Region 1 Participated in the SPLIT Mission Meetings
Meetings are important facet of a program or organization. Since the Support for the Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) is a new and big funded project, there are many features of the project that must be threshed out between the World Bank, Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Land Registration Authority (LRA) and National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP). The Terms of Reference, Procurement Plan for supplies, materials, consultants and additional personnel to work for SPLIT and among others are to be discussed and decided upon for a smoother implementation of the project. The total project cost is P 24.625 billion, comprising 78% loan proceeds from World Bank in the amount of P 19.240 billion and 22% GOP counterpart in the amount of P 5.385 billion. It will be implemented for four (4) years from 2020 to 2014.
On December 9, and 10, DAR Region 1 Officials or the SPLIT Team of the DARRO and 4 DARPOs participated in the mission meetings with the Central Project Management Office and the World Bank Consultants/representatives. Since Region 1 is one of the pilot regions for the SPLIT Project, there is a pressing need for the regional and provincial teams to be adept with the ins and outs of the project to cope with the commitment to deliver more than 45,000 hectares.
The SPLIT aims to subdivide the Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) into individual titles to be awarded to each Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARB). The project goes thru processes from the inventory of landholdings, classification and prioritization of the areas to be subjected to parcelization, field validation of the areas for parcelization, identification of beneficiaries and the parcelization process that entails survey, lot allocation, awarding of the title and registration of the titles. It is not an easy task to de done amidst the presence of the database among others. However, the personnel involved shall be capacitated with the knowledge, skills and orientations (attitudes) to implement the project.
The project will benefit and empower the farmer beneficiaries in their ownership of the land they till, it may inspire, capacitate and challenge them to use the land to uplift their living condition and work for the food security of the country. Thus, this is challenge to the committed officials and employees of Region 1.
