Chapter 2
COORDINATION AND PUBLICITY The 2022 Census of Agriculture and Fisheries (2022 CAF) is such a huge undertaking that the Central, Regional Statistical Service, and Provincial Statistical Offices of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) require extensive preparation to ensure the success of the entire activity. Various coordination activities and a massive and effective information campaign must be undertaken at the local levels to ensure that logistics, publicity, and other requirements for 2022 CAF are in place prior to the enumeration. Moreover, the CO, RSSO, and PSO officials and personnel are expected to launch an extensive IEC program in their respective areas of jurisdiction as specified in the coordination and IEC plans. The program shall reach as many people as possible with reasonable use of resources provided for the IEC activities. Local Census Coordinating Boards (CCBs) can be tapped to help implement the various IEC activities in their respective localities. This chapter discusses the coordination and mechanism in the CCBs as far as coordination for 2022 CAF is concerned as well as the various IEC plans and strategies at the local levels, that is, regions, provinces, cities/municipalities, and barangays. 2.1
EXECUTIVE ORDER AND PSA BOARD RESOLUTIONS
Executive Order No. 352, known as “Designation of Statistical Activities that Will Generate Critical Data for Decision-Making of the Government and the Private Sector”, provides for the conduct of CAF every 10 years with the objective of providing government planners and policymakers with data on which to base their plans for the country’s development. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Board passed three Resolutions for the conduct of 2022 CAF, namely: 1. The PSA Board Resolution No. 3, Series of 2023 (Appendix 19), enjoining all
national government agencies to provide assistance to PSA for the conduct of 2022 CAF. This resolution encourages close coordination between and among agencies and spells out the specific types of assistance that the national government agencies may extend to the PSA, especially during enumeration. 2. The PSA Board Resolution No. 4, Series of 2023 (Appendix 20), which stated the Terms of Reference (TOR) of the Provincial, City, and Municipal Census Coordinating Boards (CCBs) which defines the composition, duties and responsibilities, and frequency of meetings to be conducted.
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