By Dominic I. Sanchez
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Some 23,171 families that have requested to be included in the
Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program in the region, including Isabela City will
be visited by Listahanan enumerators tasked to assess if said households are
genuinely poor within the coming weeks.
Listahanan, a special
project implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)
seeks to identify poor families nationwide who are eligible to become
beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilya.
In a press release,
Listahanan Information Officer Fung Kay Choi shared that 93 field staff
composed of area supervisors and enumerators were already trained for this
special assessment.
“The enumerators and
supervisors were given an orientation last month. They will immediately be
deployed to their respective areas as soon as the Family Assessment Forms (FAF)
are available,” Choi explained.
The FAFs are composed
of four pages with 52 variables that would help determine if a family is
genuinely poor, as well as to determine other relevant data about the
household.
Meanwhile, the DSWD
is now preparing for the second round of national assessment of poor families
for Listahanan. According to Choi, 688,495 families will be assessed in Western
Mindanao for possible inclusion in the conditional cash grants of the national
government.
“We still do not have
an exact date for the second assessment, but we are targeting it to be
conducted within the quarter,” Choi said.