PHILIPPINE
REGION TO USE GIS TO MONITOR SOCIAL DEVT PROJECTS
After
finding out irregularities in social development projects allotted to several
provinces in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), local officials
together with its partner NGOs are taking their project monitoring and
evaluation a notch further by leveraging quantum GIS.
Quantum
GIS is a free and open source desktop GIS application that provides users with
data viewing, editing, and analysis capabilities. According to Darwin Rasul,
Assistant Secretary at the ARMM’s Office of Special Concerns (OSC), local
officials discovered awarded contracts for the construction of school buildings
worth millions of pesos but was recently found out to be
non-existent.
“When
you look at the project report, you can see the projects that have already been
awarded and bid out, the mobilisation funds already released. But when you check
on the ground there is nothing,” he said. By using Quantum GIS, local
authorities will be able to improve their project monitoring efforts by
Geotagging projects to inform decision makers on what projects have been
implemented, their exact location and how they are progressing.
Rasul
said that 11 OSC coordinators in the provinces of Basilan, Tawi-Tawi, Sulu,
Lanao Del Sur and Maguindanao had undergone a five-day intensive
training on how to fully maximise the software and to use cameras with GPS to
geotag projects. He explained that with the system place, it will now make it
easier to check whether the photos which the coordinators took on the ground
matched data in the group’s database.
“Once
we discover something anomalous, then we report it to the governor for proper
action,” he said.
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