BY: FERLIZA C. CONTRATISTA
CEBU CITY, March 5 (PIA) --- Carcar
City is calling Cebuanos to support its video and photo entries for a
national awarding body.
Candice Acuna, Carcar City Information
Officer, said their entries for the advocacy video and photo was chosen as
candidate for the 3rd Community Based Montitoring System-Philippines Special
Awards.
CBMS is a program adapted and
implemented jointly by the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF),
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) with the City of Carcar.
Its goal is institutionalizing a
community-based monitoring system to generate baseline data for poverty
diagnosis, planning, and target monitoring.
“Carcar City is one of the first cities
in the Philippines to adapt the CBMS. We need everyone’s support for the
online voting,” Acuna said.
In order to vote, one must ask to join
the Facebook account of CBMS International Network Group, then like the entries of LGU Carcar City for Best CBMS Advocacy Video
and Best CBMS Photo.
The online voting period is from
February 25 until March 25 at 10 pm.
There are three entries for the Best
CBMS Advocacy videos by LGUs and 22 entries for the Best CBMS Advocacy Photos.
CBMS is one of the tools developed
in the early 1990s to provide policymakers and program implementers with a good
information base for tracking the impact of macroeconomic reforms and
various policy shocks.
It is an organized way of collecting information at the local
level for use of local government units, national government agencies,
non-government organizations, civil society and development partner agencies
for planning, program implementation and monitoring. (rmn/FCC/PIA Cebu)