2.0 Summary of findings and recommendations T able 3 shows the overall accomplishments in asset reform by sector/ program, in relation to their total target or potential scope. The table shows that accomplishments under each reform program are highly uneven. Using officially reported data, the levels of accomplishments appear to be high for CARP in private lands and public lands, high for IPRA in ancestral domains, and poor for implementation of tenure reforms under the PFC. However, the data need further review. The data on accomplishments only shows part of the picture. For one, the total target scope for each asset reform program has been difficult to determine, i.e.: n The target coverage of CARP in private lands has been readjusted several times over the past 30 years, due to the unreliability of land records. The original targets set in 1988 were based mainly on estimates, and then officially revised by the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council (PARC) in 1994 and 2006. Another field validation of the remaining private lands under CARP was done in 2009, and since then, DAR’s targets have been readjusted annually to show the balance for Land Acquisition and Distribution (LAD), rather than the “total scope.” n For public lands, pre-existing DENR programs – i.e., the issuance of land patents and the Integrated Social Forestry (ISF) Program, which later evolved into CBFM – were included under CARP in 1988. And as the study shows (Section 4), the program targets set by DENR and PARC in 1994 and 2006 appear too low. n For IPRA, the law recognizes the principle of self-delineation, and as such there are no fixed targets in terms of the area to be covered by ancestral domains. There is no census data, only estimates, on the population of indigenous peoples. n For the PFC, an intermediate scoping target used here is the completed delineation of municipal waters. However, this is merely the first step towards establishing preferential fishing rights for municipal fishers. Meanwhile, there are still no implementing rules and regulations for the provision of fisherfolk settlements under Section 108. Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) 23

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