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CBMS research findings reveal alarming childpoverty in Burkina Faso project sites*

www.pep-net.orgISSN 1908-6889Volume X, Number 3June 2013

Editor’s NotesThe research results featured below aretaken from the report on child povertymonitoring prepared by the CBMS-Burkina Faso research team based onthe CBMS survey conducted in 2011 inthe three communes o f Yako,Diébougou and Koper. The team isheaded by Dr. Lassina Konate of theUniversity of Ouagadougou, BurkinaFaso. For the full report, log on tohttp://www.pep-net.org.

urkina Faso, a poor and highlyindebted West African nation,experienced a 5.4 percent

average growth rate from 2000to 2010 while its population growthrate sits at 3.1 percent. This relativelygood performance, which coincidedwith the implementation of theStrategic Framework for Battle AgainstPoverty (Cadre Stratégique de lutteContre la Pauvreté CLSP), did not,however, seem to have contributedmuch to poverty reduction.

Moreover, while the 2010 report on theMillennium Development Goals (MDG)notes some overall progress, the fulfillmentof a number of MDG targets by 2015 remainselusive. In particular, the health situationof the social class most vulnerable topoverty, namely, children and women,remains alarming in Burkina Faso whereresources are limited.

Given this situation, the government ofBurkina Faso, together with technical andfinancial partners, has put in place a newframework for the implementation andorientation of a national developmentalpolicy: the Strategy for Rapid Growth and

Sustainable Development (Stratégie deCroissance Accélérée et de DéveloppementDurable (SCADD)). This report on childpoverty monitoring in three communes(Diébougou, Yako, Koper) is an extract fromthe main report on the result of the CBMSinquiry presented in April 2012.

The data on the living condition of children,which is the main concern of this study,come from the data bank collected andmanaged by the Poverty Monitoring Systemof Burkina Faso in three communes. Thesurvey was done from March to April of 2011

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A MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN. More than half of the population of the communes of Yako, Koperand Diébougou are composed of women. Child mortality rate is high at 32.9 per 1,000 childrenunder 5 years of age in Diébougou.

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* This work was carried out with financial support from the PEP-CBMS Network, which is financed by the Government of Canada through theInternational Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Canadian International Development Agency ( CIDA), and by the United NationsChildrens' Fund (UNICEF).

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in Diébougou and Koper, and from April toJune 2011 in Yako. Individuals andhouseholds from all villages and sectors ofthese communes (Yako, Diébougou andKoper) have been surveyed.

ResultsDemographyThe commune of Yako is composed of fortyvillages and seven sectors. It is home to78,327 inhabitants. Men make up 48.1percent of the population (37,703) whilewomen account for 51.9 percent (40,624).The commune of Diébougou, meanwhile,composed of twenty-three villages andseven sectors, is home to 41,236 residents,20,422 of whom are men (equivalent to 49.5percent of the communal population) and20,814, women (50.5%). On the other hand,the commune of Koper is largely rural and iscomposed of twenty-one villages. It has24,383 inhabitants composed of 12,048 men(49.4 percent of the population), and 24,383women (50.6 percent of the population). Thecommune of Koper has 3,867 householdsdistributed as follows: 3,206 households or82.9 percent run by men and 408 households(17.1%) run by women.

All three sites have a young population. Of thecommune’s population, 43.4 percent arebelow the age of 15. The proportion is higherin the countryside (45.3%) than in the city(37.6%). The average household size is 6.9individuals. It is higher in the rural areas (7.8)than in urban areas (5.8). In Diébougou, 42percent of the population of the commune areaged below 15. The proportion is higher in thecountryside at 45.0 percent than in the city(38%), while the average size of households is5.2 individuals. The size is slightly higher inthe urban area (5.4) than in the rural area. InKoper, 43.4 percent of the commune’spopulation are below the age of 15 and 61.3percent are below the age of 25. The averagesize of a household, meanwhile, is rather highat 6.3.

