COMMUNITY-BASED MONITORING SYSTEM

JOAN A. LEIDO

A vital tool in coming up with informed decisions in the education sector is the community-based monitoring system (CBMS).

As a guiding instrument, officials said data generated in the CBMS would help school programs centered on health, internet connectivity, education, nutrition, child protection or child labor among others.

Data from the CBMS data will help in determining the current nutritional status of school children in the communities, which is needed for schools implementing the school-based feeding program.

They need the data on the current nutritional status of children in the community, and how many children who are not in school, undernourished, so they can enjoy the program if the parents allow the children to go to school, officials said.

The DepEd is alsonhelping in the government’s anti-child labor campaign by using the statistics to identify children who are working and not going to school.

The 2022 CBMS contains data on the number of high school children who stopped going to school or dropped out from school.

The agency and the schools can can improve the campaign to bring students back to school, because if the child is tired from working, it will affect his or her capacity to learn.

DepEd also plans to tap LGUs and other government agencies, such as the Department of Social Welfare and Development, so they can include parents and stakeholders in their educational programs.

CBMS is a technology-based data collection and processing system that targets households and is used as a basis for poverty alleviation programs.

It entails a census of households undertaken by the LGU with the participation of the community using accelerated poverty profiling systems in the data.

-oOoTHE AUTHOR IS A TEACHER II AT CANSINALA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL