CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (PIA)--In preparation for the implementation of its Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling program, or Project SPLIT, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)-10 held an orientation for its information officers and partners through a two-day stakeholders workshop, April 12–13.

"The Department of Agrarian Reform launched the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) Project with the aim of improving land tenure security and establishing property rights of some 1,140,735 agrarian reform beneficiaries nationwide," DAR-10 Assistant Regional Director for Operations Seny Fabe shared.

Fabe added that the implementation of the project would help realize the completion of the Philippines' land reform program and seeks to subdivide a total area of more or less 1,368,883 hectares of landholdings nationwide covered by the Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Award.

The two-day workshop was conducted to further enhance the capacity of DAR provincial employees and information officers as to the roles of the different national agencies, such as the Department of Interior and Local Government, the National Commission of Indigenous People, the Department of Information and Communication Technology, and the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority, to the successful implementation of Project SPLIT and to capacitate them as they cascade the said project to the different agrarian reform beneficiaries and local government units within each area of responsibilities.

The forum also paves the way so that all the agencies involved can interact and answer some queries from DAR personnel to better understand some concerns, especially in implementing Project SPLIT.

DAR hopes that the Project SPLIT implementation will be successful for the benefit of all its beneficiaries, not just in the region but the entire nation. (JAKA/PIA-10)