The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 7 inked a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the municipality of Minglanilla, Cebu, for the utilization of the Listahanan 3 database.

The municipality of Minglanilla is the first LGU in Region 7 to sign a MOA with the Department for the latest Listahanan data. The MOA is a crucial requirement for the Listahanan 3 data sharing.

Listahanan, or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), is a database management system of DSWD that identifies who and where the poor are through a systematized way of collecting data from households across the nation.

Here in Central Visayas, there are 454,348 numbers of poor households out of 1,079,141 households assessed. The municipality of Minglanilla, Cebu has a share of 5,108 identified poor out of 9,446 assessed.

Regional Director Shalaine Marie S. Lucero and Mayor Rajiv V. Enad signed the MOA on October 3, 2023, in the municipal hall. Also present were NHTS-7 Regional Field Coordinator Lester R. Laborte and Municipal Social Welfare and Development (MSWD) Head Adalgaesa Sellote.

Mayor Enad is grateful for the constant support of the Department for the municipality. With their #BetterAndBrighterMinglanilla, indigent Minglanillahanons will be immediately provided with the available programs and services through this data.

Listahanan 3 started in 2019, and the final data was launched in 2022.

RD Lucero was elated by this another milestone of the field office. She hoped that more local government units (LGUs) in Region 7 would follow and partner with DSWD to have the Listahanan 3 database since it would be a very big help in identifying potential beneficiaries for their social protection projects or services. ###

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