The support to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) of the foreign donor community resulted in valuable increase in the Department of Agrarian Reform’s official development assistance (ODA) portfolio. With the ODA as a significant source of fund to supplement the limited government resources for program beneficiaries development (PBD), the DAR has facilitated the implementation of various basic rural infrastructure facilities and the delivery of other support services to the program beneficiaries particularly in the agrarian reform communities (ARCs).

Since 1992, DAR has generated an aggregate amount of PhP42.9 billion for a total of 46 projects with ODA, in loans and grants, from bilateral and multilateral donors (Table 1).
Of this total investment requirement for these projects, 59% are funded through loans, 14% through grants, while 27% are considered as GOP counterpart (in cash or in kind from the national government agencies and local government units involved, and beneficiary-farmers/organizations/cooperatives).
As of December 2003, twenty-nine (29) foreign-assisted projects (FAPs) have already been completed; 15 projects are on-going, three (3) of which are in the start-up stage of implementation; and two (2) projects have just been approved and will be implemented in 2004. There are seventeen (17) projects worth PhP35.8 billion in the pipeline under various stages of project development/evaluation. (For details, please refer to tables 2 & 3.)

Table 1. Status of Resource Mobilization
1992-December 2003

Type of Project/Assistance	No. of Projects	Total Cost (PhP Million)			Total
		Loan	Grant	GOP
1. Completed	29	4,476.83	3,900.40	3,924.21	12,301.44
2. On-going FAPs- Capital Assistance (CA)- Technical Assistance (TA)	15 9 6	18,705.35 18,705.35	2,554.08 1,804.86 749.22	7,643.64 7,595.86 47.78	28,903.07 28,106.07 797.00
4. Approved for Implementation 2004	2	1,050.00	590.62	68.47	1,709.09
Sub-Total	46	24,232.18	7,045.10	11,636.32	42,913.60
5. In the Pipeline	17	25,777.454	1,607.63	8,415.416	35,800.50
TOTAL	63	50,009.634	8,652.73	20,051.736	78,714.10

Of the DAR’s forty-six (46) FAPs, twenty-five (25) projects, with total investment requirements of PhP39.65504 billion, passed through the Investment Coordination Committee (ICC)-approval prior to their implementation (Table 4). The first three (3) projects approved in 1995 were the Agrarian Reform Support Project (ARSP), the Agrarian Reform Infrastructure Support Project (ARISP I) and the Belgian Agrarian Reform Support Project (BARSP) which amounted to PhP4 billion. On an annual basis, DAR generated the largest amount of funding assistance in 1998, with the approval of four (4) projects worth PhP9.22 billion. These include the Agrarian Reform Communities Project (ARCP), the Belgian Integrated Agrarian Reform Support Project (BIARSP), and the Western Mindanao Community Initiatives Project (WMCIP), which includes the Support Project for the Indigenous Communities and MNLF in the Zone of Peace within the Agrarian Reform Communities (SPICCinZPARC). For CY 2003, Phase III of the Belgian Integrated Agrarian Reform Support Project (BIARSP) with a total project cost of PhP590.62 million was approved.

As of December 31, 2003, DAR is implementing a total of fifteen (15) ongoing foreign-assisted projects including three (3) new projects in the start-up phase worth PhP4.665 billion (Table 5). These are the Northern Mindanao Community Initiatives and Resource Management Project (NMCIREMP), the Second Agrarian Reform Communities Development Project (ARCDP 2) and the Community-Managed Agrarian Reform and Poverty Reduction Program Expanded Piloting (CMARPRPEP). The loan and grant agreements for these projects became effective only last April and June respectively.

Of the fifteen (15) on-going FAPs, nine (9) are mainly capital assistance (CA) while six (6) projects are technical assistance (TA).