CITIZEN-LED MONITORING FOR
CASH-RELATED INTERVENTIONS
For the Typhoon Yolanda Survivors
January 22, 2014
Makati City, Philippines
The National Anti-Poverty
Commission (NAPC)
• The government’s chief agency for
poverty reduction
• Institutionalizes basic sector
representation and participation
in the government’s poverty
reduction programs.
• Wields advisory and oversight
powers for the formulation and
implementation of social reform
and poverty reduction programs.
ORGANIZATIONAL
STRUCTURE
HIS EXCELLENCY
PRES. BENIGNO S. AQUINO III
(Chairperson)
SEC. JOEL ROCAMORA
(Lead Convenor)
NAPC SECRETARIAT
VICE CHAIRPERSON
for Government Sector
Members:
25 Heads of NGAs
4 Presidents of Leagues
VICE CHAIRPERSON
Atty. Marlon Manuel
for Basic Sector
Members:
14 Basic Sectors
NAPC MEMBER AGENCIES
Cooperative Development Authority
Commission on Higher Education
Council for the Welfare of Children
Department of Agriculture
Department of Budget and Management
Department of Education
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Department of Finance
Department of Health
Department of the Interior and Local Government
Department of Labor and Employment
Department of Agrarian Reform
Department of Social Welfare and Development
Department of Trade and Industry
Housing and Urban Development Coordinating
Council
Philippine Commission on Women
National Commission on Indigenous
Peoples
National Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Council
National Economic Development Authority
National Youth Commission
Office of the Presidential Adviser on the
Peace Process
People’s Credit and Finance Corporation
Presidential Commission for the Urban
Poor
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Liga ng Mga Barangay
League of Municipalities of the Philippines
League of Cities of the Philippines
League of Provinces of the Philippines
BASIC SECTORS-NGA PARTNERSHIP
SECTOR
Artisanal Fisherfolk
Children
Cooperatives
Farmers
Indigenous Peoples
NGOs
Persons with Disabilities
Senior Citizens
Urban Poor
Victims of Disasters
Women
LEAD AGENCY
Dept. of Agriculture (DA)
Dept. of Social Welfare and Devt. (DSWD)
Cooperative Devt. Authority (CDA)
Dept. of Agriculture (DA)
National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP)
National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)
Dept. of Health (DOH)
Dept. of Social Welfare and Devt. (DSWD)
Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP)
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC)
Philippine Commission on Women (PCW)
Workers in the Formal Sectors
and Migrant Workers
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
Workers in the Informal Sectors
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
Youth and Students
National Youth Commission (NYC)
The Concept of Citizens as
Monitors
 The post-Martial Law period has opened opportunities for citizen
participation in governance, and project conceptualization and
planning to implementation and monitoring
 Because of these opportunities, capability building and
development activities have been strengthened either through
inter-civil society organization (CSO) or basic sector organization
(BSO) cooperation, or through government-CSO/BSO cooperation
 “NGOs training BSOs and people’s organizations”
 Office of the Ombudsman training and accrediting CSOs as corruption
prevention units; NAPC providing capability development trainings to
BSOs on project monitoring
 The practice of citizen-led monitoring in the Philippines has been
found effective in the implementation of public works projects,
delivery of basic services, and the budgeting process.
 Citizen-led monitoring ensured that the projects are
implemented properly or the services are received by the target
recipients
 Empowered the citizens to become active partners in
governance.
 NAPC’s current projects involving citizens as monitors:
 Citizen-led monitoring project for bottom-up budgeting – local
poverty reduction action planning (BUB-LPRAP)
 Rapid Community-Based Monitoring System (Rapid CBMS)
 Other government projects through the basic sector council
members
The Proposal:
Citizen-led Monitoring for PostYolanda Cash-Related Interventions
Features
• Engagement of citizens as third party monitors
– Must be members of legitimate basic sector/civil society
organizations
– Must satisfy other criteria including knowledge of the local
geographic and even socio-political terrain, experience in
project monitoring, etc.
• Utilization of information-technology based tools to expedite data
gathering (i.e., Rapid technology being used in Rapid CBMS
developed by NAPC)
RAPID CBMS PROCESS
Data Transmission
Data Collection
EVIDENCEBASED
PLANNING and
MONITORING
Data Processing, Presentation,
Visualization
Community Data Validation
• Focus will be on:
– The process of implementation of cash-related interventions for
Yolanda survivors
– Timely release of funds to the beneficiaries
– Gathering of baseline information for the evaluation of results
or impacts
– Other realistic targets as may be agreed upon
• Possible methodologies and tools
– Review and analysis of documents including financial
statements
– Spot checks
– Interviews and focus group discussions
Project Implementation
Preparatory Activities
•Stakeholder consultations
•Development of monitoring
tools & instruments
•Selection of areas (if sampling)
•Selection and orientation of
monitors
Actual
Monitoring
• Data gathering
• Review and
analysis of data
Reporting
• Report
preparation
• Report
presentation
Thank you…