Health and HygieneThe results show that the infant and childmortality rate is 19 per 1,000 livebirths in thecommune of Yako. Thirteen localities,including Sector 5 (49.4 per 1,000 livebirths),recorded rates higher than the communalaverage. Among the 34 localities which havean infant and child mortality rate at thecommunal average, seventeen, including

Sectors 1, 2 and 3, haveregistered zero mortality ofchildren below the age of 5.

The data also show thatinfant and child mortalityrate in the commune ofDiébougou is 32.9 per 1,000livebirths. Thirteen localitieshave a rate that is higherthan the communal average,with the rate reaching a highof 333.3 per 1,000 livebirthsin Moulé, followed by Sector4 (119.3 per 1,000 livebirths)and Kolepar (105.8 per1,000 livebirths). Sectors 5(6.7 per 1,000 livebirths) and7 (6.4 per 1,000 livebirths) have the lowestrates in the commune. In five localities(Dankoblé, Danko-Tanzou, Tampé, Sector 3),no death of children below the age of 5 hasbeen recorded.

In Koper, 18.2 per 1,000 children below theage of 5 have died in the last 12 months.Among the villages, Tangbé largely surpassesall the other localities with a rate of 104.5 per1,000, followed by Dibow (54.3 per 1,000livebirths) and So-vovor (54.1 per 1,000livebirths). All the other villages havemortality rates below 37 per 1,000 childrenbelow the age of 5. No infant death has beenrecorded in the following eight villages:Babora, Béné, Biokola, Boulmontéon,Dalgawn, Gorgawn, Gourpou and Mémer.

In all three communes, there is a higherpercentage of infant and child deaths amonggirls than boys: 20.1 per 1,000 females, 18 per1,000 males in Yako; 28 per 1,000 females,27.3 per 1,000 males in Diébougou; and 20.3per 1,000 females and 16.2 per 1,000 males inKoper.

In terms of hygiene, research results indicatethat all three communes do not have access to

sanitary toilets. In Yako, 22.2 percent of thehouseholds in the commune use latrines; 0.8percent, toilets with septic tanks; 0.4 percent,other means; and 76.5 percent simply dumphuman waste on the open ground. InDiébougou, 0.5 percent of households haveaccess to toilets with septic tanks; latrine26.4 percent; and dumping on open ground72.2 percent. In Koper, meanwhile, 17.3percent of the households of the commune uselatrine, 0.3 percent use other means while 82.4percent dump human waste on the ground.

The high number of households without propersanitation is a sign of poor health in thelocalities, and demonstrates that people inthe city as well as in the villages are highlyexposed to water-borne diseases which cancontribute to infant and child mortality: wasteand stool seep into water sources, especiallysince a large number of households get theirwater from sources other than faucets and wells.

EducationIn Yako, literacy rate is higher among boysthan among girls at both the primary andsecondary levels. At the primary level, sixteenvillages and three sectors have the highestprimary level literacy rate. The three sectors

CHILDREN. TheDiébougou commune hasa young population. Interms of age structure,persons below 15 yearsold make up themajority of thecommune’s population.

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are: Sectors 3, 4, 6. The gap between theprimary and secondary level literacy rates iswidest at Golo (38.2 percentage points) andRawinma (50 percentage points).

In Diébougou, literacy rate is higher amongboys than among girls in the commune at boththe primary and secondary levels. At thetertiary level, literacy rate is very low. In threelocalities (Sector 3 and the villages of Bamakoand Sorgouan), literacy rate among girls ishigher than among boys: Sector 3 (9.1 percentfor girls versus 0.0 percent for boys), Bamako(2.5 percent for girls and 0.0 percent for boys)and Sorgouan (8.3 percent for girls and 0.0percent for boys).

In Koper, one can observe that the villageswith the highest literacy levels are those thatare located around the center of the communeand in the surrounding areas of the sole parishschool that has long served the commune ofKoper. By contrast, the three villages with thelowest rates seem to be those farthest fromthe center of the commune: Zopaal, Zoner,and Biokola. With the exception of the 100percent rate in one rural commune, the grossliteracy rates in the rural areas rival those ofthe urban centers. Moreover, the survey showsthat the gross literacy rate is higher for boysthan for girls in the commune.

