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Bgy Tapon, Municipality of Dalaguete O n the week of April 26 this year our project “Property Rights for Economic Progress” trained six local governments in Cebu Province to build multi-purpose cadastres.  Our objective was to enable them to build digital parcel files for one Barangay. This would help them undertake titling activities in partnership with DENR VII. Cebu City Councilor Bebot Abellanosa, founder and owner of the Asian College of Technology, allowed us to use one of his computer classrooms for the training.  Our lead trainer Dennis Matutina (on loan from the City of General Santos) taught the participants how to use Quantum GIS, a Free and Open Source Software for spatial information processing.  Using Quantum was a new thing for me as I had been nursed on ESRI products. It was also intended to help LGUs jump over the procurement hump – assuming they had the budget to buy commercial GIS, it usually takes them at least two months to complete the ...

Status of LGU-DENR Partnerships in Cebu Province as of 29 Sept 2012 Infographics are cool.  The best ones convey information in an interesting and intuitive way. They show very quickly certain important aspects of a particular topic. After admiring tens of great infographics I thought we should make one too. Since we've been promoting partnerships between local governments and DENR for titling of public lands, I asked my colleague Loubert Tan whether he thought we could make an infographic about our work. He said we should convey three things: 1) which LGUs have formed partnerships with DENR, and where they are; 2) where each LGU stands in its partnership, the kind of activities they are currently undertaking; and 3) gender in titling. Loubert went to PENRO Cebu to look at records of RFP issuances. He also worked with Rhudyl Ferniz (of DENR) to determine how LGUs were faring in their partnership with DENR.. What strikes me about the map of LGUs with partnerships (yellow do...