identifying the bottom
poor to eliminate the potential politicising of the system, which creates
further inequities and marginalisation.
“NHTS-PR is engaged in data intensive
activities that require timely and accurate data submission. Data coming from
the enumerators through the HAF will be encoded into an online information
system that centralises all submissions into an online database in the NHTS-PR
National Program Management Office lodged at DSWD Central Office,” Maranguit
said.
“Data encoders will form a critical role in
transforming the manually completed HAF data into a digital and validated entry
format and forward it to the NHTS-PR database for further data processing.”
Generated data in the NHTS-PR include family
size, Educational attainment, access to health centre, toilet facilities,
electricity, water source, roof materials, as well as prevalence of
displacement, disability, senior citizens and solo parents.
The data then is used as basis for
classification of households into Food Poor (families whose income is below the
food threshold level, i.e. not able to meet their basic food requirements);
Survival Poor (those in between the food and poverty threshold, i.e. able to
meet their food but not the other basic requirements); and Non-Poor (families
living above the poverty threshold and able to meet their basic requirements).
From its implementation in 2009, the project
has enumerated 9,115,764 households, encoded 9,055,370 households, subjected
8,957,260 households to Proxy Means Test and identified 4,213,227 households as
poor.
At present, DSWD’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino
Program and Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens are both using NHTSPR
data in identifying beneficiaries.
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is a
poverty reduction and social development strategy of the national government
that provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households to improve
their health, nutrition and education particularly of children aged 0-14.
In addition, just recently, PhilHealth, the
Department of Health and the Regional Development Council in Region 11 have
entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with DSWD on the use of NHTS-PR data in
the implementation of their respective social protection programs.
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