by Joan Dapidap, RPCO1 InfoACE

The Ilocos I-REAP Component in a coordination meeting on January 17 reminded beneficiaries to take good care of the facilities turned over to their cooperatives and associations.

“The operation and maintenance of these facilities are very important,” Ms. Maria Christine de Leon, enterprise development marketing specialist, said. “You are the very first World Bank-supported recipients in Region 1. You should therefore properly tend to it.”

The I-REAP, also known as the Enterprise Development Component of the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), aims to improve access to the markets of enterprise clusters while increasing productivity and value addition. 

Eligible interventions under this component include production enterprises and facilities for input supply/sourcing, consolidation, post-harvest, processing, and marketing, among others.

This meeting, participated in by 65 beneficiaries, was held to report the status of enterprise operations, including their challenges and recommended solutions.

“Dapat masiguro po natin na tayo pong lahat ay nasa iisang pahina lang po. Alam po dapat natin lahat kung ano ang ating kailangang gawin at kung kailan natin ito gagawin,” Ms. Rhoda Galban, I-REAP Component head, said. (We must make sure that we are all on the same page. We should all know what to do and when to do it.)

Under PRDP, the Ilocos Region has a record of 71 completed I-REAP subprojects valued at Php306M.###