Community-Based Monitoring System Act (Republic Act No. 11315)

(a) Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) refers Each city and municipality is the primary data collecting to an organized technology-based system of collecting, authority within its locality. For this purpose, each city and processing and validating necessary disaggregated data that municipality shall have a statistician, whose primary function may be used for planning. program implementation and impact is data collection, preservation and safekeeping of the data monitoring at the local level while empowering communities retained at the city or municipal level. Fmther, the Philippine to participate in the process. It involves the generation of data Statistics Authority (PSA) shall create additional positions for at the local level which serves as basis in targeting households statisticians at the provincial level to monitor and manage in the planning, budgeting and implementation of government enumeration activities of LGUs under their jurisdiction. programs geared towards poverty alleviation and economic development. This system merges the methodologies used in SEC. 5. Periodicity of Da.ta Collect1:on. - Regular and data collection activities of all national agencies, geo-tagging. synchronized data collection shall be conducted by every city and the CBMS implemented by local government units (LGUs). and municipality every three (3) years . In the conduct of data It entails a census of households undertake n by the LGUs collection , the LG U shall r eceive financial and techmcal with the participation of the community using acceler ated assistance from the appropriate national government agencies. poverty profiling system in the data collection, processing. mapping and analysis of data; Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, all cities and municipalities are enjoined to collect data at shorter intervals

(b) Geo-tagging ref~rs to the process of adding metadata and at their own expense for purposes peculiarly useful to about government projects to various media and of uploading them. to a web-based application. This e nables the mapping of all areas in the Philippines a nd allows the government. the Further. t he implementing rules and regulations as citizenry. and other stakeholders to check the progress of provided under Section 15 of this Act may provide for a projects in real time; separate period for data collection depending on the needs of -I 5 national government agencies whose data-collecting functions President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House of have been consolidated with the CBMS. Representatives containing collective poverty statistics generated by the CBMS, where identities of respondents, cities SEC. 6. Lead Agency. - The Philippine Statistics and municipalities are kept confidential. Authority (PSA) shall serve as the lead agency in the implementation of the CBMS. It shall have the following SEC. 8. Storage and Access of Data. - The cities and functions: municipalities are allowed to maintain their own CBMS database for use in local level planning and program (a) Set standards, develop and review data collection implementation. The PSA shall receive and store all forms utilizing as base of existing CBMS forms used by LGUs; aggregated data gathered by the cities and municipalities to create a national CBMS databank of collated information. It (b) Capacitate the cities and municipalities in the shall undertake measures to ensure the integrity and safety collection of poverty data at the local level through the of the gathered information against unnecessary leakage and Philippine Statistical Research and Training Institute, in access by unauthorized persons. collaboration with state universities and colleges and in coordination with other government agencies; Provinces shall have access to their respective local and territory-specific data.

(c) Conduct cross-posting as follow-up capacity building of the cities and municipalities; SEC. 9. Prioritizing Social Protection Programs. - The appropriate national government agencies shall use the data

(d) Monitor the data collection by c1t1es and generated by the CBMS in prioritizing timely, relevant and municipalities to ensure adherence to official concepts, much-needed social protection progrnms of government in areas definitions, and standards of poverty statistics; identified to have the highest incidence of poverty.

(e) Act as the national repository of all poverty data SEC. 10. Confidentiality of Information. - The right to collected by the cities and municipalities; privacy of every respondent remains inviolable. The citize n participating in the data collection shall be fully informed of (t) Process the poverty data generated and submitted by the nature and extent of processing intended for his or her the cities and municipalities; personal data. Participation in all data collection activities is purely voluntary. Notwithstanding Section 4 of this Act, (g) Generate poverty statistics at higher levels that will respondents may refuse to answer any question or reveal any complement and supplement the local level data: and information at any point, or terminate data collection activities with no further action needed. The person conducting the data (h) Perform such ·other functions as may be necessary collection shall ask the respondents whether they would like or incidental to the proper implementation of this Act. to make an explicit waiver to authorize the city and municipality to disclose their identity and other relevant SEC. 7. Information Dissemination. - The Department information about their household to the government agency of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is which provides social protection programs for them. tasked to develop institutional arrangements on data-sharing. The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) SEC. 11. Prioritization of Assistance. - The income class is tasked to regularly disseminate information relating to of cities and municipalities shall be considered in prioritizing activities of the CBMS. The National Statistician of the PSA the allocation of financial assistance t o implement the is tasked to submit an annual accomplishment report to the provisions of this Act. Fourth, fifth and sixth class cities and 6 7 municipalities shall be given assistance in the first three (3) SEC. 15. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - years of implementation of this Act. Thereafter, other cities Within ninety (90) days from the effectivity of this Act, the and municipalities shall progressively be given assistance to National Statistician of t he PSA, in consultation with the ensure the full implementation of this Act. DILG, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department SEC. 12. Joint Congressional Oversight Committee. - of Education, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Upon the effectivity of this Act, a Congressional Oversight Council, Department of Labor and Employment, Department Committee, hereafter referred to as the CBMS Oversight of Environment and Natural Resources, National Anti-Poverty Committee, is hereby constituted. This Committee shall set the Commission, National Privacy Commission, DICT, Philippine overall framework to review the implementation of this Act. Institute for Development Studies, Philippine Statistical It shall likewise determine inherent weaknesses in the law Research and Training Institute, CBMS Network, League of and recommend necessary remedial legislation or executive Provinces of the Philippines, League of Cities of the Philippines measures. The CBMS Oversight Committee shall be composed and League of Municipalities of the Philippines, shall of fourteen (14) members with the Chairpersons of the promulgate the rules and regulations necessary for the effective Committee on Poverty Alleviation of the House of implementatio n of this Act. The PSA shall work in Representatives, and the Committee on Social Justice, Welfare consultation with the appropriate government offices and other and Rural Development of the Senate as Co-chairpersons; and stakeholders from both the private and public sectors in the six (6) members from each House, to be designated by the relevant fields to be covered by the data collection initiative . Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate President, respectively. For purposes of determining remedial SEC. 16. Transitory Provision . - The national legislation, the CBMS Oversight Committee shall, within two government agencies which currently collect poverty data for (2) years after the effectivity of this Act, conduct a systematic purposes of targeting deserving beneficiaries to their respective evaluation of the impact of this Act, accomplishments of the social protection programs shall continue to perform their system, and the performance of the cities and municipalities duties and responsibilities in a holdover capacity for a period on data collection, and of the PSA on its functions as the lead of one (1) year from the effectivity of the implementing rules agency. and regulations, or for such period as may be determined by the PSA to ensure compliance with the requirements of this SEC. 13. Appropriations. - The amount necessary to Act. carry out the provisions of this Act shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act. SEC. 17. Separability Clause. - If any provision or part of this Act is held unconstitutional or invalid, the remaining SEC. 14. GEMS Council. - For purposes of achieving parts or provisions not affected shall remain in full force and secure and efficient data sharing arrangements between and effect. among concerned cities and municipalities and national government agencies to be used for their particular social SEC. 18. Repealing Clai1,se . - Any law, presidential protection and welfare programs and projects, there is hereby decree, executive order, letter of instruction, administrative created a CBMS Council composed of the PSA, DILG and order, rule or regulation contrary to or inconsistent with the DICT. to be headed by the PSA. The implementing rules and provisions of this Act is hereby repealed, modified, or amended regulations sh all define other appropriate functions of the accordingly. CBMS Council. 8 SEC. 19. Effectiui:ty. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation. Approved, GLORIA LAGAL-ARROYO Speaker of the House of Representatives This Act was passed by the Sen ate of the Philippines as Senate Bill No. 2172 on February 4, 2019 and adopted by the House of Repr esentatives as a n· amendment to H ouse Bill No. 8217 on February 7, 2019. 7 MYRA MARJE D. Y!LLARICA Act ngSecre y General Secretmy of the Senate H use of Representatives Approved: APR 1 7 2019 0 REPUBLI C OF THE PHILIPPINES PRRD 2016 - 011 162 --··-·--- 0ftice of tt)e P~Ment MALAC\NANG RECORDS OFFICE 1 I ! l Arrv. (J)fW.c:PQfl J- t1Y t H:RR!XlNC'--trtAO ft "t---11-- '1,/l;\ •••••,. •- ~ - .... ~, ,, • D!RfCTOR n/ 1i . ., ,. • • - r- ,_..__ _•,g _._...,. ., ,_._..,, .. - . . .,....,