Tacurong to pilot-test DILG’s tablet-based survey
• 00:40 AM Wed Nov 26, 2014
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Tacurong information office
TACURONG CITY -- The city
government of Tacurong is now pilot-testing the Community-Based Monitoring System-Accelerated
Poverty Profiling (CBMS), the first local government in Region 12 to do the
task.
CBMS is an Android tablet-based
survey developed by theCommunity-Based Monitoring System Network Team.
LGU-Tacurong will pilot test
the CBMS-APP on December 1-5, 2014 in selected barangays in the city.
With the CBMS-APP, survey forms
are deployed in Samsung Android tablets. Tacurong's City Local Government Operations Officer Alberto P. Sero Jr said enumerators will use these
tablets in collecting household data. CBMS-APP also uses web technology for
faster and easier storage and retrieval of collected data. The use of CBMS in LGUs is part
of a program of the Department of the Interior and Local Government
(DILG)-Bureau of Local Government Development (BLGD).
The CBMS is a census that provides
timely inputs in local development planning of LGUs.
Prior to the pilot survey,
thirty-two individuals who will serve as enumerators, editors, and supervisors
were trained on CBMS-APP on November 24-28, 2014.
The training aims to equip
participants with necessary skills in data collection using the CBMS SCAN and
CBMS Portal.
DILG and LGU-Tacurong through
the City Planning and Development Coordinating Office invited two resource
speakers namely LGOO Evelyn Castro, a CBMS National Trainer from the DILG
Central Office and LGOO Philip Cuevas, Regional CBMS Focal Person of DILG IX,
Pagadian City. (LGU-Tacurong City Information)