Pangan: Community-Based Monitoring System

THE city planning and development office, headed by Rosan Paquia, is a vital cog in the City of Mabalacat's Government machinery in that it performs tasks geared toward the city's poverty alleviation and overall development plans and programs, one of which is the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS).

Perusing a draft memorandum of agreement furnished this writer, it can be gleaned that there are four principal stakeholders responsible in the implementation of the CBMS, namely; the Community-Based Monitoring System Network Team, represented by its Network Leader, Dr. Celia Reyes; the Department of the Interior and Local Government through the Bureau of Local Government Development (BLGD), represented by its OIC-Director, Ms. Anna Liza Bonagua, the Department of the Interior and Local Government Regional Office III, represented by its Regional Director, Ms. Julie Daquioag and the City of Mabalacat, represented by its City Mayor, the Honorable Marino Morales.

The draft instrument cites the responsibilities of each office as follows: the City Government through its City Planning and Development Office shall "act as the coordinating body and the center of operations of all committees, bodies, etc., that form the development council and the operations of the council itself either directly or through its executive committee led by the Local Chief Executive".

The CBMS Network Team shall provide the technical assistance on the development and institutionalization of CBMS and its use for planning, program formulation and impact monitoring.

The DILG through the Bureau of Local Government Development shall be responsible for the implementation of the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) localization and the capacity building of local government units on poverty diagnosis and planning using CBMS through its institutionalization at the local level.

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The CPDO is at the forefront of the CBMS project and has already acquired equipment and machines needed for its successful implementation, including manpower.

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The Community-Based Monitoring System is an organized process of data collection and processing at the local level and the integration of data in the local planning, program implementation and impact-monitoring.

It is a system that promotes evidence-backed policy making and program implementation while enabling communities to actively participate in the process.

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I acknowledge with profuse thanks to Rosan Paquia for giving me materials on CBMS.

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