Accomplishment: Some 4,457 households in Region 13 have been provided housing assistance through slum upgrading, resettlement, sites and services, cooperative housing, Community Land Acquisition Program from January 2001 to December 2003.

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

Accomplishment: Some 404 households have been provided security of land tenure in Region 13 through the community mortgage program.

Accomplishment: 2 DOH-retained hospitals and 4 provinces, 2 cities and 4 municipalities in CARAGA sold low-priced medicines under the GMA (Gamot Mabisa, Abot-kaya) Pharma 50 Program.

LGUs selling low-priced medicines:

• Province of Agusan del Norte
• Province of Agusan del Sur
• Province of Surigao del Norte
• Province of Surigao del Sur
• Butuan City, Agusan del Norte
• Surigao City, Surigao del Norte
• Cagwait, Surigao del Sur
• Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur
• Tandag, Surigao del Sur
• General Luna, Surigao del Sur

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

Accomplishment: Under the Enhanced Greater Medicare Access (GMA) program, some 1,362,735 beneficiaries from 272,547 urban and rural poor families in CARAGA 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: 94,786 jobs were generated in agriculture in CARAGA.

Accomplishment: For CY 2001, P171.88 million was allocated for CARAGA, of which P169.83 million has been utilized for the rice and corn, high value crops, livestock, fisheries and DA-LGU Counterparting programs under AFMA.

For CY 2002, P96.92 million was allocated for CARAGA, of which P92.31 million has been utilized for the rice and corn, high value crops, livestock, and fisheries programs under AFMA.

For CY 2003, P136.14 million was allocated for CARAGA, of which P80.26 million has been utilized for the rice and corn, high value crops, livestock, and fisheries programs under AFMA.

For CY 2004, P62.19 million was allocated for CARAGA, of which P7.91 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

• Generated 6,847 hectares of new areas and rehabilitated 9,393 hectares of national and communal irrigation systems with 10,795 beneficiaries:

• Post-harvest

• Constructed, rehabilitated and upgraded 33 multi-purpose drying pavements, 5 mini-warehouses, 18 biogas digesters, and 1 livestock auction market.
• Distributed 4 mechanical dryers, 20 corn shellers and 2 village level processing equipment.

• Other Infrastructure

- Completed 48 farm-to-market road projects in Agusan Del Norte, Agusan Del Sur, Surigao del Norte, and Surigao del Sur.

• Established one (1) GET Excel Tilapia central hatchery in Kitcharao, Agusan Del Norte.

• Credit

- Provided loans to 90,047 farmers amounting to P 2,959.26 million.

• Capability Building

• Conducted 129 trainings with 6,639 participants (RTC-Butuan, Agusan del Norte).

• Marketing Assistance

• Conducted the KARAJAWAN 2001 (Butuan City)
• Conducted market matching on corn, cassava, oil palm and ginger between producers and buyers in the region.

• Research and Development

- Supported the operationalization and strengthening of 1 Development R&D network.

• Salary Supplement

- Provided monthly incentive allowance to 755 LGU extension workers.

A total of 93,383 farmer-families in CARAGA were covered by the Coconut Farmers Food Access Program, which provided basic commodities at low prices.

Some 1,065 individuals from the Manobo tribe in Pakuan, Lanuza, Surigao del Sur benefited from 1 CADT issued by the government covering 11,811.18 hectares.

Accomplishment: A total of 44 school building in unserved barangays in CARAGA were completed as of May 2004.

Accomplishment: From June 2001 to September 2003, a total of 3,416,191 textbooks were procured for CARAGA 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 Filipino 3 and English 3 (Grade 3) with a ratio of 1:2.8 and Science 2 (2^nd Year High School) with a ratio of 1: 2.

For 3^rd and 4^th Year High School, the textbook ratio ranges from 1:1.2 to 1:6.2, except for Mathematics 3 (3^rd Year High School) which has a 1:1 ratio. Distributed 36,266 Teachers Manuals in 1,567 recipient schools in 90 school districts in the region.

Accomplishment: Some 16,489 public and private school teachers in CARAGA were trained on the new Basic Education Curriculum and 506 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, 110 barangays in CARAGA were provided electricity.

Accomplishment: As of 30 September 2003, all the 7 electric cooperatives in CARAGA have secured approval for rate reduction ranging from P0.0839 to P0.3828 per kilowatt-hour.

The Siargao 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 36,464 applicants were referred and 29,253 of them were placed for locally available jobs and overseas placement. Some 9,797 workers were assessed of whom 4,741 were given certification. Training and re-training in ICT and in-demand skills were also given to 61,624 workers.

Accomplishment: SME Market Center in Agusan del Norte 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 CARAGA:

• Construction of passenger terminal building and installation of passenger amenities in Surigao port
• Widening of causeway, reclamation and wharf extension of Port of Del Carmen to access surfing destination in General Luna

Accomplishment: All 1,308 barangays in CARAGA 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.

Accomplishment: 3 cities and 20 municipalities in all 4 provinces in Region 13 have installed customer complaint desks and established one-stop shop centers processing and issuing business permits, building permits, certificates of occupancy and real property documents (i.e. real property tax, capital gains tax and inheritance property tax).

19. Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran (SEA-K) Program (DSWD)

Accomplishment: The Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran (SEA-K) Program provides the poor and disadvantaged sectors of society with timely access to credit and development opportunities.

From January 2001 to March 2004, a total of P10,085,546 was provided as seed money to 95 micro enterprises benefiting 2,300 families in CARAGA.

• Covered 95% of the target children for the two rounds of "Patak Polio" immunization campaign and attained 100% of the target children in the two rounds of Vitamin A Supplementation among children 12-59 months under the Garantisadong Pambata Program. The program involves key life saving interventions (i.e., vaccination, exclusive breastfeeding, salt iodization, Vitamin A supplementation and food fortification).

• Surigao-Davao Road Rehabilitation Project, Bayugan-Awa-San Francisco Section in Agusan del Sur
• Preventive maintenance of Nasipit Port Road in Agusan del Norte; Agusan-Surigao Road, Butuan City Section; Surigao Agusan Rd (Surigao City Section)
• Ugpason, Haguimitan, and Tunaw-an Bridges in Surigao del Sur, and Calaitan Bridge in Agusan del Sur
• Social reform related feeder port development project in Surigao del Norte