Community-Based Monitoring System
The CBMS Research Program generally aims to provide a regular source of necessary data for evidence-based policy making, program design and implementation, targeting, and impact monitoring overtime.
The CBMS Program supports the following research activities:
- Design and pilot test of community-based monitoring system to generate household and individual level data
- Development and pilot test of indicators
- Micro level analysis using CBMS indicators and data for various thematic areas including (but not limited to):
- Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis
- Monitoring the Achievement of the MDGs (now the SDGs)
- Local planning and budgeting
- Vulnerability Risk Mapping
- Providing social protection in the informal sector
- Youth employment and entrepreneurship
CBMS generates disaggregated data and indicators relating to:
- Income and livelihood
- Education
- Health
- Housing
- Access to Basic Services and Facilities
- Access to Programs
- Political/Commmunity participation
- Migration
- Climate change
- Other community-specific indicators
- PEP has helped implement CBMS in over 15 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.