The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is adding more agencies to its Digital Information for Monitoring and Evaluation (Project DIME) to provide stronger and more efficient online monitoring of government infrastructure projects.
Project DIME is one of the DBM’s main digitalization initiatives which promotes transparency by providing information on a project’s status, including completion rates, funding sources, implementing agencies and names of contractors.
DBM Secretary Amenah Pangandaman said Project DIME is constantly being improved to create a technology-enabled validation and reporting system for specific government infrastructure projects.
“There is an innovation in our Project DIME. It doesn’t require a satellite if you want to access it. And the first innovation here is that we have included UP, University of the Philippines, Project NOAH,” she said.
The DBM signed an agreement with the University of the Philippines-Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (UP-NOAH) Center earlier this year to enhance Project DIME by incorporating disaster risk reduction strategies and ensuring that government projects are resilient to natural hazards.
Pangandaman also noted that the project encourages stronger citizen participation by allowing the public to post feedback on the website.
She said the DBM would continue to work with other agencies to strengthen the implementation of Project DIME.
“We have opened the site but we’re still continuing. In fact, the DENR, the Philippine Space Agency, the Department of Energy and also DOST will also join this project,” Pangandaman said.
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