PSA turns over 2024 CBMS data to LGUs

The Philippine Statistics Authority, through its Provincial Statistical Offices in Region VI, conducted the 2024 Community-Based Monitoring System Data Turnover Ceremony for all local government units in Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras and Iloilo.

Antique held its ceremony on Sept. 1, 2025, in San Jose de Buenavista; Guimaras on Sept. 17; Capiz and Aklan on Sept. 18 and 19; and Iloilo on Sept. 22 for the 1st and 2nd Districts and Sept. 29 for the 3rd to 5th Districts in Passi City.

The ceremonies were led by PSA RSSO VI Regional Director Nelida C. Amolar and acknowledged by local chief executives, and in her message Amolar underscored CBMS as a vital tool for empowering LGUs to design responsive programs, allocate resources efficiently and monitor development impacts at the grassroots level while emphasizing that the turnover marks the beginning of an even greater responsibility to maximize the data.

The program highlighted the formal transfer of data and presentation of key findings from the 2024 CBMS results, and attendees included local chief executives, CBMS Coordinating Board members, department heads, LGU personnel and data users, along with representatives from the Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Department of Information and Communications Technology.