MPA 213 Summer 2022 IGPS LNU

1. MARIEL D. ARAGON
Discussant
Development of Monitoring
and Evaluation System for
Rural Development
Josefina B. Bitonio
Professor
MPA 213
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2. Monitoring and Evaluation for learning and
performance improvement
“Monitoring” refers to the systematic and continuous collection and analysis of
information to give implementers and other stakeholders’ feedback on the
progress and effectiveness of the PRDP as well as factors that positively and
adversely affect implementation.
“Evaluation” on the other hand pertains to assessment to which program
development objectives have been achieved at end of program or likely to be
achieved during implementation. Emphasis is about how outputs, process and
resources (inputs) are actually translating to or likely to translate to results or
benefits anticipated when the program was conceptualized

3. Monitoring and Evaluation for learning and
performance improvement
The processes of planning, monitoring and evaluation
make up the Result-Based Management (RBM) approach,
which is intended to aid decision-making towards explicit
goals. Planning helps to focus on results that matter, while
M&E facilitates learning from past successes and
challenges and those encountered during
implementation.

4. A successful M&E system must allocate the
following:
1. sufficient budget
2. sufficient time
3. sufficient capacity and expertise
4. sufficient flexibility
Monitoring and Evaluation for learning and
performance improvement

5. Comparison of monitoring, review and
evaluation
Monitoring Review Evaluation
When? On-going Regular periodic - often six
monthly or annually
(see Implementation support)
Periodic - mid-term,
completion and ex post
Why? To check progress, take
remedial actions when
needed
To review progress and adjust
implementation strategy as
needed
To learn broad lessons
applicable to other
programmes/ projects and as
an input to policy review.
To provide accountability

6. Rural Development
the process of improving
the quality of life and economic well-
being of people living in rural areas, often
relatively isolated and sparsely populated
areas.

7. Basic Elements of Rural Development
1. Necessities in Life
- Includes food, shelter, clothes
, basic education
3. Freedom
- Economic freedom
2. Self Respect
- every person seeks some sort
of dignity. The deficiency of it
indicates lack of development

8. Rural Problems
1. Less income
2. Low productivity
3. Absence of economic and
social infrastructure
4. No capital
5. Lack of cultural and education
activities

9. COMBATING POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES
1. Greater Access to Education
- A factor of systemic poverty is a lack of access to
education in impoverished areas. People gain basic
skills and increased job opportunities through
education, which can help to combat poverty in the
Philippines
2. Greater Access to Healthcare
- In an effort to improve the healthcare system, President
Duterte signed the Universal Healthcare Act in
February 2019. The UHC Act provides access to the
full spectrum of healthcare by enrolling citizens in the
National Insurance Program and granting health
coverage to all.

10. COMBATING POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES
3. Family Aid
- further efforts to support citizens, the
government implemented the Pantawid
Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in 2007. The
4Ps is is a conditional cash transfer program
for impoverished households.
4. Economic Improvement
- With the goal of reducing poverty by
strengthening economics, President Duterte
signed the Rice Tariffication Law in February
2019, amending the Agricultural Tariffication
Act of 1996.

11. COMBATING POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES
5. Build, Build, Build
- Additionally, the Duterte administration created the “Build, Build,
Build” infrastructure plan in 2017. The initial goal of the program was
to complete 75 projects, but Duterte revised the plan to instead
target finishing 100 projects..

13. Approach
The project provides technical and funding assistance to local government units
and producer groups or organizations to: (a) improve their agriculture commodity
and investment planning and prioritization; (b) support the development and
implementation agriculture-related infrastructure investments and agri-enterprise
development subprojects; and (c) strengthen conservation and protection of
selected critical coastal and marine protected areas. It also uses tools such as
geotagging, value chain analysis and expanded vulnerability and suitability
assessments to help guide public investments toward a modern, value-chain
oriented, and climate-resilient agriculture and fisheries sector.

14. Challenge
The agriculture sector contributes roughly 9 percent of the country’s GDP and
continuously provides jobs to close to a quarter of working Filipinos. For many
years, rural dwellers suffered from low incomes and limited opportunities for
gainful employment. Many are poor and uncompetitive, due to constraints
brought about by insufficient production inputs, lack of farm machineries and
equipment, limited access to credit, and poor access to market, among others.
Destructive weather events are also a major concern, disproportionately affecting
the poor and the most vulnerable, many of whom reside in rural areas. The
COVID-19 pandemic likewise increased unemployment including among those in
the countryside.

15. Result
Started in 2015, the project has achieved the following major accomplishments:
• Provided agricultural assets and/or services to about 372,000 farmer and
fisherfolk beneficiaries, 46 percent of whom are female beneficiaries. An
additional 378,00 are and will be benefitting of ongoing and pipeline
subprojects.
• Constructed/rehabilitated over 1,000 kilometers of farm-to-market roads
(and another 1,100 kilometers are underway). These resulted in reduction of
travel time by 33 percent and reduction in transport costs by 22 percent.

16. Result
• Provided potable water to some 6,600 households. Another 15,700 households
will benefit once the remaining potable water supply systems are completed.
• Provided technical and funding assistance to some 66,100 beneficiaries of agri-
enterprises. These resulted to an average of 113 percent increase in real
household income.
• Improved technical capacity of 81 Provincial Local Government Units (PLGUs) to
plan and manage subprojects for developing the agriculture sector. All the PLGUs
now have Provincial Commodity Investment Plans (PCIPs) which served as the
basis in prioritizing agricultural commodities and investments funded under the
project.

17. Moving Forward
• The PRDP tools, approaches and strategies are being mainstreamed and
integrated in the regular (locally funded) programs and activities of DA. The
Value Chain Analysis and PCIPs have been used in updating the Regional
Agriculture Fisheries and Modernization Plans as well as in the regular
programs’ planning, budgeting and monitoring and evaluation
activities. Infrastructure subproject engineering and design parameters are
likewise now used as guide for locally funded subprojects. Some safeguards
guidelines have also been introduced for consideration in the review and
implementation of other projects and programs.

18. REFERENCES
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