Iloilo City—The Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling Project (Project SPLIT) is set to roll out the Harmonized Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting System (HMERS) to establish a single source of information for the status of implementation and accomplishments across all the project’s components and sub-components.
In line with this, the concurrent Project SPLIT Monitoring and Evaluation Lead Coordinator and Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Planning Service Director IV Emmanuel M. Fallaria conducted the Orientation/Training on Harmonized Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting System and Protocol to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of assessment for Project SPLIT on November 5-8, 2024, held at Diversion 21 Hotel, Iloilo City.
“If we’re going to capacitate the M&E coordinators, we have to enhance the processes, with some degree of flexibility in tweaking the processes, we can probably have a very efficient assessment or progress assessment,” Fallaria said.
The four-day event involved discussions on the vertical and horizontal data collection, validation, review, and submission from project components, reporting templates required by oversight agencies per component, and presentation and simulation of the interim HMERS.
“The significance of this activity cannot be overstated by standardizing the criteria and implications for tracking, progress assessment, deviation analysis, and determining outcomes. We ensure that our efforts are aligned,” DAR Region VI Director Leomides R. Villareal emphasized in his message.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinators from different regions and provinces across the nation, representatives of each component from the Central Project Management Office (CPMO), and DAR Region VI officials and personnel were present at the event.
Project SPLIT is a key initiative by the DAR and World Bank to improve the efficiency and accuracy of land assessment and titling processes in the Philippines. The project aims to establish a centralized information system to track the progress and outcomes of its various components through implementing the HMERS.