Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) - Organizational Structure

Policy, Planning and External Affairs; Legal Affairs; Field Operations; Support Services; and Finance, Management, and Administration.

The Secretary and Undersecretaries are assisted by Assistant Secretaries for Legal Affairs, Support Services, Field Operations and Finance, Management, and Administration.

The Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board under the Office of the Secretary is composed of the Secretary as the Chairman and Assistant Secretaries. The Secretariat headed by an Executive Director is constituted to support the Board.

The DAR is operating with five bureaus and seven services. These are the Bureau of Land Acquisition and Distribution (BLAD), Bureau of Land Development (BLD), Bureau of Agrarian Legal Assistance (BALA), Bureau of Agrarian Reform Information and Education (BARIE), and Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development (BARBD). While the services include the Planning Service, Finance and Management Service (FIMAS), Administrative Service , Legal Service, Management Information Service (MIS), Project Development and Management Service (PDMS), and the Policy and Strategic Research Service (PSRS).

The DAR has sixteen (16) Regional Offices and one field office in each key city and municipality. Each Regional Office is headed by a Regional Director assisted by an Assistant Regional Director for Operations and an Assistant Regional Director for Administration.

The DAR Provincial Agrarian Reform Offices is headed by a Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer while, Municipal Agrarian Reform Offices are headed by Municipal Agrarian Reform Officers.

The Department of Agrarian Reform is composed of the department proper, the staff offices, the staff bureaus and the regional/provincial/municipal agrarian reform offices.

The Cabinet Secretary is the head of DAR. The Office of the Secretary consists of its immediate staff, the Public Affairs Staff, the Special Concerns Staff, Presidential Agrarian Reform Council Secretariat, Adjudication Board, Litigation, and the Center for Land Use Policy, Planning and Implementation.

The Secretary is assisted by its Undersecretaries for

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