by Ruel Orinday June 2, 2022 DAR speeds up subdivision of collective CLOAs in Quezon LUCENA CITY, Quezon - The Department of Agrarian Reform...
June 2, 2022
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| DAR speeds up subdivision of collective CLOAs in Quezon |
LUCENA CITY, Quezon - The Department of Agrarian Reform through the World Bank-funded Support to the Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) Project, picks up the pace in subdividing collective Certificates of Landownership Award (CCLOAs) in the Quezon's 3rd and 4 th District (Quezon II).
According to DAR - Quezon II PIO Joseph Cacanindin, the huge task of successfully subdividing the CCLOAs starts with site visits and actual interviews with the concerned agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in their awarded lots.
Geotagging of the identified areas and photo documentation of the agricultural lands are also done by the FVTs, with the assistance of the Barangay Agrarian Reform Council (BARC) and theconcerned Municipal Agrarian Reform Office (MARO).
The first of the three-man teams—composed of a Documentor, an Engineer, and an Environment and Social Safeguards (ESS) Documentor, were hired last October 2021.
By mid-February this year, two more Field Validation Teams, as well as a Legal Officer have also been hired to beef up the capability of the SPLIT Provincial Project Management Office (PPMO).
As of May 18, 2022 or three months since the additional two FVTs were organized, a total of 595.5725 hectares have already been validated across the 22 municipalities under Quezon II.
Cacanindin also said Provincial Project Manager, PARPO II Engr. Cornelio P. Villapando is confident that the PPMO will be able to accomplish the target by the end of the year.
“Right now, we have the momentum. We are currently working on 17 municipalities, and have so far received the biggest contributions from Buenavista, San Andres and Tagkawayan. At this rate, and with the learning curve now turning to our favor, and themorale of our team continuously growing, I am expecting no less than achieving 100% of our target by the end of the year,” says PARPO Villapando.
Aside from the number of hectares validated, some 240 ARBs (160 Male and 80 Female) have been interviewed and gathered with their basic information, alongside the statuses o fthe landholdings that they are tilling.
The information gathered during the field validation are then encoded in the Kobo Toolbox, an application being used by SPLIT Project nationwide.
Thereafter, these data are made available to the Project’s top officials as an important tool for policy-making and direction-setting. SPLIT Project is expected to cover about 139,000 CCLOAs involving 1.38 million hectares of lands located in 77 provinces and 1,252 municipalities nationwide.
The project seeks to address the problems which arose when the titles that were issued in the 1990s—landholdings that were supposed to be subdivided among around a million ARBs—remained unsubdivided.
Among these problems are boundary conflicts, susceptibility to encroachment by non-beneficiaries, impediments in land amortization payments involving compensable lands, and second generation land transfers for heirs of deceased ARBs.
These issues negatively impact on the ARB’s ownership of their awarded lands and left them eventually holding insecure and unstable property rights. (Ruel Orinday-PIA Quezon/ with reports from DAR Quezon II)
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