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The Kabalikat PALMA Infrastructure Project: Pigcawayan, Alamada, Libungan, Midsayap, & Aleosan Cotabato Province ABOUT THE PALMA KABALIKAT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT Addressing a Need, Helping Neighbors: Project History Like many rural municipalities in the Philippines, the five municipalities of Cotabato Province of the PALMA alliance shared a common problem. Because of poor roads, several of their upland and far flung barangays were deprived of basic services and faced limited prospects for growth. Residents from these barangays found it difficult to commute and transport their farm produce to the market. But because of limited resources, individual local government units (LGUs) could ill afford massive rehabilitation or construction of barangay or farm to market roads. To address the problem, Mayor Ronaldo B. Pader of Libungan, who is concurrently the Chair of the PALMA Alliance Board, broached the idea of pooling the equipment of five towns to fast track their respective infrastructure development with 4 mayors of neighboring towns who were also attending the Chief Executives Development Management Program (LDMP) conference. All four mayors readily accepted Pader’s idea. Initial discussions on how to implement the project were made. The five mayors subsequently met to formulate the mechanics for project implementation and to formalize the arrangement in a Memorandum of Agreement. The MOA was signed on October 31, 2001 signifying the intentions of 5 LGUs to implement the PALMA Kabalikat project as an alliance. In February 2002, the first rotation of infra- equipment was made. It covered 20 barangays in the municipality of Aleosan where approximately 12 kms of barangay road were completed. Each municipality got its turn to use the equipment until the early part of January 2003. A total of 70 kilometers of barangay farm to market roads in 27 barangays in the 5 municipalities were rehabilitated under the first rotation. The project is now on its second round. Before and After construction shots of the Aleosan Tomado-Malapang Road 3
“All for One and One for All” Building LGU Alliances for Infrastructure Development Implementing the PALMA Kabalikat Infrastructure: Objectives, Structures and Mechanics Objectives PALMA KABALIKAT aims to fast track the rehabilitation of barangay and farm to market roads in order to make government services accessible to people and assist these barangays achieve development, progress and prosperity. Organizational Structure At the alliance level, two committees were formed: 1. Infrastructure Project Steering Committee (IPSC); and 2. Infrastructure Project Technical Working Group (IPTWG) The Infrastructure Project Steering Committee has 12 members, including: • Mayors of 5 Municipalities • MPDC of 5 Municipalities • SB member of the Infra Committee of 5 municipalities • One (1) Municipal Engineer chosen from amongst the municipalities • Provincial Planning and Development Officer • One (1) representative from the Office of the Congressman The IPSC is tasked to: • Oversee the establishment and implementation of the Infrastructure Project • Discuss and agree on matters related to fund sourcing, appropriation of funds and equity sharing • Ensure all LGUs equitably benefit from the Infrastructure Project • Approve the scheduling of projects • Settle disputes among the participating LGUs The Inter LGU Infrastructure Technical Working Group (IPTWG), on the other hand, is composed of: • Municipal Engineers from all municipalities • MPDCs from all municipalities • CSO representative (President of the Farmers’ Association) involved in the Project Monitoring and Evaluation Committee from each municipality 4
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