DA-10 hosts DA’s foreign-assisted projects assessment

 

Cagayan de Oro City – As a mechanism to review and assess the physical and financial performance of the DA’s foreign-assisted projects (FAPs), the Department of Agriculture Special Projects Coordination and Management Assistance Division (SPCMAD) kicked off the FAPs 2024 year-end assessment, on Monday, February 24, here.

Hosted by the Department of Agriculture-Region 10 (DA-10), the assessment paved ways for pragmatic and programmatic dialogue pushing for strategic and collaborative implementation of the DA’s FAPs.

The assessment provides an avenue for multilateral discussion among the DA operating units, and FAP-implementing regional field units and DA-attached agencies and bureaus, to address issues, concerns and challenges in the FAPs implementation from the national to ground level.

In his message, DA-10 Regional Executive Director Jose Apollo Y. Pacamalan pushed for synergistic implementation of the DA regular programs and the FAPs to provide full-scale agricultural assistance to DA stakeholders.

The agri exec stressed that the DA’s resources should be strategically utilized to crank up farm gate prices of agricultural commodities.

DA Undersecretary for Special Concerns and Official Development Office – Foreign Aid/Grants, Jerome Oliveros urged the FAP-implementing units, agency and bureau of the DA to work together for the aligning of strategies, and strengthening of efforts toward agricultural development and modernization.

He underscored the need for collaborative initiative to accelerate productivity, enhanced market competitiveness, and improved livelihood in line with the department’s goal to attain food security.

The FAPs 2024 year-end assessment will be capped on February 28 after a site visit to DA’s foreign-funded project site at the Northern Mindanao Agricultural Crops and Livestock Research Complex (NMACLRC) and Daraghuyan Ancestral Domain in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon.# (ATT/Photo credits: CRS)