NATIONAL Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) Secretary Domingo Panganiban and Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) Network team leader Dr. Celia Reyes visited Zambosur the other week and witnessed the public presentation of the overall anti-poverty initiatives presentation.
Panganiban was with Regional Directors Paisal Abutazil of DILG, Ponciano Ligutom of DOLE and Teodulo Romo Jr. of DSWD.
The whole day event at Liga City was also witness by Gov. Aurora Cerilles, where the presentations of Barangay Kabatan, Vincenzo Sagun and that of Tambulig, Sominot, Midsalip and Margosatubig were presented.
Provincial Planning & Development Coordinator Loy Cañales reported the consolidated results of the 22 municipalities that completed the CBMS survey.
The CBMS survey determines the magnitude and proportion of the population per municipality through health and nutrition, housing, water and sanitation, basic education, income and livelihood and peace and order.
Cerilles said that her administration fully supported the CBMS in order to come up with reliable, well-processed and validated household information on the context of poverty monitoring of the constituents.
The CBMS can be very useful and helpful tool for the government to effectively address the poverty incidence in the province, Cerilles stressed.
Thus when the poverty reduction program of President Gloria Arroyo was implemented, the governor requested that Zambosur be included in the P1-billion fund distribution.
Cerilles said she was grateful to the NAPC, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the visiting CBMS network coordinating team, Angelo King Institute of Economic and Business Studies of De La Salle University, for sponsoring the project.
Ligutom, for his part, revealed that with the CBMS survey the DOLE regional office may be able to focus their financial assistance to the desirable people, those truly in need.
For Romo, he cited that Food for School program wherein what was intended was the underprivileged children but because of the absence of household data, distribution of rice was given also to non-poor children.
Abutazil shared the same idea with Romo, saying there is a need to have a joint approach in giving intervention to target beneficiaries.
It was learned that of the 27 LGUs in the province, only 22 completed their CBMS databases.
REPORT BY REMAI ALEJADO
Panganiban was with Regional Directors Paisal Abutazil of DILG, Ponciano Ligutom of DOLE and Teodulo Romo Jr. of DSWD.
The whole day event at Liga City was also witness by Gov. Aurora Cerilles, where the presentations of Barangay Kabatan, Vincenzo Sagun and that of Tambulig, Sominot, Midsalip and Margosatubig were presented.
Provincial Planning & Development Coordinator Loy Cañales reported the consolidated results of the 22 municipalities that completed the CBMS survey.
The CBMS survey determines the magnitude and proportion of the population per municipality through health and nutrition, housing, water and sanitation, basic education, income and livelihood and peace and order.
Cerilles said that her administration fully supported the CBMS in order to come up with reliable, well-processed and validated household information on the context of poverty monitoring of the constituents.
The CBMS can be very useful and helpful tool for the government to effectively address the poverty incidence in the province, Cerilles stressed.
Thus when the poverty reduction program of President Gloria Arroyo was implemented, the governor requested that Zambosur be included in the P1-billion fund distribution.
Cerilles said she was grateful to the NAPC, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the visiting CBMS network coordinating team, Angelo King Institute of Economic and Business Studies of De La Salle University, for sponsoring the project.
Ligutom, for his part, revealed that with the CBMS survey the DOLE regional office may be able to focus their financial assistance to the desirable people, those truly in need.
For Romo, he cited that Food for School program wherein what was intended was the underprivileged children but because of the absence of household data, distribution of rice was given also to non-poor children.
Abutazil shared the same idea with Romo, saying there is a need to have a joint approach in giving intervention to target beneficiaries.
It was learned that of the 27 LGUs in the province, only 22 completed their CBMS databases.
REPORT BY REMAI ALEJADO