Republic of the Philippines
Department of Agrarian Reform
PBD MES & Library
Director IV, Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development (BARBD)
RONALD M. GAREZA,CESO VI
The Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development (BARBD) was created in accordance with the provision of Section 23 of Executive Order No. 129-A absorbing the relevant functions of the Bureau of Resettlement (BuRe).
Under this Order, BARBD is in-charge with the formulation of policies, plans and programs, provision of technical assistance in developing viable agrarian communities, assisting and promoting the organization of ARBs and farm cooperation, strengthening the relationship and linkages between and among farmer and farm workers organizations, ensuring the achievement of a dignified existence of ARBs, and the creation of a viable economic structure that can help in advancing greater productivity and generating higher farm income.
This mandate was further strengthened with the provision of Section 5, Executive Order No. 406 which stated that the BARBD shall “intensify its beneficiaries-driven training programs and the social infrastructure building programs along the areas of organizing farmers, promotion of farming activities and potentials, and developing farming enterprises.”
As the institutional development arm of the Department, the Bureau have the following functions:
• Develop, manage and sustain appropriate and context/culture and gender responsive programs/projects managed and operated by agrarian reform communities that will grow and stimulate local economies in agrarian reform areas;
• Develop mechanisms in the provision of enterprise/market-led credit to ARBs including rural women;
• Institutionalize frameworks, systems and guidelines through department issuance and policy papers;
• Provide technical guidance and strategic advisory services to DAR field offices, FAP-PMOs and other units through diffusion of knowledge and technical services, process facilitation and systems development relative to social, economic and institutional development programs/projects;
• Install and operationalize knowledge management systems and processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of programs, projects and intervention to agrarian reform areas;
• Institutionalize an integrated competency-based, action-focused capacity development for the ARBs, BARBD’s internal supply chain and partners; and
• Establish, strengthen and sustain partnership with competent and committed partners and allies;
Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development (BARBD)
Contributing to the Department’s vision, the BARBD, as staff bureau of the Support Services Office (SSO), has the following mission:
“To lead in the establishment of functional organizations and viable communities of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) through the delivery of gender equitable and sustainable social and economic infrastructure support.”
Mission and Goals (MG)
BARBD’s credo, principles, values and practices are:
• Accountability
• Social justice orientation
• Sustainable development
• Results orientation
• Creativity and innovation
• Valuing and appreciating diversity
• Passion for work
• Commitment to self-development
Core Values
Given its mission, BARBD shall achieve the following strategic goals:
1. Operationalize appropriate and context/culture sensitive enterprises that will develop, grow and stimulate local economies in ARAs.
2. Enhance capacities of ARBs and communities to be more reliant, resilient, adoptive, and gender and environment preservation advocates
3. Accelerate the emergence and development of community based enterprises which achieve strong and competitive positions in core markets.
Strategic Goals
BARBD’s DIVISIONS AND FUNCTIONS
BARBD has had three (3) divisions from its existence until the year 2019 when an interim division named Farm Productivity Resiliency Division (FPRD) was created to handle the major component of ARBDSP, which is the Climate Resilient Farm Productivity Support (CRFPS).
The three (3) divisions of BARBD are:
1. Livelihood and Enterprise Development Division (LEDD);
2. Beneficiaries Capacity Development Division (BCDD) which was renamed in 2019 as Social Infrastructure & Essential Services Division (SIESD);
3. Rural Credit and Microfinance Division (RCMD).
The Livelihood and Enterprise Development Division (LEDD) develops plans and provides technical guidance in executing the strategic direction of the Bureau related to rural enterprises, sustainable livelihoods, and basic social services delivery to ARBs/ ARB households, rural women, and in the AR communities. The division implements program portfolios with initiatives that focus, among others, on developing and/or exploring practical and adaptable agri-enterprise models, various forms of farm cooperation and organizations, and basic social services delivery approaches to demonstrate potential profitability, viability and scalability of smallholder farming operations, farmers organization-/cooperative-managed micro-small, agri and non-agri-enterprises, including basic social services. In addition, the unit explores and puts into operations various approaches, processes, and tools to facilitate, organize and initiate local partnership and engagement to build and/or strengthen localization of the Bureau’s/Department’s PBD initiatives as well as broaden ownership of the program by the communities.
The technical staffs in the division have the following expertise: i) Value Chain and Agribusiness Development and Management; ii) Institutional and Community Development; iii) Social Development; iv) Marketing; v) Economic Analysis; vi) Localization and scaling up.
The Beneficiaries Capacity Development Division (BCDD)/ Social Infrastructure & Essential Services Division (SIESD) operationalizes the intent of the Bureau as a learning organization which is to make available information to the right people at the right time, resulting from its continuous review and assessment of the design, implementation, and monitoring of its programs/projects/policies’ characteristics and processes including the creation and initiation of the platform to facilitate the creation, sharing and use of knowledge on PBD and support services. It ensures that its knowledge transfer continues to expand, remains relevant and of the highest quality, and is practical and usable to sharpen the operations of its programs and projects.
The technical staff in this division have competencies in the following areas: i) training and capacity development; ii) development communication; iii) knowledge management; iv) best, innovative, good and promising practices (BIGPs) documentation, adaptation and popularization; and v) information management and monitoring and evaluation.
It sees that a results-focused and competency-based capacity development program is in place to facilitate the continuous upgrading of staff skills to meet the evolving needs of the ARBs/ARB organizations/AR champions, DAR’s internal supply chain, and PBD field implementers.
The Rural Credit and Microfinance Division (RCMD) is responsible in developing and institutionalizing programs, projects, frameworks, and systems to make available affordable, acceptable, appropriate credit and microfinance services and products to the ARBs. Working collaboratively with various industry players, the Division focuses its efforts on building the capacities of ARBs organizations to become viable financial intermediaries at the community level as well as develop the credit worthiness of individual farmers grow and manage funds to improve their farm productivity and income.
The technical staff in this division has competencies on the following areas: i) agri-credit and microfinance needs assessment; ii) program development; iii) business development services (BDS); iv) institutional development and enterprise development; v) training and capacity development; iv) strategy for scaling up and localization; and vi) information management and monitoring and evaluation.