The proportion of school dropouts is relativelylow in all three communes: In Yako, it is 3.4percent, with 1.8 percent for boys and 1.6percent for girls; and in Diébougou, 2.8percent or 832 individuals. The commune ofKoper registers the highest rate of schooldropout among the three communes at 4.8percent, with 4.7 percent for boys and 4.8percent for girls. Eight villages have ratesabove the communal average, the rate beingthe highest in Zopaal at 26.3 percent, while allthe others have rates below 10 percent. the

first four villages are Kpaï and Dibow (9.3%),Koper (8.9%) and Gourpouo (7.5%) while thelast four villages with the lowest abandonmentrate below 1 percent are Mougnoupèlè andMémer (0.7%) then Gorgawn and Zingawn(0.4%).

In all three communes, two principal causesfor dropping out of school are identified:financial constraints (54.6 percent in Yako,46.4 percent in Diébougou and 23.9 percent inKoper) and bad grades (44.8 percent in Yako,47.5 percent in Diébougou and 46.5 percentin Koper).

Food SecurityIn terms of food security, majority of thehouseholds in all communes reported thatthey have access to grains (80.8 percent inYako, 62.2 percent in Diébougou and 72.5percent in Koper). The proportions are lowerwhen it comes to households who felt thattheir stocks of grain can last until next harvest(58.4 percent in Yako, 28.9 percent inDiébougou and 39.7 percent in Koper).

Some households in the three communesreported having less than 3 meals a day. InYako, majority of males and females reportedhaving two meals a day (62.2% and 59.3%,respectively). Majority of the children, on theother hand, are given three meals a day(42.1%) or four meals a day (36.1%). This isalso reflected in both Diébougou and Koperwhere majority of both males and femaleshave two meals a day (51.6 percent for malesand 49.5 percent for females in Diébougou;and 73.7 percent for males and 73 percent forfemales in Koper). As with Yako, children areallowed to have three meals a day (48.6percent in Diébougou and 73.2 percent inKoper). Compared, however, to Yako, lesschildren are allowed four meals a day inDiébougou and in Koper.

Coping StrategiesFaced with a deteriorating quality of life,with consequences of economic crisis andexternal natural shocks, the householdsadopted and developed strategies andactions in order to survive. The table belowshows the results of the survey according tonine identified actions. The classificationis laid out in order of importance of theactions retained in each commune.

In Yako and Diébougou, majority of thehouseholds reduced the quality andfrequency of meals (20.5% and 29.5%,respectively). Further in Yako, 12.4 percentof households did not enroll children toschool in response to the crisis. Althoughall other villages in the commune of Yakodid not employ this coping strategy, allhouseholds in the village of Boulma utilizedthis strategy to cope with the crisis. Somevillages in Diébougou also utilized thiscoping strategy, with 7.5 percent of thehouseholds (129 households) in thecommune taking this measure. Eightlocalities have a percentage above thecommunal average and among them,Sorgouan holds the highest communalpercentage at 45 percent.

In Koper, on the other hand, majority of thehouseholds started putting their children atwork (19.5%). Four villages have a percentageabove the communal average. They are Zopaal(20.8%), Dibow (21.4%), Lopaal (26.9%) andBiokola (29.9%). The latter holds the highestcommunal percentage. Further, 7.5 percent ofall households in Koper removed children fromschool. Four villages have a percentage abovethe communal average and these are Zopaal(12.5%), Toupowo (16.7%), Lopaal (19.2%)and Zoner (20.6%). The latter holds thehighest communal percentage in thecommune.

Table 1. Coping strategies employed by households

Communes

Yako

Diébougou

Koper

Takingchildren out

of school

10.1

7.5

7.5

Not enrollingchildren to

school

12.4

6.1

7.2

Reduction ofvisits to the

doctor

8.8

14

15.6

Reduction ofhealth care

7.5

13.2

8.6

Reduction ofthe quality/frequency of

meals

20.5

29.5

15.5

Findingadditional

job

6.7

9.6

6.6

Puttingchildren at

work

5.3

3.7

19.5

Efforts areundertaken toincrease the

harvest

19.2

8.6

17

Other

9.5

7.6

2.5

Measures undertaken due to the situation (in %)

Source: CBMS-Burkina Faso

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A CBMS PARALLEL SESSION. Among the highlights of the CBMS Parallel Sessions include adiscussion on using CBMS to map households considered vulnerable to climate change.

