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Part II Community-Based Forest Management Program - ppmrn

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ADEQUATE MONITORING ACTIVITIES<br />

<strong>Management</strong>’s Comments<br />

The new guidelines issued by the<br />

higher Offices prescribing the conduct<br />

of monitoring require a lot of<br />

paperworks to comply which the<br />

CBFM Officers find difficulties. The<br />

accumulation of tasks under the<br />

CBFMP can be partly attributed on the<br />

planning and programming system<br />

where a subordinate Office (PENRO<br />

and CENRO) had to issue a CBFMA<br />

in compliance of the target given by<br />

the higher office without the benefit of<br />

making assessment if previous<br />

CBFMA issuances had been well<br />

assisted technically and financially.<br />

Should the target had been moderately<br />

considered by making assessment<br />

first, it might not have reached to<br />

point where many activities had to be<br />

done hastily resulting to many<br />

deficiencies.<br />

We concur with the observations and<br />

recommendations of the audit team<br />

with regards to the enhancement and<br />

maintenance of all relevant CBFM<br />

databases. In fact, the Office is<br />

currently doubling its effort in<br />

coming-up with a comprehensive<br />

statistical data not only confined with<br />

the CBFMP but also other forestry<br />

developmental programs. With the<br />

installation of the <strong>Forest</strong>ry<br />

Information System (FIS), it is hoped<br />

that all relevant data will soon be<br />

captured in this one pack database<br />

management program. The CBFMP<br />

matrix which the audit team might<br />

have scanned only features general<br />

information of a particular CBFMA.<br />

While there is a separate CBFM<br />

Profile being maintained by the<br />

management, it is more convenient to<br />

have them in a capsule under one<br />

integrated program to provide an<br />

immediate picture of a project.<br />

Team’s Rejoinder<br />

PENRO should make representation<br />

with the DENR officials on this regard<br />

and devise an applicable monitoring<br />

system. Apparently, continuous<br />

issuance of CBFMA even to POs<br />

deemed not yet prepared and capable<br />

to assume all related obligations is not<br />

serving the purpose and wasting<br />

government resources.<br />

The team appreciates the DENR’s<br />

effort to enhance the existing system.<br />

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