Province of Romblon - UNDP in the Philippines

A. Preparation of Provincial
Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) Report Using CBMS Data
1. Background and Justification
The availability of good statistics and the capacity of governments, donors and
international organizations to systematically measure, monitor and report on
progress in all social and economic spheres are at the heart of development
policy and the achievement of the MDGs.
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2007
While progress toward the attainment
of the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) is systematically being measured,
monitored and reported at the national
level, clearly, there must be a parallel effort
at the local level to bring the MDGs into
the mainstream of the local development
agenda.
This is especially called for under
decentralized regimes where local government
units (LGUs) are at the forefront of
policy or program execution. Unfortunately,
however, national statistical systems have
yet to respond adequately to the demand
for micro-level statistics that can aid
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LGUs in their poverty alleviation efforts,
as noted in a joint World Bank and Asian
Development Bank report, to wit: “the most
comprehensive and consistent comparative
subnational data (are) is at the regional
level although this is simply an administrative
level of government that has no responsibilities
for delivery of social services. More
data (are) is gradually becoming available
at the provincial level, but not at lower levels
which are at the frontline of efforts to reduce
poverty 1 .”
In response, the Philippine Government
has embarked on an initiative to localize
the MDGs using the Community-Based
Monitoring System (CBMS). In 2005, the
National Statistical Coordination Board
(NSCB) issued Resolution No. 6 “recognizing
and enjoining support to the CBMS
as a tool for strengthening the statistical
system at the local level that will generate
statistics for monitoring and evaluation of
development plans, including the progress
of the local governments in attaining the
Millennium Development Goals.”
Meanwhile, several approaches are
being carried out by the Department of
1 Decentralization in the Philippines: Strengthening Local Government Financing and Resource Management in the Short-Term, 2005 (A Joint Document of the World Bank and
the Asian Development Bank)
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