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Sunday, March 19, 2017
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SAN JOSE, Antique – Nine municipalities in Antique will undergo a poverty survey, according to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).
Information Officer Judy Mae Magdato identified the following towns: Tobias Fornier, Belison, Libertad, San Jose, Sibalom, Bugasong, Valderrama, Pandan, and Culasi.
The province has a total of 18 municipalities.
The survey is officially called Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS). It will determine how poor a barangay or municipality is and identify who and where the poor are through poverty maps.
DILG has already organized teams to conduct the training of enumerators, coordinators and field editors, said Magdato.
CBMS, as a poverty monitoring system, will collect household information at the local level. The data can be used by local government units (LGUs) as inputs in the formulation of development plans and poverty reduction programs.
“It is a mechanism to support the decentralization process by providing LGUs with a system to improve local governance and develop policies and programs that meet the people’s needs,” said CBMS focal person Hennesey Gasataya.
The following indicators will capture the multidimensional aspects of poverty:
* health
* nutrition
* housing
* water and sanitation
* basic education
* income
* employment, and
* peace and order.
With a budget of P9.8 million sourced from the 2016 Bottom-up Budgeting Program (BuB), the amount shall cover the trainings of the enumerators, field editors and coordinators and the purchase of tablets for the implementation of the project in nine target LGUs.
Other LGUs, however, funded their own CBMS trainings, such as Caluya, Sebaste and Patnongon.
CBMS covers a total of five modules – data collection, data processing and poverty mapping, barangay development plan formulation, and comprehensive development plan formulation.
The training on data collection, the first module of CBMS, was conducted in January in the municipalities of Belison, Tobias Fornier and Libertad followed by San Jose and Sibalom last month.
Recently, the CBMS team conducted the same training in the municipality of Bugasong to be followed by Valderrama, Pandan and Culasi. (PIA-Antique/PN)
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