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Post Completion Mission of Upland Development Programme in Southern Mindanao - Philippines

Philippines

European Commission

The Government of the Philippines

Mindanao is the second largest and easternmost island in the Philippines. It has 94,630 square kilometres, and is the eighth most populous island in the world. It is also one of the three island groups in the country, along with Luzon and Visayas. The global objective of the assignment is to conduct a post completion evaluation of the Upland Development Program (UDP) and formulate recommendations in future areas of EC interventions in poverty reduction in the Philippines. Specifically, the Mission will be tasked to: 1. To assess the impact of the UDP in terms of sustainability and the quantitative (e.g., increase in income levels) as well as qualitative (e.g, improved standard of living, reflected in key indicators, including child and maternal nutrition) indicators of replicability of the SUD schemes in the areas that were covered by the Program. 2. To assess to what extent the SUD schemes have been adopted by other LGUs (provincial, municipal, barangay) and upland communities in Mindanao and countrywide; and what is the quality of implementation; 3. To assess to impact the Executive Order (EO) 606 has had on replicating the SUD schemes; 4. To assess the role and effectiveness of the League of Municipalities in the Philippines (LMP) and its Mayors Development Center (MDC) in respect of promoting SUD country wide; 5. To provide the GoP, EC Delegation and LMP/MDC with recommendations that may further enhance their effectiveness in enhancing the dissemination of the SUD model, for example recommendations that would further enhance the effectiveness of the DENR in providing the leadership role among support national agencies in the replication of the SUD model as facilitated by the LMP-MDC; 6. To assess efficiency of the program, including the number of beneficiaries in relation to the resources made available and an analysis of the costs of the program; 7. To determine potential links of UDP to current rural development initiatives under the Mindanao Trust Fund-Reconstruction and Development Program (MTF-RDP) and provide recommendations as to how these links could be addressed in the MTF-RDP; and 8. How has UDP addressed crosscutting issues in terms of: a) Improved respect for the protection of the human rights of upland farmers; to what extent the upland farmers, both women and men, exercised or claimed rights under the ambit of UDP; b) Better gender relations and equitable opportunities for women and men in the project sites; have gender roles and cultural difference affected access to project benefits or to the exercise of human rights; c) Increased the gender accountability of national government agencies and LGUs (provincial, municipal, barangay); to what extent have they responded to the varied concerns of upland farmers, both women and men? d) Inclusion of Indigenous People (IPs). Most of the UDP areas include indigenous people. To what extent have they benefited from the project, in particular in respect to development and implementation of their Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development Protection Plans, the extent to which these have been aligned with the project’s objectives and the extent to which LGUs (provincial, municipal, barangay) involved in project implementation have provided relevant services to IP communities.

Start date: 2009-07-01

End date: 2010-01-31