ACTIVITY DESIGN FOR THE

FORMULATION OF THE SINIRANGAN ARC CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Eastern Samar

I. Background/Rationale

The Agrarian Reform Communities Project II covers 162 ARCs and 11 clusters in
the 19 provinces nationwide. However, for the past five years of ARCP II
implementation, the interventions provided were focused mainly on ARCs. Thus, the
NPCO project management deemed it proper to fully operationalize the ARC Cluster
approach in the remaining months of ARCP II operations.

In the province of Eastern Samar, the Sinirangan ARC Cluster has been included
in the Capability Building Seminar Workshop on ARC Cluster Development Plan
Revision and Enhancement conducted by the ARCPII-NPCO on March 18,2014 – March
22,2014 in Cebu City. A major component of the cluster development planning taken
up is the situation analysis of the cluster. In this integrated cluster aspect of
planning, a necessary and essential approach that should be applied is the
highly participatory and consultative process in which the cluster communities
are actively involved as partners in the identification and prioritization of
major socio-economic problems hindering their well-being as well as their
financial status regarding their agricultural activities. In view of this, and to
achieve the objectives of the bottom-up planning process as well as obtain
uniform and relevant information on the physical, social, economic, political and
institutional conditions of the ARC cluster, as basis for the identification of
projects for the indicative development plans of the cluster, it is necessary to
undertake a set of interrelated major activities as follows:

(a) Barangay Workshop Consultation (BWC), Strengths, Weaknesses,

Opportunities and Threats (SWOT), Visioning and Focused Group Dialogue on
the profitability of farming for the four (4) municipalities and 74 ARC
and non-ARC barangays covering the Sinirangan ARC Cluster.

II. Objectives

The Barangay Workshop Consultation is aimed at:

 Identifying and prioritizing the major needs, problems and limiting
conditions of the residents in the ARC cluster;
 Determining the possible projects and recommend solutions to address these
priority problem and constraints;

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 Identifying contributions of the communities to the proposed projects and
recommend solutions;
 Determining agencies and entities that could help and the types of
assistance that they could provide for the ARC clusters;
 Determining joint activities that could immediately be carried out by
government line agencies, LGUs, NGOs and other partner agencies; and
 Validating secondary data, review existing local development plans and
generate relevant data and 4information at the barangay level.
On the other hand, the focused group dialogue is conducted for the purpose
of generating specific information about the farming households including
farm holdings and production system of major crops usually planted,
production support services, financial performance from these
activities, and identification of constraints and suggestions of
improving the present on farm enterprises.

The SWOT aims to determine the internal strengths and weaknesses

facing the cluster, and external opportunities and threats the cluster
has.

Visioning is what the Sinirangan ARC Cluster would like to become 5

or 10 years as a result of the cluster development.

(b.) The second interrelated activity is the write-shop for the

formulation of the draft Sinirangan ARC Cluster Development Plan aims to
prepare the different components of the cluster plan with the participation of
the planning team consisting of ARCPII regional provincial management staff and
partner LGUs at the provincial and municipal levels.
III. Outputs
a. For the first interrelated activities such as the BWC, SWOT, Visioning
and Costs and Return through FGD. The outputs are: BWC Results in
matrix table, SWOT results, Consolidated tables of Costs and Return,
Vision statement.
b. After the writeshop, the output is the draft enhanced and updated ARC
Cluster Development Plan of the Sinirangan ARC Cluster.

IV. Schedule of Activities

a. Barangay Workshop Consultation, SWOT, Visioning and Focused Group

Dialogue for the four (4) municipalities covering the Sinirangan ARC
Cluster of Eastern Samar for one (1) day with 180 expected participants
to be conducted in two (2) batches on April 22, 2014 and April 23, 2014;
b. Gathering of secondary data to be used for the ARC Cluster Profile
(filing-up of the 24 tables and copies of the 7 maps to be secured) from
March 23 - 28, 2014;
c. Write-shop on the formulation of the said ARC Cluster development plan
to be conducted on May 5 - 9, 2014; and

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 d. Submission of the draft of the ARC Cluster development plan to the ARCP
II-NPCO and RPMO is scheduled on May 15, 2014.

The first activity will be facilitated by the NPCO Consultant on CDD with
the assistance of NPCO, RPMO and PPMO Coordinators.

V. Participants:

For the first activity, 180 will be the expected participants representing
ARBs and non-ARBs from the 4 municipalities (ARCs and non-ARC barangays), LGU
personnel, ARCP II NPCO CDD and AED consultants and staff, RPMO, PPMO and MAROs
with their DFs.

NAME OF AGENCY/OFFICE/MUNICIPALITY No. of

participants/farmers
1. Sinirangan ARC Dolores 29
Cluster Can-avid 17
Taft 16
Sulat 12

2. Municipal ME 4
Officials
MPDC 4
MAO 4
3. Brgy. Officials 74
4. Planning Team DAR/PPM 4
PPDO 1
OPAS 1
DTI 1
5. NPCO 3
6. RPMO 1
7. DARMO MAROs and DFs 9
TOTAL 180

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 For the succeeding activities, such as the accomplishment of the
statistical tables on the Sinirangan ARC Cluster profile and the conduct of a
write shop for the formulation of the Sinirangan ARC Cluster Development Plan,
DAR- ARCP II PPMO together with other partner LGUs and line agencies will be
involved.

VI. Venue

1. 1st Batch – Municipal Hall – Dolores, Eastern Samar

2. 2nd Batch – Municipal Hall – Taft, Eastern Samar

VII. Budgetary Requirements

The total cost estimates needed to undertake the proposed activities is Php
238,590.00, with the breakdown as follows:

Activities/Supplies
Participants Amount(PhP)
54,000.00
(Meals and Snacks
@ 300/pax for 180
1. BWC, SWOT, Visioning and FGD 180 pax)
6,000.00
(Hotel
accommodation of 4
Hotel & Accommodation of NPCO &RPMO
NPCO & RPMO 4 Personnel @ 1,500)
56,000.00
(TEV for 7
Planning Team
Members for 10
Mobilization of PPMO (TEV) days @ 800.00)
7,400.00
Transportation Expenses of (100/FB for BWC
FBs 74 and FGD)
4,000.00
(Supplies for the
conduct BWC, FGD
and Visioning
Supplies Sessions)
500.00
(Supplies for the
2.Supplies for Preparation of Reproduction of
Tables 1-24 and maps Forms and Maps)
3. Meals and Accomodations for 25 75,000.00

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 the Preparation and Consolidation (Meals and
of the Draft of the Draft ARC accommodation for
Cluster Plan 25 pax for 3 days
@ 1000/day)
10,000.00
(snack for the
3.1.Snacks for the Plenary initial Plan
Presentation presentation)
4,000.00
(Supplies for the
revision of plan
3.2.Revision of the Draft ARC after the
Cluster presentation)
SUBTOTAL 216,900.00
Contingency 10% 21,690.00
TOTAL 238,590.00

Recommending Approval: Approved by:

ENRIQUE F. GRANADOS, III ELIASEM P. CASTILLO

PARPO II Regional Director

Noted by:

ASEC. HERMINIA FE B. SAN JUAN

ASEC SSO/National Project Coordinator, ARCP II