LGU-Ligao, DAR sign MOA on CPWASH

Signed and approved: Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer I Estreluna G. Ante, Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Atty. Leo Miguel A. Ramos, Ligao City Mayor Patricia Gonzalez-Alsua with City Environment and Natural Resources Officer Maria Soledad T. Preña signed the MOA on CPWASH at CDRRM Hall on 14 March 2016. The MOA signing was witnessed by DAR staff, local engineers, barangay officials, and LGU implementers.

To provide communities with low-cost potable water supply and promote ecological sanitation, the City Government of Ligao represented by Mayor Patricia Gonzalez-Alsua with City Environment and Natural Resources Officer Maria Soledad T. Preña, and the Department of Agrarian Reform Provincial Office Albay represented by Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Atty. Leo Miguel A. Ramos signed the Memorandum of Agreement on Community-Managed Potable Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Project (CPWASH) on 14 March 2016 at the CDRRM Hall, Ligao City.

CPWASH was “conceptualized to install low-cost water supply technology and sanitation systems that address on safe/clean potable water and sanitation in Agrarian Reform Communities,” as discussed by Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer I Estreluna G. Ante during the launching of the project.

CPWASH project sites in Ligao City include Oma-oma, Tiongson, and Pandan with the following facilities:

• Oma-Oma : Bio-Gas Reactor (1 unit), Mould for Bio-Gas (1 unit), Iron Removal Filter (IRF) (1 unit), Mould for IRF (1 unit), Bio Sand Filter (2 units)
• Tiongson: Rain Water Collector (1 unit), Iron Removal Filter (IRF) (1 unit), Bio Sand Filter (2 units)
• Pandan: Iron Removal Filter (IRF) (1 unit), Bio Sand Filter (2 units)

An estimated total of 168 households can benefit from the 13 facilities that would only cost Php 112,800.

The project also aims to “enhance the competencies of LGU field implementers in implementing a localized and sustainable CPWASH intervention[1].” Therefore, the MOA emphasized the role of DAR in providing technical, financial, and logistics counterparts for capability building, spearheading CPWASH project implementation, mobilize end-users’ participation, and conduct monitoring and prepare reports.

LGU-Ligao, on the other hand, shall provide labor and materials, assign CPWASH point person, ensure schedule for the construction and installation of facilities, create a Water and Sanitation (WATSAN) Sub-committee, and ensure sustainable management of the CPWASH facilities. Lala Peñafiel/albay3d.blogspot.com

[1] Department of Agrarian Reform