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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 1
“All for One and One for All” Building LGU Alliances for Infrastructure Development to various farming technologies, which have increased their agricultural productivity. The project has also reduced the cost of road construction for the LGUs, and decreased travel time and transport cost for hundreds of residents. 2
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