Bataan Vice Gov. Cris Garcia has urged local government units in the province to study the meticulous preparation of the documentation requirement of the Philippine Rural Development Program (PRDP) to secure project grants.
“We can get more grants from PRDP as long as we know how to accomplishtheir meticulous documentation requirement”, she said during the groundbreaking of Orani Fish Landing and Trading Post on Thursday.
The project worth P180 million was funded through PRDP of the Department of Agriculture (DA) .
The vice governor noted that other provinces were able to get bigger grants from PRDP, citing as example Isabela province that reportedly received P1 billion worth of project. Butch Gunio
Garcia also said they passed resolution at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan thanking President Marcos for the two PRDP projects in the province. The other project is the road construction in Hermosa.
Provincial Planning Development Officer Butch Baluyot echoed the statement of the vice governor saying municipal planning development offices must learn the preparation of PRDP documentation requirements and that the Provincial Planning and Development Office will be in support.
Explaining how the program works, he said that the national government gets loan from the World Bank and then grants the money for project funding to benefitting LGUs though PRDP.