2.0 Summary of findings
and recommendations
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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.
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