DAVAO CITY, June 25, 2025 – Regional Project Advisory Board (RPAB) deliberation ready! The Mindanao Inclusive Agriculture Development Project (MIADP) Regional Project Coordination Office (RPCO) XI, through its Component 2 or Ancestral Domain Resilient Agri-Fisheries Infrastructure, conducted a joint technical review of Davao Occidental Local Project Management Implementation Unit’s (LPMIU) infrastructure subproject proposal to prepare it for RPAB approval.
A crucial step in planning and implementation under MIADP, the Joint Technical Review (JTR) involves a thorough consultation between the RPCO components and units and LPMIU to refine details, coordinate objectives, and ensure the alignment of necessary documents, all to secure the soundness of the technical documents. MIADP’s Project Support Office (PSO) also joined in for the consultation.
“Dapat smart, sustainable, ug successful atoang mga proyekto. Kung naay isa ka aspeto nga wala nakita, atong proyekto dili magmalungtaron. Mao nang tanawon nato, atong susihon, kay para dili masayang atong mga proyekto,” Regional Technical Director for Research and Regulations and MIADP RPCO XI Deputy Project Director Zabdiel Zacarias, encouraged.
(We need to create projects that are smart, sustainable, and successful. If there is one aspect of a project that we fail to account for, then that project won’t be sustainable. Let’s check, let’s examine, so that our projects won’t be a waste.)
The three-day activity discussed the revised technical documents and their compliance progress, reviewed revisions and recommendations including technicalities, and finalized preparation for the RPAB deliberation.
Moreover, it ensured that the infrastructure subproject proposal, entitled Improvement/Concreting of Brgy. Datu Danwata: Centro Datu Danwata to Sitio Kalamagan Farm-to-Market Road (FMR) would gain the merit of the RPAB without significant findings, to advance it to the No Objection Letter 1 (NOL) and Implementation Management Agreement (IMA) phases and its subsequent procurement process.
Attended by representatives from the PSO’s and RPCO’s Component 1 and 2, the Environmental and Social Unit, Geo-Mapping and Governance Unit, and Econ representatives, the review perfected several technical documents including the feasibility study (FS), detailed engineering design (DED), program of works (POW), among others.
“Previously, we’ve conducted pre-JTRs just to facilitate the compliance…this time around, we aimed for our document to have no conditional compliances. After three days, we’ve seen the compliances. More or less, we are ready,” Engineer IV and MIADP RPCO XI Component 2 Head Hazel May Castillon said.
To reference, the first two RPAB-approved subprojects for RPCO XI were both from Davao Occidental LPMIU, one in infra, and another one in enterprise. These subprojects, under the Blaan-Tagakaulo Ancestral Domain (AD), are expected to uplift the quality of living of the Indigenous Peoples and improve the agri-enterprise productivity within the area.
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