Program Beneficiaries Development

PBD is the support services component of CARP. It aims to capacitate ARBs and provide them access to the necessary support services to make their lands more productive, enable them to venture in income generating livelihood projects and actively participate in community governance. 

Agrarian reform does not rely on land distribution alone, but also on the delivery of support services, including farm-to-market roads, bridges, irrigation, post harvest facilities, rural electrification, potable water supply, school buildings, multi-purpose buildings; extension services, credit assistance, and trainings.

• 709,187 ARBs fully served under the foreign-assisted projects
• 7,170 infrastructure projects
• 976 communal irrigation projects completed
• 3018 functional ARB-organizations operate (ALDA Level 3,4,5)
• 316,610 ARB members are already managing their own farm & non-farm enterprises

Support services delivered through the Foreign Assisted Projects (FAPs) and Agrarian Reform Fund (ARF):

• 13,259 kilometers of FMR
• 226,015 hectares serviced by irrigation systems
• 194 multi-purpose buildings
• 174 bridge projects (10,473 linear meters)
• 428 units of post harvest facilities
• 999 units of potable water systems

Other infrastructure projects provided: 

• Health centers, school buildings, flood control, rural electrification,& sanitation systems.

Non-infrastructure programs include: 

• Demonstration farms, rural micro-enterprises, training of ARB leaders, & health and nutrition

The DAR adopted the development of agrarian reform communities (ARC) in 1993 toimprove the lives of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). It was the department's key strategy to accelerate and sustain economic growth in agrarian reform and rural areas through a people-centered, holistic and area focused approach in community development.

Since then, the DAR has launched 2,100 ARCs covering 1.2 million of ARBs in 9,076 barangays. Because of the size limitation of ARCs and the increasing number of ARBs in need of basic support services, the DAR expanded the coverage of its support services through the KALAHI (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan) Agrarian Reform Zones (KARZones). A KARZone is a contiguous area which embraces both ARC barangays and non-ARC barangays within the zone.

Strategic Directions up to 2014:

The agrarian reform must be able to lift the ARBs out of poverty and transform them into drivers of rural economic growth. Land distribution is only the first step. Provision of adequate and timely support services are impetus to make the awarded lands productive. Thus, PBD priorities for 2012-2014 shall be to:

•  Undertake convergence initiatives with rural development agencies to complement the resources and streamline the efforts of DAR and DENR;

•  Ink public-private partnerships (PPPs), develop models of collaboration and design business models in the agrarian reform areas with the participation of the CSOs, academe, research and development institutions and LGUs;

•  Expand the ODA portfolio in order to augment funds for PBD;

•  Operationalize the LTI-PBD integration on a province-to-province basis;

•  Shift focus of low LAD-balance provinces to PBD; and 
• Unlock credit facilities for the agrarian reform beneficiaries through capacity development for credit providers and farmer-borrowers, providing support to risk mitigating institutions and making available credit information to credit providers

2011 Targets and First Quarter Accomplishment: