THE MUNICIPALITY OF EXPERIENCE WITH CBMS

The availability of information is one of the best determining factors in making sound managerial decision. Without this, we are like blind men groping in the dark and making decisions on hunches and pure guesswork which will not produce efficient, consistent and effective results.

Fortunately, Mariveles is way past of this situation and thanks to Community Based Monitoring System and the group who authored it. We all know that a database is a bank of information which enables us to access specific knowledge that will help us determine the conditions of one community in one specific situation and in return, we will able to provide necessary intervention.

1. First slide – Brief Profile of Mariveles – first of all I would like to show you the brief profile of our municipality. As shown the slide; a. Our Municipality lies at the southernmost tip of Peninsula and three hours travel from in an overland trip and just an hour away via ferry boat. b. It has a land area of 15,930 hectares, politically subdivided into 18 barangays c. It has mountainous terrain and dominated by Mt. Mariveles. d. The host municipality of the First Special Economic Zone, the Bataan Economic Zone. Also, the location of Petrochemical Industries and other big industries like, San Miguel Food Companies, Asian Terminal and Herma Ship Repair yard. e. Historically, it is site where Gen. Wainwright surrendered to Japanese forces and significantly known as the starting point of the infamous Death March. f. Based in our CBMS survey, it has a total household population of 21,068 and total population of 90,528, the largest in the whole Province of Bataan.

2. Second slide – Facts and Figures about CBMS in Mariveles CBMS was introduced in the Province of Bataan by our 2nd district congressman, Hon. Abet Garcia, which was strongly supported by our provincial governor, Hon. Enrique ‘Tet’ Garcia. When CBMS was launched in Mariveles, it was fully supported also by our Hon. Mayor, Dr. Jesse I Concepcion. We conducted the survey for about 4 months. While in process, a lot of difficulties had been encountered. Nevertheless, we successfully generate reports and finished the project which we are now using to date. We allocated an amount of P1.65M for the purchased of computer equipment, wages for our hired 70 enumerators who conducted the survey, We have also 4 enumerators stationed at Municipal Planning and Development Office who did the encoding, digitizing and mapping of captured data.

3. Third slide – Our Benefits derived from CBMS Since the early stage of familiarization with the CBMS, we have found out the following advantages/benefits; to wit, a. It’s easy to produce socio economic profile of the municipality and the accessibility in determining the basic indicators of each is very convenient. b. It’ easy to locate area of concerns in the digitized map. c. Reports generation are easily available and reproduce. d. It serves as guide in addressing the issues and concerns of certain area with the use of its basic indicators reports

4. Fourth slide – Content and coverage of our CBMS The Survey forms used for every household( I think this is the standard forms to all of us) covers issues on Health, Water and Sanitation, Housing, Occupation and trades, waste disposal, Income, Education and literacy, Peace and Order. It also covers migration, OFW, Professions, solo parenting, disabled persons and senior citizens, Our data contained the following information of each household such as: a. Personal and individual data such Name, age, sex, relationship and civil status b. Educational attainment and literacy. c. Employment, Occupation or trades d. Household information such as: 1. Single parent 2. Disabled 3. Senior citizen 4. Victims of crime 5. Board passer 6. Tenure 7. Death 8. Family planning 9. sources of Income 10. engaged in farming activity 11. engaged in fishing activity 12. business registration 13. Waste disposal system 14. Food shortage 15. members abroad (OFW)

5. Fifth slide – Uses of CBMS as experienced by our Municipality On August 2007, the results of our work regarding this project were presented to the newly elected officials and to all local department/office heads. Realizing the importance of this project, they unanimously agreed to use the CBMS database as reference in the planning and formulating our EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE AGENDA

6. Sixth Slide – Comparative Analysis between ELA with CBMS against ELA without CBMS.

Comparison between present ELA with CBMS and Previous ELA without CBMS Previous ELA Present ELA The plans and programs had no concrete CBMS had provided the real/actual 1 basis on 1 situation in actual situation in the community the community where Interventions could be properly addressed and planned. Several programmed, projects & activities undertaken were less beneficial to the PPA’s were properly distributed in areas 2 people. 2 where they are needed most.

5. Seventh Slide – Other uses of CBMS Since the presentation of CBMS to all elected officials and department heads, several requests had come to our office for reports generation, like request coming from our Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWD) for the following:

a. List of disabled persons, causes and types of disability 1. Sub slide 1 – Total Disability Report This is the list of disabled persons per barangay in our municipality. We also provided MSWD with the list of names and addresses of disabled persons but trait these very confidential to protect the honor of concerned family. As you may notice, we had only a slight percentage of disabled in our locality and most of these causes were brought about by incapacitating sickness.

b. List of Single Parent and underlying reasons. 1. Sub-slide 1 – List of single Parents Report per barangay Based on the reports we found out that Death of Spouse and Separated dominates the reasons why the solo parenthood and most of the single parents were noted in highly urbanized area of our municipality.

6. Eight slide – Plans, Programs and Activities formulated in ELA 2008-2010

Service Area Target 2008-2010 Plans, Programs and Activities

Reduce Unemployment unemployment by Provide additional skill enhancement training program for the 10% unemployed household members in the community.

Introduce a study now- pay later scholarship program in

vocational/technical courses.

Promote agricultural livelihood projects to provide other means of income. Promote and legislate investment incentive ordinance.

HH with income Reduce poverty and below poverty and food threshold by at Promote self financing program thru establishment of cooperatives Food threshold least 10% in every barangay.

Promote Mariveles as an eco-tourism destination to generate

additional employment.

Strengthen and sustain the KISLAP LOAN PROGRAM of the

municipality that provides soft loans to all cooperatives in the area

7. Ninth Slide – Future Plans for our CBMS

a. Update CBMS every 3 years a. Conduct orientation and educational training for barangay staff/personnel to be in- charged in record keeping and maintenance of the CBMS database. b. Periodic educational training of all personnel involved in the CBMS programs

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GOD BLESS.

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