Palawan to improve poverty reduction policies with data

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1024799
• Monday, February 12, 2018

By Celeste Anna Formoso (PNA)

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan -- Focal persons for the community-based monitoring systems (CBMS) of Palawan’s 23 municipalities are up for training to assist in evaluating the province’s accomplishments on poverty reduction.

Provincial Information Officer Gil Acosta Jr. said the training would be done on February 19-23 to 70 CBMS focal persons with their municipal planning and development coordinators.

“Those who will undergo the training will, in turn, teach those who will become enumerators for the survey that will be carried out in 433 barangays all throughout the province,” his statement said.

“The CBMS survey will be synchronized to obtain household data and information on health, nutrition, food, water, sanitation, peace and order, livelihood, education, types of home, and others,” said Acosta, in a statement, released Saturday.

The survey, which will be done in two months, is important for municipalities and the province that need baseline data to be able to address potential gaps in Comprehensive Land Used Plan, Gender and Development, and Comprehensive Development Plan.

The results will become the basis of the local government units in the improvement of their policies and decisions that can help reduce Palawan’s rate of poverty.

The activity will be led by the provincial government’s Provincial Planning and Development Office in close partnership with the Department of Interior and Local Government.

This came after the municipalities were able to complete the documents that the DILG required, such as memoranda of agreement that can prove the authority of the mayors to implement the synchronized CBMS survey, its timeline, and its financial plans.