Baguio City barangays should keep computerized records of its residents – City council

The City Council encouraged Baguio’s 128-barangays, each to maintain database of inhabitants who have been profiled through the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Disaster Form 200.

In a resolution, the body stressed, data gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic should be maintained for ready reference, especially in similar future emergency situations.

They added, available data gathered in barangays can be used as reference for identifying future projects, programs and activities, making delivery of services to the city’s constituents more effective and efficient.

In the resolution, the aldermen articulated, data gathering and maintenance of records are important tools for efficient barangay planning, enhanced program execution, easier identification and as reference to the number of inhabitants in a specific barangay in the city.

They said, the data would be of great help in the establishment of an integrated command center and in aiding policymakers in the identification and prioritization of development projects in the barangays.

It could be remembered, DSWD issued Memorandum Circular No. 04, series of 2020 on the distribution of the national government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP).

The Bayanihan to Heal as One Act (R.A. 11469) provides measures to ease some 18-million low income households in the country from the impact of COVID-19 during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), a national government strategy to “flatten the curve”.

Consequently, inhabitants in barangays were profiled as means of verifying those qualified to benefit from the SAP in areas under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) using Disaster Form 200 prepared by the DSWD.

Data gathered now shows Baguio City has 93,000 households. The SAP in the city meanwhile covers 48-percent or about 45,000-families benefitting from an allocation of P247-million. (Content and photo reposted from HeraldExpess)