(4) Agrarian Legal Assistance Division (ALAD). - The Agrarian Legal Assistance
Division (ALAD) shall be headed by a Division Chief or CARPO. Subject to the
devolution of the adjudicatory functions, it shall be responsible for developing
guidelines, plans and programs for legal assistance including developing,
maintaining and coordinating para-legal services for those who will be affected by
the agrarian reform programs.
Chapter 4
Provincial and Municipal Offices
SEC. 13. Provincial Offices. - The Department shall have Provincial Agrarian Reform
Offices to be headed by a Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer.
The Provincial Agrarian Reform Offices shall be responsible for directing and
coordinating the operations and activities of the Municipal Agrarian Reform Offices operating
within the province and has the following functions:
(1) Set priorities, specific targets, schedules, and deadlines for the execution of
approved plans, programs, and projects on land acquisitions, distribution, transfer
of land ownership to actual tillers, including land-tiller-landowner identification,
tenurial security, leasehold arrangements, land surveys, and landowner‟s
compensation as may be provided for by law;
(2) Conduct continuing information and education programs on agrarian reform;
(3) Encourage organizational development of agrarian reform beneficiaries,
cooperatives, and other associations and institutionalize farmer-government
partnership in agrarian reform policy formulation, programs implementation, and
evaluation;
(4) Facilitate landowners‟ compensation and re-channel landowner capital to
industrial development;
(5) Develop and implement alternative land tenure system such as cooperative
farming, cooperative cultivatorship schemes, and agro-industrial estates, among
others;
(6) Assist Agrarian Reform Communities in proper land use management;
(7) Promote the use of compact farming, integrated farming system, sloping
agricultural land technology (SALT), and other land conservation measures in
agrarian reform areas, in coordination with farmer and farm workers
organizations;
(8) Provide legal services to those affected by agrarian reform and resolution of
agrarian conflicts and land tenure problems;
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