Land Reform, Rural Development, and Poverty in the Philippines: Revisiting the Agenda

Reform Fund (ARF) specifically to implement CARP projects. The following agencies and their respective support service delivery interventions include: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (DA) • Animals/Seeds/Seedlings • Production/Post Harvest Facilities • Small Water Impounding Projects • Rice Production Enhancement Program • Rice Price Support Program • Other Support Activities DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY (DTI) • Skills/Entrepreneurial Training • Common Service Facilities NATIONAL IRRIGATION ADMINISTRATION (NIA) • Communal Irrigation Projects and Systems • Organizing and Strengthening of Irrigators' Association DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS (DPWH) • Roads • Bridges • Multi-purpose pavements DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES (DENR) • Soil Conservation Structures LAND BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES (LBP) • Credit DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT (DOLE) • Organization of Plantation Workers DAR, DA, NIA, DTI, and DOLE • Training DA, DENR and DTI • Technical Assistance and Marketing Assistance The different line agencies set up specific CARP units to manage the supplemental CARP budget and to coordinate with the DAR. The DTI even fielded Provincial DTI CARP Coordinators to handle CARP projects at the provincial level.

The criteria for beneficiary section or locating the CARP-funded projects of the CIAs were quite general. DAR used a simple validation system in confirming projects of other agencies.

Infrastructure projects like roads and bridges required that the area of influence of the project 64