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Philippine Statistical Development Program, 2005-2010needs-identification, policymaking and program implementation, and is expected toprovide early warning signs of impending economic crises.- Core Local Poverty Indicator Monitoring System (CLPIMS)The Core Local Poverty Indicator Monitoring System (CLPIMS) also aims to generateinformation for poverty diagnosis and planning. The CLPIMS identified the Core LocalPoverty Indicators (CLPI) which consist of the minimum set of fourteen (14) carefullyselected human development and income-based indicators for poverty diagnosis andplanning. This took off from the gains of the different local poverty monitoring systemsexisting at the local level (e.g. MBN-CBIS, MBN-CBPIMS, IRAP, MIMAP-CBMS) Amaternal mortality indicator was also added to harmonize the CLPIs with MDGs.The CLPIs were adopted through the National Anti Poverty Commission (NAPC) EnBanc Resolution 7 on March 13 2003 (7th En Banc Meeting) and was localizedthrough DILG MC 2003-92 providing for the adoption of the CLPI in local planning.- Barangay Management Information System (BMIS)The availability of up to date information about the community poses a problem tolocal planners and chief executives. Thus, network team of the Barangay IntegratedDevelopment Approach for Nutrition Improvement (BIDANI) of the Rural Poorintroduced the Barangay Management Information System (BMIS) in 1997 as apeople based information system for gathering, organizing, storing and updating dataabout the barangay. In this system, the Barangay Development Council together withthe Barangay Nutrition Scholars and Health Workers were taught on how to conductdata collection, and process (using manual or BMIS software) and analyze theinformation gathered.The BIDANI Network is an action research program under theInstitute of HumanNutrition and Food, College of Human Ecology at the University of the Philippines LosBanos.• Local gender-based indicator system in Regions I, VIII, XI, and XIIComplementing efforts at the national level, the NSCB formulated, in consultation with theRegional Statistical Coordination Committees (RSCCs) and concerned local groups, anindicator system for gender and development (GAD) in the regions. The regional/localindicator system was designed basically to address the peculiar GAD condition/situation in aparticular region.• Development of local governance statistics and indicator systemsWith the emergence of governance as a major concern towards sustainable development, theneed to generate and analyze relevant indicators has become a challenge for the PSS. TheNSCB, in response, initiated a project at the national level to develop and generate governanceindicators and to establish a database and information network. Initial indicators have beenidentified for further evaluation based on literature and similar or related studies. The projectwas funded through the Re-engineering the Government Statistical Services Project of theNSCB.Extending the results of the above study at the subnational level by utilizing provincial statisticsfrom the NSCB database on the Philippine Countryside in Figures, the NSCB staff were alsoable to come up for the first time the 2000 and 2002 estimates of the provincial goodgovernance index for all the provinces in the country.• Development of Local Productivity Performance Measurement System (LPPMS)The Local Productivity Performance Measurement System (LPPMS) of the Department ofInterior and Local Government (DILG) aims to develop performance measurement andassessment tools for LGUs in the Philippines that can be used effectively in LGU management,service delivery and development processes. There are three (3) primary and immediatepurposes served by LPPMS: 1) Supporting LGU development through improved use of6-8 Development of the Subnational Statistical System
Philippine Statistical Development Program, 2005-2010financial and human resources; 2) Providing a benchmark for LGU performance; and 3)Providing national policy-makers insights on areas for strategic policy reforms with respect toLGUs. It is a web-based national information system for and about LGUs. It provides for asingle database (stored in an Internet server) that stakeholders can access via the Internet.Data input and standard data reports generation can be done directly on-line. Stakeholders(provided they have the proper authority) may also download the data from the Internet.• Philippine Economic and Environment and Natural Resources Accounts (PEENRA)The PEENRA has become one of the pioneering outputs of the NSCB that have gainedrecognition in the international community. With the termination of the project that madepossible its development, the NSCB has initiated measures to institutionalize the frameworkand outputs despite lack of resources. It has pursued the identification of BenchmarkParameters on Environmental Protection and has come up with the PEENRA DataImprovement Plan in consultation with the stakeholders of the accounts.During the 1999-2004 PSDP period, the NSCB extended technical assistance on thedevelopment of the Philippine System of Integrated Economic--Environment and NaturalResources Accounts (PEENRA) for Palawan, the Cordillera Administrative Region, andEastern Visayas Region.• Development of other local administrative based statistics- Standard core indicators for municipal, city, and provincial socio-economic profiling forthe Province of Iloilo;- Municipal investment statistics by industry from a modified business licensing system,an initial output of a pilot joint project of the NSCB, RSCC, Department of Trade andIndustry CAR, and the Municipal Government ofTuba, Benguet;- Administrative-based system of generating tourism statistics in Baguio City through amodified LGU business licensing, a joint activity of the NSCB and RSCC CAR with theDepartment of Tourism and the City Government of Baguio;• Expansion of the National Statistical Information System (NSIC) in the regionsTo effect a balanced development of statistical system and improve the accessibility of thesubnational statistics, regional and provincial branches of the National Statistical InformationCenter (NSIC) were established.Realizing that information is a powerful tool in achieving socio-economic development, moreprogressive local government units such as the Provincial Government of Guimaras andNegros Occidental in Region VI have launched their own provincial NSICs in 2004 and 2005,respectively, in collaboration with the NSCB.• Enhanced preparation and dissemination of local statistical publicationsSome local publications with regional and provincial dimensions are now being producedregularly in multi-media such as print, broadcast, and electronic (CD ROM and Internet) by thesubnational statistical system through the NSCB. These include the following:- Regional Social and Economic Trends, an annual statistical yearbook for a particularregion that contains available regional and local disaggregation of sectoral statisticsfor Regions I, IV, V, VI, VIII, IX, XII, and CAR, in print and CD ROM;- Southern Mindanao Statistical Yearbook, an annual statistical yearbook featuringavailable regional and local disaggregation of sectoral statistics in Region XI, in printand CD ROM;- Regional publications on gender statistics in print and CD ROM: Women and Men(WAM) Statistical Handbook in Regions V and VIII, and Region I;Development of the Subnational Statistical System 6-9
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