BACOLOD City – More than 2,000 residents of Barangay Pacol in Valladolid, Negros Occidental will benefit from the potable water project to be jointly funded by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the municipal government.
The implementation of the Community-Managed Potable Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (CPWASH) Project was formalized with the signing of a memorandum of agreement among three parties last Friday.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Lucrecia Taberna signed on behalf of the DAR Negros Occidental-South and Mayor Enrique Miravalles for the partner-local government unit, with Pacol Farmers and Rural Women Association (PFRWA) chairperson Josephine Osorio, during rites held at the association’s social hall.
Beneficiaries will include 1,500 students and teachers of the Valladolid National High School, 500 pupils of Pacol Elementary School, and almost 100 members of the recipient-agrarian reform beneficiaries organization.
The DAR will provide P80,000 as counterpart fund – P50,000 for the purchase of construction materials and P30,000 for project-related technology training.
The municipal government will allocate P50,000 for the labor requirement and livelihood project components.
Miravalles thanked the partner-agency for the project. He assured the DAR of assistance in the delivery of its support services.
“I am also a farmer. Agriculture development is a priority of my administration,” the mayor said.
In October last year the DAR Negros Occidental-South also partnered with the Sipalay City government and the Manlucahoc Multipurpose Cooperative for a similar project that benefited about 2,000 residents of Barangay Manlucahoc.
Two months before that, the CPWASH Project was brought by the agency to Barangay Balicotoc, Ilog town in collaboration with the municipal government and the Balicotoc Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Farmers Association.
In April last year, the project was implemented by the DAR Negros Occidental-South in Barangay Batuan, San Enrique with the local government-partner and the San Enrique Agrarian Reform Cooperative. (PNA)
