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CBMS

The Escalante Experience

HON. MELECIO J. YAP, JR.

Mayor City of Escalante, Negros Occidental

Outline

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Brief LGU Profile

a) b)

Results and Discussion

Facilitating local planning and budgeting using CBMS data Key CBMS Results

Conclusions and Ways Forward

Escalante City, one of the 13 Cities of Negros Occidental, is located at the Northeastern tip of the Province, some 95 kms. away from Bacolod City, the provincial capital.

It is small, very rural city, created 7 yrs. ago. It has a population of 86,580 (18,935 HHs) whose income sources are derived mainly from sugar cane farming, wholesale and retail trading and fishing .

Fishing (9.0%) Trade & Commerce (20.0%) Sugar Cane Farming (39.0%) Nationally and even internationally known in the 1980s because of the so – called “ESCALANTE MASSACRE” .

Source: CBMS 2006

Local Finance

IRA

2006

%

197,416,115.31

85.54

2007 211,380,868.00

% 88.23

Local Income

33,361,443.70

14.46

28,203,755.17

11.77

Total

City Treasurer’s Office 2007

230,777,559.01

100.00

239,584,623.17

100.00

Escalante is a 5 th income class city, 88.23% of its total income of PhP239.70 Million for 2007 comes from the National Government as its Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) share.

TIMELINE

November 28, 1856: Creation of Escalante as a Town.

July 1, 1948: Division of Escalante into two: - Escalante and Toboso.

May 30, 1958: Transfer of Municipal Government from Old Poblacion to its present site, Brgy. Balintawak (7 kms. away).

March 31, 2001: Conversion into the 10 th Negros Occidental.

component City of

PARTNERSHIP WITH:

CBMS Network Team

DAWN Foundation

Dr. Aniceto Orbeta of PIDS

Our partnership with the CBMS Network Team, DAWN Foundation, and Dr. with Orbeta started in the 1 st quarter of 2006.

Why CBMS?

Need for updated, relevant, reliable and disaggregated data down to the barangay level

.

CBMS-GRB Implementation

Coverage: Budget: City-wide Cost-sharing (PhP 38.00/HH – city counterpart) Data Gathering Instrument: Questionnaire Data Enumerators: City / Brgy. Health Workers Encoding and Map Digitizing: Brgy. Computer Operators Data Validation: Brgy. / City Consultations

CBMS-GRB Implementation

Capacity-building interventions

Trainings and seminars on: Data Gathering Encoding Map Digitizing Planning and Budgeting

CBMS-GRB Implementation

Challenges:

1.

People’s attitude towards data gatherers – indifference, contempt, bias 2. Language barrier – English Questionnaire 3. Low Educational level of data gatherers 4. Misdeclaration of income

Key CBMS Results

City of Escalante Male Female % Growth

NSO 1990, 1995, 2000 CBMS 2006

1990 %

72,681 36,593 36,088 50.35

49.65

1995 %

79,928 40,284 39,644 50.40

49.60

1.99

2000 %

79,098 39,770 39,328 50.28

49.72

-0.21

2006 %

86,580 44,352 42,220 51.23

48.76

1.58

Key CBMS Results

High Poverty Incidence Escalante Average 74.43 (CBMS 2006) National Average 24.4

*

*

National Statistics Office 2003 Family Income and Expenditure Survey

Key CBMS Results

Basic Needs Indicators Health Nutrition

Proportion of child deaths aged 0-5 years old Proportion of women deaths due to pregnancy related causes Proportion of malnourished children aged 0-5 years old

Number Proportion

60 6 692 0.52

0.44

6.07

Key CBMS Results

Number Basic Needs Indicators

Total M

Basic Education Proportion of children aged 6 12 years old not attending elementary school Proportion of children aged 13 16 years old not attending high school Proportion of children aged 06 16 years old not attending school 3,680 4,885 4,865 2,049 2,927 2,945

F

1,631 1,958 1,920 Average educational attainment -

Total

24.40

52.90

20.00

Proportion Grade Four

M

26.30

61.00

23.40

F

22.30

44.00

16.30

Literacy by age group and sex, City of Escalante Age group Literate Total 10-14 15-64 Illiterate 65 & above Total 10-14 15-64 65 & above Total 62,003 10,586 47,778 3,639 4,174 704 2,442 1,028 % 93.3

