Infographic: Status of LGU-DENR Partnerships in Cebu Province

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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 dots) is how they are clustered - two or three in a row. I guess one LGU's partnership with DENR influences the next LGU. I hope this pattern will help them share information, such as solutions to common problems.

Cordova and Ginatilan are the only Municipalities so far to have actually conducted Title Distribution activities that are the results of systematic adjudication.  More titles have been released by ROD directly to owners or associations of owners.

Interestingly, slightly more women than men have received Residential Free Patents in Cebu.  While I'd like to know why this is so, I am ok with it. It says to me that our titling policies are no longer male-biased.

I've shown this infographic to friends and colleagues. A lot of them like it, some had more questions. One wanted to know the number of RFPs issued per LGU - he said this would show whether a partnership between the LGU and DENR is really necessary for RFPs to be issued. Point well taken. Now that we've started making infographics, I'm sure we'll be making another one soon. And another...

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