DSWD-7 Conducts On-Demand Application

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VII has conducted the On-Demand Application (ODA) for the 28,680 households which were not assessed during the second round of household assessment in 2015.

This figure covers region 7 and Negros Oriental.

Of the 28,680 households, 23,568 are from Cebu; 3,594, Bohol; 1,469, Negros Oriental and 49, Siquijor.

“Because targeting errors cannot be totally eliminated, DSWD includes a mechanism for minimizing and correcting targeting errors. These 28,680 households filed complaints in 2015 that claimed they should be included in the list of poor households but were not interviewed during the regular assessment,” underscored Macapobre.

ODA gives households who think they are poor but were not visited during the first enumeration the chance to apply for assessment.

Listahanan applies two enumeration strategy, the saturation or total enumeration in all rural barangays and pockets of poverty approach in urban barangays. These pockets of poverty are areas within a barangay where clusters of poor families reside.

Macapobre said that most of 28,680 households are in the urban-classified barangays.

The DSWD-7 conducted the second assessment in 2015 where 843,275 households were assessed resulting in the initial identification of 385,534 as poor households in region 7 using the Proxy Means Test (PMT).

PMT is a statistical model that estimates the income of household based on the variables included in the households assessment form.

Households with estimated incomes that are equal to and above the latest provincial poverty thresholds are considered non-poor and those with estimated incomes falling below the poverty thresholds are considered poor.

The Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is an administrative tool that identifies who and where poor households are in the country.