(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; 53