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General Meeting ofthe Partnership forEconomic Policy

C o m m u n i t y - B a s e dMonitoring System (PEP-CBMS) Network held on May7-10, 2013 at the LagoonBeach Hotel, Cape Town,South Africa, new CBMSproposals from Bangladesh,Bolivia, Haiti, Niger andPakistan were presented;research results from theCBMS implementation inBurkina Faso, thePhilippines and South Africawere featured; and furtherenhancements in the CBMSprocess such as the use ofmobile-based technologiesin data capture and updatedprocessing tools werediscussed.

Dr. Celia M. Reyes, PEP-AsiaDirector and CBMS NetworkTeam Leader, opened thePEP-CBMS General Meetingwith a presentation of theCBMS methodology, tackling its basicdesign for tracking multidimensionalpoverty, details of indicators, key elementsand features, and core activities involved inthe implementation. Issues on datacollection, data processing and analysis,capacity building, dissemination, andcommunity ownership and sustainabilitywere later raised during the open forum.

A ses sion on CBMS dat a captu reinstruments was held on the first dayto tackle two approaches in datacollection: traditional and mobile-b ased . The u se o f p ap e r -b a sedquestionnaires was compared with theuse of tablets in collecting data. Theparticipants were able to get theirhands on the 7-inch tablets that wereused in pi lo t test ing the cu r rentmobile-based data collection initiative

of the CBMS Network. The aim is toshorten the CBMS data collection processwhile enhancing data quality and securityand providing flexibility in terms oflanguage and questionnaire expansion.Although the advantages of the mobile-based data capture system cannot bedisputed, some key challenges were raisedwhich include the capacity of users,language, and cost. In terms of capacity,it was agreed that the minimumrequirement in developing the datacapture system is knowledge of computersand MS Excel which will be the avenue fortranslating the questions. As to costs, itwas estimated that the cost for theequipments especially with the recentdecline in the price of tablets, is almostequal to the cost associated with paper-based data collection, with more savingsprojected over time.

The second day’s session, meanwhile,featured several CBMS proposals focusingon the research themes of the PolicyAnalysis on Growth and Employment(PAGE), namely: the provision of socialprotection to the informal sector (Bolivia,Haiti, Niger), and youth employment andentrepreneurship (Bangladesh, Pakistan).The presentations showed a myriad ofconcepts tackling social protection,informal sector, employment, andentrepreneurship in the context of thedifferent countries, and had Dr. WilliamRandall Spence and Mr. Tomas Africa asdiscussants.

Countries focusing on the first researchtheme aim to investigate multidimensionalpoverty; motivated by their own countrypolicies and issues relating to the informalsector and social protection. Different


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types of social protection in each countrywere discussed, including formal andinformal ones. Bolivia seeks to assess theeffect of formal and informal mechanismsof social protection, together withaggregate and idiosyncratic risks, onmultidimensional poverty. Haiti, on theother hand, aspires to investigate socialprotection targeting with focus on theinformal sector, while Niger intends toquantify the informal sector and theabsence of social protection.

Research proposals in the second themewere stimulated by the sizeable youthpopulation in each country. Bangladeshproposes to extend the CBMSimplementation to assessing youthemployment and entrepreneurialenvironment in rural areas to answerquestions on how to make the existingentrepreneurial activities more rewardingand on what kinds of support are needed todevelop entrepreneurs in the potentialareas. Pakistan, in addition, aims to findways to reap the country’s demographicdividend, assess inequalities among the

Conclusion and RecommendationsWhen it comes to the different facets ofpoverty, the following observations have beenmade:

- Health and sanitation situation isquite alarming. The infant and childmortality rate is quite high.

- The gross literacy rate at theprimary level is quite high. But thisrate decreases rapidly at the firstcycle-secondary level.

- When it comes to the quality of lifeof the households, majority of thechildren in the three communeslive in very precarious situations.

