Business&Oppornunity DAR-10 preps for Project SPLIT implementation

By Jan Albert Araña CAGAYAN DE ORO

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In preparation for the implementation of its Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling program, or Project SPLIT, the Department of Agrarian Reform-10 (DAR10) conducted an orientation for its information officers and partners through a two-day stakeholders workshop on April 12–13.

“The Department of Agrarian Reform launched the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) Project with the aim of improving land tenure security and establishing property rights of some 1,140,735 agrarian reform beneficiaries nationwide,” said Seny Fabe, DAR-10 assistant regional director for operations.

Fabe added that the implementation of the project would help realize the completion of the Philippines’ land reform program and seeks to subdivide a total area of more or less 1,368,883 hectares of landholdings nationwide covered by the Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Award.

The two-day workshop was conducted to further enhance the capacity of DAR provincial employees and information officers as to the roles of the different national agencies, such as the Department of Interior and Local Government,

By Shaine Mae Nagtalon

OZAMIZ CITY – The Department of Trade and Industry-Misamis Occidental (DTI-MisOcc) reinforced its support for local government units to improve their competitiveness in government efficiency, economic dynamism, infrastructure, resiliency, and innovation during the 2023 Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) Meeting and Data Consolidation Forum at Royal Garden here on April 12.

In coordination with the city government of Ozamiz, DTI-MisOcc held the 2023 CMCI Meeting and Data Consolidation Forum at Royal Garden, Ozamiz City, which aimed to improve LGU rankings in all five pillars to have a higher overall competitiveness score.

Luz Galda, DTI-MisOcc provincial director, said that the competitiveness score is a vital component in attracting investors. Cities and municipalities are ranked in their competitiveness based on an overall competitiveness score.

“To all of you here, we need your cooperation so that the ranking of your respective cities and municipalities will be more attractive to investors in order to generate more jobs, which will redound to economic growth. Let us remember that rising competitiveness is rising prosperity,” Galda said.

Meanwhile, Engr. Esmael Larubis, CMCI enu- the National Commission of Indigenous People, the Department of Information and Communication Technology, and the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority, to the successful implementa- tion of Project SPLIT and to capacitate them as they cascade said project to the different agrarian reform beneficiaries and local government units within each area of responsibilities.

The forum also paves the way so that all the agencies involved can interact and answer some queries from DAR personnel to better understand some concerns, especially in implementing Project SPLIT.

DAR hopes that the Project SPLIT implementation will be successful for the benefit of all its beneficiaries, not just in the region but the entire nation. (JAKA | PIA-10) merator from La Salle University, explained in detail how the local government units can have a perfect score in each pillar.

He discussed the 2023 CMCI survey orientation, CMCI overview, CMCI’s five pillars/indicators, 2023 local data capture sheet (LDCS), the work plan, and strategies.

“Ang pinaka goal aning CMCI for our province is actually to put our province in the spotlight for the investor, and if we put our province in the spotlight for the investor, we will be actually lifting everyone from poverty, especially those who don’t have any job, and somehow we can help them so that they by themselves can have a better opportunity for living,” Larubis said.

The CMCI survey in 2023 is an annual ranking of the Philippine cities and municipalities developed by the National Competitiveness Council (NCC) with the assistance of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and designed to capture four key competitiveness pillars, namely, government efficiency, economic dynamism, infrastructure, resiliency, and innovation.

Further, it is implemented by the DTI Competitiveness Bureau (DTIBC), which annually ranks local government units (LGUs) at the provincial, city, and municipal levels based on the data gathered and processed to determine their competitiveness ranking. (SMRN | PIA-10 | Misamis Occidental)