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Achieving a sustainable rural infrastructure project is a key to poverty
alleviation. The company has been a partner of the government through
its agencies in several undertakings with an end view of improving the
lives of the people in the countryside.
EDCOP
provides a wide range of engineering and management services to the agri
-infrastructure. Its services include the conduct of feasibility study,
detailed engineering and design, assistance in tendering, construction
management and training.
The
company's involvement in these projects is highlighted by EDCOP's active
participation in poverty alleviation and rural infrastructure projects
with the Department of Interior and Local Administration, National Irrigation
Administration, Department of Agriculture, Department of Afrarian Reform
and various Local Government Units. EDCOP has been a partner to these
agencies in the implementation of the rural Infrastructures. A list of
major services:
- Quality
monitoring of on-going sub-projects (access roads & bridges, potable
water supply and irrigation) in Luzon, Visayas , Mindanao and the
Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). As an Independent Engineering
Firm representing the government, EDCOP ensures high quality design,
reliable and durable construction and low O&M costs are attained.
The QA covers the entire project cycle - Project ID, Project Preparation
and Design, Construction Supervision and Initial Start-Up and O&M.
- Capacity
building activities for government and other personnel of stakeholders
in sub-projects. The coverage include: Infrastructure Quality Monitoring,
Operation and Maintenance, Procurement and Project Management, for
Access Infrastructures, Potable Water Supply and Irrigation Systems.
The trainees include beneficiaries of completed, turned-over and on-going
sub-projects; and,
- Technical
assistance to the Rural Infrastructure and Development Support Units
in the formulation of O&M Training Manuals covering technical,
institutional and financial management modules;
As
of year end, EDCOP has provided monitoring and technical assistance to
over 250 sub-projects, e.g., 130 access /farm-to-market roads; 20 bridges;
40 Potable Water Supply (PWS); 5 Small Water Impounding Project (SWIP)
and 15Communal Irrigation System (CIS).
The
services were for projects assisted by Japan Bank for International Cooperation
(JBIC), Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Union (EU) and the World
Bank.
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FIELDS OF SERVICES |
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Access Infrastructures (roads and bridges)
Irrigation Systems
Potable Water Supply Systems
Post-Harvest Facilities
Environmental Infrastructures
Farm Systems Development
Rural Health Offices
Institutional Facilities |
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Projects Undertaken |
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DA / NIA
- HELP for Catubig Agricultural Advancement Project
The project aims to alleviate poverty
by raising income level of farmers, generate employment opportunities
and improve social infrastructures and services of Catubig Valley
in Northern Samar. It includes the provision of irrigation and drainage
facilities, rural infrastructure improvement, schistosomiasis control,
agricultural support services, and institutional development. .
The inter-agency Investment
Coordination Committee-Cabinet Committee has approved the cost adjustment
and time extension on the condition that additional project cost
shall be financed through local funds within the Department of Agriculture,
NIA, Department of Public Works and Highways and Department of Health
budget ceilings and subject to the issuance of Department of Budget
certified funding strategy for Help of Catubig Agricultural Advancement
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DAR-ADB
Agrarian Reform Communities Project
The project addressed the key constraints
to living conditions and income enhancement of the beneficiaries
and their communities through a process of participatory needs assessment
at the barangay level. The project concept emphasizes a demand-driven
approach, local governance, and commitment from and ownership by
beneficiaries. This requires a high degree of participation by beneficiaries
and their community for identification, planning, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and maintenance of Project
interventions. Most of the proposed activities are devolved to the
LGUs,and equity participation by stakeholders (POs, ARBs,LGUs) is
a major consideration.
The Project provides an integrated,
complementary package of investment, support services, and TA. This
will enhance beneficiary and community incomes by reducing input
supply and marketing costs, and increasing production and productivity,
facilitated by better access to technology, asset security (land
survey and titling),and non-farm income generation. This will be
accomplished as a result of infrastructure investments (rural roads/bridges,potable
water system and irrigation) complementary development support services,
credit and community development activities (e.g., organizations
of irrigators' associations, barangay water and sanitation associations
(BW/SAs), cooperatives and other POs). Since the Project is demand-driven
and participatory with an emphasis on proactive LGU involvement
and assisted self-reliance, capacity building, institutional strengthening,
and training for stakeholders are included in the program. |
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Mindanao Irrigation Systems
(MIS) - Malitubog-Maridagao River Irrigation Project IV, North Cotabato
& Maguindanao
Financed by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation
(JBIC), the project has completed key irrigation facilities under
stage 1 which include a diversion dam, dikes, irrigation and drainage
canals, canal structures, farm-t0-market roads, bridges, and other
relevant structures.
The Mal-Mar irrigation project
was designed to improve and utilize 10,840 hectares of farmland,
in the towns of Pikit and Carmen in Cotabato ; and Pagalungan and
Pagagawan in Maguindanao |
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Landbank
LGU's Support Credit Program
The
program is in consonance with the following three goals of development
assistance:
1.
Outreach – the program offers technical and financial assistance,
and in some areas, provision of guarantee fund, specifically, for
co-ops that cannot provide collaterals, thus increasing opportunity
for SFF to access credit services of the Bank;
2.
Capacity Building – the program provides training/ workshops for
its identified co-op participants to strengthen their respective
capabilities in managing their organization, business and financials;
and
3.
Resource Sharing – partners provide equities to pursue development
assistance activities for co-ops. |
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Mindanao
Sustainable Settlement Area Development Project (MINSSAD)
The
Project involves the development of eight agrarian reform community
(ARC) settlement areas in Mindanao using an inter-agency approach
to ARC development. The Project consists of the following components:
( i ) Community and Cooperative Development; (ii) Agriculture Enhancement
and Livelihood; (iii) Crop Development and Soil Conservation; (iv)
Marketing Support; (v) Infrastructure and Social Services; (vi)
Post-harvest Facilities; and (vii) Project Management and Institution
Building. Its general objective is to alleviate poverty and improve
the quality of life of the beneficiaries in the settlement areas
and ensure viable and sustainable development.
The
main objective of the Consulting Services is to assist DAR in the
successful implementation of the Project with due consideration
of social and environmental management needs of the beneficiary
communities. The scope of the Consulting Services includes the provision
of technical advice and assistance to the Project Management Office
(PMO) in the implementation of the many and varied activities of
the Project, particularly in the following areas: ( i ) overall
Project management; (ii) procurement of equipment; (iii) infrastructure
construction; (iv) institutional development; (v) agricultural development
and marketing; (vi) environmental management and monitoring; and
(vii) training of Government employees. |
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