Regional Development Council
REGIONAL STATISTICAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE
Region IV-A (CALABARZON)

  
APPROVING THE 2003-2005 POVERTY MAPS OF THE PROVINCE OF LAGUNA

WHEREAS, poverty mapping is an activity initiated by the NSCB to provide local government units with an additional tool for planning, programming, implementation and monitoring of poverty alleviation initiatives;

WHEREAS, poverty maps provide a Minimum Basic Needs (MBN) indicator-based measure of poverty for comparison across municipalities/cities in a province over time using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to illustrate the indicators into maps for visual appreciation of the conditions and locations of the poor;

WHEREAS,  data generation, data cleaning and validation, computation of indexes and basic GIS software application for the preparation of the maps were provided by the NSCB Regional Division IV to the province of Laguna;

WHEREAS, the outputs of the poverty mapping activity have undergone a validation process with local officers, representatives of data source agencies and other stakeholders in the province;

WHEREAS, the poverty maps of Laguna were presented by the NSCB Regional Division IV to the members of the RSCC for approval;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED to approve the poverty maps of the province of Laguna.

RESOLVED, FURTHER, that the Provincial Government of Laguna be furnished of this resolution.

APPROVED, this 8th day of June 2007 in NEDA Regional Office IV-A, EDSA, Quezon City.

ATTESTED:

SEVERINO SANTOS
            Chair

Certified Correct:

PAMELA T. LAPITAN
        Secretary
   

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