The National Household Targeting Unit (NHTU) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office IV- MiMaRoPa has assessed 14,917 households (HHs) in the recently finished Habagat Special Validation for the provinces of Occidental and Oriental Mindoro.
There were 6,003 HHs validated in the municipality of Abra de Ilog, another 3,349 HHs in Rizal and 1,217 HHs in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. For Oriental Mindoro, a total of 4,100 HHs were assessed in Baco and 240 HHs in Calapan City.
The said special validation was conducted from February to April 2013 which deployed 105 field staff who made house-to-house interviews using the DSWD Household Assessment Form (HAF) and Household Need Assessment Form (HNAF). The said forms contain the set of indicators deemed critical in identifying the socio –economic status of a household.
Gathered data are now subject to Proxy Means Testing (PMT), a statistical process to determine if the household is poor or not.
The Habagat Validation aims to determine the post-disaster socio-economic conditions of households who were affected by the southwest monsoon last August 2012. The results will facilitate the formulation of responsive intervention. ### Social Marketing Unit