Tabuk City, Kalinga – “There’s no better way to assess a project than to be there and see for yourself” said OIC-Regional Executive Director Lorenzo M. Caranguian during the Joint Provincial Project Management Implementing Unit & Regional Project Coordinating Office (PPMIU-RPCO) Mid-Year Assessment held in Tabuk City, Kalinga on May 25 to 27, 2016 as he urged the participants to visit the pilot infra projects here as one of the highlights of the activity.

The venue was chosen so that the PPMIU team from other provinces will have first-hand information regarding the implementation strategies that the PPMIU team from Kalinga has done to be the first province to implement PRDP projects in the region and to draw inspiration from them, OIC-RED Caranguian added.

All provinces were well represented as the mid-year assessment provided opportunities for the implementers of PRDP projects in the region to present whatever was accomplished in regard to implementing PRDP projects, to share their experiences as well as to raise issues and concerns encountered during the implementation stages, and how they have unravelled them.

RED Caranguian urged the PPMIUs to submit more proposals for farm-to-market roads as well as less costly projects such as tramlines, potable water systems, communal irrigation systems and civil works for livelihood projects.

Anent to this, Deputy Project Director Danilo Daguio mentioned that as an example, small subprojects in Mindanao during the implementation of the  Mindanao Rural Development Project never encountered failures in bidding processes.

Moreover, RED Caranguian pushed the RPCO to focus on extending more coordination assistance to the provinces who were not able to submit subproject proposals to catch up with possible approval or issuance of No Objection Letters this year.

“Coordinate closely with the PPMIUs so that more subproject proposals will be submitted” he said.

With the hopes that PPMIUs will be more inspired in fast tracking their proposed sub-projects, they were enjoined to attend in the  assessment of the  two ongoing pilot infrastructure projects, the “Improvement of Banneng-Gombowoy Farm-to-Market Road” located in Tanudan and the “Improvement of Bulanao-Amlao Farm-to-Market Road” located in Tabuk City with Engr. Domingo Bakilan, Provincial Agriculturist and PPMIU Head of Kalinga  leading the assessment team while describing each  subprojects’  profiles. (Mabel Zabala, DA- PRDP RPCO-CAR InfoACE Unit)