LEGAZPI CITY — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Bicol ensured on Friday the security of “Listahanan” data after the completion of household assessment in the municipality of San Jose in Camarines Sur.
Joy Belen III, DSWD project development officer, said the assessment is consistent with Republic Act 10173 or the Data Privacy Law, which aims to establish organizational, physical and technical security measures for data protection.
San Jose Mayor Antonio Chavez said the requested data will be used in mapping priority areas and selection of potential beneficiaries in the implementation of their social protection programs.
“The need to prioritize the poor and disadvantaged families will require a reliable beneficiary selection mechanism to ensure our limited resources go to people who needs the most, that’s why we requested data from Listahanan,” Chavez said.
Upon validation, the municipality must conform to the needed requirements such as request letter, signed Memorandum of Agreement, Sangguniang Bayan Resolution, Executive Order designating a Data Protection Officer as well as its physical and technical capability in custody of the database.
He added that San Jose will be the first municipality in the country to comply with the data sharing requirements and will have an access to the “Listahanan” database.
The report generation and data sharing is the last phase of the Listahanan where the official list of poor households is made available through signing of memorandum of agreement.
As stipulated in the guidelines, the data that will be shared shall be used for purposes of social protection activities.
“Listahanan” is an information management system that aims to establish a database of poor households that serves as basis in prioritizing the poor as beneficiaries of social protection programs. (/PNA)