- On food concerns, the householdsin the three communes experiencefood insecurity and are not able tosatisfy their hunger. Nearly 40percent of the households do nothave food stocks. The relative foodinsecurity is reflected in thenumber and quality of the dailymeals in the households. Thechildren in the villages findthemselves in an alarming situationwhere quantitative deficiencies are

made even worse by qualitativedeficiencies.

Given all these elements, it can be affirmedthat the three communes suffer from a host ofsocial deficits, thereupon posing a challengeto local authorities and enablers ofdevelopment in the commune. There are fourmain recommendations that can be made:

1. There is a need to make householdsaware of family planning. Such anaction aims to reduce the ratio ofdependence and the size of thehousehold, both of which hinder thegrowth of personal income of the familyand constrain the improvement of thelives of the children.

2. On the question of education, there isa need to improve gross literacy rate atthe secondary level for both boys andgirls. This requires a more profoundstudy on why children are abandoningschool to be able to identify proper andrelevant solutions. Moreover, thedecision of households not to enrolltheir children to school or taking them

out of school to curb the effects ofeconomic crises and shocks can causenegative medium- and long-termeffects on children.

3. Specific measures should be consideredsuch as full free education (no tuitionfees at all) and the development ofschool canteens and boarding schoolsfor girls in the headquarters of theprovince and / or commune.

4. To solve the problem of food insecurity,climate change (drought, floods) musthenceforth be taken into account. Inareas where there is permanentdrought, seeds that can adapt to waterstress are needed. In floodplains, notonly flooding places should beidentified within the different localitiesin order to avoid cultivating, butculverts should also be built to facilitaterapid evacuation of rainwater.

5. Finally, productivity should be improvedthrough the use of agricultural machinerythat can greatly increase farmproductivity. A policy of subsidizing inputs(e.g., seeds and fertilizers) should also beput in place.

youth entrepreneurs and their effect onpoverty dynamics at the household level,and develop a youth competitiveness index.

The CBMS meeting also featured apresentation by Dr. Lassina Konate onusing CBMS in monitoring child poverty inBurkina Faso and a presentation by Ms.Grace Oloo-Bicha on the Community-based Multi-dimensional Poverty Statusin Limpopo in South Africa. The use ofCBMS in the province of Limpopo has beendemonstrated as well by policymakers andimplementer s in Vhembe d ist ric tmuncipality, by Councilor Dorcas Mboyi;and in Tzaneen municipality, by EconomicDirector and Municipality Manager, Mr.Thomas John Nkuna. Positive responsewas given by the South Africa LocalGovernment Association (SALGA) throughMr. Vincent Mabunda.

Another highlight of the event was thepresentation of Engr. Merlita Lagmay, CityPlanning and Development Coordinator ofPasay City, Philippines, together withIngrid Woolard of the University of Cape

Town, South Africa and Ramos Mabugu ofthe Fiscal and Financial Commission SouthAfrica, during the Plenary Session. Engr.Lagmay demonstrated how CBMS has beeninstrumental in improving local governancethrough informed planning and budgetingwith innovative resource mobilization, indeveloping external partnerships, and inimproving transparency and communityparticipation and evidence-basedlegislation. She also cited notable policiesin other local government units (LGUs)that were formulated due to CBMS findings.

The last session tackled processing andmapping through CBMS wherein the improvedprocessing system developed by the CBMSNetwork Team was featured. To shorten theprocessing time of indicators and reports fromCBMS data as well as poverty mapping, readytemplates of indicator reports were madeeasily acquirable through the StatSim. Dataare also mappable using Quantum GIS (QGIS,www.qgis.org). TIPS (ww.tips.org.za), thelocal conference partner, also demonstratedhow utility of data can be complemented byTIPS-GIS.

