PRDP North Luzon awards top performers for 2020

Date Published: March 9, 2021

The Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) North Luzon continues its annual tradition of recognizing outstanding implementing offices through a series of management meetings with all four regions of the cluster.

To discuss and present the cluster’s overall achievement and key points for improved management, the Project Support Office headed by Deputy Project Director Elma Mananes met with the regional offices on February 2 to March 9, with representatives from their respective provinces participating via teleconferencing.

“This meeting aims to discuss not only our present status but more importantly, our way forward until the end of 2021, up to the end of the Project, said Mananes during the first leg of the meeting. She added that the PSO met with each region to push through with the supposed annual general assembly which was restricted due to the pandemic.

Among the major awardees were local government units with notable physical progress, or those with completed I-BUILD subprojects that met and/or exceeded the target completion schedules.

Topping the list is the Province of Kalinga with the Improvement of Bado Dangwa-Guilayon Farm to Market Road in Tabuk City, who was noted for recording the highest physical progress not only in North Luzon but among all PRDP I-BUILD subprojects nationwide. The project was finished five months and 29 days ahead of target completion date.

The Rehabilitation of Oscariz – Nagbacalan FMR in Ramon, Isabela was also recognized for finishing the project 77 days ahead of target, followed by the Construction of Cold Storage in Palayan City, Nueva Ecija with 49 days of advance completion.

Another subproject with outstanding progress from Isabela is Santiago City’s I-REAP subproject civil works Beef Cattle Production and Marketing Enterprise, registering completion 33 days before target.

More infra works of enterprise subprojects were also awarded for their timely implementation within prescribed timeline. These are the Ifugao Coffee Processing and Marketing Enterprise in Asipulo, Ifugao (nine days advance) and the Commercialization of Ilocos Garlic: The White Gold Treasure of the North Enterprise in Bacarra, Ilocos Norte (two days advance).

Another I-REAP subproject civil works in Bauko, Mountain Province, the Potato Tubers Production and Marketing (Storage Facility and Greenhouse Site) and the Construction of Malicnao Bridge in Rosario, La Union likewise received recognitions for meeting the target completion dates despite the limitations due to pandemic.

For the regional awardees, the top regions for having the highest cumulative disbursement for I-BUILD subprojects were Cagayan Valley Region (original loan and overall loan fund) and Cordillera Administrative Region (additional financing).

Cagayan Valley is also the recipient of the highest completion rate of I-BUILD SPs both in terms of cost and number.

In terms of disbursed I-BUILD funds for the year 2020, Central Luzon received awards for having disbursed the highest I-BUILD SP funds under the original loan, additional financing, and over-all funds (OL + AF).

Ilocos Region bagged all the regional awards under the I-REAP component — top region for having the highest disbursement of I-REAP subprojects both cumulatively and for the year 2020, and also the region that recorded the highest completion rate of I-REAP SPs in terms of cost and number.

In addition, special awards were given by the I-PLAN Component to acknowledge the successful conduct of major activities such as: Value Chain Analysis Updating for Goat and Peanut (RPCO1), implementation of two subprojects under I-PLAN sub-component (RPCO2), Onion Value Chain Assessment in Nueva Ecija and Encoding & Leveraging of Non-PRDP Funds for 2020 (RPCO3), and Training on Geo-mapping using Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS), and PCIP Updating for Kalinga and Apayao (RPCO-CAR).

Prior to the awarding, representatives from PSO have presented progress updates from the I-BUILD, I-REAP, I-PLAN, Procurement and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E).

(Kayla Arceo, North Luzon InfoACE)

 

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