Provincial News Governor Arlene Kaka Bag-ao says the practice of alternative law involves empowering marginalized sectors such as farmers, fisherfolk, workers, women, indigenous peoples, etc. through knowledge of the law. “This would enable them to have the capacity to protect their own rights. Alternative law also includes identifying gaps and flaws in existing policies, as
well as proposals to change or amend them in order to truly work for the people, especially the marginalized,” Bag-ao says. Governor Bag-ao was once an AHRC intern when she was studying law in the Ateneo. During her immersion in the 90s, she lived with farmers in Sariaya, Quezon. (Dinagat Islands-Provincial Information Office/PIA-Dinagat Islands)
NIA turns over P8.1-M irrigation project in Dinagat Islands By Alexander Lopez
BUTUAN CITY – The National Irrigation Administration in Caraga Region (NIA13) handed over on Thursday (Jan. 23) a communal irrigation system that will benefit over 25 hectares of palay farms in Barangay Garcia in Libjo town, Province of Dinagat Islands. Known as the “Garcia-Kudkuran Communal Irrigation Project,” the project’s turnover was led by Governor Arlene “Kaka” Bag-ao and NIA General Manager Madante Ganotisi.
farmers’ groups and associations in the area.
To ensure that the project will sustain to benefit more farmers in the future, Bag-ao called on the The irrigation project was beneficiaries to properly manage the funded under the Comprehensive irrigation facility, including the care of Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) of its water source, the Kudkuran River. the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in the amount of over PHP8.1 She also urged them to plant more million. It will benefit 25 Agrarian Reform trees in the river banks and areas near Beneficiaries (ARBs) and the other the source of the irrigation project. January 18-24, 2020
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