DSWD needs more staff for second round of household assessment

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD), through its National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction, is hiring 3,357 field staff for the second round of Poor Household Assessment.

These include 85 area coordinators, 432 area supervisors, 2,117 enumerators, 300 verifiers and 423 encoders.

Interested applicants may submit their application letter, comprehensive resume with a recent 2×2 ID picture and a photocopy of transcript of records to the social welfare and development office in their locality.

Deadline for submission of applications is on July 26.

These newly-hired field staff will go through an intensive training starting August before they will be deployed to their designated areas for the actual assessment conduct in September.

DSWD-7 Regional Director Mercedita Jabagat, said that the target households to be assessed are 1,016,269 to cover all poor households in Central Visayas.

The newly assessed households will go through Proxy Means Test (PMT) for poor and non-poor identification. PMT is a statistical formula that estimates the income of households based on the proxy variables included in the household assessment form.

This stringent process aims to ensure the integrity of the database before sharing it to other government agencies and social protection stakeholders.

NHTS-PR assessment is conducted every four years. It is an information management system that identifies who and where poor households are in the country.

For inquiries, call DSWD at 232-9505 local 118 or 123 and look for Kerwin Macopia, Lee Estamo or Ruben Boybanting.