Executive Order No. 867, s. 2010 providing for the Adoption of the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction as the Mechanism for Identifying Poor Households who shall be Recipients of Social Protection Programs Nationwide.

This Executive Order provides for the Adoption of the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction as the Mechanism for Identifying Poor Households who shall be Recipients of Social Protection Programs Nationwide. The President of the Republic of the Philippines, establishes the following provisions: All national government agencies (NGAs) are directed to adopt the NHTS-PR as a mechanism in identifying who and where the poor households who shall be recipients of social protection programs nationwide are. The DSWD shall maintain the system and serve as the repository of the data on poor households and shall update the data every four(4) years. All NGAs shall use the data generated by the system in prioritizing beneficiaries of government’s social protection programs and projects. The DSWD, in coordination with the Social Security System (SSS), the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), the Rational Statistic Office (NSO) as well as all other agencies involved in the Unified Multi-Purpose Identification (UMID) System project, shall work for the adoption of the UMID, upon its operationalization, as the main ID system of the NHTS-PR in order to further strengthen the monitoring of beneficiaries of social welfare and protection programs of the national government.