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by Bohol Standard

With Governor Edgar Chatto’s report of the State of the Province Address last Friday, accomplishments under the Philippines Provincial Road Management Facility (PRMF) were some of the highlights of the SOPA delivered during the provincial government’s weekly radio program Kita Ug Ang Gobernador.

The governor acknowledged how many of Bohol’s strides in development have been facilitated by the province’s partnership with Official Development Assistance (ODA) agencies, with the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) as its leading ODA partner, through the PRMF.

Primarily a reform program for road maintenance, especially in the repair, rehabilitation, and maintenance of the province’s gravel roads, PRMF has placed emphasis on the implementation of road development projects to meet national government and industry standards for high-quality, all-weather gravel roads.

In 2011 alone, PRMF physical works totaled P73.9 million, covering 21.11 kilometers of priority road networks and directly providing improved road access to 112,259 residents of 73 barangays from 19 of the province’s municipalities.

Chatto stressed that in 2012, this commitment will increase in terms of the funding allocated and distance covered in the form of maintenance contracts, road rectification works, and road rehabilitation projects.

With infrastructure a basic requirement for development, funding and technical support from counterparts, and even from the national government, have greatly enhanced the scope and reach of the provincial government’s resources while highlighting its strong commitment for infrastructure.

The provincial government has currently 164 road sections running well over 800 kilometers and requiring repair, rehabilitation, and maintenance even as the province faces the limited availability of local funds.

Contributing in great part to Bohol’s infrastructure programs and chief among road development projects of the provincial government, which together with national government counterparts contribute a bulk of P419.7 million to the P748 million from internal and external resources allocated last year for infrastructure, the PRMF is supported by the Australian Government Aid Program and implemented by the Department of the Interior and Local Government with the provincial government.

The PRMF has made possible the creation for the first time of comprehensive provincial road maps based on actual road condition surveys, the updating of data in the determination of core road networks which serve the most constituents and are most in need of repair or rehabilitation, the conduct of video tagging to enable legislators to see actual road conditions without having to travel to the respective road sections, and the creation of a road maintenance map scheduling routine and periodic road maintenance.

With the holding of the province’s second Road Summit in October last year, the PRMF also instituted community participation in the management, maintenance, and even in the design and construction of roads through its launching of the Adopt-a-Road Program, initially through three projects in the municipalities of San Isidro, Catigbian, and Dauis.

The PRMF also made possible the drafting of the Provincial Road Network Development Plan, as a component of the Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plan and the institutionalization of the Provincial Internal Audit Office.

Yet another of the program’s components has led to transparency, improved efficiency in tax collection and processing, and local revenue generation.

Through the implementation of the component program Enhanced Tax Revenue Assessment and Collection System or eTRACS, implemented in partnership with the Provincial Treasurer’s Office, the Provincial Assessor’s Office, and the Bohol Information and Communications Technology Unit of the Office of the Governor, the province and the eTRACS pilot municipalities have posted mostly double percentage digit increases in the collection of business taxes, with an average of about 32 %, with some even as high as 59 %. Comparing quarters from 2010 to 2011, the most notable of these is Dimiao’s 73 % increase in business taxes collected.

Another major component of the PRMF is capacity development, amounting to P11.8 million in 2011, which also covered equipment and ICT hardware and software support.

Among the trainings facilitated under capacity development was the recent Constructors Performance Evaluation System accreditation seminar for staff of the Provincial Engineer’s Office, as with trainings on detailed engineering design covering topographic surveys, geotechnical studies, and highway engineering design, among others.

The governor also noted that the province’s partnership with PRMF has improved capacities in key governance functions, such as: planning-budgeting linkage, public finance management, monitoring and evaluation, environmental management, internal audit, human resource management, procurement, and public-private partnership.

With the PRMF, the province has also accomplished such other milestones as the Executive and Legislative Agenda, Human Resource Management and Development Plan, Strategic Financial Management Plan, and Bohol Information Systems Plan.

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