About the data
CATCH-UP Data Bank
What this site shows, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
CATCH-UP stands for
Convergence Approach for Transformation and CHange – Unification Program
Several offices work in the same communities. This Data Bank gives them one shared, official picture of each sitio in South Cotabato.
What this is
Official data only: sitio profiles and core info approved by reviewers of the CATCH-UP program, and current project records.
As of a year
As of 2026 means each sitio contributes its latest approved profile from 2026 or earlier.
A sitio with no approved profile up to that year is shown as no data. It is never counted as zero.
So a value can come from an older survey. The older-year chip on a value says which year it is from.
What is public
These are never published: people's names and contacts, ethnicity, religion, social-welfare and 4Ps figures, household income, project budgets, and photos not cleared by their uploader. The Data Privacy Act (RA 10173) is why: this site shows places, not people.
What it doesn't do
This site describes. It doesn't rank places, score needs, or recommend projects.
Reusing the data
License: CC BY 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ provisional
The license is provisional until the Provincial Office confirms it.
Attribution: Province of South Cotabato, CATCH-UP Convergence Data Bank
The same data is available through the API. API documentation. Reports can be downloaded as PDF or CSV. Reports.
Credits
Boundary data: NAMRIA and PSA, through the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), CC BY-IGO.
Base map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Privacy and contact
Questions about the data, or about how personal data is handled, go to the Data Protection Officer.
Data version 0 · last changed 1 Jan 1970