Accomplishment: Some 2,399 households in the Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR) have been provided housing assistance through resettlement, land tenurial assistance and other socialized housing programs from January 2001 – December 2003.

2. Give security of tenure to 150,000 urban poor families (HUDCC)

Accomplishment: A total of 7,910 households have been provided security of land tenure in CAR, through the community mortgage program.

Accomplishment: 4 DOH-retained hospitals, 4 outlets in local government in CAR sold low-cost medicines under the GMA (Gamot Mabisa, Abot-kaya) Pharma 50 Program.

LGUs participating in low-priced medicines program:

• Province of Abra
• Province of Benguet
• Province of Ifugao
• Kaingan, Ifugao

Samples of low-priced medicines and their comparative prices in private drug stores:

Accomplishment: Under the Enhanced Greater Medicare Access (GMA) program, some 755,685 beneficiaries from 151,137 urban and rural poor families in CAR were given health insurance.

Among the services covered by the program include payment of room and board accommodation in hospitals from P200 to P400/day; medicine consumption from P1,500 to P16,000 (per single period of confinement); payment of professional fees of attending physician from P600 but not to exceed P2,500 per day.

Philhealth also provides maternity packages for normal delivery and health packages for tuberculosis patients.

Accomplishment: 43,880 jobs were generated in agriculture in CAR.

Accomplishment: For CY 2001, P161.31 million was allocated for CAR, of which P157.56 million has been utilized for the rice and corn, high value crops, livestock, fisheries and DA-LGU Counterparting programs under AFMA.

For CY 2002, P117.98 million was allocated for CAR, of which P116.98 million has been utilized for the rice and corn, high value crops, livestock, and fisheries programs under AFMA.

For CY 2003, P82.60 million was allocated for CAR, of which P66.45 million has been utilized for the rice and corn, high value crops, livestock, and fisheries programs under AFMA.

For CY 2004, P45.85 million was allocated for CAR, of which P19.30 million has been utilized for the rice and corn, high value crops, livestock, and fisheries programs under AFMA.

Physical Accomplishments from January 2001- May 2004:

• Irrigation

• Post-harvest

• Constructed, rehabilitated and upgraded 27 multi-purpose drying pavements (MPDPs), one (1) warehouse, and 51 biogas digesters.
• Distributed three (3) mechanical dryers (MDs), four (4) corn shellers and 47 village-level processing equipment.

• Other Infrastructure

- Completed 25 farm-to-market road projects in Abra, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Mt. Province.

• Credit

- Provided loans to 17,080 farmers amounting to P 671.6 million.

• Capability Building

- Conducted 143 trainings with 6,718 participants (NTC-Benguet)

• Marketing Assistance

• Conducted the Agri-Industrial Fair, Regional Trade Fair and Agri-Best Philippines
• Market matched the following:
• 2MT of carrots (seller- Benguet FMPC; buyer-Fruit Magic)
• 12.5MT assorted vegetables (seller-Benguet FMPC; buyer-Simply Fresh)
• 3MT coffee (seller-Benguet and Mt. Province producers; buyers-CAFEX Int’l. Manila & Nick’s Coffee Shop, La Trinidad)

• Research and Development

- Supported the operationalization and strengthening of 2 Development R&D networks

• Salary Supplement

- Provided monthly incentive allowance to 659 LGU extension workers

Accomplishment: Maintained operations of 5 rolling stores and 6 stationary stores which sold basic commodities at low prices such as rice, sugar and herbal and over-the-counter medicines.

Stationary Stores: 6

Accomplishment: Land distribution in CAR covered 15,264 hectares – 8,734 hectares by DAR from January 2001 to June 2004 and 6,530 hectares by DENR from January 2002 to April 2004:

Accomplishment: A total of 44 school buildings in unserved barangays in CAR were completed as of February 2004.

Accomplishment: From June 2001 to September 2003, a total of 2,729,611 textbooks were procured for CAR resulting in a 1:1 textbook-pupil ratio in Grades 1 to 6 and in the 1^st and 2^nd Year High School, except for Science 1 (1^st Year High School) with a ratio of 1:1.4 and Science 2 (2^nd year High School) with a ratio of 1:3.8.

For the 3^rd and 4^th year High School, the textbook-pupil ratio is 1:1, except for Science 3, which has a 1:8 ratio. Distributed 32,199 Teachers Manuals in 1,461 recipient schools in 68 districts in the region.

Accomplishment: Some 10,067 public and private school teachers in CAR were trained on the new Basic Education Curriculum and 86 were trained on linear, sequential approach in teaching Math. Starting June 2003, time allotted for Science was increased to 84 minutes per period or 420 minutes per week.

Accomplishment: From July 2001 to June 2004, 148 barangays in CAR were provided electricity.

Accomplishment: As of 30 September 2003, all the 5 electric cooperatives in CAR have secured approval for rate reduction ranging from P0.1003 to P0.4521 per kilowatt-hour.

The Abra Electric Cooperative improved its performance after meeting the medium-term target on four mandatory key performance indicators for prescribed level of efficiency under the Restructuring Program for ECs namely: settlement of restructured accounts with NPC; payment of loan amortization to NEA; reduction of system loss to 14% and below; and, reduction of average collection period to at least 45 days.

14. Provision of job opportunities (DOLE)

Accomplishment: Through the Public Employment Service Offices in the Region, a total of 151,751 applicants were referred and 115,556 were placed for locally available jobs and overseas placement. Some 20,185 workers were assessed and 6,883 of them were given certification. Training and re-training in ICT and in-demand skills were also given to 126,789 workers.

Accomplishment: SME Market Center in Benguet was strengthened to serve as one-stop shop for SMEs providing information and business counseling on SME management and development strategies.

Accomplishment: The following infrastructure projects were completed to help boost tourism in CAR:

• Concreting of access road leading to Loakan Airport, perimeter fence and installation of air navigation facilities
• Reconstruction of Aloragat bridge in Binalonan
• Rip-rapping of strip at extended portion of the runway of Bagabag airport
• Construction of Baguio flyover to connect Marcos Highway and Governor's Park Road
• Widening of Baguio Circumferential road

Accomplishments: Of the 1,174 barangays in CAR, 1,011 barangays have established GMA Centers to disseminate quality information on national government programs and advocate services delivered by national government agencies to community residents, such as livelihood, job opportunities, peace and order, public safety, health and sanitation, educational and social welfare, agricultural support services, infrastructure development, environmental management and sports development.