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PEP Asia-CBMS Team conducts field visit in Tzaneenand Mutale municipalities; starts to plan the roll-out of CBMS in South Africa

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he Community-Based MonitoringSystem (CBMS) - South Africa,

headed by Dr. Grace Oloo of theCentre for Rural Development of theUniversity of Venda, organized a field visitto the project sites in Mutale and GreaterTzaneen Municipality on May 14-16, 2013.The Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)Asia-CBMS Network team headed by Dr. CeliaReyes, and CBMS-Philippines researcherstook part in the said field visit. Theobjectives of the field visit included learningmore of the local conditions of the villagescovered in the census, interacting not justwith the local officials and planners but withtheir constituents as well, and overseeingthe manner of implementation of the CBMSin the country.

The University of Venda, CBMS’ partnerinstitution in South Africa, was the firststop of the three-day field visit. The PEPAsia-CBMS team was introduced to theCBMS-South Africa team. A meeting was

T then held with Professor Ainamensa Mchau,Dean of the School of Agriculture, where Dr.Reyes made a brief introduction of the CBMSNetwork and commended the excellent jobof Ms. Oloo’s team on the implementation ofthe system in their country. She alsomentioned how Ms. Oloo’s presentationabout the CBMS in South Africa hasimpressed some university staff and nationalgovernment agencies (NGAs) during therecently concluded Partnership for EconomicPolicy Meeting held in Cape Town. Prof.Mchau concluded the meeting by extendingthe University’s full support to the projectand by assuring that they are willing to bethe channel of capacity building for the restof the African countries.

The team also visited Ward One in the localmunicipality of Mutale. Courtesy calls andintroduction of the team members were firstdone in the Vhembe District Office and theMutale Municipal Office. In the afternoon,the whole team was accompanied by the

local officials of the Mutale Municipality tothe project site where a short program wasprepared. Dissemination of the majorfindings of the CBMS census, which wasdone in early 2012, was the highlight of theprogram. Ms. Oloo started by sharing howthe enumerators, who are also students fromthe University of Venda, gathered the datain their community. She further explainedthe process of CBMS, from the enumerationstage to the encoding of the questionnairesand processing of the collected information.Aside from presenting the results andprocess of the CBMS, Ms. Oloo also notedhow the government can use the collectedinformation in redesigning theirinterventions and allocating the budgetproperly. Mr. Sidze, one of the communityleaders, responded by saying that he wantedto know what the government would do toaddress the problems identified based onthe CBMS census. One of the councilorsanswered that they would link the results ofthe CBMS with the preparation of theirIntegrated Development Plans (IDP). Theyalso expressed their desire to expand theCBMS to other wards in Mutale.

After the program, the team went aroundthe village to observe the condition of thecommunity. Most of the households stillreside in rondavels or traditional huts whosewalls are made of either clay or bricks androofs made of straw. The householdssurveyed are located in an uphill terrain andare very far from each other.

The local officials also led the team to twoof their housing program beneficiaries.According to them, Lucas Ntshauba andTshigabe Marandela benefited from thisprogram because they are already of oldage, have disabilities, have no one todepend on, and are stil l l iving intraditional huts. Apparently, they wereselected on the basis of the results of theCBMS census.

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FIELD VISIT IN THE LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES OF MUTALE AND GREATER TZANEEN. Dr. Celia Reyes,PEP-Asia Director and CBMS Network Team Leader, discusses the objectives of the field visit withthe local officials, enumerators and various stakeholders in the local municipalities of Mutale andGreater Tzaneen, South Africa.


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(LED) Team led the ceremony where the localdelegation was introduced. Dr. Reyes andher team introduced themselves to the groupwhile Ms. Oloo oriented the group about thepurpose of the visit. The group then paid acourtesy call to the Modjaji royal queen andwas accommodated by the village traditionalgovernment.

After the ceremony, the delegationproceeded to the Maunatlala village toview the situation of the water facility inthe village. It holds up to 15,000 liters ofwater each and is being refilled by thegovernment as the need arises. Accordingto the LED team, supplying safe drinkingwater to households, par t icu lar l ydistributing it through pipelines, stillremains a challenge.

According to LED Director Mr. ThomasJohn Nkuna, the population in the villageis usually of dependent age, eitherbelonging to the young bracket (0-30years old) or to the senior bracket (60years old and above). The reason behindthis is that many of the family members,especially when they reach 30 years ofage, migrate to the city looking foreconomic opportunities although many ofthem sti l l do not have gainfu lemployment. They eventually retire in thevillage when they reach 60-65 years old.

