NSCB Resolution No. 3
Series of 2009
APPROVING THE RETENTION OF THE EXISTING COMPOSITION
OF ONE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE AND ONE INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE,
THE RECONSTITUTION OF THREE TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
AND ONE INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE, AND THE RECONSTITUTION
AND RENAMING OF ONE INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) was created thru Executive Order No. 121 as the highest policymaking and coordinating body on statistical matters in the Philippine Statistical System;
WHEREAS, to help fulfill its mandate of policymaking and coordination, the NSCB Executive Board creates Technical Committees (TCs), Interagency Committees (IACs) and Task Forces (TFs) to serve as mechanisms for coordination and perform, among others, the following functions:
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To serve as fora for the exchange of views and expertise to resolve technical issues and problems of statistical data users and producers;
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To recommend to the Board measures for improving the manner and form of reporting the statistics, including the techniques and methodologies employed in its production; and
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To recommend to the Board an efficient workable scheme for the allocation of agency responsibilities in the production of statistics.
WHEREAS, membership in IACs and TFs depends on agency sectoral concerns, while that in TCs requires individual expertise;
WHEREAS, the TCs, IACs and TFs must focus on responding to critical and imperative requirements of the stakeholders of the Philippine Statistical System;
WHEREAS, to ensure: (1) enhanced effectiveness and efficiency of the TCs/IACs/TFs particularly in the performance of the functions for which they were created; (2) the needed expertise in the resolution of problems/issues at hand; (3) constant interaction and coordination among the member agencies and individual members; and (4) continuance of TC/IAC/TF-initiated activities, the NSCB Technical Staff reviews the composition of each TC/IAC/TF at the start of every year and recommends reconstitution, if deemed necessary;
WHEREAS, the retention of the TC on the Seasonal Adjustment of Philippine Time Series was approved thru NSCB Resolution No. 1, s. 2009, but is being endorsed for reconstitution to better avail of the required technical expertise and to enable it to respond to the emerging needs and concerns;
WHEREAS, guided by the foregoing, there is a need to retain the existing composition of the:
- Technical Committee on Population and Housing Statistics;
- Interagency Committee on Education Statistics
to reconstitute the membership of the:
- Technical Committee on Poverty Statistics
- Technical Committee on Survey Design
- Technical Committee on the Seasonal Adjustment of Philippine Time Series
- Interagency Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Statistics,
and to reconstitute the membership of the Interagency Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry Statistics (IACAFFS), and to rename it into the Interagency Committee on Agriculture and Fishery Statistics in view of the transfer of forestry statistics concerns, previously assigned to the IACAFFS, to the IAC on Environment and Natural Resources Statistics, as also recommended by the IACAFFS;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Board approve:
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the retention of the existing compositions of one TC and one IAC for CY 2009 (Annex BR-03-2009-01);
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the reconstitution of three TCs and one IAC (Annexes BR-03-2009-02a, -02b, -02c, and 02d); and
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the reconstitution and renaming of the Interagency Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry Statistics into the Interagency Committee on Agriculture and Fishery Statistics (Annex BR-03-2009-03).
BE IT RESOLVED FURTHER, that the above TCs/IACs shall prioritize outputs that will address the more urgent statistical concerns, such as improving the availability and quality of critical indicators on the current global crisis.
Approved this 11th day of March 2009, in Pasig City.
Attested by:
ROMULO A. VIROLA
Secretary General