The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Deputy National Statistician (DNS) Minerva Eloisa P. Esquivias of the Censuses and Technical Coordination Office (CTCO), Assistant National Statistician (ANS) Kristine Joy S. Briones of the Community-Based Statistics Service (CBSS), together with Atty. Eliezer P. Ambatali of the Legal Service and staff from PSA central office, PSA Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and PSA Benguet had a courtesy call with Mayor Benjamin B. Magalong on the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) at the Baguio City Mayor’s Office last 02 February 2023.

CBMS is an organized technology-based system of collecting, processing, and validating necessary disaggregated data, that may be used for planning, program implementation and impact monitoring at the local level while empowering communities to participate in the process.

PSA and Baguio City agreed on the reorganization and revitalizing the City Statistics Committee (CSC) to assist the city in all its statistical activities and other statistical concerns. In addition, they agreed on the creation of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on CBMS under the City of Baguio CSC, to assist the Local Government Unit (LGU) in continuously implementing and improving the conduct of CBMS.

Mayor Magalong was enlightened with the works and efforts of PSA and is eager to have the CBMS datasets the soonest possible. ANS Kristine said that the CBMS data for the city will be available this February. PSA looks forward for a stronger collaboration with the City of Baguio and extends its utmost support to the data providers of CBMS.

VILLAFE P. ALIBUYOG
Regional Director