Philippine Rural Development Project

The Philippine Rural Development Project is a six-year (6) project designed to establish the government platform for a modern, climate-smart and market-oriented agri-fishery sector. PRDP will partner with the LGUs and the private sector in providing key infrastructure, facilities, technology, and information that will raise incomes, productivity, and competitiveness in the countryside.
Development Objectives Within the six-year (6) project intervention, it is expected to provide the following outcomes:- At least five percent (5%) increase in annual real farm incomes of PRDP in household beneficiaries
- 30% increase in income for targeted beneficiaries of enterprise development
- Seven percent (7%) increase in value of annual marketed output
- Twenty percent (20%) increase in number of farmers and fishers with improved access to DA services
Special Area for Agricultural Development

The Special Area for Agricultural Development (SAAD) Program is a locally-funded program of the Department of Agriculture (DA) which aims to help alleviate poverty among the marginalized sectors of agriculture and fishery of the thirty (30) priority provinces identified by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) as well as areas covered by Executive Order No. 70, series of 2018.
The strategy of the program is to increase food production and the establishment of community enterprises by providing the appropriate technology, financing, marketing, and other support services for animals, crops, and fisheries to individuals, families/households and organized farmers and fisherfolks including among others DSWDs 4Ps and Indigenous Peoples (IPs).
Second Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management (CHARMP2) Project Scale Up

The CHARMP2 Scale Up is a two year additional financing of development projects to be conducted in the 18 new barangays within the six provinces of the Cordilleras. The Project is a special project under the Department of Agriculture.
The joint IFAD - NEDA Supervision and Implementation Support Mission for CHARMP2 in February 26 to March, 2015 noted the following:
-success in delivery of outputs during the last two years of the Project's implementation (2013 & 2014);
-commitment of national and local authorities to participatory and locally
-driven development models for CAR; and
-support to local economic growth was relevant for poorer households, whose participation has been active and significant.
However, the Mission also noted that:
-outputs have not yet been translated into durable outcomes;
-sustainability of projects results were yet to be assured; and
-development objectives are still to be achieved
Hence, the Mission recommended (i) one year extension without cost (2016) and (ii) an additional financing for two more years (2018-2019) to:
(a) build on recent progress, and
(b) transformation initial results into sustained, long-term benefits for targeted highland communities to expand investment in the poorest areas of the Cordilleras not covered by CHARMP2.