MARAWI
CITY, Lanao del Sur, Sept. 7 (PIA) --- Over P636 million worth of
infrastructure projects “are expected to roll out immediately” within
the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) after two memorandums of
agreement were signed on September 4, at the ARMM Compound in Cotabato
City.
ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman, who led the signing of the
agreements, said the infrastructure projects “ will roll out immediately
after a series of simultaneous preparations were conducted.”
One
hundred barangays located in 82 towns across the ARMM will benefit from
the 2015 ARMM Health, Education, Livelihood, Peace and Governance and
Synergy (HELPS) support infrastructure projects.
The
ARMM’s Integrated Project Management Office (IPMO) oversees the
implementation of the 2015 HELPS projects. It also serves as the fund
manager and lead agency in monitoring and evaluation of district
engineering offices to ensure high quality, on-time delivery, and
consistency with respect to the program of work.
Noor
Saada, regional director of IPMO-ARMM, said 506 HELPS infrastructure
projects will be built, amounting to about P512 million. These include
construction of barangay halls; multi-purpose buildings; children’s
parks; barangay health stations; water, waste and sanitation facilities;
botika ng barangay; community learning centers; and support to
livelihood activities.
According to Saada, the projects were identified by residents and stakeholders of target communities.
Details
of the projects were communicated with partner line agencies to ensure
propriety and complementation, to avoid duplication, and to promote
synergy.
Saada also noted that ARMM HELPS projects in 2013-2014 have a completion rate of about 80 to 90 percent.
Meanwhile,
a memorandum of agreement for the concreting of three roads in
Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur was also signed on Friday between the
region’s Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH-ARMM) and three
municipal government units.
Don Mustapha Loong, regional
secretary of DPWH-ARMM, said the concreting of three roads is worth P124
million. The projects in Maguindanao include the concreting of the
four-kilometer Parang-Buldon Road in the towns of Parang and Buldon
worth P72 million and the two-kilometer Macabiso-Namuken Taraken Road in
Sultan Mastura worth P40 million.
The one-kilometer, P12 million, Tubok Municipal Road in Tamparan, Lanao del Sur will also be built.
The
regional government has chosen the three towns as partners in the
implementation for their capability to undertake such infrastructure
projects.
“These projects are part of the continuing legacy of
the reform agenda of Governor Mujiv Hataman and DPWH-ARMM to close the
gap in terms of unpaved national, provincial and municipal roads in the
ARMM,” Loong added. (BPI/APB/PIA-10)
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