Aside from the increased urban migrationwhich skews the demographic distributionof the villages, there are also manyincidences of violence in the community,according to the LED Director.

On the third day, Ms. Oloo brought theCBMS team to the Limpopo office of theSouth Af r ica Local GovernmentAssociation (SALGA) for a meeting withthe Local Development and Planning(LED&P) representation led by theirprogram manager, Mr. Vincent Mabunda,who gave positive responses on the CBMSimplementation.

The meeting began with a welcome andintroduction by Mr. Mabunda of SALGAand its funct ions as promoter andprotector of the interests of the localgovernment. Their group has relevantthrusts as a development agency in termsof community development, gendermainstreaming and women empowerment,and capacity building.

In the face of common issues encounteredsuch as capacitating the local personneland transfer of skills, particularly at thisjuncture of adopting mobile technologies,Ms. Oloo shared that Tzaneen and Mutalelocalities are interested to roll out CBMSand that CBMS-South Africa is planning tohold a CBMS dissemination workshopwithin the year. She invited SALGA to takepart in the event to which SALGA gave apositive response. Mr. Mabunda said thatdespite the ten years of democracy in thecountry, integrated development planning(IDP) has yet to respond to key challengesfaced by local government units (LGUs).In fact, very few people adopt IDP. Theyare currently in the process of reviewingthe IDP framework and research findingscan provide integral inputs to ongoingdiscussions. He further expressed thatthere is a need to apply differentiatedapproaches depending on capacities ofcommunities and municipalities. Hence,they need something like the CBMS toallocate resources where they are essentialsince at present, only those with loud

Dried corns, traditional hutand a toilet facility in WardOne of the local municipalityof Mutale. Corn is widelyconsumed in the CBMS sitesin South Africa and many ofthe residents still live intraditional huts. Only a smallpercentage of the populationuse sanitary pit latrines.

voices can get the resources they need.There is also a need to capacitatecommunit ies, espec ia l l y communitypoliticians, for them to have a betterunderstanding of what the communitiesneed so that they can plan better as well.

In light of the CBMS advocacy, Mr. Mabundainvited the CBMS team to be part of thetechnical working group (TWG) in charge ofeconomic development in the provincewhich can help in the mainstreaming ofCBMS. Depending on the resources, programdetails can be developed and the CBMS canbe one of these vital programs.

The future collaboration is promising.Upcoming activities include discussionwith SALGA about capacity building anddevelopment activities which involve aseries of accreditation and short coursesto train local personnel and economicmanagers in municipalities; and to orientlocal administrators and councilors on theimportance of CBMS in formulatingdevelopment plans.


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CBMS-AKFI turns over schoolbuilding to Alfonso Lista, Ifugao

he Angelo King Foundation,Incorporated (AKFI) turned over a

one-classroom school building tothe municipality of Alfonso Lista,

Ifugao in simple ceremonies on June 27,2013 as part of the Community-BasedMonitoring System (CBMS)-AKFI Award. Theceremonies were attended byrepresentatives from AKFI and by AlfonsoLista Mayor Glenn D. Prudencio and ViceMayor Joseph A. Angowan. The buildingwas constructed at the Alfonso Lista CentralSchool compound in Santa Maria, AlfonsoLista, Ifugao.

Launched last March 2012 during the 8th

CBMS National Conference, the CBMS-AKFIAward aims to reduce poverty and enhanceeconomic and social development in thecountry by facilitating support for theconstruction of multipurpose livelihoodcenters or classrooms to help improveaccess to basic education. The municipalityof Alfonso Lista was among the very firstrecipients of the award. Meanwhile, thesecond CBMS-AKFI Award was launched inJanuary this year during the 9th CBMSNational Conference at the SMX ConventionCenter in Pasay City.

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THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTEDONE-CLASSROOM SCHOOLBUILDING. The one-classroom school buildingwas turned over by theAKFI to the municipalityof Alfonso Lista on June27, 2013.

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