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DILG Region 6 Hosts Vis-Min Trainers for Community-Based Monitoring System

Details: Written by LGOO II Judy Mae T. Magdato; Category: News and Updates; Published: 22 May 2019; Hits: 82

DILG Region 6 welcomed 55 participants and speakers from Visayas and Mindanao as they host the Training of Trainers for Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) for Module II held in the newly rehabilitated Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan on April 22-26, 2019.
The Bureau of Local Government Development (BLGD), with funding assistance from the Support to Local Government Program (SLGP) scheduled a series of CBMS modular trainings on Module I- Data Collection, Module II- Data Processing & Poverty Mapping and Module IV- Integrating CBMS into the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) for this year. The participants coming from Regions 6-13 who attended the first module held last April 2019 in Cagayan de Oro City are also the same personnel who participated in the second module to ensure continuity and effective learning. The last module is expected to be done within the 2nd quarter of 2019 in Davao.

During the second modular training, the participants were introduced to applications and software used in data processing and poverty mapping. Speakers from BLGD and the CBMS Network shared their technical expertise on how to properly process the data collected, how to interpret the results and how to create a CBMS database.
The DILG in partnership with the CBMS International Network Coordinating Team of the Angelo King Institute of the De La Salle University has been promoting, advocating and the providing technical assistance in the implementation of CBMS in the Local Government Units (LGUs) since 2003.
Over the years, the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) has been acknowledged and adopted as an effective tool for poverty diagnosis, local planning and budgeting, program design and implementation, and for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), now the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

“CBMS is being recognized by the national level as an important tool in poverty diagnosis by the LGUs” said BLGD Asst. Dir. Alfonso A. Maralli, Jr. It may be used for poverty-alleviation programs because of the array of data that it can collect to include among others, data pertaining to the proportion of households with access to water, access to sanitation facilities, those who are income poor, those who are informal settlers; the rate of unemployment; the proportion of children going to school.
On February 2019, the Senate approved on third and final reading the Senate Bill No. 2172, otherwise known as the Community-Based Monitoring System Act. The measure aims to establish and maintain a regular monitoring system that is community based and area specific in all barangays wherein data collected shall institutionalize a nationwide databank that can be used by national government agencies and local government units in the formulation and implementation of poverty-alleviation and development programs as well as observing the impacts of such programs regarding the quality of life of the Filipino people.
If the bill is implemented, regular and sychronized data collection shall be conducted by cities and municipalities every three years, with the Philippine Statistics Authority taking the lead as the implementing agency. The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), for its part, shall be tasked to develop data-sharing arrangements between government agencies, while the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) shall be responsible to disseminate information relating to activities of the CMBS.
As a result, a growing number of LGUs’ requests for technical assistance concerning CBMS is anticipated. To address this need, DILG being one of the program implementers is also expected to expand their current pool of CBMS Regional and Provincial Trainers.

Management Information System for CDP Formulation Takes Off in Region 6

Details: Written by LGOO II Judy Mae T. Magdato; Category: News and Updates; Published: 02 April 2019; Hits: 893

A signing of Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the Management Information System (MIS) for the Comprehensive Development Plans (CDP) and MIS Workshop were held on March 19, 2019 at Smallville 21 Hotel, Iloilo City. The said activities signify the MIS for CDP Formulation takes off in Region 6.
Considering the low number of approved Comprehensive Development Plans (CDPs) in Region 6, DILG in partnership with University of the Philippines – Visayas (UPV) developed the “SUC-Assisted Approach in the formulation of the Comprehensive Development Plan”. The launching of the Management Information System (MIS) for CDP Formulation is one of the components of the program.
This is a software developed to respond to the challenges in the generation, management and updating of data of the Local Government Units (LGUs). This software shall serve as management and data storage tool for LGUs in the collection of primary and secondary data and will be utilized for the Ecological Profile (EP) of the target LGUs.
The program targets LGUs that have not yet formulated their CDPs and Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUPs); LGUs revising or updating their CDPs; and LGUs without CDPs but with updated CLUP and/or for SP review.
“The only counterpart that DILG is asking from you is the commitment to finish your Comprehensive Development Plans through the series of workshops and writeshops. With the partnership of the University of the Philippines-Visayas (UPV) and DILG, we hope na maubos ang LGUs na walang CDPs sa Region 6.” said DILG R6 OIC-RD Engr. Ariel O. Iglesia during the MIS Workshop.
Representatives from the first batch of target LGUs which came from Province of Antique (Barbaza, Bugasong, Culasi, Tibiao, Hamtic and Pandan), Iloilo (Anilao, Banate, Carles, San Enrique and Sara) and Capiz (Pres. Roxas) gathered to join the MOA signing.
The program is supported by the Local Government Support Fund-Assistance to the Disadvantaged Municipalities (LGSF-ADM) Program which is designed to equitably assist all municipalities in the delivery of basic services by providing financial subsidy to municipalities for the implementation of their priority programs and projects. Support to Local Government Programs – Oversight Project Management Office (SLGP-OPMO) provided the funds amounting to Php 25M through a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed last March 23, 2018.
With the MIS, the LGUs now have a specific system in place to observe proper data generation, management and updating in compliance to the demand of latest policies and guidelines.#