OIDCI Tapped to Conduct Baseline For Sorsogon CCT Project

Through a Memorandum of Agreement between DOH and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), OIDCI was officially endorsed as the consulting firm that would undertake data collection and encoding in consonance with the policies and guidelines of DSWD on the use of the Proxy Means Test (PMT) that is designed for the Conditional Cash Transfer project. In close coordination with DSWD’s National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) and DSWD-Region V, enumerators were recruited at the municipal level and trained on how to administer the Household Assessment Form (HAF). In line with WHSMP’s aim to establish a system of data collection that is cost-effective, replicable and sustainable, most of the enumerators were barangay health workers and community volunteers, and the supervisors were locally based school teachers. OIDCI covered 101,230 households from 11 municipalities of the province, and its capital, Sorsogon City.

NHTS-PR generated the ranking of the poor and cross tabulation of data required by the OIDCI technical assistance team based on the province-wide total of 131,185 households, inclusive of the three other municipalities (29,955 households) surveyed by DSWD-Region V.  Using the indicators embodied in the 2-page HAF, OIDCI came up with a provincial profile and 15 city/municipal profiles focusing on socio-demographic characteristics, economic conditions, health practices and sanitation status, and access to government services. 

Results of the poverty ranking of households within the municipality were likewise analyzed, highlighting barangays with high prevalence of poor households. Finally, OIDCI developed the updating mechanism to provide a timely and sustained data availability at the barangay and municipal levels for purposes of planning appropriate women’s health program and other similar programs targeted for the poor.