93.6

94.7

Male 31,506 5,378 24,433 77.6

6.3

6.2

4.8

1,695 2,214 469 1,340 21.9

405 % 93.1

91.8

94.4

Female 30,497 5,208 23,345 80.4

6.5

8.0

5.2

1,944 1,960 235 1,102 19.2

623 % 93.6

95.5

95.1

75.3

6.0

4.3

4.5

24.1

Key CBMS Results

Limited Access to Safe Water Escalante Average * 49.59 (CBMS 2006) National Average 19.8

* *National Statistics Office 2004 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey

Key CBMS Results

High Proportion of Households Without Access to Sanitary Toilets Escalante Average 59.42 (CBMS 2006) National Average 13.8

** *National Statistics Office 2004 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey

Key CBMS Results

High Incidence of Poverty-Related Deaths CITY OF ESCALANTE

Pneumonia Tuberculosis Diarrhea Measles Delivery

Cause of death of persons who died during the reference period*

Magnitude Proportion**

Total Male Female Total Male Female

49 25 15 2 15 26 11 5 1 6 23 14 10 1 9 0.06

0.03

0.02

0 0.02

0.06

0.02

0.01

0 0.01

0.05

0.03

0.02

0 0.02

Male Members

44,352

Female Members

42,220

Total Members

86,580

*Cause of death of persons who died during the reference period **Number of persons by cause of death over total number of members Source: CBMS Survey 2006

Key CBMS Results

Prevalence of Poverty-Related Diseases MORBIDITY

Upper Respiratory Tract Infection Diarrheal Diseases Pneumonia Abdominal Disorders Anemia Parasitism No. 3,108 307 375 192 177 130 Rate 37 4 2 2 2006 Male (%) 1,486 168 226 92 77 60 Female (%) 1,622 139 149 100 100 70

Key CBMS Results

63% of HHs are Informal Settlers

Rent-free house and lot with consent of owner 7% Own house, rent free lot without consent of owner 7% Rent-free house & lot w/o consent of owner 1% Other tenur status 0%

Owner, owner like possession of house and lot 27%

Own house, rent free lot with consent of owner 48% Own house/rent lot 9%

National Average (Informal Settlers) - 35.6% Annual Poverty Indicators Survey, NSO 2004

Rent house/room including lot 1%

Key CBMS Results

Agriculture-dependent labor

Magnitude

Male

Type of business/industry*

Female Total

Proportion**

Male Female

CITY OF ESCALANTE Agriculture mining and Forestry Fishing

Manufacturing Construction Wholesale and Retail Trade, Vehicle Repair Transportation, Storage & Communication Private Households with Employed Persons

Total

10,922 2,447

904 1,212 3,513 2,284 2,399

8,210 2,293

594 1,147 1,662 2,085 855

2,712 154

310 65 1,851 199 1544

38.71

8.67

3.2

4.3

12.45

8.1

8.5

42.94

11.99

3.11

6 8.69

10.91

4.47

29.82

1.69

3.41

0.71

20.35

2.19

16.98

Employed Members of the Labor Force 28,213

Male

19,118

Female

*General type of business/industry

9,095

**Number of employed by type of business/industry over total number of employed persons Source: CBMS Survey 2006

Key CBMS Results

Seasonality of work CITY OF ESCALANTE

Permanent Short-term, seasonal or casual Worked on different jobs on day to day or week to week

Nature of employment*

Magnitude Proportion**

Total

13,241

Male

8,715

Female

4,526

Total

46.9

Male

45.6

Female

49.76

13,227 1,714 9,091 1,292 4,136 422 46.9

6.08

47.6

6.76

45.48

4.64

Employed Members of the Labor Force 28,213

Male

19,118

Female *Employed members of the labor force and their nature of employment.

