they are a 4Ps CCT beneficiary, whether they are vulnerable (older person, lactating mother, PWD), estimated monthly income, etc. At the same time, the DAFAC records the assistance received by each individual, ranging from food packs and shelter to SP programs including involvement in cash for works programs in an effort to distribute relief evenly among beneficiaries.

Humanitarian agencies were encouraged by the GoP to adopt the DAFAC as their primary tool for monitoring their programs in order to increase coordination among GoP and humanitarian programs. However, some agencies expressed reservations about utilizing the DAFAC. Concerns primarily centered on whether the number of households that may not have been issued a DAFAC – by staying with relatives instead of evacuation centers, where DAFAC’s were distributed, for example - rendering them ineligible for support. The extent to which there were issues with DAFAC coverage remains unclear. However, a needs assessment survey undertaken by the Protection cluster did find that “lack of documentation” (non-DAFAC specific) and “access to humanitarian services” were listed as “severe protection problems” by 50 percent and 45 percent of those surveyed, respectively.

Regardless of potential DAFAC coverage issues, the DAFAC is a paper based recording system that would benefit from digitization for improved information management on relief program disbursement and stronger linkages between local and national level information systems. Investments in technology for encoding the DAFAC data at the local level, with linkages to national level unified databases, could significantly enhance the data management of response needs and program disbursement. Going a step further, on site electronic registration of beneficiaries could eliminate an enormous administrative burden in distributing and administering the paper based DAFAC. Such a process was used in Pakistan to register households affected by large-scale flooding in 2010 for the receipt of both relief and recovery cash transfer payments.<sup>91</sup>

# <mark></mark> _<mark>The Listahanan</mark>_

<mark>The Listahanan is a national household registry used in the targeting of beneficiaries of the national CCT program and other government anti-poverty and social programs. In 2011, the Listahanan contained information on 11 million households (or 60% of all households in the Philippines). In this way, the Listahanan is a valuable resource for locating households affected by a disaster. DRROO utilize the Listahanan to create estimates of the number of households, including poor and vulnerable, that will be affected by a disaster given its location/path. It is also a valuable resource that informs Post Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNAs). However, while rich in household information, the Listahanan is only updated every four years, rendering its information on location and poverty status of households less accurate yearly. However, in 2015, a nationwide updating and expansion of Listahanan is underway (it will include 75% of all households) and will provide more accurate information on household poverty status by region. While issues regarding its infrequent updating will remain, the Listahanan nevertheless provides a unique resource for information on affected households and estimated needs.</mark> <mark>The CWG also created a process for humanitarian agencies to coordinate with the Listahanan, digitizing the information on their beneficiaries by submitting it to the National Household Targeting Office (NHTO – manages the Listahanan) for verification and or inclusion into the database. This process was intended to help digitize the DAFAC process of tracking which households were receiving which benefits from humanitarian agencies, while simultaneously helping NHTO to widen the Listahanan database further by enabling inclusion into the database of affected households that were not at that time currently included (this process is pictured in Annex 4). This, in turn, helped DSWD to meet its mandate to increase the 4Ps coverage by 20,000 more chronically poor households affected by Typhoon Yolanda.</mark> 28