2. Building the Sustainable Rural Development Index in Asia and the Pacific Region: Scoreboard on the Levels of Development of Rural Communities & Country Performance in Rural Development “Perspectives on Impact Evaluation: Approaches to Assessing Development Effectiveness.” Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel, Cairo, Egypt March 29-April 2, 2009 Eva Benita A. Tuzon angelic4112004@yahoo.com Department of Agrarian Reform-Phillippines

4. http://www.dar.gov.ph Department of Agrarian Reform Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City Philippines COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM

5. Adopted in 1993 by DAR as its key development strategy in the provision of comprehensive development interventions on land tenure improvement (LTI), agrarian justice [AJ] & program beneficiaries development (PBD). AGRARIAN REFORM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK Background:

6. C ONSIDERATIONS FOR UP- SCALING THE ALDA TOOL IN CIRDAP MEMBER- COUNTRIES Support to Poverty Alleviation Thrust of CountriesSupport to Poverty Alleviation Thrust of Countries Locate Social Reform Character in programsLocate Social Reform Character in programs Multi-Agency Responsibility for RD ImplementationMulti-Agency Responsibility for RD Implementation Scope of the poverty reduction programsScope of the poverty reduction programs Available and Prospective Resource AllocationsAvailable and Prospective Resource Allocations Institutional Capability of ministries and Other link agenciesInstitutional Capability of ministries and Other link agencies

7. An Agrarian Reform Community (ARC) is a barangay [lowest administrative unit] or cluster of barangays where there is a critical mass of farmers and farmworkers awaiting the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. WHAT IS AN ARC? Locus & Focus: Rural Communities in different countries Replicating a Model:

8. Prime Agricultural Areas High Technology High Productivity Integrated agribusiness system approach Semi-Prime Areas To provide production support system to the prime agricultural areas To serve as mid- processing or market centers for the relatively inaccessible areas Satellite Areas Inaccessible, low soil fertility, low production Inadequate facilities, limited access to government services & farmers producing more for subsistence than for commerce 3 M ODALITIES in rural communities

9. Basis for planning of interventions, project development & budgeting Informed decision-making Organizational capacity development & learning Establishes substantive accountability and organizational positioning

10.  Participatory/inclusive development  Balance between quantitative and qualitative data  Contribution Analysis  Wholistic/Integrated  Poverty & culture sensitive tool  Technology based  Participatory/inclusive development  Balance between quantitative and qualitative data  Contribution Analysis  Wholistic/Integrated  Poverty & culture sensitive tool  Technology based P RINCIPLES

11. Organizational Maturity Economic & Physical Infra Support Services Farm Productivity & Income Basic Social Services Gender & Development Land Tenure Improvement Sustainable Rural Development Index 7 indicators 27 indicators 8 indicators 5 indicators 6 indicators 5 indicators RD looks at different dimensions using 6 Key Result Areas & 58 Indicators

12. 1. L AND T ENURE I MPROVEMENT (LTI)  Focused on assessing the extent of land acquisition and distribution, ownership, cultivation and the improvement in tenurial status of ARBs K EY R ESULT A REAS OF ALDA K EY R ESULT A REAS OF ALDA 2. O RGANIZATIONAL M ATURITY (OM)  Assess the result of interventions under the Organizational Building and Strengthening (OBAS) KRA. This KRA deals with the assessment of the organizational functionality and financial viability of the ARB organizations in the ARCs

13. 3. E CONOMIC & P HYSICAL I NFRASTRUCTURE S UPPORT S ERVICES (ECOPISS)  Assesses the delivery of needed economic and physical infrastructure support services to the ARCs, provision of credit and marketing services, and rural-based industries established to effect increase in ARBs productivity and household income. 4. F ARM P RODUCTIVITY & I NCOME (FPI)  Assesses the ARBs’ adoption of appropriate farming technology to increase farm productivity and income. K EY R ESULT A REAS OF ALDA K EY R ESULT A REAS OF ALDA

14. 5. B ASIC S OCIAL S ERVICES (BSS)  Defines the existing basic social services in the ARC and the extent of access of the households to the services. 6. G ENDER AND D EVELOPMENT (GAD)  Assesses the access to land and economic services, and the participation of women in organizations and local governments K EY R ESULT A REAS OF ALDA K EY R ESULT A REAS OF ALDA

15.  Convenient way in summarizing many components or indicators  Aggregates all indicators and KRAs of the ALDA incorporating the assigned weights  Useful in comparing many samples and determining growth & development trends  Indicators are link to performance measurement of different stakeholders WHY AN INDEX? D EVELOPMENT OF SRDI AS A B ASIS FOR ALDA D EVELOPMENT OF SRDI AS A B ASIS FOR ALDA

16. Indicators  Are variables with particular characteristics or dimensions used for measuring progress towards achievement of key result areas.  Signposts to indicate movement towards a higher level of development CHARACTERISTICS  Relevant – measuring factors that affect the projects  Selective – adequate and meaningful  Clear – precisely defined so that their measurement and interpretation is unambiguous (more-or less – is unmistakably better)

17. A nalysis & Interpretation 1. Computation per index using STATISTICA. 2. Determination of the levels of development of the communities based on the following thresholds for overall rating. Communities are first classified into three modalities: Satellite, Semi-Prime, & Prime Communities.

18. In each modality, thresholds are determined: Level 1. Lower level of development Level 2. Low-level of development Level 3. Medium level of development Level 4. High Medium Level of dev’t. Level 5. Higher Level of development

19. Issues in building the SRDRI: It entails a lot of groundwork at the country level as it needs key players. We need adequate support to undertake advocacy-brainstorming sessions, forums, web- discussions, conduct trainings, research, workshops, and the application of knowledge and for its sharing to others. Establishing the index means evolving it based on consensus, and sustain it s relevance by incorporating those emerging issues Examples, climate change and globalization.

20. Sustainable Rural Development Results Index in Asia Pacific region ALDA Generates from the grassroots relevant indicative information on the varying needs and capacities of people via impact evaluations Link Institutions, e.g., BARBD CIRDAP Contact Ministries, e.g., DAR Civil Society + Private Sector GDPRD, NONIE, 3IE, AFrEA CIRDAP Headquarters Planning & Budget Agencies Our business is to make rural development results tangible in the CIRDAP- member countries Promotes Sustainable in Evolving Partnerships* Relevant Databases on Rural Development Results WHAT WE ARE ASPIRING FOR? CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF PARTNERSHIPS Impact: Peaceful, Healthy, Progressive Economic Communities Outcome: effective regional cooperation on RD Outputs: KRAs Inputs: various resources

21. Eva Benita A. Tuzon angelic4112004@yahoo.com I sincerely