Cordillera gov’t group to check ‘problematic’ projs

By Marlo T. Lubguban

BAGUIO CITY - The Cordillera Regional Project Monitoring Committee is set to inspect this year “problematic” government infrastructure projects and programs. 
    This, after the RPMC reviewed it 2020 accomplishments and 2021 work plan during its first quarter meeting on Feb. 9.
The RPMC conducted field visits in 2020 in compliance with health guidelines and border restrictions.
    A total of 12 priority project sites were visited in 2020.
    Along with this, the RPMC prepared four quarterly monitoring reports, conducted four regular committee meetings and webinar on school building guidelines under the DepEd Basic Educational Facilities Fund (BEFF).
    The RPMC visits sites of problematic projects under the regional project monitoring and evaluation system (RPMES) and holds problem-solving sessions to get projects back on track and meet project timelines.
    In 2019, the RPMC visited projects with good performance to learn their best practices that may applied in other projects.
    Before the pandemic, the RPMC visited sites in Ifugao in  March to inspect problematic and good-performing projects.
    Among the sites visited were Ifugao General Hospital, Alfonso Lista pump irrigation project, Duit Elementary School building project and the Ifugao State University water system project.
    With the onset of the pandemic, the committee focused on implementation of the social amelioration and emergency subsidy program (SA/ESP).
    The RPMC visited Baguio City barangays during pay-out activities, Baguio City relief operations center at the PFVR Gym, and Baguio SAP operations center in DepEd Baguio Division Office in April.
    The RPMC ended the year with inspection of sections of BLISTT Outer Ring Circumferential Road on Dec. 4, 2020.
    The implementation of road construction and slope protection projects were noted to be ahead of schedule.
    The DPWH said this was due to strict adherence to schedule and compliance of contractors.
    The sections were Section 2, Kamog Jct.-Calot-Pappa-Bagong-Balluay-Tuel Road from Sablan to Tublay,  Labey-Lacamen road in Tublay, and Bokod-Labey-Lacamen road from Bokod to Tublay (C2-C3).
    As part of its monitoring and evaluation capacity building program, the RPMC conducted a webinar on school building guidelines on Aug. 18, 2020 to guide project monitoring committees on prescribed building guidelines under DepEd’s basic education facilities funds (BEFF) as implemented by the DPWH.
    Through regional offices of the National Economic Development Authority and National Irrigation Agency, the RPMC recently concluded its February 10 webinar on NIA irrigation projects.
    Priorities for inspection in 2021 are the “Bagong CIS (Crisis Intervention System)” in Sablan in the first quarter and the roll out of Covid-19 vaccines for the rest of the year.
    RPMC will also focus on information dissemination to increase public awareness on status of government-implemented projects.