DAR Conducts Membership Enhancement Seminar

One hundred agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) of Sta. Clara Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Integrated Development Cooperative (SCARBIDC) of Sta. Clara, Lamitan City benefited from a membership enhancement seminar conducted in the coop's training center.

Engr. Raymond Lintag, BDCD chief, stressed the importance of learning among the ARBs as part of their program for continuous education.

This is in an initial answer to the clamor of cooperatives from all over the provinces for refresher courses on their role as ARBs, coop members, and plantation workers. Also, there is a need for the ARBs to undergo such training as many of them are new, being successors to their parents or relatives. It can be recalled that the last massive training on membership enhancement was conducted in 1999 in partnership with Kasanyangan Foundation, Inc., a non-government organization based in Zamboanga City.

 Topics given were personal institution and value analysis, cooperative financial structure, roles and obligations of ARBs and coop members, rights of workers, and communication.

The seminar was given in two batches from April 23-26. Lecturers were Maricor Dans, training officer, Rafael Flores, Expedito Acejas from the DAR and Engr. Wesley Tan from the Isabela City office of the Department of Labor and Employment.

The participants enjoy some moments of ice breakers.

Handing out certificates to successful graduates.

A keepsake after their graduation.

Training for ARMM Information Officers and Technologists

As social marketing and advocacy campaign play a vital role in reaching the public with the government’s thrusts and programs, eleven information officers and information technologists from all over the autonomous region offices of the Department of Agrarian Reform gathered in Davao City, April 8-9 for a crash course on news writing and website development.

The lectures consist of basic journalism on writing effective news as well as the steps in developing a website.

The training was to prepare the information officers as contributors for the establishment of the regional DAR website with provincial links. The information technologists will be responsible in setting up the respective websites of the five provinces under the region.

 

In the interaction that follows during the preliminary program, the information officers raised issues and concerns pertaining to their performance in information dissemination. Some of the collective issues gathered were lack of training on basic photography/photo journalism, lack of gadgets/equipment necessary to the job, and lack of support from colleagues in the data gathering for news materials.