TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Oct 14 (PIA) –In no time sooner, the results of a technology-based system of data collection, processing and validation of useful data for the first 12 towns in Bohol would be available for the newly elected barangay officials of these 5th to 6th class towns.
This as the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in Bohol is set to release the first batch of data from the Community-Based Monitoring System, as mandated by Republic Act 11315.
According to PSA Bohol Provincial Statistician Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren, the CBMs in the April data generation in the barangay levels which contain a massive 343 data variables would be available for the pilot towns in Bohol.
These towns with a brand new development tool include Alburquerque, San Isidro, Guindulman. Anda, Cortes, Corella, Clarin, Catigbian, Sikatuna, Dagohoy, Batuan and Sevilla.
Partnering with these LGUs, PSA said the towns were then the primary data collecting authority, and with the guidance of the PSA, took up to the established standards in ethics, guidelines and procedures.
With the elections for the basic local government unit is approaching at breakneck speed, getting the newly elected barangay officials reliable data from which then can base their development plans is the first step, and just in time, the CBMS just provides that, at least to 12 towns in Bohol, explains Alcazaren, during the recent Kapihan sa PIA.
Data available at the CBMS include local facts, figures, maps on the various dimensions of poverty, such as health, nutrition, water, sanitation, shelter, education, income, employment, security and the communities’ economic participation.
With these generated data, these can be utilized for local government processes like local planning, budgeting, program identification and implementation, disaster and risk reduction and management measures, she said.
It may be recalled that with the need to generate updated and disaggregated data critical in targeting possible beneficiaries and lay the groundworks for a more scientific, comprehensive analysis on poverty and need prioritization considering limited government resources, the CBMS came up with the goal to provide information that will enable governments to craft a system of public spending that assures that the government allocation gets to communities and to the individuals who are in most need.
From the CBMS, barangays and municipalities can make their own programs and policies in basic services provision for all, as all the necessary data are there. The data also allows government to pinpoint and identify worthy beneficiaries of the government’s social protection programs for them to earn a capacity to move themselves to a much better position to fight poverty. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
ALL IN. PSA Bohol Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren and Supervising statistician Emmanuel Galab with Fiel Rose Tac-an announced the National Statistics Mont Celebration and the availability of the CBMS data for 12 towns in Bohol. By next year, the rest of Bohol’s 37 towns and component city would also generate their CBMS data, according to the PSA. (PIAbohol)
