City Planning and Development Office head Ivan Cortez bared one of the key priority programs of Davao City government to combat poverty dubbed, “Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS).”
Guesting during the bizforum at DermPath SM City Davao on Wednesday, Cortez said CPDO was mandated to update the Comprehensive Development Plan.
“We will update that with the intention to incorporate the DRRM (Disaster Risk Reduction and Management) plans and also the climate change adaptation,” he added.
The CPDO head stressed CBMS involves proper data gathering.
“Our enumerators or persons on the ground will be provided their respective tabs and then this tab will have a software that will allow the city planning to monitor them, what they are doing while in the survey,” said Cortez.
He added, this is for CPDO to monitor if the enumerators are not performing their duty and if they only made up the data submitted to the agency.
CBMS will involve conduct of household census with geo-tagging such that profile of specific needs are mapped-out geographically and interventions and assistance are downloaded or provided to the rightful social work services beneficiaries in their exact locations.
“We don’t have any clear determination whether those who fall in line in barangays legitimately fall under the poverty line,” said Cortez.
According to the CPDO head, CBMS has an allocated budget of PP40 million and will employ 405 enumerators who will conduct the survey for 90 days within 2017.
Poverty alleviation is one of the key priority areas under the mayor’s 10-point socioeconomic agenda, alongside infrastructure development, solid waste management, health, education, agriculture, tourism, transportation planning and traffic management, peace and order, and disaster risk reduction and mitigation.
The city planning office head explained programs under poverty alleviation highlight social protection of vulnerable sectors, emphasis on access to opportunities, and strengthen responsible parenthood or family planning programs.