**Number of employed by nature of employment over number employed members Source: CBMS Survey 2006

9,095

Key CBMS Results

Unskilled labor force CITY OF ESCALANTE

Magnitude

Male

Type of occupation*

Female Total

Proportion**

Male Female Total

Officials of Gov’t, Special-Interest Org’ns, Corporate Executives, Managers, Managing Proprietors and Supervisors Physical, Mathematical and Eng’g Science Professionals Technician and Associate Professionals Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers Farmers, Forestry Workers and Fishermen Trades and Related Workers Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers

Laborers and Unskilled Workers

Special Occupations Employed Members of the Labor Force

Male – 19,118

781 1,215 270 478 486 212 4,404 6,532 1,283 1,802 5,263 899 1,098

11,274

818 1,059

8,237

456

Female – 9,095

28,213 303 729 58 2,602 1,269 384 39

3,037

362 2.77

4.31

0.96

15.61

23.15

4.55

3.89

39.96

2.9

2.50

2.54

1.11

9.43

27.53

4.7

5.54

43.09

2.39

3.33

8.02

0.64

28.61

13.95

4.22

0.43

33.39

3.98

Key CBMS Results

Most Migrant Workers are Employed as Menial Workers Number of OFW % Occupation of OFW Babysitters, Domestic Helpers, Maids Seafarers Factory Workers Caregivers Nurse Welders Office Professionals Engineers/Architects Total Number of OFWs 150 93 25 16 16 13 5 15 570 26.32

16.32

4.39

2.81

2.81

2.28

0.88

2.63

Key CBMS Results

Peace and Order 28 of 94 crimes (29.8%) were against women Type of crime* CITY OF ESCALANTE

Magnitude Proportion**

Male Female

Murder / Homicide Theft

Total

15 24 11 13 3 11

Total

15.96

25.53

Male

24.44

28.89

Rape Physical Injury (not including battery) 10 10 2 5

8 5

10.64

10.64

4.44

11.11

Female

6.38

23.4

17.02

10.64

Spousal / Partner abuse Child abuse Other crimes (specified) 22 9 4 7 5 2

15

3 2 23.4

9.57

4.26

15.56

11.11

4.44

31.91

6.38

4.26

Male Victims Female Victims

Total Victims 45 47 94

Key CBMS Results

Low Participation of Women

Labor 5% Others (Specified) 7% Agricultural 2% Women's 3% Political 1% Cultural 0% Youth 10% Religious 72%

CBMS RESULTS enabled the city to identify, among others:

priority areas of concernwho, where and how many are the target populationwhat interventions to undertakehow much is needed to address the problembenchmark on impact monitoring

PRIORITY AREAS OF CONCERN of the City per CBMS RESULTS:

1. Poverty

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Livelihood projects (at least 50% of Php 10.5 Million City assistance to barangays from Development Funds ) PhP 500,000 for cooperative development

2. Education

Scholarship program

Feeding program

Establishment of barangay extension high schools

School-based agri-business projects

PRIORITY AREAS OF CONCERN of the City per CBMS RESULTS:

3. Health and Environmental Issues

PhP 40 Million loan from Land Bank for water system development

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PhP 15 Million from NAPC for barangay level water system projects Assistance from UNDP Implementation of RA 9003

Access to toilets be made a criteria for barangay clean and green contest

4. Capacity Development

PhP 1 Million for skills and livelihood trainings for women and out of-school youth

PRIORITY AREAS OF CONCERN of the City per CBMS RESULTS:

5. Shelter

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Land banking in all barangays Linkaging with housing agencies (government and NGOs)

Farm-Lot subdivision scheme in rural barangays

6. Women Empowerment

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Minding centers Joint ownership of properties

Conclusions : CBMS data triggered policy changes: - in the utilization of the City’s 20% Development Funds

Bigger budget allocation for : Livelihood projects (at least 50% of Php 10.5 Million City assistance to barangays)

Water system development

Coop development

Farm – to – market roads - in the Planning and Budgeting of the 5% GAD Budget

GAD plan using CBMS data as basis for budgeting - in the Planning and Budgeting of the Local School Board Funds

Some CBMS Concerns:

Simplification of Questionnaire

Improvement of indicators to capture realistic data on income and employment

Periodic updating of data Per se, it is a powerful instrument to obtain disaggregated, updated and relevant data on the socio – economic life of communities.

Special Thanks to:

Dr. Celia M. Reyes

CBMS Network

Dr. Aniceto Orbeta, Jr.

Philippine Institute of Development Studies

Councilor Celia Flor

DAWN Foundation