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SAN JOSE, Antique – Nine towns in the province are adopting the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) to capture the multidimensional aspects of poverty.
They are the municipalities of Tobias Fornier, Belison, Libertad, San Jose, Sibalom, Bugasong, Valderrama, Pandan, and Culasi.
The CBMS, a poverty monitoring scheme that Department of Interior and Local Government introduced, has four modules: data collection, data processing and poverty mapping, barangay development plan formulation, and comprehensive development plan formation.
These modules are designed to capture different aspects of poverty such as health, nutrition, housing, water and sanitation, basic education, income, employment, and peace and order.
Information from these aspects are then used to determine how poor a village or municipality is and makes a map to identify who and where the poor are, said information officer Judy Mae Magdato.
CBMS makes use of tablets for data collection, which are facilitated by enumerators, coordinators and field editors that were hired and trained by the DILG.
In a preparatory meeting at the DILG-Antique office, the nine towns were given a brief orientation for the conduct of CBMS’ second module.
As a requirement, each municipality must have at least one barangay completely surveyed using the CBMS. The collected data must then be uploaded to the CBMS portal.
Trainings next month were divided into two clusters: the first for Sibalom, Culasi, San Jose, Belison, and Valderrama and the second, for Tobias Fornier, Pandan, Bugasong and Patnongon.
The training will be participated by DILG officers, CBMS focal persons and information technology officers.
They will be trained on how to properly process collected data, interpret results, prepare poverty maps, and generate a database.
The database will then be used as input for the formulation of development plans and poverty reduction programs.
“We hope to finish the training before the year ends so we can proceed with the barangay development plan formulation,” said provincial CBMS focal person Hennesey Gasataya. (PIA/PN)
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