Manila, July 17 -- President Rodrigo R. Duterte has signed into law an act establishing a community-based monitoring system (CBMS) as part of the government's effort to lift Filipinos out of poverty.
Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11315 on April 17, 2019 but a copy of the document was given to reporters only on Tuesday (July 16).
Under the law, a CBMS refers to "an organized technology-based system of collecting, processing, and validating necessary disaggregated data that monitoring at the local level while empowering communities to participate in the process."
"This system merges the methodologies used in data collection activities of all national agencies, geo-tagging, and the CBMS implemented by local government units (LGUs)," the l...