TACURONG CITY, Dec. 1 (PNA) – The Tacurong City government started Monday a five-month household survey in the city’s 20 villages using its android tablets.
The Community-Based Monitoring System Accelerated Poverty Profiling team uses an Android tablet-based survey developed by the Community-Based Monitoring System Network Team commissioned by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).
Tacurong City Mayor Lina Montilla said the data to be gathered would be used in planning and creating necessary programs and projects for the communities.
“Ninety-five thousand ka tao ang ara sa City of Tacurong pero kamo lang ang napili nga mag conduct sini nga survey, may trust kami sa inyo (There are 95,000 people in Tacurong City but only you were chosen to do the job, we trust you,” Montilla told 24 enumerators, four editors and two supervisors who graduated in the CBMS APP Module 1 training on Nov. 28.
“I hope you do the job with in the five month period because every data you gather is very important in program and project preparations,” she said.
Montilla said that city planners and lawmakers need the data down to the villages, sub-village and purok, including the households.
”To effectively come up with programs that will really answer the needs of the local populace, programmers need statistical data,” she said.
DILG and LGU-Tacurong through the City Planning and Development Coordinating Office invited two resource speakers for the training.
They were Local Government Operations Officer (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. (PNA)