GREETINGS Slide 1- Greetings Pasay City is one of the seventeen LGUs comprising the Slide 2- National Capital Region or Metro . We have an Pasay brief area of approximately 1800 hectares and a projected profile population of more or less 295,000 for 2006. Our population density is high which is due to the fact that out of the 1800 hectare city area, only around 700 hectares are devoted to residential use while the rest are for utility purposes, like the airport and the roads and highways. The reclamation area comprising more or less 400 hectares is devoted to development. Pasay may be small in area and population but still we have a very big number of barangays, there are 201 of them and they are the active members of the Pasay City Development Council. Who, in 2001, formulated the city’s development plan Slide 3 – with the city’s vision: Pasay City “A scenic premier city thriving with business and Vision economic opportunities, guided by dynamic and efficient local leadership and home to self-reliant, healthy and morally upright people”. With the city’s people as a basic component of the city’s Slide 4- vision, the city government of Pasay recognized the Operating need to have a more realistic data of its constituents. CBMS Pasay Thus, in the late 2004, the city had pilot tested the implementation of CBMS in one of its barangays, 179. After this, a citywide implementation of CBMS followed from March to December of 2005. In last year’s CBMS National conference, we had the Slide 5- Last opportunity to present the strategies we used in doing year’s CBMS the CBMS survey in Pasay, we were more than 50% update finished then.

Today, it is my honor and privilege to report that with Slide 6- GOD’s help, through the concerted efforts of different CBMS Pasay city government offices, faith-based organizations, the survey barangay, and the CBMS Network Coordinating team, results we have completed the survey and we were able to release its initial results to the Pasay City Development Council last March 26, 2006. The survey covered the 201 barangays with 65,117 households who willingly participated in the exercise. The city government spent more or less 2.5M for this undertaking. The figures that are flashed in the monitor now are the Slide 7 – results of our CBMS implementation. Slide -8 CBMS RESULTS In the course of our CBMS implementation, several Slide 9 issues cropped up like barangay boundary disputes, obsolete house numbering and the presence of several small alleys that have no official name or identification. To finish the program, we have to resolve some issues Slide 10- like facilitating the settlement of barangay boundary Implementati disputes as amicably as possible. We have to be on Strategies resourceful too. Since procurement of computers for encoding and processing purposes was not included in the financial allocation for CBMS implementation, we borrowed computer units from other offices. For data processing, we did not use the conventional method but instead we used statistical software. One of our staff had undergone training for this who later on trained the other planning staff to facilitate the data processing. Now that the survey is finished, and the data analyzed, Slide 11- the database is in our office and is now ready for Quick whoever needs to use them. Some people said that matching finally its over, but for us, CBMS implementers, we all approach know that the work has just begun. The results have to be translated into plans that have to be funded and implemented ASAP. More challenging opportunities are set before us. As I Slide- 12 have openly advocated before and I will say it again, it is not enough that we should know the extent of poverty in our area, to know who these poor are and why they are poor. It is not enough to say, “ Nakakaawa naman sila”, What a pity!! We must act now, not tomorrow, not next year but now. In Pasay, we did this by doing our FBI-Ex, Fact-based intervention Exchange. A program whose objective is to address at once the Slide -13 problems identified by CBMS through immediate intervention by the city’s line agencies and other solution providers. Poverty as we all know cannot be eradicated with just Slide 14 – simple quickie programs. You can appease hunger by Barangay direct feeding but that does not solve the problem of the training subsistence poor. We should not only give them fish for food but rather, we should teach them how to fish, as the saying goes. Since the barangay are the ones who have direct contact or access to the community we deemed it proper to empower the barangay so that working with them in combating poverty would be easier.To achieve this, we are right now training all the barangay officials in the preparation of their barangay development plans using MDG/CBMS-based approach. Hopefully, we will be able to finish this before Christmas 2006. As we go along with the training, we promised the Slide 15 – A barangay officials that we will help them in sourcing out bigger for possible donors. At present we have an existing area challenge development council composed of all the developers and property owners as well as all the other stakeholders in the Reclamation Area of Pasay. This council is chaired by yours truly and co-chaired by a SP member. Although this council was created basically for development purposes in that particular area, we will try to convince them in including the Pasay indigents to the beneficiaries of their corporate social responsibility plan.So far, we have positive response from this sector and the challenge of transcending the development in the bay area to the riverside or slum area of the city may not be just a dream anymore. More developments in Pasay are in the offing. When the Slide 16 – initiative that we are doing now in the Reclamation Area Other succeeds, then we will also do that in the Villamor area. development s At the moment, we have lots of problems in our city. Slide 17- Some quarters call this “political dynamics”. We’ve Smart been through changes in political administration and partnerships true, there really are lots of changes within the city government. The good thing with our CBMS programs, though, is that it has transcended the political boundaries. In our 2007 budget,10M Pesos is allocated specifically for poverty alleviation programs in response to the pressing needs identified by CBMS. At present we are using CBMS related programs to forge partnerships among the different stakeholders of the city. „ While CBMS is an effective tool in poverty Slide 18- monitoring and timely statistical data are Conclusion important, we should not stop there. CBMS implementers should be vigilant in pursuing its cause and that is, to eradicate poverty. „ MDG Localization using CBMS data enables the LGU to formulate policies and programs more focused and responsive to the needs of the people. „ It also helps us compare notes and apply relevant best MDG-responsive good practices And this will be discussed and expounded by my colleague here, Engr. Rolando Londonio, City Cooperatives Officer of Pasay City.

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