the palma alliance - LGRC DILG 10

Summary
In August 2001, mayors of five neighboring towns in Cotabato Province who were
attending the Chief Executives Development Management Program (LDMP) at the
Asian Institute of Management came up with a brilliant idea. They decided to pool the
resources of their municipalities together to help each other rehabilitate and construct
barangay and farm-to-market roads.
Thus was the Kabalikat PALMA Infrastructure
Project (KPIP) born. “Kabalikat”, a Tagalog
term meaning shoulder-to-shoulder or each
one lending a shoulder to another became the
name and guiding principle of the project. The
KPIP also became the first project of what came
to be known as the PALMA local government
alliance.
“ALL FOR ONE AND
ONE FOR ALL”
Building LGU Alliances
for Infrastructure
Development
Under Kabalikat, the five municipalities of
Pigcawayan, Alamada, Libungan, Midsayap
and Aleosan comprising the PALMA Alliance
pooled their road construction equipment and
systematically rotated equipment use among
themselves free of charge. Each municipality
made a contribution to the equipment pool.
Pigcawayan brought in its road grader and
dump truck. Alamada shared their road grader
bulldozer, backhoe loader and dump truck.
Libungan put in a road grader, dump truck
and backhoe loader. Midsayap contributed a
The Kabalikat PALMA
Infrastructure Project of
the PALMA Alliance:
Pigcawayan, Alamada,
Libungan, Midsayap,
& Aleosan Cotabato
Province
bulldozer, backhoe loader, pay loader, compactor and dump truck. Aleosan its road
grader, bulldozer, pay loader and dump truck.
To support the effort, the provincial government of Cotabato provided the trailer for
transporting the heavy equipment and made available a road construction team for the
project.
The spirit of LGUs helping one another deliver infrastructure services through equitable
sharing of resources proved to the great benefit of the LGUs. With better roads made
possible through the project, residents, especially in remote barangays, can now be
reached by government extension workers. These barangays have also been exposed
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