A: CBMS was born as early as 1990s as part of the Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic Adjustment Policies (MIMAP) Project-Philippines as a development project under the CBMS Network Philippines. MIMAP then aims to provide policymakers and program implementers with basis for tracking the impacts of macroeconomic reforms and various policy shocks.
Since 2000, CBMS has been adopted by the Local Government Units (LGUs) through the authority of various issuances from government agencies such as the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), and National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB). Thus, the usefulness of CBMS data in the local level planning, budgeting, poverty diagnosis, disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM), gender and development, Millennium Development Goals progress monitoring, and project impact monitoring was recognized. Hence, LGUs that were able to secure funds to implement CBMS do so for the above-mentioned gains, not to mention the facilitation in coming up with evidence-based plans like comprehensive land use plan, local poverty reduction plan, local shelter plan, local DRRM plan, etc. Per DILG monitoring, CBMS to date, has been implemented in more than two-thirds of all cities and municipalities in the country (at least once in the past).
The institutionalization of the CBMS by virtue of RA 11315 or the CBMS Act will enable the synchronized and standardized implementation of CBMS across all cities and municipalities in the country to ensure the generation of updated and disaggregated data necessary in targeting beneficiaries, conducting more comprehensive analysis and needs prioritization, designing appropriate policies and interventions, and monitoring impact over time – all towards the fulfillment of the State Policy to uplift people out of poverty.