Baguio City – In full force, the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) Project Support Officers together with the Regional Project Coordinating Officers and some provincial officials in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR)  conducted  a compliance review of 20 proposals under the micro enterprise development project of the I-REAP Component (Enterprise Development) last September 13-14 here.   As a result of the review, the targeted proposals previously set by the I-REAP component for the region under said project were completed.

According to Ms. Josie Beray, I-REAP Component Head, the CAR has targeted 43 small livelihood projects under the project this year.

“24 proposals have been submitted earlier to the Project Support Office for approval and issuance of No Objection Letter (NOL1).  We need to submit at least 20 more to reach our targeted number of proposals this year, thus this activity,” she said.

Collectively, these 20 micro enterprise proposals are worth P24,746,264.58.

“We came in full force to assist the project proponents in completing the requirements needed for each proposal in order to hasten the possibility of issuing NOL1,” said Ms. Elma Mananes, Deputy Project Director for PSO Luzon A Cluster.

A compliance review is a condition precedent to the issuance of NOL1.  But before that each proposal must go through deliberation, review and approval by the Regional Project Advisory Board.

“The NOL1 is a notice to proceed to procure the proponents’ identified interventions,” Mananes added. “We need to be here in full force to assist the proponents complete their requirements and to submit these proposals as soon as possible before the deadline sets in”.

The project, formerly dubbed as Small Livelihood Project, has been renamed as Micro Enterprise Development Project.  It aims to provide sustainable income-generating activities to farmers and fishers whose livelihood were calamity stricken specially the then typhoon Lando that occurred in 2014.

“This project will augment the loss of livelihood of adversely affected farmers by providing   input supplies, production, post-harvest, processing and marketing interventions to assist farmers in reviving agricultural losses caused by said typhoon,” said Ghisleen Y. Bacwaden, Business Development Consultant of RPCO-CAR. (Mabel Zabala, RPCO-CAR InfoACE)