Development Entrepreneurs

I t’s been about five years since DENR issued a policy promoting partnership with local governments for titling. We are now faced with the eventual assessment question, “Have partnerships with local governments contributed to public land titling?” From what we know about DENR-LGU partnerships, the answer is definitely yes. The difficulty is in putting a number behind that “yes”, as the follow-up question is usually, “So how many titles have local governments helped to issue?” There are many ways by which local governments contribute to titling. Some of these ways provide an easy way to count specific titles produced with their help.  Some forms of local government contribution to titling are indirect and do not readily yield specific numbers. The simplest case of local governments contributing to public land titling is when they conduct communication, information and education activities to tell their constituents about RA 10023 and the relatively faster, easier, and i...