Issues

Recommendations

1. Need for incentives for decision-makers/politicians to give importance to development activities with long term impact

 

 

2. On points of coordination with regard to NGOs’ job to monitor the progress of government actions in implementing the Commitments made during the World Summit on Social Development (WSSD)

 

 

 

3. Focus on intervention-based indicators as well as issue-based indicators

Given that most leaders/politicians use national development plans, close coordination with politicians should be done. Specifically, linkages should be identified and strengthened.

SOMIS is a useful tool because it will facilitate NGOs’ job on monitoring government efforts.

This will be discussed in the next topic.

Issues

Action Taken/Agreement

1. Annual data gathering may not be practical since some impacts may be seen after a longer period, e.g., poverty incidence

 

2. On data availability and utility (some data are not available, if available, may not be utilized).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. On disaggregation of data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Additional indicators may be needed

 

 

 

5. Management of data

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Lack of funds for annual data gathering of the indicators included in the 11 areas of concern

 

7. The need for a community-based data

 

 

 

 

8. Process of monitoring should not be merely for the sake of complying with international bodies’ demands

Not necessarily annual generation of data for all indicators but annual assessment of performance. We may need only proxy indicators.

There is a need to know how data are utilized at the national and local levels. There is also a need to strengthen efforts on local level data generation and monitoring. Monitoring should also include what policies are influenced, and how it influences investment programming within agencies.

Data should also be related with programs and projects and their achievements

Data can be generated from reporting of programs and projects

Data should be disaggregated to determine equity, especially on gender. However, disaggregation should not be confusing to policy makers (i.e., those that will create various interpretations) and possible areas of overlaps should be eliminated.

Indicators for human rights should be discussed in the coming workshop; new indicators used in the plan may be considered.

NEDA could be the focal pt., but individual agencies will be the lead for specific sectors, e.g., DOLE for employment. For devolved agencies, local level monitoring should be promoted and advocated.

There are existing community-based indicator system, e.g., Minimum Basic Needs-Community Based Information System (MBN-CBIS) which should be closely linked at the national level.